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  • Joy Beyond Understanding

    “ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23 Summertime in the South is not for the faint of heart. Temperatures that soar to unbearable heights, iced tea that can’t seem to stay iced, and leather car interior that is torture whenever you get in…

  • Peace in a Wild Workplace

     I do not work in a church.  I am involved in ministry full-time, but I also work a secular job to provide for my family.  I don’t care where you work, whether it be in a church or out; if you work with people, it can be difficult.   Feeling called to ministry, I have asked…

  • Peace In the Wild

    When I think about the phrase “peace in the wild,” I picture a leopardess in the middle of a jungle. I imagine the sound of monkeys hooting in the background while she cleans her paws. She’s laying down, feeling peaceful, she’s not worried about where her next meal will come from. She’s not anxious about…

  • The Great Commission- Going for Missions

    “Therefore, GO and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” -Matthew 28:19-20

    Who should go?

    These verses from Matthew 28 are commonly called “The Great Commission” given by Jesus before He ascended to heaven. The command to “go and make disciples of all nations” was not only for the disciples who lived in Jesus’s day, but for all of us who follow Christ. The fact that there are still nations today who have yet to hear the message of the gospel is a humbling reminder that we as the body of Christ have not yet completed this task.

    We find a similar command in Mark 16:15, “And then he told them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.’” Jesus didn’t say, “A few of you, go into all the world,” or “You really adventurous ones, go into all the world.” He simply says, “Go.” While you may not be called to actually move to another country to live long-term, I do firmly believe that each of us is called to go to the nations in one way or another, at one point or another. The reason for that may be different than what you think.

    Why do we go?

    As a missionary, my heartbeat is to see people know and be transformed by Christ. When we moved to Southeast Asia seven years ago, it was for the sole purpose of taking the gospel to people who have never had access to it. That continues to be our motivation, but I can tell you that our experience in living out the command to GO has been just as transformational to us as it has been to those who we have shared the gospel with. I believe that Jesus wants His followers to GO, not just so disciples can be made of the nations, but so we can be made into disciples as well.

    When we become followers of Jesus, we are committing ourselves to studying His life, spending time in His presence, and becoming more like Him. One aspect of the life of Jesus that we don’t often focus on is that He lived His life on the go. Not in a hurried sense-He was never in a hurry but lived life at a much slower, more intentional pace than what we often do- but in the sense of constantly going to places and people the Father was leading Him to. He traveled from town to town, sharing that the Kingdom of God was near. When a religious leader told Jesus that he was ready to follow Him, Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” (Matt. 8:20) Jesus was letting this prospective disciple know that the cost of following Him would mean relinquishing the comfort of a place in order to go to a people.

    If we want to truly become like Christ, we must accept the invitation from Him to GO. If we don’t, we are missing a vital component of what it means to become like Him. When we go to the nations for the sake of the gospel, there is a sanctifying work that happens in us that can be accomplished no other way.

    How do we go?

    Whether you respond to the call to go by going on a short-term missions trip, giving a year or two to serve overseas, or committing to a lifetime of missionary work, there are a few things that are important for us to consider about how we should GO.

    • We go in the authority and power of Christ.

    The verse prior the ones I shared from Matthew says, “Jesus came and told his disciples, ‘I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.” (Matt. 28:18) We do not go in our own strength, but in His. It is imperative that we are deeply rooted in Christ before we attempt to take His name into the darkness of the unreached world. We are not able to save anyone- only Christ can do that. We have to understand our desperate need for the power of Christ at work in us if we hope to bring Good News to the nations.

    • We go in humility.

    Much harm has been done in the name of “missions” by those who have gone to the nations and, rather than making disciples, they attempted to make Americans (or other western cultures). The gospel is not a culture, and is not lived out rightly in only one particular culture. When we go into other cultures, we must go in a posture of humility, seeking to understand those whom we desire to love. Whether you go for a short time or a lifetime, go in humility, recognizing that different isn’t inherently bad and that your culture isn’t necessarily better. You may be surprised at how you see the Image of God displayed in the very people you’ve come to reach.

