Praying for Marriages (PfM)

Please join us this week in praying for marriages that have settled.   First let me explain what I mean by “settled” for I admit “settled” can be both a positive and a negative term.   Positively it can mean “settled in” as a NASCAR driver settles into the fast groove of a race track.   Negatively it can mean “settled for” as a new graduate often must settled for a less-paying job until s/he gains experience. In this blog I am using the term in the negative sense.   We need to pray for marriages that are settling for less.   You are right in asking, “Settling for less of what?”   Well, less of a lot of things.   Some marriages settle for less physically.   The spouses get lazy or they take each other for granted.   They assume their spouse desires them even though they make no effort to be desirable.   The old flame is a flicker.   These couples don’t need to renew their vows.   They need to renew their wow...

Please join us this week in praying for couples that have been disowned by their children.  The nature and causes of fractured family relationships are varied, complex and rarely one-sided.  The division can be the choice of the parents or the child/children.  Regardless, the division is always painful to someone, if not to everyone. One variety of fractured family relationships is when children disown their parents.  The impetus for this separation can be rooted in bad parenting choices or in the equally bad choices of adult children.  In either case, the painful effects the division has on the disowned couple can be a challenge to the very existence of their own husband/wife relationship. If the estrangement from their children is the result of bad parenting choices, particularly if those choices were those of one parent (for example, an absentee father or an overly protective/smothering  mother), the other spouse may harbor resen...