I was scrolling through my newsfeed, and I saw all of the ads prompting me to make certain resolutions with the promise of a product that would help me keep each resolution.

Those ad campaigns know my demographic well. They know we care about decluttered houses, better marriages, happier mothering, simplified routines, more present lives, and healthier bodies.

I am obviously not the only woman who woke up this morning and thought to myself,

“This is it. It’s my chance to start over. It’s my chance to begin a year without yelling, or fussing, or stressing. I’m going to make my family healthier meals. I’m going to meal prep! I’m going to start an in-home workout routine, and I’m going to get our family active.

I’m going to de-clutter. Yes, JESUS! I’m going to get rid of all of this crap just filling up my house. Less things to take care of means more time to care for what I love most. That’s what they all say, right? I’m going to pull everything out of the closets. I’m going to Marie Kondo the junk out of this place. I’m going to begin this year with a clean house.

I’m going to begin a Bible study, too. No, I really mean it. I’m going to wake up and I’m going to read at least fifteen minutes every day. I’m going to commit to spiritual growth. I’ll download that app. This year God and I are going to get even closer.

And I’m going to have a better marriage. I’m going to be intentional with my words and actions. We’ll have sex more. We’ll fight less. We’ll pray together more often. We’ll be ONE like God designed. Yes, this year is a clean slate for my marriage, and it’s going to be amazing!

And I’m going to do it all while being a better mom. More present. No yelling. More patience. More hugging. No last-minute scrambling. I’m going to be a more put-together mom.  This year I won’t be on my phone as much. They will be on their screens less. AND Happier. I’ll be happier. I want them to have a happier mom. 

Oh, and I’m going to practice more self-care. I’ll take time for me. I’ll fix myself up and get a new haircut…. and take care of my emotional state, too. I’ll read those books. I’ll call that friend. OOOh…. I’ll get together with that friend.

This year is a fresh start – a clean slate – a whole new opportunity to be the woman I want to be.”

But, it is 10:30 am, and I already need a do-over. If I only had one shot to start this year fresh, then Imma need it to be 2019 already. You hear me? It’s like why did I think that because the clock hit midnight it was going to be any different than the midnight before? It is still a Monday morning, I just have higher expectations for the day. I have higher expectations for myself, and my family, and my schedule. The kids are still going to wake up early. I’m still going to have a million things to do and not enough time to do them… It’s just life.

The Truth is, I need a clean slate daily. I need a fresh start right here at 10:33 am. And the best resolution I can make this year is the resolution to give myself the grace to begin again as often as I need all year long so I don’t give up those other resolutions all together.

Because guilt says that we have already blown it. Guilt says that we are already bad moms. Guilt says it’s our fault we made that unhealthy food choice, slept in and didn’t read the Bible, yelled at our husbands, are too busy to call that friend, and will never get our houses or our hearts uncluttered. Guilt says we should just give up.

But Grace? The grace to make a poor choice and realize that we can start again? The grace to say that we made a mistake rather than believe we ARE the mistake? Wow. That is what we need more of. That is the resolution that will help us keep all others. Because grace is the permission to start over as often as we need so that we can keep moving forward and keep growing.

Friend, I don’t know what promises (or loose suggestions) you’ve made yourself this year, but I know this… right here you get to decide what the rest of your year looks like. And I hope you hear the heart of God as He bends low and gently says, “My grace is sufficient.”

If you’re anything like me, you just started your Christmas shopping… and Christmas is a week away. Praise the Lord for Amazon Prime! So, to take at least one thing off of your to-do list, here are some last minute (totally Primeable) stocking stuffers for the little ones in your life!

Also, yes, these are Amazon affiliate links… if you order through one of these links, it will help support my family. If you decide to look these gifts up on Amazon rather than click through the link, I’m not offended.

Let’s start with mini toys. My lego loving little guys love the these Mixels and little lego kits!

My little girl has started a collection of these changeable MixiQ’s and Hatchimals… (I wish I had invented Hatchimals.)

For the Paw Patrol fans in your life, these little stocking stuffers.

I saw these headphones the other day and thought they were GENIUS! With selections like monsters and frogs and everything in between… there are Cozy Phones for everyone!

