Your Donations at Work We invite you to share a one-time or a monthly financial gift with The Alexander House marriage apostolate to support our many efforts helping individuals, couples and parishes nationwide.
What does a monthly $25 donation do?
++ Brings Covenant of Love program to two new parishes. ++ Trains a new Marriage Coaching couple. ++ Begins training a new Marriage Missionary couple.
What does a monthly $50 donation do?
++ Pays for 8 sessions of marriage coaching. ++ Defers the cost of marriage enrichment programs hosted throughout the year. ++ Takes TAHA one step closer to creating a Center for Marriage in San Antonio.
What does a one-time $550 donation do?
++ Sends a financially strapped parish 50 copies of Marriage 911 or 100 copies of Growing In Love Through Prayer.
We sincerely thank all our donors for their commitment to our mission of proclaiming the beauty, goodness and truth of marriage. For a limited time, we are able to offer a few small tokens of our appreciation: ++ Donors giving an annual gift of $250 (or more) will receive a signed copy of Greg and Julie’s new book Marriage 911. ++ Donors giving $25 every month receive the book Growing In Love Through Prayer and a free membership to our Investing in Your Marriage program. ++ Donors giving $50 every month receive a copy of Marriage 911 and a free membership in our Investing in Your Marriage program. ++ Donors giving $100 every month receive a copy of both books and a free membership in our Investing in Your Marriage program. Mail your donation to: The Alexander House Apostolate, 3308 Broadway, #400, San Antonio, TX 78209. Please reference if your gift is a one-time or recurring donation, and also provide us with an e-mail address or phone number so we can contact you regarding your donation rewards. Alternatively, you can donate via our website; logon www.thealexanderhouse.org.
‘The One Who Never Let Go’ (continued from page 3) sleeping as I painted my six-year-old daughter’s room with Disney princess colors. I remembered feeling overwhelmed as I covered the pretty dark-pink wall with the darkpurple paint. Tears came to my eyes. And I knew; instantly I knew. I waited for John to come home, then told him “I know. I know the high you are feeling, I know the spring in your step, and I know how right it feels even though it isn’t!” I knew it all, and John knew why I knew. After all, didn’t we go through this experience years before when it was I who had those feelings? So again I prayed, and after a couple of weeks we resolved to keep our family together. But, again three years later, trouble found us. John and I thought our situation was too much to handle as a couple, and as individuals. We knew so many marriages that had divorced for far less than what we had already endured. So we agreed to separate, and I moved out with our daughters
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This time, it was John who prayed for us. He also found good, strong friends with great faith, and they prayed with him. Months later, as I realized the end of my marriage was near and my drinking was well on its way to full- blown alcoholism, I remembered a friend who had persuaded me to go to an ACTS retreat. We had not spoken for at least seven months. But I had begun to experience those negative feelings and damaging self-talk again—and knew I needed help. I felt compelled to call her, and instantly burst into tears when I heard her say “hello.” Although I was “sure” her suggestion to move back home wouldn’t help save my marriage, I felt I had to try something to fix it. A few days after our conversation, I was living with my family. Months later, as John and I were driving home from la married couples retreat, I turned to him and said, “You know what just came to me?” “After all these years, when we had both done all that we could do to let go
of this marriage, we still kept finding our way back. I think I know why….It’s because every time we let go of each other, every time we had hurt one another, even when we had let go of God, He was there holding us and keeping us. In spite of all we had done, it was God who never let go!” I am happy to write that John and I currently are working with our priest so that we may receive the sacrament of marriage soon. We both know Our Heavenly Father will be there by our side and, assured by our faith, trust that in all the days ahead He will never let us go! Update: Currently John and Verlinda are involved with The Alexander House’s Covenant of Love Ministry at St. Paul Parish (San Antonio). They continue to work, pray and live for their marriage daily. Verlinda knows that by helping other couples through Covenant of Love, she is finally fulfilling her promise made to God many years ago.
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