The Three Sentences That Repair More Than a Weekend Away

The Daily CHEW™ 
Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals


Your marriage does not need a resort. It needs three sentences.

The trip will not say them. Neither will the next weekend away.

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C – Clarity: What’s Really Going On Here

High-performing spouses default to logistics. You schedule. You book. You manage.

What your spouse waits for is short. Three sentences long.

I was wrong. I am sorry. Will you forgive me?

H – Hear: How God’s Love Reshapes This

Scripture knows the rhythm of repair. Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another (James 5:16). Healing follows confession, not the getaway.

When the Father absorbs your worst, the three sentences become possible. You stop protecting a self He has covered.

The resort is good. The repair is better. One depends on the other.

Three sentences. One marriage.

“Three sentences. One marriage.”

— The Daily CHEW™

E – Exchange: Receive His Love Here

When the Father has absorbed your worst, the three sentences cost less. You can say them tonight, at the kitchen table.

When I really believed God’s love is the love that has already absorbed my worst in Christ, how would that change what I am feeling about saying the three sentences to my spouse, and what I am believing about God, myself, and what real repair would unlock at home?

W – Walk: One Way to Love Home Better This Week

Pick the one your spouse waits on. Say it tonight, eye to eye:

  1. I was wrong about ___.
  2. I am sorry for the harm.
  3. Will you forgive me?

Then sit with the silence. Do not fix it.

If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.

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With you on the journey,

Ryan

Which of the three sentences is the one you have been avoiding saying to your spouse?

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