Let’s be honest. How often do your kids ask you for character bandaids or tooth brushes at the store? We (or maybe just I) say no all year, Christmas is a great opportunity to say yes!

Who doesn’t love Play-Doh? If you grab this stocking stuffer though, you might grab yourself one of these to go with it. Am I right?

Next up – Paint. But don’t worry! Look what I found for just a few dollars to go WITH the paint! Now we are thinking, mommas!

For the little super heroes in your life…

What about socks and slippers?!

For the little princess in your life…

How about a card game?!

AND IF YOU JUST DONT’ KNOW HOW YOU’RE GOING TO BUY ONE MORE GIFT…
READ/WATCH THIS! 

I was sick to my stomach, but before I kept scrolling, I read a few comments on the article. Surely everyone would be as outraged as I was. What I read in the comment section was even more disturbing.

While some were troubled by the story, some commenters suggested this is why women needed access to safe abortions.

It took me a minute to process their words in relationship to this story. Safe abortions.

What exactly did they mean when they said safe abortions? Did they feel sorrow for the mother or the baby in this story? Were they upset that the mom would try to take her own baby’s life by flushing it down the toilet because she didn’t have a way for a doctor to end the baby’s life for her? Or were they sad that the baby died this way instead of in a clinic?

Because I promise that in either scenario a baby dies. There is no such thing as a safe abortion as far as the baby is concerned, and there is nothing less tragic about it.

The reality is, once a baby is created it cannot be uncreated. Once a life is formed it cannot be unformed. You cannot unmake a baby. Abortion does not unmake a life. It ends one.

You can’t rewind the clock. You can’t go back to before a baby was conceived by having an abortion. There is life before the baby, and there is life after the baby. But you can’t pretend like there never was a baby. Abortion isn’t that powerful.

So, no. Safe abortions do not exist. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that we keep trying to convince women that they do.

Have you ever had a thought that you just couldn’t shake? A burning belief that seemed to play in the back of your mind no matter what else consumed your time? The discussion surrounding abortion is that burning heart issue for me. Until I take my last breath, I will not stop thinking of the millions of people who never had a chance to live outside of their mother’s womb.

And until we start thinking of these aborted babies as people, and until we start calling them babies, we won’t ever recognize humanity’s greatest loss.

Here are my other thoughts on abortion:

To the woman who feels like she doesn’t have any options

The answer to end abortion

How abortion has changed the discussion of miscarriage

To the woman who regrets her abortion: What the Church should say

We will teach our children the word abortion

I know that my emotions have been all over the place. I’ve been disgusted. I’ve been afraid. I’ve felt angry. I’ve felt helpless. I have felt as if more should be done and wondered how I can be part of a solution.

And in the very same breath, I have bought the lies of fear and have felt as if perhaps this problem is too big to solve. I have felt the great divide ripping through our nation. And I have felt sorrow that we still battle the same demons today that we have fought for centuries to overcome.

But in all of these feelings, I worked to digest the facts as well.

You likely know the facts by now. You have read them. You have heard them reported.

You have heard about the group of men who assembled in protest, carrying torches and spewing hate. You have heard about those who gathered in counter-protest. You have heard about the brawling, and the state of emergency, and the terror of a car crashed into a crowd of people. You have heard about the injuries and you have heard about the lives lost.

We know about the evil that took place in Charlottesville this weekend. It has demanded our attention.

But as the country continues to respond, as our outcry against racism and as our collective rebuke and denouncement has been loud, there is an important truth we cannot afford to miss in all of this.

Evil goes by many names, but there is only one Enemy, and we already know exactly how to defeat him.

How do we end racism? How do we eradicate hate? How do we heal a divided nation?

There will be many suggestions in the coming weeks about what should be done. There will be much discussion about how to prevent weekends like this one from reoccurring in the future. There will be disagreements and legislation and calls for more action.

But the answer to this evil and every other evil has been and always will be the same.

Our answer is found in our Savior, Jesus, – the only One worthy of our Hope.

As those who know the Truth, we understand that a Godless man is not easily convinced in his mind to change his beliefs or his behavior when his beliefs and behavior are rooted in evil. If we want to end racism, if we want to eradicate hate, if we want to unify our nation, it will only happen under the banner of the blood of Jesus Christ.

