Raw Prayer Requests

This book opens with three questions about marriage and faith. Could God be using a spouse's harmful behavior to shape the other partner? Could that same growth become a means of bringing the spouse to salvation? And could the way a believer responds to a difficult spouse bring glory to God? Scripture passages from Psalm 110, 1 Corinthians 7 and Proverbs 15 frame these questions.

The story follows Proof and Scar, two characters the author created from her own private prayer requests about her marriage. Proof appears to have it all: a comfortable home, a loving family and a successful career. Privately, however, she lives as a married woman who is alone, waking each day to her husband's absence and wrestling with insecurity and unanswered questions. She spends her free time in her prayer closet, holding on to the belief that God will keep His promise to restore her marriage.

Scar loves Proof and their children, but he has grown weary of the cycle of hope and disappointment. He began the marriage eager to be a devoted husband, yet Proof's repeated decisions to withdraw from the marriage left wounds he feels are not worth repairing, and each abandonment deepened his struggle with rejection. The author hopes readers will see themselves in both characters and find freedom from raw emotions and rejection within their own marriages, learning how God can use a spouse's actions to advance a kingdom purpose.