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It was like one of the first times where I really felt the whisper of the Lord say, you want this to be me, Carrie. You want this to be me. Don't don't convince him. Don't force him. Don't manipulate him.
Carrie:Watch me transform your husband's heart into being ready to be a dad. You want it to be me. Hello, and welcome back to New Mom. I'm so excited about this episode, guys. It's it's kind of I'm flying solo here this week.
Carrie:I wrote a blog post this week called how you pray for your husband matters. And I am passionate about this because this is something that God has really taught me and really helped me work through. And I'm just at the beginning of this process of truly surrendering and partnering with the Lord in prayer, when praying for my husband. But I've seen so much fruit of it fruit in it and I wanna share it. And so this is just kind of a little bonus episode to throw in there for anyone who also is like, I know that I wanna have a powerful prayer life for my husband.
Carrie:I know I wanna go to that secret place. I know I wanna pray for him differently, but I could use some encouragement on what that might look like. It's gonna look different for all of us. Right? But I'm sharing some real life examples, couple of stories from, our marriage so far times where I really had to release control and instead go to that secret place and pray for the Lord to align our hearts and to do beautiful things in my husband's life.
Carrie:So anyway, without further ado, here is our little bonus episode. Let's pray for our hubbies. Hey, new moms. I am flying solo this week and honestly so excited about it, but it feels really weird. I did like one other solo episode.
Carrie:It was the Buttermom, like a mini soad. And I was honestly just like a blog post that I'd written that I just read. I've never like done a solo episode to camera to all of you, but this is fun. I feel like it's time to like sprinkle these in. I love my interviews and that's the heart of this show.
Carrie:But occasionally, the Lord will bring a topic to mind that feels like it's very dear to my heart and it's something that I really wanna share. I think I've mentioned on the show before, but I I started a blog recently. And when I say start a blog, guys, like, I've been writing forever. I've got tons of prayer journals. I love to write.
Carrie:But a few months ago, the Lord was like, okay, like it's time to start releasing stuff. Well, I was like, oh my gosh, I'll probably end up doing like a blog post a week or a blog post a month or whatever. Well, no. It's it's been I've been very surrendered on it. Like my my focus is aside from being a mom, my focus is podcast.
Carrie:So it's very much been like occasional. And I honestly have just let the blog be what it is. I think I have like four entries, but I write when inspiration strikes and when I feel like the Holy Spirit has something for me to say on a topic, that feels like it's worth sharing. So I posted this this recently about praying for my husband because I have learned how to pray for Connor over the years. We've only been married like nearly four years.
Carrie:I have a long way to go. But looking back at like the four years, God has truly transformed my prayer life and like more importantly, transformed our marriage through, I believe, the way that He has taught me to pray for Connor. And I wanna share that. Like I truly believe my girlfriend's notes about me, you know me in person, like I just wanna share the things that the Lord has taught me, the things that otherwise people have taught me that follow the Lord. I wanna share because when I see something helpful and when I see fruit that has helped my life, I just want you all to have it.
Carrie:And so this is this change of heart in my prayer life and the way that I pray for my husband has really transformed our marriage and has honestly just transformed my husband's life in many ways. And I'm so passionate about it. So anyway, what I wanna do is maybe just read my I'm gonna read my blog. It's pretty short. I'm gonna read this to you guys because there's no need for me to just reiterate what's already been written.
Carrie:I'm gonna read it. And then I'm gonna kind of like tell a few stories that honestly kind of put this, in more context or like times in my life where this this was living out in real time. And I hope that you guys just like, I don't know, maybe it's gonna be a chance to reflect on your own lives and marriages and think, first of all, like, have I been doing this? Like maybe you have. Maybe you've walked in this.
Carrie:Maybe you're like, woah, there was a time in my life where I had to partner with God in this way and I had to let go of the control with my husband. I had to let God transform his heart. I had to let God do his thing. Maybe you're gonna see that. Maybe you're not.
Carrie:Like they're early in my marriage, I hadn't really surrendered to this yet. And so I'll share some like personal stories and just kind of see, see if any resonate with y'all. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna read this thing. So how you pray for your husband matters. How do you pray for your husband?
