Marriage links for the week
Doug at CoffeeSwirls has some good things to say about the damage pornography can do to a person and to a marriage. He also provides some practical advice for overcoming the temptation pornography offers.
I've mentioned before that I love hearing people's love stories. Bryan (of Spare Change fame) tells the story of how his daughter came into the world. Excerpt: "She brings honor and favor to her parents by her conduct, her reputation, and her demeanor. I am incredibly proud and blessed to be her daddy. I daily pray for the wisdom, grace, and provision to be a father worthy of such a child. I ask God to bless her and protect her, but most of all to use her for His own purposes."
King of Fools had a death in the family this past week. His wife's grandmother died. They attended the funeral and visited with family. The grandparents apparently had an incredible marriage. The KoF offers his own reflections and also links to a newspaper article describing the couple on their 61st anniversary. From KoF's post:
Dealing with death is a difficult thing for all of us, but it has fallen most heavily on the Queen's grandfather. For the past several years, he has served as caretaker for his wife without complaint. The last five weeks of her life was spent in the hospital, following a major stroke. He spent each of those days and nights by her side, speaking, praying, reading and singing to her.…A few days prior to her death, he told his oldest son, "Sixty-one years with her was not enough."
Jim Priest, founder of MarriageWorks!, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening marriages and reducing divorce, offers predictions and prognostications about your marriage. You can log into the newspaper's site with the e-mail me@privacy.net and the password m1a2r3, credentials obtained at BugMeNot.com, perhaps the most useful site on the Internet.
Can research and numbers tell us anything about marriage? They might help to describe it, but not to predict it, in my opinion. One watchcry for my life is the statement, "In matters of human will, statistics are irrelevant."
