Smart Marriages

Got a message yesterday from Deb Strubel, the Director of Foundation Relations for the Institute for American Values. She found out about Leap of Faith and wanted to recommend several sites for my readers. 

 

One is smartmarriages.com. This website contains a wide variety of excellent resources! SmartMarriages is dedicated to helping strengthen marriages of couples around the world. They also hold an annual conference. Check out their website for more info. 

 

Deb also recommended the following sites:

americanvalues.org

center.americanvalues.org - This site contains free family-oriented materials for download. 

familyscholars.org

betweentwoworlds.org - This site includes research by Elizabeth Marquardt on the negative effects of divorce on children's moral and spiritual development. She has published a book on the subject titled Between Two Worlds. Her findings are both fascinating and sad. I'm a child of divorce myself, and I still experience the painful aftereffects. Thankfully, God's grace is sufficient! One of His Hebrew names is Yahweh Rophe-"The Lord is My Healer."

 

I hope these resources are a help to you. Blessings!