Keep Showing Up
How to Stay Crazy in Love When Your Love Drives You Crazy
- Marriage, Family & Relationships
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Published: 2019
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Publisher's Description
Discover how your differences can become the strength of your marriage in this real-life guide to both living with and loving your spouse. It is true that opposites attract--for a while. But often as the years go by in our marriages, opposites may also begin to attack. The habits and characteristics we once found endearing about our significant other are the exact things that drive us crazy years later! Whether you and your spouse disagree about finances, parenting, or how to load the dishwasher, your differences don't need to divide you. They can actually bring you closer together--and closer to God. In Keep Showing Up, Karen Ehman shows you... How to play to each other's strengths as you work on your own weaknesses The difference between having a soul mate and having a sole mate How to become a faithful forgiver who also forgets Strategies for avoiding the social media comparison trap Why it's dangerous to mimic a friend's marriage How to unearth the magic in the mundane Why a spouse who drives you crazy can drive you straight to Jesus Throughout Keep Showing Up, Karen also includes ideas to implement in your marriage right now, such as powerful statements to speak to your spouse, date-night-on-a-shoestring suggestions, and discussion starters.
Endorsements (13)
“Dang, girl! Powerful and practical straight talk in a world that wants you in a twist about marriage. A must-read and re-read. A dose of vitamin T (truth) about what marriage can wonderfully look like when we look more at what God can do in our commuted hearts than what our husband or wife should do for us, more at what God gives to the unit than what we are expecting to get as individuals.”
“When you open a Karen Ehman book, you know you’re going to find tons of practical suggestions, years of hard-earned wisdom, and a down-to-earth, we’re-all-in-this-together approach that is relatable, reliable, and well worth reading. Keep Showing Up is all that and more, providing solid biblical direction for getting—and keeping—your marriage on track. Whether you’ve been married for ten months or ten years, this much-needed resource will help you grow spiritually, even as you strengthen the most important relationship you have on earth.”
“I have been inspired by and grown through every Karen Ehman book that I’ve had the privilege of reading, but this one quickly became my favorite. Having just celebrated fifteen years of marriage with Mike, I found Karen’s words to lovingly convict me and motivate me to re-envision how our differences can actually be the door to a deeper connection with each other and a greater dependency on God. Keep Showing Up truly delivers on what the back cover says it will help you and your spouse accomplish together.”
“Karen Ehman has written the message every wife needs to hear. Whether she’s just starting out or has been married for what now feels like a lifetime, there’s something for every wife. With humor, grace, practical teaching, vulnerability, and biblical truth, Karen hits on all the hard topics. I see this book restoring marriages that feel dry, empty, shallow, or just tired. I see it as a longstanding resource for counselors or pastors to pass on to women who just need a wise friend to encourage them to keep showing up.”
“It’s vowing to each other that you are life partners and will walk through life hand in hand, side by side, regardless of the ups and downs you will surely face. Keep Showing Up will help cultivate your marriage during the good, the bad, and those moments you threaten to sleep on the couch! ;) LAUREN McBRIDE, lifestyle blogger at www.laurenmcbrideblog.com I’ve seen firsthand in my research how one person’s simple actions can make or break a marriage. This book provides an excellent, actionable map for how we women can help our marriages to fly even when it gets rough—or boring. We can’t change our man, but when we work on us, everything changes! Karen Ehman has written another practical, charming winner.”
“Karen Ehman has such a down-to-earth and real-life style of writing. Keep Showing Up is relevant for everyone from the engaged woman to the one who has been married for thirty years and beyond. She offers practical advice backed with scriptural truth to encourage you to help your marriage and yourself. Her use of personal stories and humor will draw you in, but the substance of her words will have you ready to go to work on building a better relationship. I can’t recommend this book enough.”
“Keep Showing Up will make you wonder if Karen Ehman has been secretly living in your home, watching and listening to your marriage. We found that so many of her stories resonated with our own. Insightful, fun, and incredibly practical! PATRICK AND RUTH SCHWENK, founders of FortheFamily.org and TheBetterMom.com and authors of For Better or For Kids: A Vow to Love Your Spouse with Kids in the House The apostle Paul says the profound mystery of marriage can be summed up in the relationship between Jesus and his jacked-up bride, the church. The inexplicable fact that Jesus keeps showing up and doesn’t go anywhere when we continue to ignore and flat-out dismiss him is one of the most stunning pictures of the gospel of grace. In this wonderfully transparent, practical, and Jesus-centered book, my friend Karen Ehman makes much of Christ by exalting marriage to its proper place as a portrait of grace painted with the brushstrokes of our failures and halfhearted attempts at doing the right things.”
“Keep Showing Up isn’t a long list of unreasonable to-dos for wives to undertake. Instead, Karen Ehman comes alongside to coach and encourage encourage you toward a gospel-centered marriage. From newlywed to seasoned wife, every bride should read this book.”
“Whether newly married, never married, or married so long you can’t remember not being married, Keep Showing Up is a must-read! With grace, humor, and her own personal experiences, Karen Ehman demonstrates how even a strong union of two can crumble by the wrong mindset of one. This book challenges us to examine our hearts and offers a fresh perspective to help leave crazy behind and stay crazy in love.”
“Keep Showing Up is a blessing of a book. I’ve been married for almost eleven years, and Karen Ehman’s book has taught me so much. Yes, it may step on your toes! But it reminds us that marriage is not for selfish ambition but calls us to be selfless—to put our spouse’s needs above our own and to love in the “agape” way. In doing so, it helps us be molded into who God created us to be and to love like him!”
“Wow! This book truly exposes the raw, honest truth about the many ups and downs in marriage. It provides a convicting—and redeeming—solution that will allow you to become a God-honoring wife: examine your own heart. Keep Showing Up challenges you to stop looking at your spouse and at other external factors that make marriage hard, and instead start evaluating your own heart as you allow God to enable you to love like Jesus.”
“Preparing for my recent wedding, I didn’t want to hear more “congrats on finding happily ever after.” Instead, I wanted real advice from someone living in a real marriage. In this book, Karen Ehman gives rarely found raw truth in a way that is refreshing. Her willingness to honestly paint the realities of marriage strengthens my “new wife” heart in a way Cinderella never could.”
“As an almost-newlywed, I found Keep Showing Up to be a godsend. Reading each page was like finding treasure troves of pure gold nestled among catchy phrases, humorous anecdotes, and candid and sincere advice—all filtered through the lens of the Bible. I feel so much more prepared as I delve into this new adventure called marriage. However, this book provides valuable information to men and women in all stages of life and with all relationships, not just the one between spouses. I’m making it my mission to keep showing up, today and every day, with everyone who crosses my path.”
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