    • We go with Jesus.

    The final part of the Great Commission is a reassurance from Jesus that He is with us to the very end. Not only do we get the authority and power of Christ, we get His presence with us. There are days when living and working in a foreign country can feel incredibly isolating and lonely. People back home won’t fully understand what you’ve seen and experienced. There is risk we face- in body, mind, and spirit- when we go to distant lands for the sake of the gospel. But we do not have to go in fear, because Jesus is with us. He has gone before us to the very places He calls us to go, and He promises to be with us every step of the way. Going to the nations brings us to the end of ourselves; our knowledge, skills and efforts mean very little in foreign lands. Praise God, in our weakness He is strong. I have never experienced the nearness of Jesus as powerfully as when I have answered the call to go.

    May I challenge you to spend some time praying and asking the Father, not IF He is calling you to GO in this upcoming year, but WHERE? Find out if your church or a group in your area is going on a short term missions trip. Consider spending the summer serving with a missionary in a foreign country. Ask the Father if He is calling you to leave comfort behind and GO to a nation to spend your life for His name’s sake. Whatever His response to your prayer, I am confident you will find His grace sufficient, His provision abundant, and His presence ever-near as you follow Christ’s example to GO.

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    A Sacrifice that Costs Us- Giving to Missions

    Being a missionary, I have seen some extravagant displays of generosity over the years. We’ve had churches of all sizes give thousands of dollars in offerings to our ministry. We’ve had individuals pledge monthly support that we knew was a truly sacrificial amount. We’ve had people press cash into our hands with tears in their eyes as they respond to the Spirit’s leading to give, and we’ve seen the Lord abundantly bless and multiply what has been given as we labor to make His name known among the nations. Seeing people step out in faith and obedience to give will never cease to move me.

    Why does giving to missions matter? Why isn’t prayer enough? I am reminded of King David in 1 Chronicles 21 when he is building an altar to sacrifice to the Lord after committing a sin that led to 70,000 people dying in a plague. David was guilty of sinning against the Lord, but the people of Israel were paying the price for his sin. He called upon God to have mercy on His people, and God instructed David to go build an altar on the threshing floor belonging to Araunah the Jebusite. When David went to do this, Araunah generously offered to give the land and the animals for the sacrifice to David. David replied, “I will not present burnt offerings that have cost me nothing!” (vs. 24) Following David’s sacrifice and repentance, the plague ceased and the Israelites were spared.

    There’s something wrong with the fact that it’s been over 2,000 years since Jesus walked this earth and yet there are billions of people who remain without access to the Good News. We can’t live with the incorrect belief that the sin, darkness, and death in those people groups has nothing to do with us. On the contrary, they are paying a steep price for our neglect of the Great Commission. Like David and the Israelites, the plague of sin and death will only relent when we as God’s people decide to repent and make a sacrificial offering to the Lord- an offering that costs us something.  

    The reality is, God can bring salvation to people with or without our money. There is no power in the money itself to change a soul, the power is in our sacrifice, in the posture of our hearts shifting from desiring control to choosing surrender. When we give sacrificially, the Lord not only blesses and uses our financial gift for the cause of the Kingdom being advanced, but we are changed to more accurately reflect the Father’s heart for the world. We learn that every resource we have access to is not ours to own, but to steward. When we steward what we’ve been given with eternity in mind, eternity for others is changed.

    The reality is, God can bring salvation to people with or without our money. There is no power in the money itself to change a soul, the power is in our sacrifice, in the posture of our hearts shifting from desiring control to choosing surrender.

