![]() Since it seems that all the important words about love have already been written, and written well, I have been paying attention to them. ![]() We need a durable love that will sustain us through home improvement projects, sick kids, and tired middle-aged bodies and souls. If our everyday lives are where the fruit of the Spirit is most visible, Truth becomes more important than sentiment. That’s counter-cultural, I know, in this world of picture-perfect posts and curated images offered up for virtual strangers to “like.” Īfter all, as believers, we want the people who know us best to love us most. “This won’t last,” jeered the nay-sayers.Įven so, thirty years later, we still refuse to submit to the “Just wait” narrative about our marriage, and are persevering in our commitment to live as “heirs together of the grace of life”–which includes loving each other by being grace-givers–“our best selves”–here on this country hill. My patient husband and I experienced some of that in our early married life as well. ![]() Having said that, Lore acknowledged that that this kind of marriage talk usually elicits a few eye rolls from the jaded cynics among her readers. “‘We don’t treat our home like it’s the place where we can ‘be real,’ as though every other relationship in our lives deserves the fruit of the Spirit, but at home we can drop the facade and level all the pent up frustration of the day at one another.’ I said, ‘ should get my best self, the best of the Spirit’s fruit in my life and heart, not the worst self.'” The snow is flying sideways like rice at a wedding, and I’m reading Lore Wilbert’s blog post about marriage.
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