Carrie:This is James five sixteen, The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. My husband Connor and I have been together for five years and married for nearly four. Depending on who you ask, we could still be classified as newlyweds. We are certainly still young and have a long way to go, but I have been amazed at the way the Lord has grown my prayer life for my husband in these early years of marriage. I've been praying for him since we were dating, but month by month and year by year, I have watched my prayers for him evolve into something beautiful, sacred even.
Carrie:Not only have I seen many prayers answered in Connor's life, but I have noticed the way the Lord has grown and matured my prayers for him. As the Lord grows me as a wife, He is growing my discernment and understanding of the most impactful ways to pray for my husband. Not to generalize, but us women tend to struggle with control. No, really, we do. Hate to break it to you.
Carrie:The more time I spend with Jesus, the more I realize how much the desire for control is deep within me as a wife, as a mom, even with finances, travel, daily schedules. My fleshly desire is to control just about as much as possible. But we know that God asks us to lay that down daily and surrender everyone and everything to Him. If you've never done this total surrender thing, it may sound awful, but I promise it's the most freeing thing you'll ever do. One day God brought to my attention that control was an issue in my marriage and specifically in my prayer life for Connor.
Carrie:It was twofold really. Firstly, I was praying prayers for him that were coming from a selfish place. I was often praying things for him that I wanted so that my day would be better so that I would feel more loved by him. So my life would be more comfortable, etcetera. Of course, I didn't know my heart was in the wrong place.
Carrie:There's nothing innately wrong with praying things like help my husband have joy today, or I pray my husband gets that job. But God was asking me to examine my motives, my why. I quickly realized that too often my hopes or desires were coming from a selfish place, a place of control where I should have been asking Jesus what He wanted to do in Connor's life, how I could best love Connor or how he wanted me to pray for him that day. I was focused on myself and my own needs. And secondly, I was all too quick to take my desires, wishes, and prayers for Connor straight to Connor.
Carrie:If you know me, you know I can talk. Chatter or small talk doesn't do it for me. But if I get the chance to sit down with someone close to me and share everything that's on my heart and the ways God is moving in my life and in the lives of those around me, I will never wanna shut up. I live for those conversations. Give me a cute mug filled with coffee and a cozy blanket and it's likely to be an hours long affair.
Carrie:With my husband, it's no different. He and I love to talk, to share dreams and to pray together. Going on dream walks has been one of our favorite things to do together since we first started dating. But God began helping me notice that the further we got into marriage, the more often these talks were turning into me telling him all the things I'm praying for for him, hoping that deep down these things, these would be things that He would take to heart. And it was less about relying on God to actually answer the prayers of my heart for Him and more so hoping He would just take the hint and get on my page with things.
Carrie:The Lord whispered to my heart, try talking to me in the secret place. In a loving and gentle way, God invited me to stop sharing every prayer with Connor. Yes, I know you should share every prayer with your spouse. I mostly agree, but hear me out. By telling my husband immediately every detail of what I was praying for in his life specifically, it was taking away the power of prayer and the intimacy God longs for with each of His children.
Carrie:When I started going only to the father, I began praying about many more aspects in my marriage honestly. My love for Connor grew deeper and deeper. I found myself on walks or often on my knees in prayer, praying with a deep fervor. I began joking that Jesus and I were team Connor and we had a secret thing going Connor knew little about. And the most beautiful part of this shift was that I got to see God's hand working in my husband's life more clearly than ever.
Carrie:It's one thing to share with Connor every hope and dream I have for him and to see him begin to live into some of those things. Maybe he took my advice. Maybe he too began to pray about those growth areas or specific opportunities I wanted him to seize. But when it is just you in the secret place asking Jesus to bless and transform and uplift and encourage and grow your husband day after day after day, you can no longer deny the power of prayer. You can't deny God's hand in every blessing, every small shift, and every breakthrough.
Carrie:There have been many moments where I have been nearly brought to tears thinking, God, we talked about this. Wow. You're doing a work. Thank you. I began feeling more like a loving, supportive wife and less like a mom or a bossy older sister.
Carrie:As wives, we desire good things for our husbands because we love them. Of course you wanna see your husband grow in his faith. Of course you wanna see God bless him with that job. Of course you wanna see him coming alive, being a dad. Like those are good, beautiful, pure hearted desires.
Carrie:But when we lack the self control or discernment to know what to do with those good desires, manipulation and control can enter the picture and it can choke out the fruit that God desires to produce in your marriage. Okay. So that's the blog post. It's a little longer than I remember, not gonna lie. But I wanna get into a few a few examples of this in my life.
