The theme scripture for this month is also the subject of this blog. Paul tells the Corinthians , “ If you marry, you will have trouble.” The Living Bible says, “Marriage will bring you an extra set of problems,” I Corinthians 7:28. It’s true! We have taught for years that marriage is Hard Work! You can’t take two completely different people from different environments, put them in a confined space, tell them to pay a mortgage, raise children, and handle all of life’s problems and expect it to be easy. This is why Soul Healing Love can help.

The communication tools in the Soul Healing Love Model are designed to ease the troubles and help couples navigate the choppy waters of marriage. We just finished a couple’s 15-hr intensive and here are some of the comments.

“My wife drug me in. I did not want to go, and I confess that I was not very engaged when we first got there. But Friday night you shared about the love drugs, and the normal disillusionment of marriage, and the last 15 years of my marriage struggles started to make sense. By Saturday you had my full attention. I now realize that I had a great deal of pain in my childhood that was affecting my marriage; sadly I blamed it all on my wife. Soul Healing Love gave me tools to help me heal my own soul wounds and heal my marriage. I thank God that my persistent wife would not take “no” for an answer.” Ben

“We were separated and on the rocks when we went to the workshop. It was our last hope.  We were desperate yet still skeptical. What you said made so much sense and your personal stories of struggle helped us see we were not alone. As we continued through the weekend something in our relationship began to shift. In the workshop, you called it a paradigm shift. That’s what happened to us. We know we still have a lot of work to do, but we are doing it together. We now see each other differently, more as allies than enemies and, most importantly, we have hope. Hope in God and Hope in our future.”  Anne

Yes, marriage is hard but it is just as rewarding as it is difficult if you have the tools to help you. These tools have come in handy in the last 33 ½ years for Tom and I and can do the same for you!

 Our next workshop is October 22-24, 2010, and We would love to have you!

For more about the Soul Healing Love Model see the article in this month’s E-News Letter, “Why Can’t My Spouse Be More Like Me?!?”