The Heart of Marriage

Marriage has been on my mind lately. Greg and I don’t celebrate our 15th anniversary until August, but the end of January and beginning of February truly is about love around here. We met on Feb. 7, 1998, went on our first date Feb. 14, 1998, and were engaged on Jan. 23, 2002.

{Now, a collective “ahh …”}

But, seriously, each year we’re married I like who we are together more and more. This life together truly has been an adventure and I get excited thinking about what’s next. And, yes, sometimes I wonder how we’ve already known each other more than half of our lives and settled in live as adults together. Perhaps time does fly when you’re having fun.

… and chasing kids and dreams. And building a home and a life. And working and playing and traveling. And showing up even on the hard days and laughing together on the best days.

I spent some time reflecting on our marriage – the hard parts, my favorite parts, the parts I thought I buried deep down in a mental box of memories – as a I read Dawn Camp’s new book “The Heart of Marriage: Stories that Celebrate the Adventure of Life Together.”

This book is lovely and packed with truth. Truth isn’t always tied up in a box with a pretty bow. Sometimes truth is hard to face and even harder to apply. But Dawn Camp tells beautiful stories of love and recruited many other Christian writers to share their marriage stories. Together they weave a beautiful picture of how marriage truly is an adventure worth pursuing.

About the book

With essays from Christian authors like Holley Gerth, Edie Wadsworth, Erin Mohring, Mary Carver, Ashleigh Slater, Crystal Paine, and Kristen Welch, “The Heart of Marriage” is a beautiful compilation that can be read straight through or read in stages.

“The Heart of Marriage” is a 240-page hardcover book published by Revell (Feb. 14, 2017). You can learn more about it the author’s website.

About the author

Dawn Camp is a camera-toting, homeschooling mother of eight children. She writes for DaySpring’s (in)courage website, where her beautiful photography previously graced their monthly calendar and currently decorates the desktops of women around the world. Dawn blogs about family, faith, and Photoshop at MyHomeSweetHomeOnline.net and is a featured photographer on Adobe’s website for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software. She lives with her family in metro Atlanta.

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I received a free copy of this lovely book in exchange for being on the launch team and writing a review. The opinions here are my own.