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A Gift of Love: Marriage As a Spiritual Journey
This is a basic handbook for anyone wishing to go beyond the popular self-centered view of marriage. Marital "crises" are discussed as opportunities for individual spiritual growth and learning. The author leads the reader beyond conflict and alienation to find new intimacy and depth in the spiritual oneness of true marriage.
166 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1985
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July 1, 2012
The best book on marriage that I've read. I highly recommend it to anyone in a relationship (and who isn’t in some sort of relationship). The foundational point of this book is that a couple strives to express the one Ego (God) instead two egos (or personalities) conflicting and focusing on their own wants and needs. It really lifts up the concept of marriage to what it is suppose to be, in my opinion - a spiritual journey to see the good of God expressed in your life. :)
I should add that the author makes the ideas very practical and gives solid examples. Let me share how the ideas helped my husband and I. As I was reading this book one evening, my husband came into the bedroom to grab a movie and left. On his way out he asked if I wanted to watch a movie, but then he shut the door on me in mid-sentence. At first I was fuming to myself about how impolite he was and how this behavior was becoming habitual. Then I became alert to what I was doing. It was really my ego that was bruised. As I was praying about this, I started laughing. It was so funny to replay in my mind him blazing in and out of the room. I thought, man he must have really wanted to watch that movie. I realized I was taking this too personally and that what I really was upset about is that I had wanted him to watch TV w/me (to spend time w/him), which I was about to do, and now he was watching a movie. (I was starting to tell him this when he shut the door on me.) So, I kept praying about how to express God in this situation. (B/c honestly, at first I was tempted tell him exactly what I thought!) I realized I could thank him for the invite and tell him that I was going downstairs (he was in the computer room) to watch America's Got Talent. Shortly, after I started watching TV he came down and put his arm around me and we enjoyed watching the show together.
I should add that the author makes the ideas very practical and gives solid examples. Let me share how the ideas helped my husband and I. As I was reading this book one evening, my husband came into the bedroom to grab a movie and left. On his way out he asked if I wanted to watch a movie, but then he shut the door on me in mid-sentence. At first I was fuming to myself about how impolite he was and how this behavior was becoming habitual. Then I became alert to what I was doing. It was really my ego that was bruised. As I was praying about this, I started laughing. It was so funny to replay in my mind him blazing in and out of the room. I thought, man he must have really wanted to watch that movie. I realized I was taking this too personally and that what I really was upset about is that I had wanted him to watch TV w/me (to spend time w/him), which I was about to do, and now he was watching a movie. (I was starting to tell him this when he shut the door on me.) So, I kept praying about how to express God in this situation. (B/c honestly, at first I was tempted tell him exactly what I thought!) I realized I could thank him for the invite and tell him that I was going downstairs (he was in the computer room) to watch America's Got Talent. Shortly, after I started watching TV he came down and put his arm around me and we enjoyed watching the show together.
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