When Love Feels Impossible: Choose It Anyway

By Francine & Byron Pirola | June 12, 2026 |

SmartLoving – MRC · It’s at this crossroad that we have a choice – protest the situation or lean into our vows and choose love.  This was the theme of the opening talk by a priest at a recent marriage seminar. He began by suggesting that he knew little about the challenges of married life. None-the-less,…

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Marriage in the Wilderness

By Francine & Byron Pirola | February 23, 2023 |

It’s Lent – the season that recalls one of the great wilderness events in the Scriptures: Jesus fasting and being tempted for 40 days. What insights can we draw from this event for our marriage? We’ve heard the story many times: following his baptism in the Jordan River by John, Jesus spends forty days in…

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