188. Grace in Marriage (with Chelsea Damon)

God Hears Her Podcast

Our Daily Bread Ministries

Society & Culture, Bible, Womensministry, Womensbiblestudy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Women, Female

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Guest Bio: Chelsea Damon is the author of I Thought This Would Make Me Happy: How to Fight Less, Forgive Faster, and Cultivate Joy in Your Marriage and Together with Christ, A Dating Couple's Devotional: 52 Devotions and Bible Studies to Nurture Your Relationship. She is also the author of chelseadamon.com, a website where moms and wives are encouraged to cultivate healthy, Christ-centered lives and relationships. Damon and her husband Josh met while attending college, where they grew in their faith and dated for three years. They were married on the windy coast of Washington in 2013. Throughout their dating and marriage relationship and into parenthood, they've been learning what it means to live loving God and others in a self-love world. Today, the Damons have three biological children, are foster parents, and spend their time looking for new places to hike and explore beautiful South Carolina.

Show Summary: Did you think marriage or a specific relationship would fix all your problems and fully heal you? While marriage is a beautiful gift from God, it can also be really hard. Some seasons are filled with joy and excitement while others are filled with anger and arguments. Chelsea Damon realized she was expecting that marriage would make her happy and storing up resentment towards her husband during the first few years of their marriage. Join hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy Adkins as they learn how Chelsea overcame her resentment and began to apply grace to her marriage with the help of God. You don’t want to miss this God Hears Her conversation.

Notes and Quotes:

“I like to use a little assessment of whether something is starting to be an idol in our lives is, ‘Would I lose my self of identity if [this thing] was taken away? Or would I lose my hope and my future if that was taken away?’” —Chelsea Damon

“[When dealing with disillusionment], I really had to fall back on my relationship with Christ, and in doing so, He really taught me that through fire He really is the only thing that is going to truly fulfill me.” —Chelsea Damon

“One of the great dichotomies in the Christian faith is that when you surrender control, you gain so much more.” —Chelsea Damon

“. . . we’re doing the work and we’re ready to be receptive to God’s Word and what He has to say to us. And that’s the only place where what He plants can grow deep roots and get a foothold in our lives to bear fruit.” —Chelsea Damon

Verses:

The Parable of the Sower: Matthew 13:1-23

Links:

Chelsea’s Book, I Thought This Would Make Me Happy: https://www.amazon.com/Thought-This-Would-Make-Happy/dp/0310367778

Chelsea’s Website: https://chelseadamon.com/

Chelsea’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chelsealeighdamon/

God Hears Her website: https://godhearsher.org/

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Eryn’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eryneddy/

Vivian’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vivmabuni/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I struggled with the idea that, okay, I thought marriage would be the thing that would make me happy.
0:06.0	I thought Josh would be the thing that would bring me ultimate happiness, yet we're fighting all the
0:10.6	time.
0:11.2	And I struggled with this like disillusionment.
0:14.0	Like this isn't exactly what I thought it would be.
0:16.1	It's not how I pictured it.
0:18.2	And I really had to fall back on my relationship with Christ. And in doing
0:22.0	that, he really taught me through fire that he is the only thing that is going to truly fulfill me.
0:35.0	You're listening to God Hears Her, a podcast for women where we explore the stunning truth that God hears you.
0:42.9	Join our community of encouraging one another and learning to lean on God through scripture, story, and conversation at God hearsher.org.
0:52.9	God hears her.
0:54.8	Seek and she will find.
0:57.7	Elisa, I think everybody listening to this episode is going to feel a little bit more seen and heard.
1:06.7	Our guest that we have today, something that really stuck out to me in her bio was that
1:11.5	she thought her life was going to be one way and it turned into something different.
1:16.1	And I think we all can resonate with that.
1:20.2	One thing that I'm also really inspired by is this book that she just released recently.
1:26.3	And it's called, I Thought This Would Make Me Happy.
1:29.7	How to Fight Less, Forgive Faster, and Cultivate Joy in Your Marriage and Together
1:34.3	With Christ.
1:36.7	I thought this would make me happy.
1:40.1	How many times have we walked into circumstances, relationships where we thought that?
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