Miscommunication and misunderstandings (sin) have been a root cause of challenges in our marriage. During our travels, the Lord used a simple tool to help us learn to communicate and has continued to redeem this part of our story and glorify himself through it all.

Learning to communicate our needs to each other helped create enough space for the other person to express AND be heard. Ultimately our growing faith brought Jesus into the center of our relationship (something that was always missing for us) and he healed many of the wounds we were still holding onto. Jesus became our mediator, letting his love live in between us so that we remember that we are children of God, loved fully and completely by Christ, even if we aren’t at our best.

Paul tells us in Galatians 5:14, that the entire law is summed up in a single command: “To love your neighbor as yourself”. I have feelings, wants, and needs but with this commandment, I remember that my spouse does, too. To love him well is to recognize that he has feelings, wants, and needs, and I want to experience love as I desire to be loved. His perfect love is found in 2 Corinthians.

The Bible tells us that we must take captive every thought, belief, need, desire, and feeling and make it obedient to Christ. Using this tool to help you better communicate your needs brings them obedient to Christ by consistently bringing scripture into it. It has been a technique that has served our marriage well. Is our marriage and communication perfect? We thank God for the gift of grace every single day.

I pray this tool helps you strengthen your walk with Christ, and helps you love your neighbor as yourself.

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In it with you.

Shauna

@shaunasimply | @wearesimplymade

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