KIM BARNES | CONTRIBUTOR

My mother has lived in her home for nearly fifty years. After my husband and I moved in a few years ago, we quickly noticed things that were neglected, broken, or in disrepair.

On the surface, the home looked fine. It wasn’t at all dilapidated. A visitor would have thought it was a perfectly fine house. But if you looked a little deeper there were problems. Problems my mom didn’t even notice and things she’d just learned to live with or adapt to.

Don’t we all do that?

We let little things slide until they become normal. Eventually, we stop noticing them altogether. We tolerate dysfunction because fixing it is expensive, difficult, or inconvenient. We become content with “good enough.”

Sometimes our marriages become like an old house we’ve lived in for a long time.

There are conversations we avoid, habits we accept, and areas of neglect we simply learn to live with. Yet God’s Word calls us to more.

Just as He is transforming us “from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor. 3:18), He intends our marriages to keep growing as well…
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