JW subtitle extractor

We graduated in June, got married in July,
and had a child in November.
So it was a happy time.
At one point, two Witnesses
knocked on my door,
and they showed me Psalm 83:18,
that God’s name is Jehovah.
They offered a Bible study,
but my study only lasted two to three weeks.
We got a car.
We started going to parties
—starting to smoke,
having drugs, getting drunk.
We did all these things
that really tore our marriage apart.
We thought moving away from our town
and our old associates would help.
It was worse then ever.
Baseball was more important to me
than even my wife.
I had a real problem with headship.
There were times when I felt like
I was smarter than him,
so I felt like I could make
a better decision than he could make.
In time, Zanna left me for another person,
and that’s what really hurt me.
Zanna had a hard time
with drugs and so forth.
That’s when I got custody of the kids.
I decided at that moment that I was done,
and Jehovah
popped into my head.
I remember
getting down
and telling Jehovah,
“Just show me; show me what to do.”
I went through the telephone book
and looked up Jehovah’s Witnesses.
They gave me a book,
a Family Life book.
I showed him that book,
and I told him,
“Had we applied this in our marriage
“from the beginning,
our marriage would’ve never broken up.”
My mind was going:
‘Really? Really?’
But I’d see she was doing things
in a spiritual way.
She stopped doing drugs,
and I just saw her mannerisms change.
In that short period of time,
things got better and better.
And then I started
studying the Bible with Zanna.
That’s when things started clicking.
One of the scriptures
that helped me to rebuild our marriage
is 1 Corinthians 11:3.
Art is my head; I am not the head.
Knowing that everybody
but Jehovah has a head,
I view that as a protection.
Now I don’t have
to make decisions on my own.
Galatians 5:22, 23
—that helped me to show love,
to be a better husband,
a better father.
And I always treat her like a lady,
you know, listen to her viewpoints
and things like that.
I remarried Arthur
on April 2, 1979.
I would tell someone
who is struggling in their marriage now,
“Apply Bible principles
—apply them.”
We learned to be a family with Jehovah,
and that’s why we can deal with the problems
that we have to face every day.
The second time around
is so much sweeter
with Jehovah in the picture.

Art and Zanna Capers: We Rebuilt Our Marriage With God's Help