Hello my Friends,
Greetings this Friday! Dineen and I are both on the road,
traveling to different events. But before we jumped on the plane, earlier this
week we had a great talk about where we want to go with our writing here and at
Mismatched & Thriving in the coming months.
After a lot of thinking, praying and discussion, we were reminiscing
about how all of this ministry was started. Years ago, two ordinary wives who,
only by the power and love of Jesus Christ, came through the lonely, difficult
and challenging years of marriage to our pre-believing spouses. Our triumph
became our passion.
We didn’t want one other person to waste another minute
stuck in the lonely and struggling years of marriage when we knew our faith
could pull us out of that place.
It became our hearts purpose to help others on this journey
with us.
With everything in us, we want others to discover hope, help
and healing for their spiritual mismatch.
We are not professional counselors. We are only women who
are living in the trenches that have gained much knowledge and hope through our
experiences. Every week it’s our desire to help people thrive in their
marriage. Our ministry is for every marriage where faith and spiritual beliefs
are absent in a spouse or not faith growing at a similar pace in both the
husband and wife. Our writing is to serve those who are committed to making
their marriage better and for the believing spouse to grow in his or her faith
walk. Our writing is directed toward the positive actions we can take in our
marriages within the context of a healthy relationship that is outside of physical,
emotional abuse, addictions and behavior such as uncontrolled anger, etc.
So as we talked about our roots earlier in the week and
thought it would be great to revisit some of the ideas and suggestions from the
early years of our ministry. Things like Captivating Your Spouse. Going the
extra mile to make his or her day easier. Spoiling them when they least expect
it. How to love your spouse with the
love of Christ.
I realize that for some, these topics feel uncomfortable as
your marriage is dealing with some of these tough issues such as addictions and
such. Please hear our heart. We will pray for you and love on you. But we also
want to remain steadfast to the purposes of this ministry.
We CAN THRIVE in a spiritually mismatched home. So beginning
next week, we are going to do some fun stuff, some practical stuff and move
into this wonderful fall season with some real tips to try at home to spice up
the romance. Tips to affirm our spouse. Tips to show the love of Christ to our
pre-believers and so much more.
And over at Mismatched & Thriving we have decided to
post once a week on Tuesdays, as we don’t post here on that day and once a week
we will post Parenting tips there in preparation for the release of our new
Parenting book, Not Alone. One of my favorite tips is up there now, Teaching
our Kids Respect in a Social Environment.
So, what say you? Are you up for some unconditional and sacrificial
loving? Do you want to see your spouse respond to that kind of love? We become irresistible
over time when we love our pre-believer with the love of Christ.
And, thank you everyone for giving us ideas for future posts
on Monday. We will work through those in the coming months as well.
Thank you for being part of this family. Remain focused on
the love of Jesus. Because love changes everything. Hugging you tight. See you
next week. Lynn
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