Carrie:Because like I just I just gave a lot of information there. But I think that stories are helpful and I like hearing people. I like learning through people's stories. So one of the first times that God sort of highlighted this to me, and I'm sure so many of you new moms are like gonna relate to this specific example. But there was a time where okay.
Carrie:Well, first of all, I was ready to have a baby. Like, I don't wanna say right when we got married, but I was ready for a while. And I wrestled with that and I've talked about this on the show. Like I had some fear. I obviously am an actress and there's like some levels there of, oh, I don't know.
Carrie:Is it the right time? But ultimately, if my husband, I always said, if he would have come to me and said, I'm ready to have a baby, I would have been so down like so long ago. And so this was like a challenging area for us because I remember the first year of marriage we got married at 26. First year of marriage, it was like, I was really chill about it. Like I was like, we're enjoying this.
Carrie:In fact, we even had like a very minor pregnancy scare. Like really, it was just me being like one day late, but I thought I was pregnant because I'm very regular. And I was like, oh my gosh. And I remember we like took a pregnancy test. It's like this big dramatic thing.
Carrie:And he and I were actually really relieved because we were like, oh, okay. Thank goodness we're not ready. We were six months into marriage. But something happened in that time when I wasn't pregnant where pretty quickly within like a few months after that, started to be like, oh, all of a sudden I'm feeling ready. Well, he was not anywhere near ready.
Carrie:He was still very much on the page of like, woo, that was a close one. Like we're enjoying our marriage. So I think it was like a few months later that like this growing desire to be a mom was just it was growing in me. It was growing in me. Was growing in me.
Carrie:And so finally I hit this point where I ended up breaking down in the kitchen one night crying and telling him in full honesty, I really wanna be a mom. Like, I don't know where this is know where it's coming from. I don't know why it's coming at the moment it is, but something has shifted. And like, you guys know, like when you when the desire to be a mom creeps in, it's kinda game over. It's hard to just backtrack.
Carrie:You know what I mean? It's hard to be like, oh, now it's like fine. I don't care. That desire ebbs and flows. No.
Carrie:It kinda comes and it kinda stays. And so I told him, I was crying in the kitchen one night and I was like, I just feel ready. And he was like, I hear you. And it was so sweet. Like it was because I would throw out comments like here and there, but it was like one of those moments you have in your marriage where it's like, we're gonna remember this night.
Carrie:And I was sitting on the counter crying while he was making dinner. And I was like, I wanna have a baby. And he's like, I hear you. What if by this time I don't even remember the exact timeline, but it was like, why don't we like pick up this conversation in six months or whatever it was? But I knew in that moment he really wasn't ready.
Carrie:So I kinda had a decision to make in that moment and this is my point with prayer. I wanted with everything in me to convince him and to manipulate maybe deep down him into being ready. I wanted every guy that's a dad to talk to him. I wanted to tell him every story. I wanted to send him every Instagram reel.
Carrie:I wanted to tell him, I'm just praying that you're ready. I'm just, oh my gosh. I just can't wait for your heart to be ready. Is your heart ready? I'm praying that our hearts are ready.
Carrie:Praying that our hearts are getting prepared. I wanted to do that. Okay. That's like a natural desire as a a woman. Like we we wanna like we're ready, let's do this.
Carrie:And so I just wanna say like, if you've had those feelings right now about something with your spouse, that's like, that's natural. You're gonna have some of those. It's really just what we do with those feelings. And I finally got to this place where I realized like, okay, Lord. And this is what I'm talking about in the blog.
Carrie:This was like one of the first times where I really felt the whisper of the Lord say, you want this to be me, Carrie. You want this to be me. Don't convince him, don't force him, don't manipulate him. Watch me transform your husband's heart into being ready to be a dad. You want it to be me.
Carrie:And I did. I did want that. Like I really, really deep down wanted Connor to come to me and say, I wanna be a dad. I'm ready. And I wanted to know that it wasn't me forcing his hand.
Carrie:It feels so much better when you're not forcing your husband's hand and when you're not manipulating them. And it has to be their idea. And so I started praying and this was the first time that I went into that secret place that I'm referring to. And I was like, Lord, please, like I'm so ready. I want my husband to be as excited as I am.
