Luv'N Lambert Life

A blog about living with Epilepsy, IBHS, Homeschooling and so much more

Marriage

No More Perfect Marriages {Moody Publishers Review}

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I admit I am a huge fan of Jill Savage.  She’s one of my favorite Christian authors and my love began with her book No More Perfect Moms.  This book really touched my heart so when I saw No More Perfect Marriages, I knew it was a must read as well!

My personal relationship choices have not always been the best.  It took me a long time to learn to choose a man by God’s standards.  This isn’t something we’re taught in today’s world.  So finding the perfect marriage has been challenging for me personally.

The one thing I do know is that no marriage is perfect, just as no person is perfect.  You both have to want it.  You both have to work hard to have your marriage work.  You both have to put in all that you can to have everlasting happiness.

And you have to be Real.  Be real together.  Overlook the flaws of one another and find forgiveness.

Through No More Perfect Marriages, Mark and Jill Savage guide you through the fundamentals of creating a healthy marriage with each other.  They teach you how to forgive past mistakes and move forward to build the best love your life has known.  You learn to guard against the seven “slow fades” and grow.

No More Perfect Marriages is the perfect book to make you realize that you’re not alone and others struggle with marriage and relationships as well.  It’s a helpful book to help you find your way back to a happier and more loving marriage.  This is one book you will love!

No More Perfect Marriages is available for $11.19 through Moody Publishers in Paperback or for $8.79 in eBook format.

Jill Savage can be found online at:

Jill Savage Website: https://www.jillsavage.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jillsavage.author
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jillsavage

52 Uncommon Dates {Moody Publishers® Review}

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52 Uncommon Dates
Randy Southern
Moody Publishers®

52 Uncommon Dates: A Couple’s Adventure Guide For Praying, Playing and Staying Together is a guidebook to share adventure with the one you love.  This spiritually engaging book will keep your relationship interesting and help you continue to bond with one another as you adventure through this life.  Stepping outside the box to find entertaining ways to share with one another and strengthen your love.

This book was a great read and really helped us think outside the box on how we spend time together.  The 52 suggestions were interesting and exciting, especially to my husband and I who enjoying sharing in our life together.  Each prayer helped to strengthen us, giving us things to think about and share in together.

The ideas shared in this book are interesting.  The dates are easy to manage and make happen.  The relationship strengthening exercises and prayers are fitting for any stage of a relationship, young or old.  52 Uncommon Date is a book that anyone in any relationship stage will find useful.

You can grab your copy of 52 Uncommon Dates: A Couple’s Adventure Guide For Praying, Playing and Staying Together is available online through Moody Publishers for $7.99 in paperback or $6.39 as an eBook.

Month One {Thoughts From Me}

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Today makes a month that Don and I have been married.  The month has passed so fast I can hardly believe it.  Being married has been pretty great so far.

My husband is the greatest man I have ever known.  He does all he can to take care of me and my children.  He’s really stepped in where others in the past have failed.  I’m truly blessed to be his wife.

We don’t have any special plans for this weekend.  Spending time together at home with the kids is the main thing, simply relaxing before Don returns to work this week.  Sometimes relaxing is the best thing you can do.

We did make a quick run to Starbucks today for Don a dark roast coffee and me a Double Choc Chip Frappe.  We shared a chocolate croissant.  Such an inexpensive yet fulfilling little date.

I’m hoping for our second month of marriage we will be camping somewhere with the kids in celebration.  Maybe an adventure to the zoo or a trip into the mountains to look for rocks.  An adventure that creates memories for us all.

Until next time…
Dana Lambert-Hodge

Dear Stalker {Thoughts From Me}

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Dear Stalker,
I am truly impressed that you are so consumed with my life that you took time to read through 700 blog posts to attempt to find some dirt on me.  Let me help you out.  There is none.  
I love how you thought sending a few screenshots of a public blog would destroy my relationship and make him second guess our marriage.    He won’t. It won’t.  
See what I have written here I meant.  I meant that I loved my ex when I was with him.  I meant I enjoyed our life and how God had indeed blessed us.  I was meant to be with him in that season of his life as he healed from his ex-wife and I received the greatest gift from that.  So did my now husband: we were blessed with our son.  
God places some people into our lives for a season and we are there to learn from them.  And I did learn from him.  I learned what I wanted in my husband and what
I would never again put up with.  
When the time in my life was right, God brought my husband into my life.  It was the worst point of his life and the point he needed me most.  And God knew he needed me as much as I did him.
God has blessed me at every single point in my life, including this one.  And he will continue to be on my side because I believe in His love for me and my family.  
My husband has never lied to me and I have not lied to him.  After all, these posts you thought you’d upset him with and use to destroy our happiness are public and open for anyone to read.  However, I only know one person so consumed by us that they’d drag up a post from 2011!  
Thing is my husband knows my heart.  He knows my past.  He’s dreamed of me even while loving others and it was me all along his heart longed for.  He is happy with me.  He’s changed his life for me and for my children.  He stands beside me and gives me strength when I need it.  
And I do the same for him.  I am the woman his exes could never be.  I am the woman who was made by God for him. I will stand by him and never give up.  
You don’t have to like what I post here or anywhere else in my online following.  It isn’t written for you but it is left unblocked for you to easily stalk us as you have been doing.  This blog is for me and my followers.  It’s for my personal friends, family and life.  It’s not here to please you. 
Stalker, I wish you enjoyed your own life as much as you do ours.  I wish you would embrace the love and happiness that God has graced upon you.  I have my entire Facebook following praying for you.  I pray you find help with your consumption in knowing our life.  I pray you also find real help for your obvious depression and possible bipolar disorder.  You deserve the same happiness we have.  Stop hiding behind your excuses as to why you stalk.  It doesn’t take a lot to see how unhappy you are.  
But for me and mine.  We will continue to live the life we have, to allow God to bless and grow in our family as we’ve been doing for the past two years.  
I thank you for shutting my husband out and giving up on him.  It gave him the chance to find real, true love.  I only hope you can do the same in time. 
God bless and much prayer for you,
Dana Lambert – Hodge