Over 14 years later, I can still remember the day—during our pre-marital counseling—where I got the best marriage advice I ever received. We had just taken our personality inventory, and neither of us had seen it, but the man (we’ll call him Reverend Henry) who was leading our pre-marital counseling had. And he wasn’t impressed….
I never make New Year’s resolutions. It seems counterproductive to wait for a flip of the calendar to begin making changes in my life that I have known about all along. It’s like a man declaring that he’ll start his workout program on the magic Monday—the one that never arrives. Or the student who plans…
My husband and I are both very passionate people when it comes to what we want out of life and what we believe. We both can be stubborn at times and let our pride rear its ugly head. So it’s very important that we work hard on our communication skills and on talking things out…
Have you ever felt like the hours are going by so quickly that you just can’t seem to keep up no matter how fast you run after them? I’ve felt like that lately. Life is filled with noise and God seems “strangely silent,” as Beth Moore puts it in her study on the book of…
Fairytales and romantic comedies all offer a similar plot line: boy meets girl. Boy and girl go though some type of hardship or conflict. Boy and girl work through their problems and ride off into the sunset. They promise a fight free easy future, because they are soul mates. They have found the “one.” So…
