Bringing Your Marriage Back to Life
In Sunday's Gospel , Jesus stands before the tomb of his friend Lazarus and weeps. Then he does something that confounds the mourners around him: he calls Lazarus out of the grave. The stone must be rolled away. The burial cloths must be removed. And a man who was lost is restored. Many of our marriages do not end in divorce. They decline into something quieter: a slow withdrawal into routine, financial partnership, and social performance. The love is not gone so much as it i
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"Who's to Blame?" Why that Question May Be Hurting Your Marriage
In this Sunday's Gospel , Jesus and his disciples encounter a man born blind. The disciples ask: "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents?" They want an explanation. They want someone to hold responsible. Jesus redirects them entirely: "Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him." The question they asked, it turns out, was the wrong question. Our marriages have a way of producing the same reflex. Something goes wro
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Loving the Person in Front of You
In this Sunday's Gospel , Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well and offers her "living water." She takes him literally, thinking of her own thirst, her own daily burden of drawing water. When the disciples return, Jesus tells them he has "food to eat that you do not know about," and they too take him literally, wondering who brought him lunch. Both the woman and the disciples hear Jesus through the filter of their own needs and desires, and so they miss what he is actually
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