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Ashley Willis

How to Stand for What’s Right in Your Marriage

Last updated on: January 22, 2019 at 6:09 pm   by Ashley Willis

How to Stand for What’s Right in Your Marriage 2019-01-22T18:09:03-04:00 Ashley Willis

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God’s Grace

By God’s grace, Adam and I were both willingly broken before the Lord. We both decided that we were going to do whatever was necessary to make our marriage work. We would not be another divorce statistic. We were going to work through the difficulty and allow God to heal what was broken. Today, it’s almost 4 years later and our marriage is radically different.

Was it easy? Absolutely not. There were days that I wasn’t sure if I wanted to continue. There were days that I was so angry that I didn’t know how to let go. There were days that I felt so incredibly alone and abandoned. There were days that I struggled to trust God’s promises. Through all of that, God has been good and faithful. He has brought us to a place of surrender and given us an abundance of hope. God has fully restored our marriage and I am so grateful for the man that I married. He has proven to be a man of God who cares for me deeply and will fight for me and our marriage. We have both grown so much over the past few years. Adam has humbled himself and sacrificed his pride for us. He has allowed God to shape him into a wonderful husband that seeks God’s will above all else. After everything we have been through, I consider it an absolute privilege to be his wife.
Here’s why and how we got through it…

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