I’m so excited to introduce Beth from Messy Marriage.
She was kind enough to share my Love Series on her blog and I asked if I could do the same and share one (or maybe more) of her posts on my blog. She graciously agreed (thank you Beth) <3
…I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17b-19 (NIV)
I can’t tell you when it happened, but at some point early in my marriage, I discovered that I did not love my husband.
- It wasn’t a matter of Gary being un-love-able.
- It wasn’t a matter of me not having enough willpower.
- It wasn’t a matter of falling in love with someone else.
- It wasn’t a matter of the two of us growing apart.
- It wasn’t a matter of not doing enough loving actions toward each other.
It was because I could not really love Gary … on my own.
I could not really love anyone, for that matter … on my own.
