When I got an invite from Jolene Engle to participate in a blog series called “31 Days to a Better Marriage“, I was thrilled.

When I saw the list of other Christian marriage blogger and authors that were contributing, I was honored.

These ladies mark my personal “Hall of Fame” of women who share my  passions – a life for Christ, a marriage centered around Him and a mission to encouraging other marriages to do the same.  Check out this series.  It is sure to bless.

 

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When He Needs You Most

When I was 6 months pregnant with our first child, I returned from a weekend away to find that my husband was convinced our marriage was over. The deterioration of our relationship didn’t happen that quickly, but the realization of where we were after numbing months of grad school, demanding jobs, constant travel, and separate lives, was a sudden shock.

In the weeks and months that followed, the things he said and did were so uncharacteristic of him that I literally thought he’d lost his mind. In his late thirties and on the cusp of being a father, I wondered if this was a mid-life crisis. As evil words and actions poured from him, I thought maybe this was some sort of demonic attachment like straight out of a Frank Peretti novel. Where had the man I had married gone?

What I did know was I was witnessing what can happen to a man who has lost his way; how the enemy can feed the seeds of bitterness in the fertile soil of a distant marriage until we are convinced of his lies.; and what can happen when a wife, consumed with things outside her home and marriage, loses sight of her #1 job, to be her husband’s divine helper.

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