Barbara Rainey gives you a picture of what your marriage could be.

Marriage is not about pretending.

We don't pretend in marriage.

Marriage is for oneness and transparency and openness.

We got married for that, right?

So we have to talk about those differences.

But in talking about them, we need to do it in a way that's honoring

and that respects the way that God created this person

that he has brought into your life.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, June 7th, 2016.

Well, we're continuing our conversation today on Revive Our Hearts with my longtime friend Barbara Rainey.

And if you didn't catch yesterday's program, you want to go back to revive our hearts.com and listen to that or read the transcript.

You'll want to listen to it because Barbara's just an easy to listen to friend. And you're going to feel like you're having a conversation with a good friend.

And that's the tone of a new book that she's written that we're talking about this week

called Letters to My Daughters, The Art of Being a Wife. It's a Conversational Book, Written Letter Format, and talking about the art of being a wife. It's a conversational book, written letter format, and talking about the art

of being a wife and how God is wanting to use marriage to make a masterpiece. Now, your marriage

may not feel very much like a masterpiece right now, but I want you to hang in there, and you'll be

encouraged to do just that as you hear this continuing

conversation with Barbara. So Barbara, thank you for joining us again.

Deliverable to be here. Yeah, this is fun. I think when I started reading this, I thought,

Barbara and Dennis Raney, I've known them for years and years, but will people really relate to

their marriage? You will relate to their marriage. You will see things in their story

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