When Your Marriage Needs A Miracle

I didn’t plan my wedding.

Didn’t pick out our square cake.

Or choose my hand-me-down dress borrowed from some divorced bride we were acquainted with.

I simply said, “I do”, nauseated in my stomach. 

All I could think about was the secret tucked under my size five dress.

After our wedding day (the one where it poured down rain), we tried playing, “happily ever after”.

We had a beautiful son six-months later, yet were still children ourselves; looking for perfection in the other, wholeness from our relationship, the happiness promised to us from the Big Screen and TV.

And although God did do a miracle; redeeming, healing, and restoring our relationship through a God we hadn’t previously been serving; we still needed a marriage make-over that didn’t come until starting ministry, one full decade later.

All attempts at happiness, self-satisfaction, fixing the other person, or passively sitting back waiting for things to change, never healed our marriage.

What we learned along the way was, the foundation of any solid marriage isn’t about us anyway. 

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