A Marriage Resolution Worth Keeping
This year, we’re choosing a different kind of resolution for our marriage. A resolution to slow down and truly see one another again. To listen, not just to respond, but to understand. To protect our connection in a world that constantly pulls us in opposite directions. We’re choosing intention.
Marriage doesn’t grow stronger by accident. It grows when two people decide, again and again, to turn toward each other instead of away. To address tension with tenderness. To meet stress with grace. To choose love, especially on days when love requires effort. Not perfection. Not pretending. Not pressure.
Join me, as we focus on:
Strengthening our connection
Deepening emotional and spiritual intimacy
Communicating with honesty and kindness
Making space for laughter
And above all, recommitting to God as the center of our marriage.
Love That Chooses to Stay Through Conflict
Every couple argues. Even the most loving, faithful, God-centered marriages have moments when conflict occurs and sparks fly - and not the romantic kind of sparks. Couples who endure are not the ones who avoid arguing. Couples who endure are the ones who refuse to stop choosing each other.
James and I often tell couples in counseling that love is not a one-time “I do.” It’s a lifetime of “I still do,” spoken in a thousand small ways — through forgiveness, patience, laughter, and loyalty. Your commitment is eternal. When you keep choosing love, feelings follow and connection deepens because love practiced becomes love felt.
“Let all that you do be done in love.” — 1 Corinthians 16:14