Carrie:I don't want him to be the dad that's terrified. I mean, they're all a little terrified, but I don't want him to be the dad that's like, I wasn't ready for You know, I want him to be ready. And so this was the cool part guys. I start praying in the secret place. Well, he goes and he filmed something in South Carolina.
Carrie:He's away. He was filming Outer Banks. And on set, he starts to have He starts to tell me over the phone, he's not ready at this point. Just need to reiterate, he's not ready. He starts telling me on the phone, yeah, Carrie, it's crazy.
Carrie:Like I've just had a couple different people. Like they're just telling me how amazing it is to be a dad. And you know, they're asking me like, he said a couple different guys on set be like, oh, are you you don't have kids yet? Oh my gosh. The best thing you'll ever do.
Carrie:The best thing you'll ever do is when you have kids. It's yeah. It's gotta be soon for you guys. Like people just started pouring that over him. He ended up going to like a memorial service a couple of weeks later and saw a guy he hadn't seen in years.
Carrie:And he said, he's a dad now. And he was just telling me having a child is like the biggest gift and the biggest heart shift and the best thing you'll ever do with your life. And he's like telling me these things. And I remember he called told me about that memorial thing and I was staying at my cousin's house in St. Louis.
Carrie:I was laying in a guest bed by myself on the phone when he told me this. And I was looking up at the ceiling and I was like, God, you're sending them. You're sending people to answer the prayer. I am listening to my husband be like, I don't know. All these men are telling me that it's so much, that's so fulfilling.
Carrie:All these men are telling me that's the best thing I'm gonna do. Like, I don't know. And I'm just sitting there like, interesting. My God, you're doing it. That was like the first time that I realized, Oh, there is power in this because I will say we then started trying, We're very blessed to get pregnant a few months later.
Carrie:And he was so excited the whole time and he was ready. And it was so it was such a peaceful feeling as a wife to know I didn't like dupe him into this. You know what I mean? I wasn't like, I got this word from God that it's time. You know, people do that stuff.
Carrie:It was so good to know he is ready because I tried to surrender and submit this to the Lord and God and I were in that secret place. Okay. The second thing that I wanna talk about, and then I'm almost done with this ramble. But the second story that I wanna share was when we were deciding to move. And I this is another example of like high tensions.
Carrie:So I knew for a while, we both knew for a while that we probably were gonna move to the Southeast. That was something that was on our hearts raising a family here. You know, I'm from Ohio, he's from Georgia. We'd been in LA for years and we just, for so many reasons, we're like, you know what? We we think that at some point we are gonna end up moving to the Southeast, it's gonna be a great great place.
Carrie:We didn't know exactly where that was gonna be and we definitely didn't know when. And I knew that Connor was so so far behind me in the process of being ready. And I would tell him from time to time, if you said go, I'd go. Like, where you go, I will follow. I am ready.
Carrie:I know that that's where we're supposed to be. We didn't even know the city for sure. We were just saying like, whether it was Atlanta, whether it was Nashville, whether it was Charles, like wherever it was. I was like, I'm I'm ready. I'll go.
Carrie:And so it started being kind of a joke. Well, eventually, and you guys know this, like when there gets to be attention point where you just kind of aren't on the same page, it started to become more and more like, I feel like we should be going. I feel like it's time to go. When the fires happened in LA, I would say things like, see, I told you we shouldn't even be here. And it was kinda getting to be that, that ugly feeling of like, I feel like I'm forcing my husband to be ready for something he is not ready for.
Carrie:First of all, he's a leader of our family. And if he's not ready, then we are not ready. My job is to follow. And second, even when it's hard, we can talk about that another episode. But secondly, am I even praying that we would be on the same page about this or am I just like, am I just trying to convince him and it didn't feel good?
Carrie:And it started becoming like it started becoming a little bit contentious. It started becoming like a just a point of and we're not really fighters. We're not we don't really have a lot of things. We're very similar in a lot of ways. And so we always joke that we're like little besties.
Carrie:So when we have tension over a topic, it's kind of weird. It's pretty rare. And this was one of the first big things where he would kinda talk about it and he'd be like, I don't know, like maybe we can move, maybe we shouldn't move. And then I would be like, oh my gosh, you're open to moving. And I would get so excited and my heart would get so in it and I would just want desperately to be like, Ben, let's do it.
