Blood flushes your face, heart beating, thoughts rushing, as the same frustration blurs around you like an unending carousel. When you married your “happily ever after,” you never imagined driving into the sunset would involve so many road bumps. But here you are at the same impasse, your “happily ever after,” has become your frustration,…
Have you ever brought an angry exchange to a sudden halt because of the presence of another person? A friend or even a stranger walks into the room and suddenly it’s all smiles and ‘how are you’s?’ Our natural concern for what other people think about us acts as a powerful deterrent for sinful behavior….
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden How we look at something, the perspective we choose, often determines not only what we see, but what we experience. This certainly holds true for marriage. How we look at it and the…
I have been a Christian for almost fifteen years and my husband has been a Christian for over twenty years. In December, we will have been married for seven years. Throughout the many years of wedded bliss, I have always longed for the days when Paul and I would enjoy deep times of Bible study…
I remember the first time. Tears streamed down my cheeks. I was twenty-three and had been sexually active since I was fifteen, but this was the first time I’d had sex as a married woman. As I lay there, tears rolling, I realized that God was in this space. He delighted in what was happening…
