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Welcome one and all to the Marriage Movement blog site! Are you looking for strategies that will help deepen the understanding and acceptance between you and your spouse? Do you want hope, inspiration and direction for your marriage? If so, I am glad you are here! This site was created to provide useful tools, information and resources to those who have a desire to secure their attachment with their spouse, and to give encouragement to those who are struggling in their marriages. You can check this site each week to receive information and resources that I pray will be a blessing to you. I am ready to get started, are you?



Happy Thanksgiving??
To many of us Thanksgiving is a time to look forward to gathering with family and friends, sharing a meal or two and may include some traveling. Time spent with parents, yours and/or your spouse’s and siblings can be a lot of fun, but for a lot of us, some extended family members can cause stress to you or your spouse. You know what I’m talking about. Everyone has a ‘crazy uncle’ or critical parent. I want to challenge you this holiday season to not be easily offended. In my family of origin, I am the youngest of five. You know, the baby of the family or “the brat” as my older brothers and sisters refer to me. Even though I have raised three wonderful human beings, am a loving stepmother of two, and have two beautiful grandsons, my siblings still carry a certain snap shot of me, that no matter what God has done in my life (and He has done great things) will never change. When we get together this Thanksgiving, they will tease, I will regress to being a brat, (out of fun), and a good-natured time will be had by all. But it wasn’t always like that. They used to get to me, leaving me to relive old hurts and offenses. Can you relate? I decided the best way to survive getting together with my family was to take hold of this particular verse in the Bible; “Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” Colossians 3: 13. The very fact, that I can roll with the punches at these family gatherings, and choose not to be offended has started to dramatically change the old snap shot into a truer version of me. One last thing here, apply my challenge to your spouse as well. Your mate is your primary family! Protect them, respect them and put the needs of your husband or wife first. If a member of your family is being unkind to your spouse, stand in the gap for them. Your spouse will appreciate it! May God richly bless your family this Thanksgiving.