    Living in Southeast Asia for seven years has given me a much different perspective on our American culture. While I grew up being taught to celebrate individualism, capitalism, and the American dream, our Christian brothers and sisters in other parts of the world are embracing community, cooperative living, and sacrifice. I love the freedom I have as an American, but I wonder if somehow that freedom to pursue our individual happiness has also created a freedom from the obligation to our brothers and sisters around the world in need of both spiritual and physical help. I see the command of Jesus to “love your neighbor as yourself” lived out by my brothers and sisters here in Asia in a very real, beautiful way. Though they don’t have much to give, they give freely at every opportunity. Generosity here often opens doors to relationship that lead to the Gospel being shared with the unreached. The local believers I know understand that refusing to be generous is a refusal of Christ. Jesus stated very clearly in Matthew 25 that “when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.” (v. 45) 

    When you have the opportunity to give to missions, it is an invitation into the kind of sacrificial life that Christ calls us to- one where we consider others as better than ourselves (Phil. 2:3), share each other’s burdens (Ga. 6:2), and show our love through our actions (1 John 3:18). We are admonished to become like Christ in our attitude who: 

    “Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave, and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.” (Phil 2:6-8)

    Jesus’s life epitomizes sacrificial giving. He gave up everything including his own life in order that we might have access to the restoring power of salvation through grace alone. If Jesus lived like this, and we are called to live like Jesus, isn’t it the very least we can do to live a bit less comfortably so that people can be given access to the same salvation that we have received? The unreached will remain so if we are unwilling to release the resources God has given us as a sacrificial offering to Him for the salvation of others. 

    I want to challenge you today, take a careful look at your finances and prayerfully surrender them to the Lord. Ask Him if there is any area where He is calling you to choose compassion over comfort, sacrifice over security. Find a missionary to support or a missions project to give to, and give in accordance with what will truly be sacrificial for you. May the desire of David to not give an offering that cost him nothing challenge us to do the same- to give so much that it costs us greatly. We are the undeserving recipients of the most sacrificial gift ever given; Christ is calling us to both live in and live out that sacrifice for the sake of the nations and the glory of God.

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    The Builders and the Warriors- Praying for Missions

    Before we moved overseas, my husband and I were in full-time ministry in the U.S. for over 12 years. During that time we attended conferences, trainings, and read many books to equip us for the work we were doing. We had a decent grasp on effective, strategic ministry. Honestly, we’d gained enough knowledge that we sometimes did ministry in our own effort, relying too little on the Holy Spirit. 

    We left all that behind in 2015 and moved to a communist, never-reached, developing country where we didn’t know the language or culture and suddenly all our strategy and knowledge meant very little. It was glaringly obvious that we wouldn’t accomplish any good, eternal thing here without the miraculous power of the Spirit at work in us. When laboring to bring the gospel to a place and people who have never had access to it in the 2,000 years since Jesus walked this earth, there are deep spiritual strongholds that must be broken. All the knowledge in the world can’t save an unreached people group, only the power of the Spirit can do that.

    Prayer became our anchor and lifeline. Recognizing that making disciples of every tribe, tongue, and nation is impossible when we try to achieve it by our own efforts was actually freeing. We embraced humility admitted readily that we didn’t know how to break through the spiritual darkness we were surrounded by in this foreign land.

    During our second year overseas I wrestled with burnout, wondering if it even mattered that we were here, struggling to see any fruit from our labor. As we walked through family challenges and spiritual attacks, many days felt like we were trudging through a desert, desperately looking for signs of life and relief. The prayers of our supporters and words of encouragement we received from them (many times without them knowing how badly we needed it) was a sort of manna that sustained us another day. I am truly grateful for how the Lord carries us through the love and prayers of His people.

    It’s a common story among missionaries- arriving with hopeful optimism that is quickly tempered by culture shock and the realization that the way we’ve always done things won’t work anymore. We find ourselves in a foreign country, empty-handed and bent-kneed, confessing our weakness and crying out for help. And from that posture of prayerful surrender, something miraculous happens- we find freedom in realizing God didn’t call us to this distant land because we knew how to change it, He called us here because He’s already at work and is inviting us to join Him in it. When we walk in Spirit-led humility, we are able to see that even in vast spiritual darkness, Light is shining. So we move toward the Light and pray it would be reflected in us.

    The invitation to partner in the work God is doing in the world isn’t only for those with “boots on the ground,” but for all of us who are part of the global Body. Because we serve an omnipresent God who is both with us and with all His people, we have the privilege to take part in His message going forth in lands we will never step foot in. The primary way we accomplish this is through prayer.

