The butterflies ceased, the kind words of affirmation came to a halt, and those go-out-of-my-way gifts for him dwindled. I didn’t know when or how this happened, but one day I realized we were brother and sister, not friends and lovers. When I was engaged to my husband, I never thought for a second that marriage…
As I contemplate what I want my son to know when he starts marriage, I pray and think through how to “raise him like a man.” But, I find myself asking, “What does that even mean?” I ask that question because I have many examples of men who influenced me growing up and they were…
I both shudder and celebrate when I perform a wedding. A beautiful couple stands before me who has worked hard to arrive at the start of their marriage. They deserve to be celebrated! A few rows from the stage sits a beaming and beautiful eight-year-old girl with a toothless grin. That beaming and beautiful eight…
Thirty years ago, when I was a new wife, a friend told me, “If I really want to, I can talk my husband into anything.” A part of me was a little jealous. The part that would like to make Bill drink coffee with me in the mornings or sip a little red wine on…
My wife and I came from very different spiritual backgrounds…and temperaments…and expectations. A bit of the “opposites attract” thing. So of course when we got married the idea of devotionals had totally different meanings for each of us. I was pretty much the straight-forward Evangelical of the crowd: we get up early (like Jesus), we…
