“The stone rejected by the builders is now the main foundation stone!” Psalm 118:22

George and Sarah had been married only a short time when their marriage hit the rocks. They had begun quarreling and picking at each other. They began to resent each other. Their anger flared at one another, as each stubbornly maintained that the other had “changed.”

What had changed was that each of them realized, contrary to their hopes and expectations, that their partner was not going to change. Each had harbored secret hopes in their hearts that the other would evolve into the person they had imagined they would become. They had fallen in love not with the person in front of them, but the person they wanted their partner to become. When that “change” didn’t happen, their relationship changed, and fal…