Making Marriage Beautiful: Lifelong Love, Joy, and Intimacy Start with You
What makes a marriage beautiful? Honesty? Compatibility? Physical and emotional intimacy? All of these are important, but there’s one component that determines the quality and longevity of a marriage more than anything else: a willingness to grow.
Because a wedding joins together two imperfect people, all couples experience disappointment, conflict, and pain. How husbands and wives respond to these challenges determines the kind of people they will become and the kind of marriage they will have.
Making Marriage Beautiful reveals how the pursuit of Christ results in profound transformation for both the individual and the marriage. Rather than offering clichés and formulas, Greco relies on candor, humor, and real life stories to bring encouragement and wisdom to all couples, regardless of whether they have been married four weeks or forty years.
Top Highlights
“What if rather than blaming each other for our disappointments, we confessed our failures and owned our areas of weakness? What if we looked under the disappointments to discern if they revealed any egocentric expectations, disordered attachments, or misplaced hopes? Once we stopped avoiding these seemingly problematic feelings and started investigating them, something shifted.” (source)
“What differentiates a loving, joyful, intimate marriage from a disappointing, frustrating one is the willingness and commitment to be changed, to say yes to God’s transforming work, and to become increasingly holy with each passing year.” (source)
“was our devotion to Jesus Christ and our desire to be saved.” (source)
“Additional resources, including suggestions for further reading, can be found on my website, www.dorothygreco.com.” (source)
“ten to fifteen minutes will dramatically increase our trust, affection, and intimacy.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Making Marriage Beautiful: Lifelong Love, Joy, and Intimacy Start with You
- Authors:
- Greco, Dorothy Littell
- Greco, Christopher
- Chapman, Gary
- Publisher: David C Cook
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN: 9781434710000