We change our nation by bringing the hearts of Godless men and women into the presence of the Holy Spirit who will convict and transform in a way that legislation cannot.

Friends, why are we still surprised that hate like this can exist when we know for certain that the Word of God promises that evil will continue until the return of our Savior?

We can’t afford to be surprised by presence of evil anymore. We cannot fear it. We must be those who stalk the darkness. We must be those who drive out evil by shining Light.

Our call to action is simply this: We decide that taking the Truth of Jesus Christ into our broken world must be more than a side job, and then we do it. We take the commission of Jesus seriously.

We remember that He was talking to us when He said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Our Answer won’t make sense in the hearts of those who do not know Him. As a matter of fact, our Answer will be laughed away as foolishness. We will be told that believing in God to save us is the same thing as doing nothing, the same as standing by and allowing evil to continue.

Yet, we remember that 1 Corinthians 2:14 says, “The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.”

We cannot change the minds of those who do not understand any more than we can change the minds of those who are bound by hate.

However, we carry the key to their understanding.

It is the Spirit of Truth that convicts the hearts of man, and it is our job to carry the Spirit of God into our broken world.

This is our strategy. This is our mandate.

This is not a meme or a Facebook post or one Sunday morning service or one good deed a week. This is our very purpose for existence – to bring Glory to God in all that we do as we extend the invitation of freedom for those who are still bound.

Evil isn’t hiding under cloaks anymore. Evil has come out of the darkness. Evil wants our attention.

But I refuse to look on evil and cower in fear, because I carry the Truth within me. And so do you. We don’t need to look for an answer. We need to be the answer.

Evil has many names, but they all bow to the name of Jesus. Let’s lift His Name high together.

Lord,
In the Spirit, we bring before you those who are hurting, those who are still bound, those who do not know Your Truth. We ask that You would move in their hearts. We recognize the spirit of antichrist that is loose in our nation – the same spirit that opposes the works of Jesus – the one that says not all men are created in the image of God. Lord, even this spirit must bow to You. Embolden us today to share Your love and Truth in our conversations and our communities. Impress on our hearts the urgency for the right kind of action. As we humble ourselves and pray, we repent and call on Your Name. Lord, hear us from Heaven and heal our land. In the name of Jesus we ask these things. Amen.

I scrolled past vacation pictures and recipes, makeup tutorial videos and memes and articles.

But it was a brilliant blue background and a woman standing in a bright red dress that caught my attention. It was a clip from America’s Got Talent, and I had no idea that what I was about to watch would literally bring me to my knees as deep sobs rose from my chest.

Like any other performance, the audition began with Mandy standing in the middle of the stage, holding her instrument and preparing to sing.

Simon asked her name, and Mandy replied. But then Simon asked Mandy to introduce the other woman standing to his left… That’s when Mandy introduced her interpreter.

Mandy isn’t just a singer. Mandy is deaf, and after she lost her hearing ten years ago, she retrained herself to sing using muscle memory and visual tuners. This lady is incredible.

With her shoes off, she began to strum an original song, Try, feeling the beat through the vibrations in the floor.

“I don’t feel the way I used to. The sky is gray much more than it is blue. But I know one day I’ll get through, and I’ll take my place again… If I would try.”

I found myself completely undone, sobbing as I watched.

Her voice was beautiful, her ability and determination to retrain herself to sing without the ability to hear was inspiring, and the judges’ responses (which you will have to watch for yourself) were everything I hoped they would be and everything that Mandy deserved.

In her performance, Mandy showed once again that there is nothing a deaf person can’t do except hear.

Need proof that you should never give up on your dream? This is @mandyharvey. #AGT pic.twitter.com/R1yWrofTUi

— America’s Got Talent (@AGT) June 7, 2017

I think that everyone who watched Mandy was impacted by the truth that we should never give up on our dreams. But as Mandy began to sing, and as she hit every beautiful note in perfect rhythm and pitch, I found myself personally connecting to her story.

Let me be clear that I am not deaf, and I do not know what it is like to be deaf. Mandy has been through things I will never personally understand. But there is an aspect of Mandy’s story that helped me understand what I didn’t even realize I had been feeling. As she sang, she gave my heart a voice.

For the last few months I have felt as if I was trying to figure out what God was saying to me without being able to hear Him as I have in other seasons of my life.