    During those first years overseas, the Lord led me to the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah courageously took on the task of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem that had been torn down and sitting in shambles for years. The enemies of Israel were not happy about the building project, and they conspired against the laborers. In chapter 4, Nehemiah recounts that when they learned of the enemy’s plan to attack their efforts, they had half the people work on the wall while the other half stood guard, weapons ready. The laborers could continue to work knowing that there were people standing with them prepared to fight. 

    As I read this story the Lord spoke to me very clearly that this is how we must approach missions. As missionaries go to lands where sin has caused brokenness and destruction, they will inevitably face the threat of enemy attack. We will not rebuild what the enemy has torn down without opposition. Those of us on the ground actively laboring to bring restoration to brokenness are left exposed to the enemy unless we have people standing guard ready to fight for us and the people we have come to reach. We need an army of people who are willing, weapons ready, to wage war through intercession. Restoring lost people to their Creator cannot happen without the builders and the warriors.

    “Restoring lost people to their Creator cannot happen without the builders and the warriors.”

    You are those warriors, dear friends. Your prayers and petitions on behalf of unreached people are powerful. Your intercession for missionaries may be the difference between them staying on the field and leaving. Doing your part in missions means waging spiritual warfare for the kingdom. I want to leave you with a few practical ideas to take your prayer for missions and missionaries to a new level. As you commit to pray, I believe that our efforts to win the lost will be increased as we take up our weapons and let the enemy know we aren’t afraid to fight.

    Ways to Pray for Missions:

    • When a missionary comes to your church, take a prayer card and commit to praying for them on a specific day each week. Pray Psalm 90-91 over them and their family.
    • Sign up for missionary newsletters, then actually read them and respond with prayer and encouragement.
    • Take one day a week to pray for an unreached people group. Use a website like Joshua Project, Change the Map, or Live Dead to find info on how to pray for UPG’s.
    • Ask your church for a list of the missionaries they support. Start a missions prayer group to contact those missionaries and find out how to pray for them. Meet once a month to pray together. 
    • Fast one meal a week and one day a month for unreached people groups. 
    • Check out Liturgies for a Life Abroad– prayers written for people serving overseas that will give you insight on how to pray for them and the unique challenges they face.
    • Pay attention to where products you purchase come from and pray for the people in that country.

    “And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come.” Matt. 24:14

  • Why Missions Matters

    When I first stepped foot on the soil of the Southeast Asian country I’ve now called home for seven years, I thought I knew what missions was. Our family of five had made the decision to leave our home in Houston and move to a remote mountain town on the other side of the globe. We packed up what we could in ten suitcases and set out on a journey that would teach us, stretch us, and give us a deeper understanding of what it means to make disciples of all nations. 

    Now years later after living and working among those who often have never heard the name of Christ, I can say that many of my ideas on what missions was were wrong or at the very least, incomplete. Every few years when we travel all over America and share about our work and the need for the gospel to go to every nation, I see that there are many others just like me who have an incomplete view of missions. 

    This month I want to break down three very commonly taught responses to missions- Pray, Give, and Go– and help re-frame them with scripture and stories from my own personal experience on the field. I do not claim to be a missiologist, but I don’t think that we have to have a theology degree to engage in biblical missions in a humble, ethical, and Christ-like way. We must simply have a heart that desires to love God and love people, and a willingness to learn how to best do that.

    What is Missions?

    There’s a trend in evangelical circles to say that “every Christian is a missionary.” While I do believe that all followers of Jesus are called to live missional lives and make disciples, to call everything “missions” can actually hurt the efforts being made to take the message of Christ into places where it has yet to go.

    It’s important to know that the term missionary isn’t used in the Bible except in the titles of certain portions of scripture relating to Paul’s journeys to spread the gospel. It comes from the Latin missio which means, to release or send. The Jesuits (an order of the Roman Catholic Church) started using the term missionary in the 1500’s as a name for those they would send into foreign places to spread the message of Christ. Historically, missions has been viewed as taking the gospel (often including humanitarian aid) to foreign peoples and places. Evangelism is a term that better describes what happens when we live out our Christian witness in our local setting- our workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, etc. while missions can be used to describe going outside of our familiar setting to a foreign one for the specific purpose of sharing the gospel.

