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I have a fabulous GUEST BLOGGER today! For those of you who read and haven't yet participated in My 1st Giveaway!, my sister-in-law has some great words of encouragement from her time spent in reading the book Love Dare. It is very special to me to share her words since she sent the book to me and my husband without us knowing and I am overwhelmed with God's perfect timing for this book in my life. Please let me know your stories, they don't have to be about the book, just great things we can share with each other about life, love, marriage, our walk with our Lord and anything else that can be encouraging as we abide in Him and for Him throughout life.
May John 3:16 be your greatest comfort today:) I love you!
Since I read this blog, I have wanted to respond, not necessarily for the movie giveaway, but because I have read the book and it brought so much to me so here it is. I have finished reading Love Dare, and I have bought it and sent it out to the people I love the most, so that they too can benefit from it. Not because you try to fix their marriage, or because anything is wrong with it, but because I love them all and hope and pray that something in that book clicks and maybe just maybe betters them as a human being, Christian, and yes, even partner. But this is what I got from it. I got a positive outlook to marriage. Coming from a surrounding of not so positive outlooks, I learned "marriage" is not just a commitment, it's a covenant. Not just with your spouse, but with God. And in trying to work out a marriage, the good and the bad, you are also working on a covenant with God. In a marriage there REALLY ARE 3, but first you must know how to put God first and above all else. You must learn to trust and put your faith in God, that things will change, and things may hit rock bottom, but if you have a strong foundation with God, and hold on tight, you WILL survive. You will come out stronger and better. God gives you the person meant for you, you may not always like the packaging after awhile, but it is what God needs in your life. And we must remember that we OURSELVES may not always be the best packaging for our spouses, but we must never give up in trying to be who the Lord intended us to be in order to give our spouses whom they were intended to have. Many parts of the book struck and stuck with me, but one in particular makes sense. We can not change people, they are who they are until "they" choose to change, but you can have a part in that not by being negative or giving up or yelling or fighting, but by praying for them. Because ultimately, it is out of our hands. Ultimately, only God can change people. Ultimately, they will see that anything is possible once they accept God. And all you can do is be true to your God, and be true to yourself, and be there to support them in their path to God. We have to work on ourselves, and our relationship with God, and let God, and only God, work on them.

Beautifully written by Angie.