Trusting God to Restore Your Marriage: A 60-Day Challenge, Grief, and Real Life Faith with Elisa

Trusting God in marriage can start in the most ordinary place, like a garage with a laundry basket in your hands. In this episode, I sit down with Elisa, who shares how God challenged her in 2008 to prioritize her marriage after years of feeling disconnected, exhausted, and more like roommates than partners.

Elisa and her husband Tony were 11 years into marriage, raising two little kids (2 and 5), and carrying deep pain from losing their baby boy Andrew at 18 weeks. They were functioning. They were managing logistics. But their real life faith felt thin in the day to day of marriage. Then Tony suggested a study on intimacy, and what started as a hard no became a holy interruption.

Elisa takes us back to the moment God spoke clearly, not with fireworks, but with one convicting question: are you not really willing to try? That question became a turning point, leading to a 60-day intimacy challenge that did more than change their physical connection. It reshaped their priorities, brought laughter back, and re-ordered their home around God first, spouse second, kids third.

We talk about what changed after the challenge ended, too. The honest conversations. Putting each other on the calendar. Choosing date nights that build connection instead of just sharing a meal. And learning that oneness is not a wedding-day idea, it is a lifelong practice.

If your marriage feels distant, transactional, or stuck in sameness, this conversation will give you practical spirituality you can actually try. Start small. Get intentional. And let God meet you in the ordinary places where He loves to redeem.

Elisa also shares simple, doable steps like creating phone-free space, using conversation starter questions when you do not know what to say, and choosing shoulder-to-shoulder time that helps your spouse open up. Because you are not alone, and God is not finished with your story, or your marriage.