Time out Tuesday: A marriage mini series on a God centered Marriage

Hey y’all! I have missed Timeout Tuesday, so much! After I went to The Influence Conference it was put on my heart to share more about my faith, heart, and my personal life.  I was struggling with what to write about, and I didn’t want it to be forced, so I kind of let it go for a while knowing that The Lord would guide my writing if it was something he was working in me.

After praying about it, Andee from Wink for Pink contacted me about a series she was  starting; I was all in! I’ve teamed up with her and some very inspirational Christian Bloggers who are willing to share their testimony and faith.

This mini series will go throughout the month of March. These posts are going to be very real, very personal, and very Jesusy we want to share How to get that spark back and get you back to the marriage you desire.

Each one of us ladies has a different story. God has placed something different on each of our hearts to share with you. Below you will find a link to every writers post. I encourage you to take a moment and visit them.

Let me give you a little back story. I’ve been a christian all my life. I went to a baptism, church throughout my elementary years, and stopped going in about 6th grade. My husband went to a Catholic School, but never had a strong sense of faith in his household

Oh, marriage struggles?  My husband and I have had them all. From death, breakups, money issues, having too much money, you name it, we’ve been through it.  We meet when we were really young, he was 18 and I was 17.  We had no clue what we were doing, who we were, or where we were going. I got pregnant when I was 20, sadly it ended in miscarriage at 14 1/2 weeks. About a year later I got pregnant with my oldest daughter. We were married in  2005. I was 7 months pregnant. Breanna was born every was great we were crazy in love with each other and this sweet little girl from heaven.

.Fast forward a couple of years of years I was 9 months pregnant with Abigail. I got the phone call no one ever wants to get. My husband’s brother 17-year-old brother had killed himself. I can vividly remember everything like it was yesterday. I had to tell my husband that his little brother and best friend was dead. This was the point where everything started to unravel.

There was an emotional affair, my husband lost his job, and literally everything was falling apart,  my husband changed. The man I knew was no longer with us. He was broken.

The girls and I moved out, and went to live with my parents. It was rough. I was a single mom trying to work, and keep it all together.

Meanwhile, my husband was broken, alone, and it was scary. I prayed every night that he would give up.

He didn’t…

He got back up, pulled it together, started working, and realized he needed us. That was a tough decision for me. I felt like we had been thrown away, and he needed us back?

The resentment set in.

We went back. Not for me, but for the girls. They needed their daddy, and I knew that he was broken and he needed us too.

{This all played out while the kids were still little enough to not remember a lot of this. That I’m thankful for.}

It wasn’t until August of this 2013 we made a commitment to go to church every Sunday, and having a God centered family. August 25th, 2013 was the day that my husband and I surrendered ourselves to The Lord, and we were baptized.

Then Jesus said, “I am the bread that gives life, Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in we will never be thirsty.” John 6:35

I believe in marriage’s that struggling, you need to seek HIM. Not for anyone else, but for yourself. You can’t be the best you if your broken and searching for something. Let that something be your faith in HIM.

What that bible verse is saying; is you NEED water and bread, right?  It’s saying just like you need water and bread to live, you NEED him. You need Jesus in your life!

I’m saying, for us, we were having these struggles because we didn’t know The Lord like we know him now. Yes, we prayed when there was something big going on or we were scared, or we needed a miracle. But we weren’t allowing him into our everyday lives, we weren’t opening ourselves to walk with him. We didn’t open our hearts and our minds.  He was working in us, but we weren’t allowed ourselves to see, feel, and be open it his work.

Over this past weekend, my husband attened a men’s retreat called The Great Banquet. Y’all, it was life changing. My husband came home a different man. He’s kind, he’s loving, and he’s walking with The Lord.

If you open your heart to him, he will do things you could never imagine. Just take that leap of faith.

I hope y’all enjoyed getting to know me a little better. Please come back next Tuesday as we continue on this journey together. If you need prayer, or would like to talk, please feel free to email me at Tawny@Glamorouslymommy.com.

I would like to leave you with some food for thought.

What are ways you might need to reconcile your relationship with The Lord?

What step will you take today to restore that relationship?

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