" Love's more beautiful, the second time around ..."
Joy can come out of sadness, and getting married a second time can be a beautiful thing. IF your first marriage ended for all the right reasons.
By that I mean, that you had biblical grounds for divorce, such as adultery, or domestic violence, or you were married to someone who was not a Christian ( an unbeliever ) and they wanted out of the marriage. When these are the conditions for your divorce then you are free to re-marry in God's eyes.
It is a known fact that when people get married when they are too young, or they have not known each other long enough, many times the first marriage does not survive. And this is because when people marry when they are barely out of high school, or in their early twenties, they really do not know who they are yet, or what they really want in life.
They have not fully matured into adults with a completed personality until age 25. So that a few years into the marriage, one or both of the individuals begin to change. One continues to mature and grow while the other may be left behind. Or, they realize that they married too young and really did not get to experience life as a single adult.
Joy can come out of sadness
Lord Jesus,
grant that I and my spouse may have a true
and understanding love for each other.
Grant that we may both
be filled with faith and trust.
Give us the grace to live
with each other in peace and harmony.
May we always bear with one another's weaknesses
and grow from each other's strengths.
help us to forgive one another's failings
and grant us patience, kindness, cheerfulness
and the spirit of placing the well-being
of one another ahead of self.
May the love that brought us together
grow and mature with each passing year.
Bring us both ever closer to You
through our love for each other.
Let our love grow to perfection.
Spouse's Prayer
If you are experiencing difficulties in your re-marriage, please do not hesitate to send me a Long or Short Question detailing your situation and together we can work towards solving it so that you can be happily married.
Patricia Jones, M.A.
Patricia Jones, M.A. ( Online Counseling )
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Why We Pick The Mates We Do is an interactive book that begins with an easy-to-take Selection Test that is guaranteed to give you the most amazing insight into the real reasons you have selected or rejected your past and present partners and predict how your current relationship will turn out before you get married. If you have ever been unable to find the kind of relationship partner you really want, don't settle for less or give up altogether. Taking the Selection Test will not only reveal to you why you have been magnetically attracted to the wrong partners in the past, but will also give you methods to release yourself from attractions to people who are not good to you or for you. This system is the result of my twenty five years as a couple counselor and has already proven itself with thousands of people as the most important key to making successful life-mate choices. This new method of couple counseling consistently gets dramatic improvements in relationshi! ps from selection to solution. The book helps both singles and married couples to finally uncover the real problem that keeps them from having happy relationships and shows them how to reprogram their imprinted negative couple patterns.
Reviewer: From Amazon:
As a divorced person, I have often felt like there are many books written about marriage, but few that deal with the specific issues that I can only imagine affect second marriages. Not content with reading just another book about the general subject of marriage, and not really wanting to read another book about divorce, I was very pleased to be given this book on remarriage. After reading through it, I feel so much more confident now about my ability to enter a second marriage and not be trapped by fears and insecurities that resulted from my first. I feel much more able now to look objectively at the areas I still need to heal and grow in. Praise God for the careful work of Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott in addressing this seldom-addressed issue. I HIGHLY recommend this for anyone who is divorced, even if they haven't yet addressed the possibility of remarriage in their life.
If you would like advice or counseling from Patricia Jones there are three methods that you may choose from:
1.) Long Question For a fee of $45.00.
A long question should contain background information and list any concerns or questions that you have about a particular issue or issues. It may be as long as
you wish. I will reply back to you via email with an extensive response ( several pages in length ) within 24 to 48 hours. See an example of a Long Question here.
2.) A Short Question: For a fee of $25.00. A short question should give some background information and ask one question about one particular issue that you may have. I will reply back to you via email within 24 to 48 hours.