Carrie:Let's jump on it. You're excited in this very moment. And he'd backpedal and be like, I'm not ready. I'm not ready. I'm not ready.
Carrie:Well, it started really bothering me. And I realized that my heart was so invested in his up and down journey that God had him on. He was on a journey of wrestling with where should my family land, with wrestling with what is the right time. And I was sitting here forcing his hand when it wasn't time. And so finally, again, I got to this place going on a walk with the Lord and I started, like, I started venting.
Carrie:I started lamenting. I started ranting about it in honesty. I was like, I'm so irritated, Lord. Like, I know we're supposed to move he's not ready and he'll be ready and then he's not ready and he's ready and he's not ready. And I can't do this anymore.
Carrie:Like, this is so annoying. Please change his heart. And I realized when I said, please change his heart. That I was like, I have not I have not been even praying for this. I've just been sitting here irritated, sitting in my anger and frustration, sitting in my impatience, sitting in my desire to control, and I have not been partnering with you on this, Lord.
Carrie:First of all, is there a reason that he doesn't feel peace yet? I need to trust him as my husband. I need to trust him as my leader. Maybe there's a reason. And also Lord, as his wife who loves him, you have give we're one flesh.
Carrie:I need to be with you praying about this every day. God, if this is where our family is supposed to go, let his heart be excited. Let his heart feel peace. Let him feel emboldened to lead our family in this direction. Because sometimes, and I should say this, Conor will say this too, women often know first.
Carrie:I've heard so many wise men say, my wife always knows first. That's real. So you don't need to feel bad that you have an intuition about something. You don't need to feel bad that you have a feeling and you don't need to feel bad if you're like me and you're the wife that's like, I usually know first, they usually catch on later. That's okay.
Carrie:You know, every relationship's different. A lot of my friends, that is the case. The wives are like, I know, you know, finally he figured it out. That's okay. But it's a matter of what we do in that waiting period.
Carrie:If her husband is behind us on the desire to have kids, if her husband is behind us on the, you know, what the Lord is calling us to, whether that be, you know, a work thing or a move or, whatever it is, it's okay if they're behind. It's a matter of how we handle that. And there have been so many times where I just haven't handled the waiting well for him to quote catch up. I have not handled that well. And I think it's such an opportunity as wives to lean in.
Carrie:And so anyway, in those months of being ready to move, I leaned in. And also I did have to come to a place of like, Lord, if we're supposed to be here longer, if he's not gonna get there for a while, I need to trust you with that too. And I need to not be holding a grudge and I need to not be frustrated. And so I had to go to the secret place and sometimes it was in frustration and anger and it got to a place where it really was in surrender. And it really was like in a, I know you're gonna do this in the right time.
Carrie:I feel like the right time is pretty soon God, but we'll see what you do. And I remember there was this like one specific night where our move is like a story for another day, but a lot of things, boom, boom, boom, boom in like a month fell into place where it felt like it was time. Like the Lord was making it a little bit too clear. So even where Connor all the time was like, Oh, he's telling us to move. His knees telling us to move, but his heart wasn't excited.
Carrie:And I kept praying, I want his heart to be excited. Something I want it to shift. I want him to be excited. I want him to be excited. And I kept telling the Lord that.
Carrie:And it's so powerful to pray for your husband and to see a result. I remember one night he was really frustrated and we committed to our friends. We're like, we're gonna move in with y'all. Like, we're gonna move him to your basement. We're gonna do it.
Carrie:We're gonna go to Nashville and we're just gonna see what happens. And we committed to them. And he kind of stormed out and we were staying at a relative's house and he went and he, it was like during Thanksgiving, it was really snowy. And he went and took a shovel and just started like throwing. I remember like throwing snow, like just absolutely like shoveling, salting, like he was out there.
Carrie:And his mom was like, what what what's he doing out there? And I was like, he's wrestling. He's wrestling. He's having his moment. And I wanted to be like my my I don't know.
Carrie:A part of me was anxious about that. So I was like, oh no, like is this I think he knows. Like, I think God has told him it's time. But I'm watching him out there wrestling. And part of me that wants that gets anxious and stuff, like, wanna just run out there and be like, okay, like, we don't need to do this or whatever.
