As mentors, we know how to be better together in marriage, after all, we teach and write about this topic! You would think that would mean we could handle new stressors with ease, right? Hmmm, not so sure! Recently we completed our first novel together, Love on Life Support. This new exercise caused us to …
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What do you do when your life turns a page? In March of 2020, we were going about our own business when everything turned upside down. My husband, Bruce was hospitalized in the ICU during the biggest surge of the Covid-19 pandemic. We had no idea at the time, but Bruce was headed for a …
New Year’s resolutions are made each year by almost seventy-five percent of adults. We evaluate where we are and where we want to go. It’s a time of introspection and declaration. But why spend just one day being intentional? Why not make resolutions for each of the 365 new days ahead of us?
We’re in the season of Advent because it’s almost Christmas. But some of us are in our own personal season of advent, a season of waiting for something new to happen. Are you in the middle of impossible? Are you looking for an escape hatch? This is just the moment when reaching out to God …
Do you have hope for your marriage? This is the first week of advent, when we focus on hope in Christ. But today I want to turn that around a little bit. The success of your marriage is closely related to the quality and object of hope for your marriage.
Do you have a plan for your marriage? When we married we had all sorts of plans. Little did we know, God had plans too. We had no idea how significant God’s plans were.
This month we said goodbye to a True-Blue Gentleman, my ninety-two year old father-in-law Bob, who became my second dad 44 years ago. I only knew my birth father for 40 years before I had to say goodbye to him. On my wedding day as I walked down the aisle with Bruce I had no …
There have been times in my marriage when I could see us like this prickly pair. Getting close to one another can sometimes feel like hugging a hedgehog. That’s when it’s time to get on your knees and start praying for your marriage.
