52: Ways to Love Your Spouse When Life Is Hard with John and Julie Manning
Daniel and Christina Im interview John and Julie Manning about ways to love your spouse when life is hard. During the birth of her second child, Julie unexpectedly went into cardiac arrest. Within six weeks, tests revealed it was no one-time occurrence. This ultra-capable mom, wife, marathon runner, and pediatric nurse practitioner was in active heart failure. John and Julie share their story about how they have continued to love and support one another through the daily risk of Julie experiencing sudden cardiac death.
In This Episode, You Will Hear About:
- How to love your spouse when life is difficult
- Different ways to show and support your spouse when life isn’t turning out to be the way you had hoped or planned
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Resources Mentioned During the Episode:
- Check out Julie Manning’s book My Heart: Every Beat Surrendered to Our Unchanging God
- Be sure to check out Episode 51: The Perfect Gift for Every Enneagram Type
Quotables:
- “We’ve had a sense of what’s important and been on each other’s team. We have a disposition of grace toward one another; an overlooking of an offence. – John Manning
- We assume that if something is said, it wasn’t with the intent to hurt or harm one another. We look for the best in one another and look to serve one another as we are walking through something difficult.” – John Manning
- “Love is not an emotion. Love is a sacrifice.” – John Manning
- “Friends, family, and community are there to help you. We aren’t meant to carry the heaviness of things alone. It will destroy us if we do that.” – Julie Manning
- “Serve your friends with what you do well. Not everyone needs to bring a casserole.” – Julie Manning
- “Disappointments usually come from missed expectations. So, you need to reset those expectations based on your new normal.” – John Manning
- “Try not to focus on what you have lost, but on what you have been given.” – John Manning
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Meet John and Julie Manning:
Julie Manning is a wife to her beloved husband, John, mother of three fun-loving boys, and a pediatric nurse practitioner. At the age of 25, Julie left her career in corporate America to pursue a bachelor’s degree in nursing. While in nursing school, the Lord birthed a passion within Julie to care for children born with heart disease. Little did she know seven years later, she would learn that her own heart was sick. The Lord’s pursuit of Julie’s heart and soul through the valley of facing many uncertainties has developed a fire within her to live intentionally from moment to moment as if it may be her last. 