Goddard’s book “Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage” is a
tough read for me. I honestly struggle
to get through the gospel centered marriage type books. However, I did have
some big take-aways from this book. The
overall theme of this book to me is this: In order to have a strong marriage,
you need to look inward and improve yourself first. Have Christ like love for your spouse, and be
able to work out the kinks in our own life before you put all the blame and
‘change’ on the spouses plate.
Being married
is a lot like being on a rowing team. If
one person is doing all the work, all the compromise, and all the brunt of the
relationship, and it will go nowhere. It
takes two people, rowing in time, communicating and being consistent in their
efforts to be effective. One can’t make
up for the other’s lack. The marriage
will just go in circles! Marriage is 100% effort from both to make progress in
your ‘marriage shell’ to make it to the finish line.
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