Faith Filled Family Magazine December 2016 | Page 85

Author Rhonda
Stoppe Known As
The “No Regrets”
Woman
BY LISA CARTER
Author Rhonda Stoppe is a woman on a mission passionately
helping women live victoriously
in this fallen world. She is a wife,
mom, speaker, and women’s
mentor. She takes us on a delightful journey of learning what it
takes to make a godly marriage,
and enjoy a peaceful home life.
That is what we all want isn’t it?
Yet we do not always know how
to get there. Rhonda brings to
the table 30 years of marriage as
well as 30 years of experience
mentoring women on their quest
for lasting love in their marriage.
She inspires us with true stories of marriages that were once
hopeless but are thriving today.
Rhonda graciously shares examples of her own mistakes as
well as triumphs as she reveals
her heart and soul, and her passion to see more marriages flourish. Her funny but honest and
transparent conversational style
draws you in motivating you to
want to know how to be more
and more of the woman God intended in your marriage.
Rhonda reminds us of the greatest significance of a wife in a
Christian home – that is to be a

godly example for your children,
and the rock of strength and
support your husband so desperately needs. She shows us
that while loving our husbands
God’s way, our highest priority and main concern should be
our relationship with God Himself and to draw ever closer to
Him. Rhonda believes that in doing this, we can become the wife
and mother we always knew we
could be, and deeply desire to
be.
Faith Filled Family Magazine was
delighted to ask Rhonda Stoppe
some questions about her book,
“If My Husband Would Change,
I’d Be Happy” by Harvest House
Publishers for our readers. This
is what she shared with us:
You start your book advising
us that our husbands “were
never meant to be our happilyever-after.” This is somewhat
of a rude awakening having
grown up watching popular
princess movies. We women
tend to hope our prince will
come and we will live happily
always. How do we reconcile
this with the realization that
the husband is not sent to us

just for that purpose?
We are all created to long to find
our happiness and significance
in relationship. Every happilyever-after princess story affirms
this longing in our hearts. But we
were made to find true joy and
worth, not in relationship with
another person, but in relationship with our Creator.

In the Garden, sin stole away
the intimacy we were created to
enjoy with the Lord. In our sinful state, we look to a person to
do for us what only God can do.
When we look to our husbands
to make us happy, we are asking
them to be our god.
When we surrender our hearts
to Christ, and spend the rest of
our lives learning to love Him
with all our being, we will enjoy