When you’re young and in love, everything is bubbles and rainbows. There is no bad or annoying or weird little quirks about the man you love. He’s perfect. He’s adorable. You have the “little girl with a kitty syndrome”– you want to just love him and squeeze him and kiss him all over. Then real life sets…
Category Archives: To Have and To Hold
Who Meets My Needs?
The more my trust in God grows, the more I let go of fear and release my husband to God, the more I can see my husband, weaknesses and all, through different eyes. The less I “need” him to fulfill my emotional needs, the more I can love him unselfishly. The less my little feelings…
Keeping the Home Fires Burning
I’m a little late in submitting this post, because my husband has been away in Kenya for the better part of a week. It seems I’ve been busy from the time my feet hit the floor in the morning until I put them back up in the bed at night. But it’s all good. This…
Getting Rid of Selfishness
Over the summer, my husband had shoulder surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff. This was a huge change for us with him being at home as opposed to his rigorous work schedule which consists of 12 hour shifts at all hours. When he is working, after the priority of making sure his needs were…
To Have and To Hold
In our culture a marriage is considered nothing more than a temporary arrangement that can be over, with little or no affect, when our expectations are not being met or our happiness is gone. As Christians, we know this is not the case. Marriage is much more than a human institution! Marriage is an institution…
In Solo Seasons
Seven o’clock p.m. and halfway through dinner, my husband gets home. He’s smiling thankfulness at roast beef and baked potatoes and he’s fighting off a cold. By seven-thirty, he’s heading down to the basement for more work. “Mommy and Daddy check-in time at ten?” he asks. “Sounds good.” I smile my bravest. His business is…
“I’m Sorry, But…”
Quite some time ago, I began to study and meditate on the topic of repentance. My conclusions (briefly stated here) may be no surprise to many of you, but I can’t say that, up to that point, any of the churches I had attended had ever preached (or adequately taught about) this topic. I realized…
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