This summer, my husband and I will celebrate our first anniversary, but this isn’t going to be one of those stories telling you the 10 things I learned in my first year. I don’t have five things I’d do differently or three lessons to share with you. Because the most important part of our first…
Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!” Psalm 144:15 Melissa is married to a depressed husband. Next to an addiction, being married to a depressed spouse is one of the most difficult challenges a husband or wife could ever endure. Depressives tend to cast a pall not only on their own lives, but…
I fielded a range of questions right after I got engaged. Some were about my wedding colors. Some were about the dress I hadn’t even bought yet or the date that hadn’t been set, but then I had a few people ask me how I knew I was ready for marriage. Unfortunately, there aren’t three…
Don’t freak out, but there’s a bear on your right,” my friend whispered in my ear. Mm-hmm, sure, I thought. For the past hour, she’d been trying to scare me with fake bear warnings as we hiked through Glacier National Park. Still, I turned good-naturedly to look up the hill. To my horror, I linked…
There is something about the show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that draws people in. Let’s face it—the vast majority of us, if given the opportunity, would love to change at least one room of our current dwelling, if not give the whole house a massive overhaul. Some people make a hobby of purchasing run-down establishments…