Carrie:But I was like, I don't know. I just kinda felt the Lord's nudge of like, this is good. Let him wrestle and be mad for a second. So anyway, he comes back in and he's like, I worked some stuff out with God. I was like, okay.
Carrie:And he's like, I'm ready to move. And the next morning he looked up pod company, booked our pod. And I just need to say that he told me that morning when he booked the pod, he said, I'm done moping. I have peace. I have peace and I'm kind of excited.
Carrie:And I remember being like, you're excited. What? Okay. And when I when I tell you guys, he led the excitement the entire the rest of our move. Like truly from that moment on, I watched him be he's still more excited about Nashville than I am in certain ways.
Carrie:I love it here. But his excitement was such a gift. And he would the first months we lived here, he would come home from doing things and just be like, I just love this city. I didn't think I would. I just love this city.
Carrie:I'm so excited. And it just felt like God saying, won't I do it? Like you could have forced this when it wasn't time. But I prayed to the Lord and I said, God, you gotta do this in my husband's life. And it happened in the right time.
Carrie:And it's been the right time for our family and it's been the right move. And so anyway, I I just wanted to share those stories because we're all gonna have different ones. But is there an area in your husband's life where you think I'm forcing this, I'm pushing something. I'm really wanting him to do this job because it makes me comfortable, but it's actually not giving him life. It's actually not something he wants to do.
Carrie:He doesn't feel like God's in it, but I'm forcing it. Is it I'm really forcing us to keep having kids or and he's not in it. Whatever it is, it's less about the outcome. It's much more about like, I just wanna say, take it to the Lord. Don't just take it to Him, take it to the Lord and really pray about, are there things that I keep talking to Him about that is actually not obedient for me to talk to Him about?
Carrie:Is it is there other things, are there topics that I keep nudging him about, whether that's your finances or even something around the house. I just keep saying that I really want him to, you know, do the lawn or it could be anything guys. Is there something I need to be praying about having a heart that he has a heart shift on as his wife more than I am forcing it and more than I am going to him and begging him to do it? And I said this in the vlog, but when I say, like, I truly went from feeling like I I went to say this again. I began feeling more like a loving, supportive wife and less like a mom or a bossy older sister.
Carrie:The second that you surrender and let your husband lead, you say, God, I do have these desires. I'm give them to you instead of giving them to him. And I'm gonna trust you. And I'm gonna trust the slow steady work you're doing in my husband. And I'm actually gonna embolden him in prayer.
Carrie:And I'm actually gonna trust the things you're doing in his heart. And I'm actually gonna be more interested in his heart transformation than I am in my own comfort or in my own timeline or in my own desire. When we do that, our husbands soar. They soar spiritually. They soar.
Carrie:Their heart soars. Their work is more fruitful. The marriage is better. It's just better. So anyway, I don't have a bow on this guys.
Carrie:I just I really I just wanna pray for us. And I wanna pray that we would take a moment to be like, where am I forcing things? Where am I not partnering with the Lord and praying fervently for my husband and for what is good for him, not what I want? What is good for our family, not what I want? So let's pray.
Carrie:Jesus, thank you so much for, for our husbands. Lord, thank you so much for our leaders, for our partners in this this world. Thank you that we are one flesh, that you have given us this design of marriage and it is good. I thank you, Lord, for just these powerful women of God that listen to this show. Thank you that you give us heavenly discernment.
Carrie:Thank you that we are prayer warriors. Thank you that we see our husband more closely than anyone else. Lord, we know their hearts. We see them, God. We see the fruit of their labor.
Carrie:We see the pain. We see the sweat on their brow. We see their frustrations, their disappointments, their longings. God help us partner better with You. Help us partner better with You, Lord, to love them.
Carrie:Help us partner better with You. How do You want us to pray for our husbands? What do You say? Lord, we love you. We praise you.
Carrie:Thank you for these marriages. And I pray a blessing over every single girl that's listening, God, that her marriage would be strengthened today. God, that she would be emboldened by this conversation, that she would be excited to write down and to think about the prayers for the secret place for her husband, areas that she wants to see him soar, to find freedom, to provide, to protect, to desire. Whatever those are, Lord, I pray that she would just need to speak to her in that. And I pray a blessing over marriages, God.
Carrie:May they soar. May they grow. May they be protected. God, would you protect each beautiful mom and each beautiful marriage in Jesus' name.