If the person you married changes over time, is it possible to stay in love?

Here's Anne Ortland.

Especially you who are believers.

You must keep falling in love with that person that your husband becomes.

You keep changing.

You change.

He changes.

And you fall out of love and you fall out of love and you fall out of love. So what do you do? You just simply say, Charlie, I take you all over again, at least in your heart, to be my lawfully wedded husband, to have in a hole from this day forward. You have to keep recommitting yourself to this person who has challenged.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Friday, November 29th.

Well, during this Thanksgiving season, one of the things that I am especially grateful for

is the people that the Lord has brought into my life over the years to teach me and to encourage

me with their examples. God has been so gracious to bring women around me who have been further

down the road, spiritually, and in life experience than I've been. These women have been

instruments to encourage and teach me in the ways of the Lord. And isn't that what the scripture

says in Titus chapter 2 that older women should teach younger women how to love God, how to love their husbands, how to walk with God in practical ways?

Well, one such woman in my life was Anne Orland. Her husband Ray was my pastor when I was a college student. Anne ministered faithfully as a wife

to Ray, as a mom to their four children, and also as a musician, a hymn writer, an author, and a

speaker. Well, Anne went home to be with the Lord earlier this month just before she would have turned 90.

She served the Lord faithfully all the way to the finish line.

Anne had a heart to disciple other women and to train the generations coming along behind her.

Over the years, we've aired a few conversations with Anne here on Revive Our Hearts.

Today, we're going to hear a portion of one of those. She'll explain why she wasn't depressed

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