“You reap what you sow.” I’m sure we’ve all heard that phrase before. When you read it, which emotions does it stir up inside of you? This may sound odd but until recently I have always mainly thought of that phrase in a negative sense. As in, if you sow something bad you will reap…
It is an undeniable fact of life that you can’t put two people in the same room without one of them eventually getting in the way of the other. In marriage, multiply this by ten. Too many marriage books see this as a problem. I believe it has a divine purpose. Being annoyed by your…
We had been engaged for less than a month when I made the first joke about eloping. Nailing down even the basics of wedding planning was proving difficult: we didn’t know exactly where, or when to get married, or how our guest list should look. What we did know, however, was that we wanted to…
With the declining economy, losing a job is more the normal for most families than working with the same employer for 20-30 years. So when a job loss happens for whatever reason, including lay-offs, budget cuts, or something else, it can feel devastating to a family, and even more so to one-income couples. However, Scripture…
It was a fairly simple activity. At least, it should have been. Our task? To remember back to the early days of our relationship and share with our church small group the name of “our song” at the time. The message from our pastor that week had been on marriage. So our discussion that evening…
