Becoming Virtuous

 Standing under spiritual attacks It seems like the whole world is under attack in one way or another. We are not only dealing with the stresses of everyday life, but on top of that we are also dealing with covid-19, which has recently had a major spike in cases and widespread of death and also Racism, injustice and inequality with no current solutions. Living during these un-precedented times has caused  a rise in mental illness and unwanted stress for most people. Our world has changed drastically over the last six months and its been hard on everyone.  We are living in uncertain times and our world is suffering. In just a matter of weeks I've dealt with covid-19 hitting my children, my grandpa passing away, and then my grandma who I was very close too passing away as well and then family issues in between. I'm getting sad just thinking about it.    The enemy wants to use tough situations like this to destroy us, but God uses these times to draw us closer too Him and too s

WHEN MARRIAGE IS HARD                                                                                                                                          Its funny how when we say "I do" that we never really understand the depths of those words until we are in the marriage. Its not until we are in the marriage and we are faced with problems that we really get to honor our vows, or not.  Typically when we get married we think about all the good things like falling in love, building a new family, buying a new home together, etc.  All of those things are good and are a part of marriage but its very shallow and  it is not foundational  for marriage. If we can learn to think about marriage like God thinks about marriage and learn Gods intended purpose for marriage first then everything else will fall into place.  Without His intended purpose in mind you will be stuck chasing a fairytale of marriage and when things get hard your first reaction is to want to