hope for a hopeless marriage

Do you feel hopeless in your own marriage, or do you have a friend who feels their marriage is hopeless? We have good news for you!!

Last month, our Live the Life Tallahassee Region held their annual Hope Raiser to raise awareness and funds so they can continue to serve more marriages and families. During their event, they did something so powerful!

They invited couples who had previously been beyond hope, but had gone through a Hope Weekend, to come and share their testimonies at the event. HOW they did it though, was what made it so powerful! They opted to do this through what is called "cardboard testimonies". Each spouse wrote on a piece of posterboard 3 or 4 words that described themselves and/or the state of their marriage (as they saw it) BEFORE Hope Weekend.

Among some of the words written on those posters were the following:

• Betrayed

• Lonely

• Deceitful

• Withdrawn

• Isolated

• Abandoned

• Hopeless

• Angry

• Numb

• Ashamed

• Worn out

• Numb

• Unworthy

• Unloved

• Separated

• Broken

It was quite devastating to see couple after couple walk across the stage with these words written and displayed for several hundred attendees to see. It was a sobering moment, indeed, and there wasn't a dry eye in the room!

What happened next, though, was something so beautiful and hardly believable! Those same couples with those same crushing words flipped that poster board over, and what was written on the other side was something ONLY GOD can do! Those same couples, AFTER attending a Hope Weekend, finally had Hope for their marriage!

Here are some of the words written on the other side:

• Reconciled

• Forgiven

• Loved

• Cherished

• Deeply Connected (with spouse)

• Hopeful

• Empowered

• Equipped

• Refreshed

• Appreciated

• Healed

• Restored

• Recovered

• Delivered

• Now Marriage Coaches!!!

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  If that doesn't get you excited, then you may want to check your pulse!

  
  

  Witnessing the joy on the faces of these couples as they shared what God had done (without even speaking a word) was incredibly powerful and beautiful!

  
  

  

Here's the really great news for you, though: This is not just an "elite" group of couples who experienced this transformation in their marriage. This is not out of reach for you and your marriage! This story can be yours too!

You have to want it, of course! You have to be willing to lean into the healing and lean into the work that needs to be done in order to transform your marriage. We have however, had couples go through this program (actually most of the couples) with only a shred of hope and some not even hanging onto hope any longer, who have had their marriage completely transformed!

Hope Weekend is for couples at any stage in their marriage who want a deeper bond and a beautiful marriage! Hope Weekend can transform good marriages into great marriages and can transform broken marriages into healed and restored marriages!

Hope Weekend provides practical and applicable skills to help couples:

• Reconnect and develop (and/or) restore trust

• Promote a greater sense of Oneness

• Experience deeper levels of intimacy

• Learn and strengthen communication skills

• Learn proven conflict resolution skills (that unite you instead of dividing you)

• Develop emotional regulation

• Heal from accumulated relational pain

If this is something that you would love to have in your marriage (or if you know of a couple who needs this), we would like to invite you to learn more HERE (for the Tallahassee Region) or HERE for other regions.

We would love to be a part of helping you heal and restore (or just strengthen and grow) your marriage and be able to have the powerful testimony of the couples who have already gone through Hope Weekend!

These amazing testimonies can be yours as well!!!

If these stories inspire you and you'd like to partner with us to make an impact all across the Big Bend to help transform marriages and families, you can go here to give! https://www.livethelifetlh.org/donate-nfl

We are all stronger together!

Hope We