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We are not lacking time, love, or truth.

We are simply too full of noise, options, sugar, and screens.

Today, convenience is king. And yet, our homes feel emptier than ever. Families sit together, but rarely speak. Marriages survive, but don’t deepen. We’ve normalized shallow connections because deep connection requires effort, patience, and sacrifice.

But love doesn’t grow where everything comes easy.

Discipline: The Love Language No One Talks About

If your marriage feels dull or your home feels distant, it might not be because anything is wrong. It might be because nothing is sacred. No rhythms. No restraint. No “no.”

You don’t have to overhaul your life. But you do have to resist—gently, consistently—the pull toward comfort over commitment.

Here’s where to start:

  • No Amazon Week
    Delay online orders. Live with the “itch” of wanting. Let it pass. Teach your kids—and yourself—that desire isn’t danger.

  • Home-Cooked Only Week
    Skip the takeout. No drive-thrus. No lattes on the go. Make food together. Let dinner become an act of service, not a transaction.

  • Screens Down, Ice Cream Out
    Go out together—without phones. To the park. For ice cream. To sit and talk while watching the sun go down. Be where your feet are.

  • One Act of Love Per Day
    Every person in your home—kids, parents, partners—does one unannounced, unreturned act of service daily. Fold their laundry. Write a note. Listen without interrupting.

These acts may seem small. But they are not insignificant. They are where love is tested—and formed.

Marriage Is a Daily Fast

A sacred marriage is built not on big declarations but daily disciplines. It’s built when we abstain from the ease of defensiveness, sarcasm, or stonewalling—and choose, again, to offer tenderness.

It’s built when we fast from resentment and speak the hard truth.

It’s built when we abstain from convenience—convenient food, convenient exits, convenient silence—and show up with presence.

Sacrifice isn’t glamorous. But it is divine.

As Saint Paul said, we must fight the good fight—not because it’s dramatic but because it shows our FAITH.

The Constant Through History

Maybe I’m not the first to sense this drift. Perhaps people during the Renaissance, or the Industrial Revolution, also feared their families were becoming disoriented by speed and novelty.

The temptation to abandon sacred order has always existed.

But one thing has never changed:
Doing what’s right is always harder than doing what’s easy. So fight the ‘good fight’.

And that’s the point.

Discipline in marriage, parenting, in our food, and our feelings—it’s not outdated. It’s the path back to peace.