Review
Marriage is not always a bed of roses, my husband is fond of saying. Yet the love doesn’t have to fade, author Shari Popejoy teaches in 100 Days to My Anniversary. In these one hundred brief devotionals, Shari offers concrete suggestions to rekindle the fire of romance in your marriage.
In 100 Days to My Anniversary, Shari offers advice and biblical counsel on how to improve one’s attitude, actions, and marital outlook. Each day has a simple tip or assignment. Some are as simple as smiling. Others are harder, like the exercise to not ask my husband for anything (eye-opening! I never realized how many times I ask my husband every day to help me). Once a week is a longer “Lord’s Day Devotional” on love.
Shari Popejoy has real-life experience in marital issues. She knows what it is like to live in a less-than perfect marriage, and she has seen God work through her and in her marriage. She shares frankly and honestly how a meek, loving wife can consistently maintain her own relationship with God while allowing God to work in her husband.
Shari also talks frankly about areas all wives need to work on–our attitudes, our priorities, our actions. With small, daily changes in meditations and habits, she shows how the Lord can make radical changes first in our own hearts, then in our marriages.
We as wives (ok, maybe just me!) can easily pick at our husbands, wishing they would change this our that. Shari’s book 100 Days to My Anniversary gently guides the reader deeper into the relationship with God and meanwhile deeper in love with the man just as he is. That focus shift changes everything.
No topic is left unaddressed. Shari tackles such touchy subjects as marital intimacy with tact and humor; the reader gets the point, without blushing. While the subject matter is adult, Shari is neither prudish nor graphic.
The book 100 Days to My Anniversary is not primarily a devotional, but it is a great daily read for a marital pick-up. Not only do I highly recommend it, but I will be reading it yearly myself to give my own marriage a tune-up.
About the Reviewer
Shari Popejoy, wife of twenty-seven years, mother of three, founder of a local co-op for hundreds of homeschool children, author of seven books, and creator of Won Without Words, a blog of encouragement for wives, lives in the quiet country of the Ozarks where she enjoys writing surrounded by nature and her children. She is currently completing Volume V of the Livingstone Library, an adventure series for ‘smart’ kids, which features characters with character, and underlying allegorical spiritual truths. She enjoys high places and the road less traveled. . . and chocolate and early morning sunrises.
Marc Popejoy began Injoy, Inc. to publish Won Without Words, the book his wife wrote about how God restored their marriage. Injoy, Inc. specializes in publishing first-time authors and small-run publishing jobs.
This is one I would really like to win! My anniversary is March 7th(14 years)!
Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary Andrea! The winners have been chosen, but you can still get the 99 cent download at http://blog.wonwithoutwords.com/ or you can join me and a bunch of fun ladies for the entire journey of 100 Days to My Anniversary that begins in a couple days on the blog. Sign up on the Facebook page so you don’t miss any of the posts http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/100-Days-To-My-Anniversary/333442756684950
Hope to see you there!
This looks like a much needed book, and my anniversary is coming up too-13 years in May!