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Tonya and Joshua Bruton enjoying a relaxing moment by the water during one of their hikes. “Sometimes the strongest marriages are not the ones that never fell apart. Sometimes they are the ones that stood back up after years of heartbreak, addiction, disappointment, forgiveness, prayer, and the stubborn grace of God.” We Thought We Knew What Marriage Would Be When I married Josh almost twenty-five years ago, I really believed I was marrying the kind of man you stay married to forever. He...

Some moments in life never really leave your body. I remember the day, at 16 years old, that I went from thinking my daughter had something as minor as simple jaundice to being told: “If your daughter doesn’t get a liver transplant, she will die.” Everything changed after that. The surgery was terrifying. Cara was only 8 months old, and we became the fourth family in the state of Texas to undergo a living-related liver transplant. We were in Houston, five hours away from home, and my mom was...

Usually, we think of anger as emotional, situational, maybe even justified, but we do not tend to think of it as a spiritual issue. Over the last week, I found myself losing my temper more than once. I honestly felt right about it. In fact, I felt like people needed to understand what they had done wrong to me, and that was why I was getting angry. I told myself it was anxiety, that I was overwhelmed, or that I just needed people to understand me better. However, as I sat on the floor with my...