We live in a love story, set in the midst of war.

Love is our destiny and all hell is set against it.

Really, it explains so much.

We wake each morning and find that we have to fight our way back to all that is true.

Fight off the thousand reasons to settle for less than the life we were created for.

Our bodies awaken, but then our hearts and souls must awaken too so that we might play our part in the

grand affair.

I'm Alan Arnold and you're listening to the Ransom Heart Podcast.

This is the sixth and final session in our series titled Love and War.

It's based on the book by John and Stacy, and today they talk about really how marriage is based on a thousand

little choices not just epic big choices but the everyday choices they talk about healing and they talk about forgiveness.

This is from chapter 12 of the book titled Learning to Love.

Be imitators of God and live a life of love, St Paul.

Some marriages make it, and some marriages don't. The odds are still running about 50-50. The

chances in favor of a happy marriage are even more slim because as you well know

simply the fact that a marriage has not fallen apart

does not necessarily mean its members are thriving.

Anybody can fake it for the Christmas photo.

Many marriages survive by settling in to soul-killing numbness,

by using the distraction of busyness as in raising children, or by tacitly agreeing to live separate lives while sharing the same roof.

When rated on the marital bliss scale of 1 to 10, the majority of still intact marriages

hover around a three, getting by. Some marriages carry on as

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