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    The Marriage Ark: Securing Your Marriage in a Sea of Uncertainty
    The Marriage Ark: Securing Your Marriage in a Sea of Uncertainty
    The Marriage Ark: Securing Your Marriage in a Sea of Uncertainty
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    The Marriage Ark: Securing Your Marriage in a Sea of Uncertainty

    By Margaret Phillips and Dave Ramsey

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    Married couples are an at-risk population. Thousands have been shipwrecked and did not survive. Of those that survived, not all are thriving by any means. Experts are now predicting a coming tsunami. The Marriage Arkis a definitive blueprint that can equip couples to build a vessel or examine their existing vessel that is capable of enduring high winds and lashing waves. Through the story of Noah, enduring principles are found that provide vital elements for an intimate and lasting marriage. The tools for building the marriage ark, the pitch that holds the planks together, building intimacy in stressful times and conditions, and learning to appreciate the differences in our maleness and femaleness are a few of the topics addressed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 9, 2017
    ISBN9781683503095
    The Marriage Ark: Securing Your Marriage in a Sea of Uncertainty
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    Margaret Phillips

    Margaret Phillips is an engineering information specialist and associate professor in the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies. She is the liaison to the engineering technology, industrial engineering, and nuclear engineering departments, and acts as the standards librarian.

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      The Marriage Ark - Margaret Phillips

      Introduction

      The quest for intimacy, strong bonds, and all that relationships can be is a quest in my own life that has spilled into my life’s work of helping others. As a child, I have precious memories of my mom and dad hugging and kissing. I would wriggle my little body between them to get in on the action! They would lift me up and we’d all hug and kiss. I felt loved and safely cocooned between them. This sowed the seeds of expectation in my heart for the experience I long for others to have in relationships and family.

      On my mother’s side of the family, there was great anticipation of going to Grandma and Pa Coffey’s home. Aunts, uncles, and grandparents would meet me there with love filling the rooms, beautiful lush flowers in the gardens, and chocolate ice cream in the freezer. At Pa Gurney’s house, on my father’s side, I could always count on hearty laughter, 6-layer homemade applesauce cake, and an empty lap just waiting for me.

      My happy memories of the family were brought to an abrupt halt when doctors discovered my mother’s terminal cancer. She was 32-years-old and I only ten. The cancer went on a deadly rampage in her body; treatments were powerless. Tears and sorrow filled our home, with a foreboding cloud hanging overhead. Her premature death, followed by the untimely passing of my aunt, my mother’s young sister-in-law a short six months later from Hodgkin’s disease pierced through us all.

      My vibrant, red-headed grandmother spiraled into an extreme depression. The family could no longer tolerate the painful togetherness of Christmas and other holidays because it magnified who was not, and would never again, be with us.

      So, somewhere deep inside me, there has been a driving force for rekindling the greatest possible relationship in the way of family. Having been married for almost five decades, being blessed with biological sons, God-given daughters-in-law, and more grandchildren than I could have ever imagined, (13 to date), I am more convinced than ever that God had a marvelous idea when he conceived of marriage and family.

      Family starts with a man and a woman coming together to form a third entity called a marriage. Nothing is potentially more beautiful and satisfying and answers the calls of our deepest longings. It is not good for man to be alone.

      Mary Pipher in The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families says Our culture is at war with families (1996). Economic pressures, the proliferation of addiction of every sort, and couples living in geographical distance from extended-family support, are just a few of the factors contributing to the stressors on the family

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