Article: Giving Mercy to the Person Who You Have Married, and How It Transforms Your Union

[mdgspencer]

“On their wedding day a bride and groom may have stars in their eyes, but they have rocks in their heads if they think their partner isn’t going to drive them nuts, sometimes,” this article begins–or at times dos some other aggravating thing. Each person in a marriage at times needs to seek forgiveness, or to seek to offer it, this article then says, and goes on to speak more fully of the effect of mercy on a marriage.
see osv.com/osvnewsweekly/faith/article/tabid/720/artmid/13628/articleid/19557/to-love-and-to-cherish-bringing-mercy-into-marriage.aspx

 

[pnewton]

I just came across this article. My thought was that with all the chatter about the Amoris Laetitia, how much more happiness is the exercise of mercy in a marriage than pleading for mercy latter.

 

[bmaj]

“On their wedding day a bride and groom may have stars in their eyes, but they have rocks in their heads if they think their partner isn’t going to drive them nuts, sometimes,” this article begins–or at times dos some other aggravating thing. Each person in a marriage at times needs to seek forgiveness, or to seek to offer it, this article then says, and goes on to speak more fully of the effect of mercy on a marriage.
see osv.com/osvnewsweekly/faith/article/tabid/720/artmid/13628/articleid/19557/to-love-and-to-cherish-bringing-mercy-into-marriage.aspx

Excellent article. Thanks very much for sharing mdgspencer. Also like the link it gives to a 7-day virtual marriage retreat dealing with mercy… all free and on your own timetable. Nice!!!