    God is a Missionary God

    If we go back to the beginning of God’s story for humanity, it is clear that God’s plan always included all tribes, tongues, and nations. The very act of choosing Abraham and his descendants to be God’s “chosen people” was in order to bless all the nations of the earth through them. (Genesis 12:1-3) God’s love for the world was brought to a pinnacle in the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ which ultimately made a way for all nations to be restored to Him. After all, “God so loved the world that he gave [sent, released] his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16 NIV) It always has been and always will be the desire of God for every people group in the world He created to know Him, and He sent Christ into the world to make a way for us to be reconciled to Him. God’s will is that every nation would hear of Christ’s saving power and have the opportunity to respond to it because, “There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12 NLT) If that’s His will, it should be our will, too.

    Why Missions Matters

    When everything becomes “missions” it’s easy for us to think we are fulfilling the Great Commission by inviting our neighbor to church. And that’s a huge part of it…but it’s only a part.  The reality is, the majority of people in our world have no Christian neighbor to invite them to church. When we label evangelism as missions, we run the risk of assuming we’ve done our part by engaging in personal evangelism while neglecting the reality that there is a massive imbalance of Christian workers and witnesses in the western world vs. the parts of the world considered “unreached” and “unengaged” with the gospel. 

    According to The Gospel Coalition, There are 5.5 million full-time Christian workers in the world. 

    • 75.9% work in a context of a majority, or large percentage, evangelical Christian population
    • 23.7% work in a context of greater than 2% evangelical Christians
    • Only 0.37% work among the 3.37 billion unreached, where less than 2% are evangelical Christians

    This statistic was one of the major factors in our family’s decision to transition from serving the local church in America to serving in an area of the world considered “unreached.” The reality is, there are billions of people in our world that will live their whole lives without ever hearing the name of Jesus or encountering a Christian. There are whole people groups with no scripture in their language. Even if someone in an unreached people group had a dream revealing Jesus to them, they most often have no local church or Christian within hundreds of miles to teach them how to follow Him. This is why missions matters. 

    Missions is a massive task, but one we don’t take on alone. As we partner with our compassionate God and the global body of Christ, we can find hope that our participation in this movement to see nations reconciled to God can and will bring eternal change. Together, we can make His name known in every corner of the globe.

  • Return to Beginning Efforts

    We’ve spent this month on the blog talking marriage. We’ve realized how our unions usually start out with smooth sailing, but we find ourselves on the rocks far too quickly. We discovered unlikely instructions in Revelation for our rescue efforts: remembering the heights, repenting from sin, and today, we our returning to beginning effort.

    “I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: you have forsaken your first love. Remember the heights from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from it’s place.” (Revelation 2:2-5)

    What does it mean to return to beginning effort? Can we even see how far off course we’ve wandered?

    I was recently chatting with a friend before church. She’s been married a few years and they had gone to a wedding the night before. She lamented how they were home by 7:30pm. They left before the cake and the dancing; arguably the best parts of the wedding. When I asked if her husband liked to dance, she insisted: “He did when we were dating, but he never wants to dance now.”

    Isn’t this the way marriage goes? We’ll do just about anything to woo our spouse, but once the ring is on their finger, we get lazy. We stop dancing and we leave before cake. Our pursuit falters. We don’t repeat the things we did to win them.

    Healthy marriages require consistent, sustained effort in the same direction: towards one other! And towards God! This means we need to intentionally make room for romance. Fix our hair, do our makeup, put on that little black dress. Husbands: get out the date night cologne and hold open a door or two. Woo our spouse. Stay for desert and dancing.

    Think back to the great lengths you went to to win your spouse. Whatever we did to snag them, remains helpful in keeping them! Return to that! If they were once worth pursuing, aren’t they still worth keeping? Valuable personal investments need ongoing attention. A home, a vehicle, the yard, even a boat requires routine maintenance. Is it any wonder the a living organism like a marriage does also?

