Healthy Slavic Christian Marriage and Family
The joy of a healthy marriage and home is irreplaceable.
To love and be loved completely is the greatest fulfillment one can experience on Earth. The best part is that love follows you into eternity with the souls you raise and nurture for God’s Kingdom.
Simultaneously, building and maintaining relationships is also the most refining, sacrificial process a man, woman, and child(ren) will go through collectively and individually to become more like Christ.
It requires a complete abandonment of one's ego to become more understanding and honor another’s wishes at the expense of one's selfishness.
It requires daily humility and forgiveness to say, “I made a mistake. I did not know what you needed. Please forgive me for hurting you and misunderstanding your feelings.”
It requires daily attendance at the Cross where Christ hung for my sins to remember all that was done for me and the cost of what I must do for another.
…As God changes my priorities from chasing the things I used to before I became a mother, to recognizing where true wealth and contentment lie, I realize just how deceived I’ve been for decades. I used to think that wealth looked like climbing the corporate ladder, traveling abroad, getting plastic surgery, frequently eating at high-end restaurants (and posting about it on social media to feel important), buying lavish items, etc., now I realize that wealth is found in my heart and home.
It looks like having a faithful and trustworthy spouse, a healthy and exuberant child, a secure and dependent relationship with my Heavenly Father, being committed to my church family, sharing the gospel with my clients, taking my thoughts captive, expressing vulnerability in authentic relationships—I can go on…
These are all things money can’t buy, and I’m thankful for that because it requires more than money to have this wealth: it requires constant time and energy invested to make healthy relationships work. It takes a lot of love, patience, kindness, grace, communication, healing, and surrendering to old wounds and triggers to achieve what we do. All of it is worth it. I truly believe the phrase, “The grass is not greener on the other side; it’s green where you water it.” That’s the case for my family. It could have been easy to give up and believe the lie that one can start again with someone new when we faced conflicts and challenges. Still, the next relationship would require just as much effort to work as well as inheriting baggage from the old relationship, which would resurface if the contents weren’t dealt with.
Dear one, if you don’t have God’s love, joy, and peace in your home, marriage, relationship with Christ, and others, and are seeking it, please reach out to me. I once thought that this wholeness was impossible to receive for someone as traumatized as I was when I got married, but the God of miracles and a million chances that I serve can redeem even the most hurt of survivors.
God has given me a wonderful life beyond imagination, and I want to share everything He taught me with you. The work in therapy will require a desire and commitment on your part to receive the transformation, but I promise that your future will be worth the pruning in the present.
Reach out whenever you’re ready to receive it. I’m here to serve you and set captives free.