Greetings Prayer Warriors,
Forgiveness is easy. Forgetting is not. If you have been married long enough, there will be moments that have left scars, wounds of the heart. Perhaps there were key moments when your spouse wasn’t there for you either physically or emotionally. Maybe there were words spoken that were soul-crushing and pierced you to the core. Alternatively, maybe there was a crucial time where they abdicated their co-parenting responsibility. The question is, why are you holding on to all the hurt and pain, keeping it in a figurative box? While the weight of holding on may be exhausting, who do you think you are benefiting?
God wants you to open your wounds to him, that he might heal them, restore you, and help you journey to a new place in your marital relationship.
Be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth. Ephesians 4:2-24
Lord, our woundedness can feel like a comfy old shoe, supportive, familiar, reliable. Stepping away can make us feel vulnerable to potential new pain. How we need your grace! Lord, help us to trust that you will journey with us toward restoration. Release our grip on any unforgiveness and help us to surrender our will by giving you our “box”. Open our hearts to be mindful and compassionate about our spouse’s own woundedness including them in our prayers for healing.
All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice. [And] be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. Ephesians 4:31-32
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these... John 14:12
Come Holy Spirit, increase our faith in Christ, renew our wavering hope, and help our marital love grow and flourish!
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet
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