I learned the importance of honesty one day as I sat across the table from a woman who had decades of marriage under her belt. She had infinite wisdom on the subject, and yet somehow could always relate to my newlywed struggles either by recalling her earlier years or current circumstances. She asked me a…
In marriage, the pain you are capable of causing your partner is the worst kind of pain. Because you are closest to them, you know their greatest weaknesses. There will be many times you’ll come to a crossroad with two options: the ability to forgive and move forward or to live in the past. Forgiveness…
When Jesus is our everything, we are freed to truly love another because we don’t need anything in return. Sit with that statement a moment. Read it over two or three times. Allow it to sink in. What would happen if we simply made Jesus our everything, and then rested in Him? If we were…
One of the most harmful lies that men and women are told is that we will fit into our gender stereotype. Not biblical calls for us individually or God’s design, but human fabricated stereotypes. When it turns out that we do not, we begin to feel there is something wrong with us. I have heard…
There is an unspoken view on marriage in the church that is dangerously prevalent. Many people seem to think that marriage is the next level of godliness, the key to becoming fulfilled. It seems extreme and bizarre. But going from single to married in the church, I’ve seen both sides up close. For church women,…