    When our marriage is on the rocks, we need to return to beginning efforts. Something we did at first, likely without even realizing it, was slowing down to see our mate.

    Rob’s and my favorite Christmas movie is The Family Man, with Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni. We love this movie because it is the very last movie we saw as a couple, before we became a family.

    Nicholas Cage plays Jack, this rich, narcissistic, womanizing, investment broker who is offered a glimpse of what life might be like if he hadn’t traded love for money. Jack is transported to a decade old marriage complete with two kids and a career as a tire salesman. He struggles to adjust, but the affections of his wife are relentless. The audience holds it’s breath as Jack falls in love with his wife all over again.

    The very best line in the movie is when he’s looking into deep her eyes and telling her just how beautiful she is to him. And she says “How can you do that?” And Jack says “What?” and she says “Look at me like you haven’t seen me every day for the last thirteen years?”  

    Song of Songs 4:9 says it like this “You have captured my heart, my treasure, my bride. You hold it hostage with one glance of your eyes, with a single jewel of your necklace.” 

    We need to let our spouse capture our gaze and our heart again, the way they did at first. We need to daily recall all that they set aside to do life with us. And we need to treasure the good gift given in them.

    Something that has made a huge impact in maintaining my own marriage is what we call our evening routine. When Rob and I crawl under the covers each night, we snuggle close and take turns sharing our low for the day, our high for the day, a blessing and a prayer. 

    Sharing our lows and highs creates a window into our souls: revealing good and bad alike. It also releases a little of the steam that naturally builds up as we deal with day-to-day pressures and frustrations. There’s a Swedish proverb that says: “A shared joy is a doubled joy, shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”  We have found this to be true.

    Then we take turns sharing how our spouse blessed us that day. Rob and I noticed that sometimes what we believed was blessing each other, maybe wasn’t being received as a blessing. When we share what actually blessed us, it communicates appreciation while reinforcing beneficial behavior.

    Lastly, we pray over one another and any needs on our hearts. Turns out it’s pretty tough to stay angry at someone when you hear them pour out their heart to God on your behalf each night. Prayer is the most powerful defense we have against divorce. Current statistics tell us that more than 95% of couples who pray together daily stay married. I like those odds!

    This evening routine has become a touch point for us. We each feel seen, heard and treasured through this simple practice. Honestly, Rob and I were on the rocks when we decided to implement it and, at first, it was a sheer act of will. But as we persisted in pursuing each other, we discovered our marriage was healing. We found our way out of the churning seas and back into Eden. Low, High, Blessing, and Prayer: it’s a strategy that has worked well for us.

    We celebrate 25 years of marriage this May. ❤

    We began this blog series with the Swiss Family Robinson shipwrecked on the rocks. How did they survive? They chose to work together through their issues. They refused to give up on each other even in the midst of their catastrophe. They built a raft from sawed-in-half barrels and everyone pitched in as they made it safely to shore where they built a new life in paradise.

    When God rescues our marriage from the rocks, it may look different afterwards. Roles may change. Communication increases. Appreciation will grow. This is new territory we learn to navigate together. It’s appropriate; marriage is meant to be an adventure!

    The Swiss Family Robinson left that shipwreck and their life on the island looked drastically different after their time on the rocks. They had a deeper respect, affection and dependance on one another on the island then they did previously. They enjoyed a more intimate relationship than they did in regular society. In fact, when they had the opportunity to return to regular civilization, they declined. They grew to love what they became more than what they had previously possessed.

    God longs to move us past the rocks and into a deeper and sweeter relationship with our spouse. He’s clearly given us the tools; remember the heights, repent from sin, and return to beginning effort.

    “When the foundation is sure, the storms don’t matter.” (Rend Collective)

    Lord, we thank you for the gift of our spouse. Please help us to treat them as such. May mutual love and respect reign in our hearts and homes. Help us to return to our first love and live there. Amen.

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