We announced a few months ago that the Lord was asking us to move to California, but despite our desire to be obedient, we don’t know what the next steps are yet. We keep trying to move forward, but everything seems strangely silent.

As I watched Mandy standing there with her shoe-less feet on the floor, it was as if I understood — it’s something I think many of us can relate to. I wonder if you, too, have ever been in a season where you desperately wanted to hear from God and couldn’t. I wonder if you know what it’s like to keep moving forward wondering if you’re in or out of sync with God’s rhythm for your life. I wonder if you see your own story in any part Mandy’s.

The truth is, Mandy taught us you don’t have to be able to hear the music to be able to feel it, to be able to trust that the Lord is leading us in new ways, to be confident of what we have learned in previous seasons.

It was as if she exposed all of our hearts with her beautiful song, proving with each note that we can all sing even if we can’t hear the music… if we just try.

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Before I begin, I’d like to take a second to introduce myself. If you’re visiting my page for the first time, I think it’s important that you know who you’re talking to. My name is Becky Thompson, and I started this website in 2013. I have been married for ten years to my husband, Jared. We have three children, and we live in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma. I have written a couple of books with WaterBrook, a division of Penguin Random House.

My story is probably a lot like yours. I’m a regular lady, and my life is pretty average. But a few years ago, I realized that if you can rescue a momma’s heart from discouragement, or loneliness, or guilt, you can help heal her entire family… and every generation that follows. Because of this, I take the responsibility to speak Truth seriously. I think that a Christian woman’s life isn’t just comprised of her faith. I do my best to take a 360 view of the Christian woman’s heart and home, interjecting the Love of God into even the most ordinary places.

Today, that brings me to the topic of Christian women and anxiety. I’ve wanted to address this for some time, and now feels like the right time. The truth is, I cannot talk about anxiety without speaking about my personal experience with it. I am a Christian woman, and I have been dealing with anxiety most of my life.

Now, I need to say something from the beginning. I believe in a God who still performs miracles. I believe in a Savior that died so I could live an abundant life. I believe the Word of God is clear about transforming our minds and not being anxious about anything (Philippians 4:6-7). But what happens when a Christian woman who knows the Word of God and trusts Jesus as her Savior and friend still faces anxiety? What does it mean about her and her faith? These are the questions I want to answer today.

I think the stigma surrounding anxiety causes us to believe that anxiety can be controlled. If we read our Bibles more, if we prayed more, if we thought about Jesus more, we wouldn’t feel anxious. The truth is, anxiety is often caused by an underlying medical condition. Personally, I have a genetic disorder that alters how my body is able to process certain key nutrients required to maintain proper serotonin levels. Serotonin imbalance is one of the leading causes of anxiety. When I discovered this a few years ago, I found out that I could take a vitamin (yes, a vitamin) to manage my anxiety. But leading up to this, it was a constant battle.

For most of my life, I felt afraid. I was scared of being forgotten at school even though I had never been forgotten before. I was scared of my house catching on fire and something happening to my parents as they came to look for me. I was scared of talking to new people. I was scared of being misunderstood. I was terrified of conflict. I carefully surveyed situations and found the danger in them.

As I got older, my mind was able to differentiate between rational fears and irrational fears. I wasn’t as anxious about things that I could understand and process. But the thing about anxiety that I think most people don’t understand is that there is an undercurrent emotion that something is wrong, even if nothing is wrong. We can know that everything is fine, and still feel like there is some form of imminent doom. As Christian women, we renew our minds with the Word of God, and we anchor our hearts into His Truth so we can experience peace. At least, this is what we are taught, and so that’s what we make a continual effort to do.

But the reality is, sometimes we pray, we read, we sit reminding ourselves of God’s love for us and His completed work on the Cross, and we are still anxious. We have all of the facts that everything is okay, and our hearts still race. So we wonder about our faith and our trust and our ability.

The fall of man in the beginning of time meant that we would all be broken on some level. It is the reason that we all need Jesus. But if we are going to talk about Christian women and anxiety, then we must address that sometimes we are praying for deliverance from fear, and what we need is healing in our bodies. We are praying for restored hearts and what we need is restored serotonin levels. Does God know what we are praying even if we are praying for the wrong thing? Yes. Absolutely. Can He heal us if we’re praying the wrong words? Yes! Follow me, here. What I’m saying is that often we are looking at the symptoms without addressing the cause. And sometimes healing our bodies from what’s causing the anxiety would take an actual miracle and not just more time in the Word.

