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Listaway os5/11/2023 It was that I wanted to encourage them by sharing some of the stories of things that I had learned so that they would know that: “Oh, it’s normal to have disagreements. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to teach them-and I was invited to do so by the way-I didn’t do this without an invitation. I started writing this series of letters the summer that both of our sons got married. It’s going to work out great!”īob: The reason we’re exploring this is because you’ve been spending a lot of time, recently, working on editing a series of letters-actually, emails that grew into letters.īob: Letters that you’ve written over the years to your daughters and your daughters-in-law, where you’ve just offered counsel from your own life and experience about getting married.īarbara: Yes. We’re going to follow the instructions in the Bible-A+B=C. I thought: “This is guaranteed to work because we’ve got the right ingredients: We love each other. We were not just pew-warmers / we were committed Christ followers. Added to that, I was doubly confident because I was a Christian and my husband was. I had seen them work out their marriage and-though there were things I wanted to do differently-I felt like I could do this. Honestly, I didn’t do a lot of cost-counting but I did make a commitment.īob: We heard your wife laugh as you said, “I wasn’t really thinking.” Barbara, welcome to FamilyLife Today.īob: Did you start marriage, thinking, “I can do this”?īarbara: Yes I really did because I had grown up in a good home. I was ready to get on with life with my new bride and my new love. I’m curious-did you think, when you and Barbara, in the summer of 1972-I guess September of ’72 / late summer right?īob: That’s when the two of you stood and faced one another and said your vows.īob: Did you think, “This is going to be a breeze,” or did you think, “I know there will be some challenges”?ĭennis: I just didn’t think. Stay tuned.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. We’ll find out today just how important it is to have a spiritual foundation poured in your marriage if you’re going to try to build a home on top of it. Our host is the President of FamilyLife ®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. I surrender-Your will, not mine.”īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, February 16 th. The lesson is this: “You can’t do this on your own.”īarbara: The bottom line is going to be the same for the rest of your life and that is, when God brings you to a place that you realize you cannot do this thing called marriage, you can’t do this thing called mothering, you can’t even do the Christian life on your own-that you come to Him and you say: “I give up. Bob: Barbara Rainey says there’s a lesson that every couple needs to learn really early in their marriage.
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