Your Family

Fortifying the Lives of Those You Love

If I were your enemy, I’d seek to disintegrate your family and
destroy every member of it. I’d want to tear away at your trust
and unity and turn everyone’s love inward on themselves. I
would make sure your family didn’t look anything like it’s
supposed to. Because then people would look at your
Christian marriage, your Christian kids, and see you’re no
different, no stronger than anybody else—that God,
underneath it all, really doesn’t change anything.

My husband, Jerry, and I (we’d both readily admit) had a
terrible second year of marriage. We fought early and often,
long and hard. Two people so young, with so little in the bank
of shared experiences with which to accumulate much