Hey y’all, and happy Monday.
This week carried some heavy news in our circle of friends, and it pressed a word onto our hearts about marriage and perseverance that we share further down. It was also the week our new Mental Health Toolkit landed in the Bible Health Vault, so if your mind has been running hot this summer, this issue is for you.
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What We Published This Week
This week was all about the overwhelmed mind: what Scripture actually says about anxious thoughts, brain fog, and mental exhaustion, and how the peace of God stands guard over a renewed mind. Here is everything we published.
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FROM NATURAL LIVING FAMILY
Bible Health is where we teach the why. Over on Natural Living Family this week we taught the how, with a summer lineup of clean swaps for your skin, your home, and your time outdoors. Here are four favorites from the week:
DIY Sun Spray + Essential Oils for Clear Skin + Marinated Vegan Feta We mixed up Mama Z’s after-sun spray, walked through the essential oils we reach for first for clear, healthy skin, and marinated a vegan feta that belongs on every summer table.
Clean & Detox with Lemon Oil + DIY Odor Powder + Healing Lemon Cooler We put Mama Z’s lemon-fresh deodorizing powder to work, broke down lemon essential oil for cleaning and detox, and looked at the link between chronic fatigue and the toxic burden your liver quietly carries.
DIY Tick Repellant + Vetiver Oil + Forest Bathing + Vegan Taco Dip We blended a homemade tick repellent for your time outdoors, walked through vetiver oil for calming a frazzled nervous system, and made the case for forest bathing, time in God’s creation doing what screens never will.
DIY Ant Killer + Immune Boost “Shot” with Honey & Essential Oils + Manuka + Homemade Honey Mustard We took on the summer ant invasion with Mama Z’s essential oil ant and wasp killer, poured Dr. Z’s honey-based immune boost shot, and dug into what actually makes Manuka honey special, plus a quick homemade honey mustard.
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We’re Still Trying
Some letters come easier than others, but this one needs to be said.
This week we watched some friends announce that they are getting divorced after nearly twenty years of marriage, and our hearts broke, because we know they tried. This is not judgment toward them, or toward anyone reading this who has walked through a divorce of your own.
Marriage can be hard, life can be heavy, and sometimes people are carrying things the rest of us will never fully understand.
But it made us want to say something simple: we’re still trying. In fact, we’re more than trying. We’re working hard at it.
Just now…
We are still here, still chugging along, still choosing each other, and still choosing Jesus, and by God’s grace our marriage has never been better. Not perfection, not a highlight reel, not a fake image of a family that never struggles: just a real husband and wife saying we are still in this, still fighting for covenant, still learning how to love, forgive, repent, communicate, pray, and grow.
We remember seasons when we were the ones struggling. Seasons when the d-word came up in arguments. Seasons when the stress of life was so heavy that instead of turning toward each other, we took aim at each other. Some of you already know the story of the season we almost got divorced, and what was quietly poisoning our home the whole time.
But God has been faithful to us. Seven kids and almost twenty years of marriage later, we are more committed today than we were back then, more in love, more aware of our need for Jesus, and more convinced that the only way to keep going is to keep returning to Him.
So we are not telling you to try harder in your own strength; we are saying seek Jesus first.
Read your Bible, follow the Holy Spirit, and return to your first love, because a marriage that keeps returning to Him has a way of finding its footing again.
Truth be told, that conviction sits underneath everything we build here, from this week’s Mental Health Toolkit to every teaching in the Vault: renewed minds make restored families, and both start with Him.
Can you relate?
Maybe your marriage is in a hard season right now, or you are grieving one that ended, or you are carrying more than anyone around you knows.
You are not alone, and sometimes seeing another couple persevere is all the encouragement a weary heart needs, so consider this our way of saying it plainly: we’re still trying, too.
“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” — Matthew 6:33
Notice what Jesus does not say. He does not say seek first a stronger marriage, a calmer mind, or a healthier body, and then come to Me once you have it all together. Every couple we know who made it through a valley, ourselves included, did not find a technique; they found Him again. So whatever you are white-knuckling this morning, loosen your grip long enough to open the Word, and let the God who authored covenant hold yours together.
Please pray for us. We’re praying for you. 🙏
And here is a word for your Monday…
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YOUR DAILY MANNA
“And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” — Ecclesiastes 4:12
Solomon was writing about survival in a harsh world: two are better than one, because when one falls, the other lifts him up. But the verse does not stop at two. The cord that will not break has three strands, and the third strand is God Himself, woven through a covenant that was never meant to hold by human strength alone.
That is true of a marriage, and it is true of a mind. A thought battled alone in the middle of the night will usually win, but the same thought brought to your spouse, a trusted brother or sister, and the Lord in prayer starts losing its grip fast. Isolation is the enemy’s favorite battlefield, which is exactly why he works so hard to get you there.
So this week, braid the cord on purpose. Pray with your spouse out loud, even if it is two awkward sentences at the kitchen sink. Send the text to the friend who always checks on you. And let God be the strand that holds the other two together, because a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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