Comments on: The Gap in the Covenant http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/ The Best Days of My Life Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:41:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Sue http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/comment-page-1/#comment-11155 Sue Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:08:48 +0000 http://www.sarahmarkley.com/?p=1568#comment-11155 Great post! Your blog is the first one I read every morning, even tho I rarely comment. Keep writing, it's very inspirational, honest, and heartfelt. I look forward to reading your book someday :-) Great post! Your blog is the first one I read every morning, even tho I rarely comment. Keep writing, it’s very inspirational, honest, and heartfelt. I look forward to reading your book someday :-)

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]]> By: Sarah Markley http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/comment-page-1/#comment-11105 Sarah Markley Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:25:49 +0000 http://www.sarahmarkley.com/?p=1568#comment-11105 i know this sounds hopeless, but people are going to do what they are going to do. If she wants to leave, she will leave. there is nothing you can do, no prayer to pray that will keep her from doing that. that said, this EXACT thing happened to me. i prayed for her. told her the truth in love. and she still left him. i would say do what you can: pray, talk to her if she wants to always gently pointing her back toward God. pray with her if she wants to. and, you might lose a friend. i'm sorry. i know this sounds hopeless, but people are going to do what they are going to do. If she wants to leave, she will leave. there is nothing you can do, no prayer to pray that will keep her from doing that.

that said, this EXACT thing happened to me. i prayed for her. told her the truth in love. and she still left him.

i would say do what you can: pray, talk to her if she wants to always gently pointing her back toward God. pray with her if she wants to.

and, you might lose a friend. i’m sorry.

]]> By: Tyra http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/comment-page-1/#comment-11093 Tyra Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:03:34 +0000 http://www.sarahmarkley.com/?p=1568#comment-11093 Stumbled on this via twitter. This is a great post and painfully true in my own life right now. I feel like our gap has widened instead of drawn closer in the past 7 years of marriage, but we're still hanging in there....even if it feels like by our fingertips alot of times! I won't go into any details on here but I would appreciate your prayers for my husband and I. Thank you so much for writing such a beautiful, honest, encouraging post! Tyra (aka: @nonsensical2) Stumbled on this via twitter. This is a great post and painfully true in my own life right now. I feel like our gap has widened instead of drawn closer in the past 7 years of marriage, but we’re still hanging in there….even if it feels like by our fingertips alot of times!
I won’t go into any details on here but I would appreciate your prayers for my husband and I. Thank you so much for writing such a beautiful, honest, encouraging post!

Tyra (aka: @nonsensical2)

]]> By: thegypsymama http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/comment-page-1/#comment-11092 thegypsymama Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:40:48 +0000 http://www.sarahmarkley.com/?p=1568#comment-11092 Sarah, I think this is the best thing I have read on your blog. You tap a universal truth from a fresh perspective. You challenge and you relate at the same time. This post is as refreshingly untouched and authentic as the photo that precedes it. Thank you so much. Lisa-Jo Sarah, I think this is the best thing I have read on your blog. You tap a universal truth from a fresh perspective. You challenge and you relate at the same time. This post is as refreshingly untouched and authentic as the photo that precedes it. Thank you so much.

Lisa-Jo

]]> By: Serena Abdelaziz http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/comment-page-1/#comment-11088 Serena Abdelaziz Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:51:06 +0000 http://www.sarahmarkley.com/?p=1568#comment-11088 Excellent...I have shared this!! It's exactly what my heart says....thank you for putting it in words! Excellent…I have shared this!! It’s exactly what my heart says….thank you for putting it in words!

]]> By: Daja http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/comment-page-1/#comment-11087 Daja Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:40:36 +0000 http://www.sarahmarkley.com/?p=1568#comment-11087 I've shared this lovely post with our marriage and family cell group. I know it will encourage our couples as it did me this morning! Thank you for your boldness and transparency! Blessings! I’ve shared this lovely post with our marriage and family cell group. I know it will encourage our couples as it did me this morning! Thank you for your boldness and transparency!

Blessings!

]]> By: Dina http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/comment-page-1/#comment-11084 Dina Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:05:17 +0000 http://www.sarahmarkley.com/?p=1568#comment-11084 I love this! Having weathered such things as you have and come through stronger, sometimes people on the outside assume that stronger means invincible, impenetrable. Hardly though, right? We are all still capable of much hurt and much hurting. We all have our days of discouragement and days when we falter. Yet, the covenant means we remain unbreakable. As long as He continues to offer us grace and forgiveness, we each learn a little more each day of what it means to offer our spouse the same. Thank you for being honest and always open with us! It is refreshing indeed!! I love this! Having weathered such things as you have and come through stronger, sometimes people on the outside assume that stronger means invincible, impenetrable. Hardly though, right? We are all still capable of much hurt and much hurting. We all have our days of discouragement and days when we falter. Yet, the covenant means we remain unbreakable. As long as He continues to offer us grace and forgiveness, we each learn a little more each day of what it means to offer our spouse the same. Thank you for being honest and always open with us! It is refreshing indeed!!

]]> By: m & j @ zcouple.com http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/comment-page-1/#comment-11075 m & j @ zcouple.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:19:51 +0000 http://www.sarahmarkley.com/?p=1568#comment-11075 Nice article… Very important to have this in the back of our minds, especially when we are fighting. I always want to build even when we are fighting… we have to hold each other promise. Meaning if I fail in holding my anger, you keep me down, if you lose it, I take you in my arms. Always looking out for each other and looking out to keep the covenant between us. Nice article…
Very important to have this in the back of our minds, especially when we are fighting.
I always want to build even when we are fighting… we have to hold each other promise. Meaning if I fail in holding my anger, you keep me down, if you lose it, I take you in my arms.
Always looking out for each other and looking out to keep the covenant between us.

]]> By: Debbie G. http://www.sarahmarkley.com/2009/12/the-gap-in-the-covenant/comment-page-1/#comment-10969 Debbie G. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:57:55 +0000 http://www.sarahmarkley.com/?p=1568#comment-10969 Thanks for this post. My husband passed away 11 months ago and I have been struggling this week with all the times I perceived I had "missed" my husband during our 3 year marriage. I love my husband very, very much - but sometimes I got caught up in all my "to-do's" and just didn't give him what he desired most: quality time. I really needed to hear about Jesus being the "gap" in the covenant and making up the difference when I failed. Thanks again. Thanks for this post. My husband passed away 11 months ago and I have been struggling this week with all the times I perceived I had “missed” my husband during our 3 year marriage. I love my husband very, very much – but sometimes I got caught up in all my “to-do’s” and just didn’t give him what he desired most: quality time. I really needed to hear about Jesus being the “gap” in the covenant and making up the difference when I failed.
Thanks again.

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