I am so aware today of many beautiful, special, lovely women who feel like failures, are hurt and even ashamed because their marriage has landed in divorce or perhaps is just not happy. Sometimes those of us who have been married for a long time can be quite smug – “Oh I have been married for 50 years.” Please don’t get me wrong I think that is awesome but is [...]
What a joy to know that I am a child of God. In a world so filled with uncertainty and pain I see the Presence of God in the beauty of the trees, the calmness of the swans on the river, the gentle breeze moving the leaves in the trees, and I rejoice in the beauty of God's creation! When we look and see the beauty around us, it lifts [...]
God’s Word never changes. As we study the Word we find ourselves filled with hope, for our hope is in Him. We become less stressed and start to grow in understanding and knowledge. How blessed we are! When it comes to our relationships both in our home and interacting with others we can so often find ourselves getting impatient, intolerant, judgemental and even angry – the result we can often [...]
Love Renewed is intended to encourage women to come to know God’s word and apply it in a practical way to everyday life. Without a solid foundation based on unchanging truth, it is very easy to be swayed and to follow fashionable trends that only make life uncertain, like navigating a boat through rough waters without a rudder. To remain steadfast and un-swayed, we all need that bolstering and “prodding [...]
Love Renewed is all about change. And change can be good. We as a team are thrilled to be able to make a change that we trust will benefit many. The Love Renewed lessons are now freely available in a downloadable format. All you have to do is request a copy! When we started, the CDs had to be printed and reprinted as well as posted, all of which were [...]
It is with great sadness that I write this tribute to our precious sister Ursula. Sadly, she passed away on the 14th July 2020. We can only imagine how difficult this must be for her life partner Radley who she had been married to for 53 years. Ursula was a real pioneer and was instrumental in establishing the ministry of Renewing Love in South Africa. Her ministry was a reflection [...]
2019 is almost at an end and Christmas is just around the corner. May we take this opportunity to wish you all a blessed and Happy Christmas as you celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. A time for families to be together, children to have a break from school and for us to remember the fulfilment of God’s amazing promise. Immanuel, God with us and so He was [...]
It is with great sadness that I write this message. Sonya passed away on Friday the 26th of July 2019 after a long and brave battle against cancer. Her family spoke so highly of her and how she handled her illness, right to the end. She trusted the lord totally ... a lesson to us all. Together with Marion Cook and Barbara Haefela, Sonya was a founder member of the [...]
"Most people get married believing a myth that marriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for, companionship, intimacy, friendship etc. The truth is that marriage at the start is an empty box. You must put something in before you can take something out. There is no love in marriage. Love is in people, and people put love in marriage. You have to infuse it [...]
Some things should not be kept hidden and I believe this testimony is one of them. What an inventory of my husband's shortcomings taught me by Becky Zerbe. Becky Zerbe is author of Laughing with My Finger in the Dam. Becky has been married to Bill for 29 years. The day had come. I'd lasted as long as I could in my marriage. Once my husband, Bill, left for work, [...]
