Have you ever bruised your heart by tripping on a relationship? Maybe your best friend stopped speaking to you, your boss spewed his bad attitude all over your work, or the kids tried to wake you to ‘woke,’ and because you said, ‘no,’ in love, you must deal with the fallout. These things shouldn’t happen, not when you have God’s Holy Spirit inside of you, right?
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by Linda Evans Shepherd — I climbed the stairs to the stage in Hughes Auditorium on the Asbury University campus and faced the audience, a small group of writing friends waiting for me to confess.
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Now it is your turn. Make a list of some of the small irritations, annoying habits, and idiosyncrasies of your man. Then next to each irritation, write out the upside or why you can choose to love that part of who he is.
Do you have what it takes to be told, “You don’t have what it takes?”