“Wait a while to have children. You want to enjoy the time you have together…you’ll never get it back…” My husband and I heard that statement constantly when we first got married, as I’m sure many newlyweds do. He and I only dated for two months, were engaged for eleven months, and were in our…
“Wow! Were you freaking out because you were still single in your 30s?” exclaimed a shocked 24-year-old gal I had just met. I had just mentioned to her that I didn’t get married until I was 32. And to answer her question, No, I wasn’t freaking out at all. Sure, there were times I was…
My husband and I talk with each other often about the dreams and desires we each hold in our hearts. Where we’d like to travel. Other countries we’d like to move to. The desire to learn a new language. What we’d like to transition into in the area of work. How we want to help…
Sometimes God throws the perfect layup—a perfect opportunity. We see what we assume is His will from a mile away. We’re grateful and we’re ready to go. Then suddenly, it falls short. And we wonder, What is God doing? What went wrong? A friend of mine’s husband has been without a job for almost three…
Once upon a time there lived two couples. You may have heard of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot. The often quoted phrase “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” is attributed to Jim and the work he and Elisabeth committed their lives toward. They spent their…
