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Shanks, owner of health food café Smallfolk in Dallas, Tex., courageously tells the story of how her 10-year marriage unraveled before coming back together in the end. Shanks, a Christian who admits to drifting away from her faith, draws parallels between her journey to reinvigorated faith and the death and rebirth of her marriage. She recounts the seemingly endless days and sleepless nights that followed her husband telling her that their marriage was a mistake and he wanted out. When Shanks found and read her husband’s diary, she felt a sliver of hope, as the words indubitably showed a passionate love for her. Afraid her husband would be upset that she read the diary without his permission, Shanks was relieved that her admission and apology opened up new avenues of communication. She reveals that 1 Corinthians 13 formed the basis for her “Love Filter,” a mental reminder not to react emotionally to her husband’s occasional fits of anger, but to speak with calm, deliberate purpose as she fought for their marriage. Shanks offers readers practical recommendations and loads of adapted biblical teachings for overcoming one’s evil impulses with good intentions. Shanks’s story will bring hope to readers in the darkest times of married life, pointing directly to God’s redemptive plan for remaking what has been broken. (June)
Love is easy to give when you are getting it back. Are we still called to God's plan of how to love when we are getting none in return? Shauna Shanks's brave journey through obedience reveals the outcome of when we dare to follow God's ludicrous outline for love as described in 1 Corinthians 13.
Wrecked with news of her husband's affair and his request for a divorce, Shauna finds herself urgently faced with a decision. Does she give up and divorce her husband and move on, or does she try to fight for her marriage? The former choice seems to contradict God's plan for how to love, such as "love never gives up," "love is patient," and "love is kind."
Taking God at His word and assuming the love chapter was really meant to be followed literally word by word, she not only finds herself falling in love with her spouse again, but also falling in love with Jesus, which changes everything.
First Corinthians 13 presents an audacious, illogical, and irrational context of how to love, meant to be applied to every marital context not just the fairytale marriage. If God's instructions seem illogical and audacious, you might just expect the same kind of results in return!
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Wrecked with news of her husband's affair and his request for a divorce, Shauna finds herself urgently faced with a decision. Does she give up and divorce her husband and move on, or does she try to fight for her marriage? The former choice seems to contradict God's plan for how to love, such as "love never gives up," "love is patient," and "love is kind."
Taking God at His word and assuming the love chapter was really meant to be followed literally word by word, she not only finds herself falling in love with her spouse again, but also falling in love with Jesus, which changes everything.
First Corinthians 13 presents an audacious, illogical, and irrational context of how to love, meant to be applied to every marital context not just the fairytale marriage. If God's instructions seem illogical and audacious, you might just expect the same kind of results in return!
A Fierce Love: One Woman's Courageous Journey to Save Her Marriage
Love is easy to give when you are getting it back. Are we still called to God's plan of how to love when we are getting none in return? Shauna Shanks's brave journey through obedience reveals the outcome of when we dare to follow God's ludicrous outline for love as described in 1 Corinthians 13.
Wrecked with news of her husband's affair and his request for a divorce, Shauna finds herself urgently faced with a decision. Does she give up and divorce her husband and move on, or does she try to fight for her marriage? The former choice seems to contradict God's plan for how to love, such as "love never gives up," "love is patient," and "love is kind."
Taking God at His word and assuming the love chapter was really meant to be followed literally word by word, she not only finds herself falling in love with her spouse again, but also falling in love with Jesus, which changes everything.
First Corinthians 13 presents an audacious, illogical, and irrational context of how to love, meant to be applied to every marital context not just the fairytale marriage. If God's instructions seem illogical and audacious, you might just expect the same kind of results in return!
Wrecked with news of her husband's affair and his request for a divorce, Shauna finds herself urgently faced with a decision. Does she give up and divorce her husband and move on, or does she try to fight for her marriage? The former choice seems to contradict God's plan for how to love, such as "love never gives up," "love is patient," and "love is kind."
Taking God at His word and assuming the love chapter was really meant to be followed literally word by word, she not only finds herself falling in love with her spouse again, but also falling in love with Jesus, which changes everything.
First Corinthians 13 presents an audacious, illogical, and irrational context of how to love, meant to be applied to every marital context not just the fairytale marriage. If God's instructions seem illogical and audacious, you might just expect the same kind of results in return!
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| BN ID: | 2940172398353 |
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| Publisher: | Tantor Audio |
| Publication date: | 12/19/2019 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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