Have you found yourself asking “What is the missing link between what I thought marriage would be like and what it actually is? Are you trying to do the “Christian marriage” and it’s not working?
When Marriage Meets Reality invites you to release unrealistic expectations about marriage and fall in love with the marriage you have.
Topic: Marriage
Length of Study: 10 chapters
“Perhaps the reason your marriage is so challenging is because he or she is a spouse, not a savior.”
- Dr. Tammy Smith, author
Lord,
Lord, thank you that our marriage is sheltered by your grace and mercy. In your enveloping love, please protect us from believing the worst of the other on the bad days and fill our hearts with gratitude on the good days. Help us be wise about the schemes of hell to disrupt and divide the true unity we have in you.
In Jesus’s name, amen.
My marriage is a miracle. My husband and I once took personality tests that said of our two types, “the best day for these types is when their relationship ends.” That sentiment rings as true today as it did then.
Mike and I have extremely different personalities, emphasis on extremely. Combined with the difficulties of life—the curveballs, twists, turns and crushing valleys—it is a miracle (truly a miracle!) that we have stayed the course. Through the times where I felt hopelessly trapped in a mismatched marriage, the years-in-a-row where we assumed anything but the best about each other, the intimacy struggles and sleep-on-the-couch nights, Jesus has shown us that staying the course, even if holding on by a very thin thread to marital vows, continuing to try and believe in faith year after year…it’s all worth it. And it’s a miracle.
With more than 30 years of experience as a counselor and pastor’s wife, Dr. Tammy Smith has spent her life pursuing deep spiritual health and helps through the truths of Christ for all people. In When Marriage Meets Reality, she combines years of expertise along with God’s heart for transformative sacrificial love to gently guide readers to a new level of real hope in their relationships.
Explore Tammy’s book The Secure Soul on the topic of identity. Be invited to allow insecurity to fade as you develop the tools to build a life upon the reality that identity is found, cultivated, and fulfilled in Jesus.
