Good Morning Girls!  Well today's title just about sums it up don't you think!   Often times love does seem impossible!  However, God tells us in his Word that "all things are possible with Christ".   My marriage is a personal testimony of the need for Christ to be in our lives, and in our marriages if we are to stay together. 

When I first got married, having a relationship with the Lord was the last thing on my mind.  I had strayed from the Lord in about 9th grade, and even then, I never had a relationship with Him.  I simply believed He existed.  By the time I graduated college, I didn't even think there was a God. If there was, he has surely written me off years ago!  How could there be a God who loved me....my life was one big tragic mess!

So on my wedding day, I didn't need the Lord.  I was marrying the man of my dreams.  He was real.  He was flesh and blood.  I was looking to him to make me whole and complete.  I was feeling like Jerry Maguire towards him, you know, our favorite line from the movie...... "you complete me".  By the end of our wedding night, yes, our wedding night, I was slapped with the reality that a man of real flesh and blood is sometimes highly overrated!  We had our first of many knock down drag out fights.  I wanted out, and I was barely in.

I spent our first year of marriage drinking and crying in the closet.  By year two I adding gambling on to my method of escape.  Heading in to year three I was being treated for depression and was spiraling downward fast.  I do not think I would have made it to year 4 if the Lord had not intervened.

Until the Lord was in my life and in my marriage, we had no marriage at all.  So, even though this February will be our 11th year anniversary, in many ways it is only our 9th year.  Each year, as we grow in the Lord, our marriage gets better and better!  I'm telling you girls, if you feel like things are a mess, ask the Lord to be your marriage counselor!   Your marriage will never be the same!

Please take this weekend to do today's assignment and catch up with any others you may have missed (or not been up to doing at the time).  Our special dinner will most likely be a breakfast in bed.......I'll spare you the details!

Assignment:
Look back over the dares from previous days.  Were there some that seemed impossible to you?  Have you realized your need for God to change your heart and to give you the ability to love?  Ask him to show you where you stand with him, and ask for the strength and grace to settle your eternal destination.

Questions:
What do you believe God is saying to you?  Is there a stirring in your heart?  What decision have you made in response to this?

Matthew 19:26 This is impossible, but with God all things are possible

Love you all-
Jen