We need to talk about this. There needs to be more discussion of this in the Body of Christ. We wouldn’t fault a diabetic or a person struggling with another form of physical brokenness for their brokenness. We wouldn’t accuse them of having weak faith. We wouldn’t tell them that if they were better Christians, then they would be healed. Christians struggling with anxiety should fall in that same category. Those of us struggling with anxiety understand that we are in constant need of a miracle.

The powerful truth is that every moment that we overcome anxiety, we are living our miracles. Every moment that we have peace and balanced hearts, we are reminded of the continual presence and love of Jesus for us. We can be strong in the Lord and in our faith, even if our bodies (including our hearts and minds) are struggling. Friend, God still heals. I believe that it is His will to heal always (even if we aren’t always healed). I’m sure I’ll get plenty of emails for that one. But somehow, anxiety has been shifted into a category of, “You need to take care of that on your own.”

My prayer is that this article shifts our understanding of those who face anxiety back into the category with the rest of the world’s brokenness. It’s never been up to us to heal ourselves. It’s never been up to us to remedy our own imbalances. God does not fault the anxious woman for her anxiety. He came so she could be free. And whether that freedom comes by the vehicle of a vitamin or an encounter with His presence that radically and miraculously reorganizes her DNA, my job is to stand with her believing that there is hope and peace coming. My job is to point to Jesus and say, “It’s always been up to Him.” Our job, is to trust and follow Him.

So, Lord, I pray now for every woman reading these words. I pray now that she would stand in the Truth that You have overcome even the cause of anxiety in her heart. I pray that Your presence would flood the room where she reads these words. God, I agree with her as we ask for a miracle. Give her wisdom. Give her a strategy for moving forward from this place. And overwhelm her with the Hope that she isn’t alone, she isn’t weak, and she isn’t forgotten. We ask for healing now in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Have you seen it come across your newsfeed yet? I have. The next movie in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Fifty Shades Darker, releases in just a few months, and the trailer is already being shared across social media sites.

I’m not waiting until February when the movie releases to talk about this, because women are deciding now if and when they will go see it. We are going to talk about this right now before we get invited by our friends or a bunch of our church gal pals who think a girls’ night out would be fun and harmless.

So, here we go…again.

Last year, when the first movie released, I issued a warning. Basically, I said, “Look out!” Because that’s what you do when you see your friends headed toward danger, and that’s what I’m saying again this year. That’s the heart behind this message. Watch out! Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour… (1 Peter 5:8)

…and I was absolutely shocked by the response. Millions (literally millions) of women responded, some agreeing strongly, and some using strong words to tell me just how much they disagreed. But the post revealed something important. There is a need for this discussion within the Body of Christ.

With the next movie in the series releasing early next year… a movie that promises to be darker… a movie that uses the hook that it is darker to gather an audience… there are some points that need to be addressed.

I’d like to take a few minutes and answer some of the common replies that I received last year. The first is this…

What’s the big deal? Why all of the hype? It’s just a movie. Right?

Over the last four years of blogging, I have received tens of thousands of messages. But one constant request that I receive from women is this. “How do I reignite the romance and restore my relationship with my husband? How do we move from a couple raising a family side by side to intimate partners again? How do we fall back in love?”

And in desperation for an answer… I can almost understand how the lure of watching a movie or reading a book that “promotes passion” could seem like a something that could help. It will just stir up feelings for our own husbands, some might justify. It will just get us excited, and we’ll be more romantic with our husbands at home. Heck, maybe I’ll even go watch it with my husband.

But it’s a trap. It’s false. It’s a pretend fix. It creates the opportunity for unrealistic expectations and abusive behavior. It will probably fuel your flesh, but it will not restore your soul.

You want to spice up your marriage? You want to save your relationship from being stagnant, or save the passion from slipping away in the day in and day out routines? Don’t ask Christian Grey for help. Don’t watch Christian Grey do whatever he would like to Anastasia Steele and expect their twisted broken characters to somehow heal that deep hurt or need for intimacy in your own heart.

