This Christian non-fiction memoir is a love story written for anyone longing for deeper joy, stronger faith, and a marriage that lasts through every season of life.
After ten years of prayer, reflection, and lived experience, this book was written to guide readers who feel unsure how to move to the next level of their relationship with God, love, and purpose. Through heartfelt stories and generational wisdom, Erika shares how love begins in youth and matures across decades of marriage, before parenting, after becoming parents, and into the later years of life.
Rooted in Christian faith, this memoir offers intimate observations from marriages within one family that endured one year, thirteen years, forty years, and even eternity. These stories are honest and redemptive, revealing how health challenges, life trials, grief, and difficult decisions shape love rather than destroy it when Christ remains at the center.
This book is also a dedication of love. Written in honor of the author's mother, who is battling pulmonary fibrosis and preparing for a lung transplant, this story carries a mission of hope, prayer, and legacy. Every page reflects gratitude for slow mornings, shared laughter, faithful perseverance, and praising God through both joy and suffering.
Readers will find letters, prayers, and personal photographs woven throughout the book, creating an intimate and reflective reading experience. This is not a guide to perfect marriage, but a testimony to faithful love sustained by God's grace.
Whether you are preparing for marriage, newly engaged, early in your relationship, married for many years, or healing from past heartbreak, this book reminds you that you are not alone. Love can be restored. Faith can be renewed. Joy can return especially with focusing on lighthearted memories of what you enjoyed most in your early dating life! Making moments that generate compassion, adventure and routines that bring light to your day together.
This memoir is an invitation to believe again in lasting love, Christ-centered marriage, and relationships built to endure for decades to come.
Erika is the host of Bible Study Mom Erika Balderas on Spotify Podcast (the pink cover).
Erika Balderas-Perez is a Christian author, wife, and faith-led educator passionate about strengthening marriages and families through wisdom, love, and Christ-centered living. Her writing is shaped by lived experience, generational stories of marriage, and a deep belief that lasting love is still possible in a distracted world.
Married to her husband Rudy, Erika draws inspiration from love witnessed across decades within her own family, from newlywed beginnings to marriages that endured forty years and beyond. Her work reflects the beauty of everyday faith, slow mornings, heartfelt prayer, and praising God through both joy and suffering.
This book is deeply personal, written in honor of her mother, who is courageously battling pulmonary fibrosis while preparing for a lung transplant. Through this memoir, Erika invites readers into a story of hope, healing, and faithful perseverance, reminding them that joy, love, and strong relationships can grow through every season of life.
She is the founder of Balderas Faith-Led Homes. The mother of two young daughters that she homeschooled during their 1st-2nd grade years. Her heart is centered on Christ following principles for a peaceful life and transformational relationships. contact@erikabalderas.com Instagram theerikabalderas Facebook Erika Balderas-Perez
