Are you ever tempted to think your marriage has no hope? Barbara Rainey wants to encourage you.

As long as we have breath, there's hope. So as long as your marriage is breathing, you can give it hope. And you can start by saying, God, today is the day that I give you our marriage. Today is the day that I surrender how we live our lives, how we live our marriage to you.

It's never too late as long as we have breath.

This is the Rebib Our Hearts Podcast for Wednesday, June 8th, 2016.

All Well, I hope you're enjoying this conversation with Barbara Rainey as much as I am.

And as a newlywed wife, just over six months, I read Barbara's new book with bated breaths.

I am all ears listening, wanting to learn,

wanting to bless my husband. You know, we're not going to probably have 43 years together like Barbara and Dennis have had. So we're trying to learn some of these things a little more quickly

than some couples do when they get married to their 20s. And just such practical

wisdom here. I want to say that Barbara and her husband, Dennis, are the co-founders of family

life ministries. You hear family life today on many of the same radio stations that air revive

our hearts. And if your marriage is in need of a tune-up or just some encouragement or maybe some

really serious help, anything in between, I want to encourage you to sign up for a weekend to

remember. It is a weekend to remember. And we have a link on our website that will take you to the weekend to remember site.

And a great opportunity for your marriage to be refreshed, to be encouraged, just a timeout, time to recalibrate.

In fact, Barbara, why don't you give a little plug for a weekend to remember and why every couple ought to consider going to one.

Well, the weekend to remember is just that. It's to be a weekend away for a couple,

husbands and wives, to focus on our marriage. And, you know, it's so easy to get focused on

other things, focused on raising our kids, focus on your job, focus on work, focus on 100 other things,

and we tend to give our marriages the leftovers, quite honestly. And the great thing about the

weekend to remember is that it gives you an opportunity as a husband and a wife to get away

and to focus on each other again. And it was so easy and so natural when you're dating and engaged

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