Did you know that Proverbs personifies Wisdom as a woman? “Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars…” How cool is that? I thought it was very cool – until I realized that the same proverb also personifies Folly as a woman! What’s the difference? Wisdom stops witless words.
I’ve been wracking my brain to come up with a suitable topic for Marriage Monday all weekend. My thoughts are continuously being hijacked by our racial unrest and George Floyd’s murder. It makes my heart ache, and makes my husband’s heart ache and so this is about marriage. Black Lives Matter for your marriage.
Why is it so difficult to embrace the different? Those not like us – from our spouse to our neighbor to people of a different race – tend to make us want to categorize and separate. But God has a different plan – embracing the different. How can we do that? All we need is …
A year ago we crafted a marriage mission statement so we could live intentionally in retirement. Our desire is to live in such a way that our kids and grandkids would be inspired to live their lives with purpose and intention. This winter, during COVID, we were challenged: can we really see it through, staying …
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What do you do when you have a bad day? I’ve had many bad days recently. Days when I wondered if my 43 year marriage was about to abruptly end in widowhood, as my husband Bruce fought for his life.
What do you do when little things become big things? It’s been pretty much non-stop stress for the past 3 weeks, and I found myself having a hissy fit over something very small this morning. So I needed to spend some time thinking about what to do when little things become big things.
I’m in the waiting, still, and I don’t like it. Waiting is my least favorite contact sport. It may not sound like much of a sport to you, but waiting is a battle. If we don’t wait well, according to God’s instructions, we will get beat up. Waiting is a spiritual contact sport.
What’s your natural instinct when a conflict flares up? Do you fight fire with fire, giving as good as you got? Do you retreat in seething silence, eliminating any chance of resolution? Or do you stop, drop, and roll the flames out, resolving the conflict?