Only Jesus can do that. Only Jesus can speak to the places in your heart that need to feel alive and loved. And only His example of unconditional love can be followed to create a healthy marriage.

But, Becky, I’m not trying to fix anything… It’s just entertainment. It’s just a good love story.

Look. It is a complete lie that going to see the movie will help your marriage. And it’s an even bigger lie is that it won’t affect you at all. Because it will. The things that you see cannot be unseen. The feelings that you experience from being entertained by certain scenes cannot be unfelt. And if marriages aren’t under enough pressure already, going to watch carefully edited pornography… because don’t tell me it’s anything less than cinematically censored porn… is only throwing gasoline on marriages already experiencing fire from all directions.

It’s destruction.

And do not tell me that this twisted tale is a love story, because my Bible is pretty stinkin’ clear about the characteristics of Love. As a matter of fact, I have read cover to cover the truest love story ever written. Hello. And if Scripture is the guide by which we measure love, then these movies? They’re lust. We are so confused when it comes to the difference between love and lust that we get the two mixed up sometimes. But we know the Truth. Love is a person and He is committed to honor and respect. He is patient and kind, slow to anger and quick to forgive. When we act like Him, we’ll have better love lives. I promise.

I can hear the next comments now. I think you’re just creating a place for the body of Christ to separate over another dumb issue. We need to come together not tear each other apart.

Listen. The Body of Christ has plenty of things to tear itself apart about right now… This should be an easy thing for us all to agree on! This shouldn’t divide us. We should all be over here saying, “Yes! We won’t be confused by unrealistic stories of twisted love! We will fight for authentic intimacy!” To be completely honest, I cannot believe that as Christian women who have read the Scriptures that reminds us to think on things lovely and pure and worthy of our attention, that we are actually having this discussion at all.

So what would God say about all of this, and do you think He cares?

Absolutely. I absolutely think He cares about anything that could cause harm to us. I think He cares about everything the enemy would use to lure us into a false representation of His Love.

And I think if Jesus were to speak about this, He would address the bigger heart issue. He wouldn’t just say, “Don’t go see the movie.” I think Jesus would point out the lack of respect and honor between husbands and wives in our culture saturated with pride and selfishness.

Jesus would speak to the greater hurt so many wives experience as they feel unseen and unloved in their own marriages. And He would address the men who feel as though they aren’t respected in their own homes.

He would say to us…

Wives honor your husbands. Husbands, love your wives.

And He would reminded us that our marriages were created to reflect Christ’s love for the Church (us)… not Christian Grey’s “love” for Anastasia Steele.

We need to honor our husbands by keeping our sexual desires and (arousal) for them only. Because the place where families are torn apart is not at the dinner table or in the living room over the unfolding events of a stressful day or the unpaid bills on the kitchen island. The place where marriages fall apart is the bedroom. The words that we say to each other outside of the walls of our bedrooms are simply a reflection of the level of intimacy and respect that take place when we are alone and vulnerable with our spouse.

And personally, if my marriage is sacred and holy and the foundation on which my family and children stand? Then you had better believe I’m not going to be deceived into thinking that the enemy doesn’t care about what I do or what I watch. You had better believe that I’m going to stay alert and watchful for things that would slip by as “just a movie” or “entertainment” which could hurt my marriage. And you had better believe that I’m going to seek real intimacy with my husband… not just physically, but emotionally, and spiritually so that we are a united front, connected in the war waged against our home.

Look, sex is good. Sex is important. Sex is an actual gift given to us by God, and God made good things. Amen? It’s not taboo. It doesn’t have to be boring. But sex has been stolen and twisted and turned into something that is the opposite of safe and beautiful. These movies have taken the vulnerable and beautiful and passionate thing that is married sex and entertained the world with a man who uses sex to control, manipulate, and introduce pain because of his broken past.

So this year, I’m offering a challenge. The same challenge I offered last year actually. Instead of watching Christian Grey have sex with Anastasia Steele? Have sex with your own husband. Spend the evening in your own bedroom remembering what being in love felt like when you first got married.

Because your husband and your marriage are worth honoring. And you know what I think? I think deep down you agree with me…. And that’s why you either love this article… or you hate it.