Have you ever felt weary of giving grace? In other words, have you ever felt exhausted from giving unconditional love and kindness? Do you ever feel limited on how much grace you can give on a daily basis? Maybe for you, it’s the kids, your job, other family members, or life’s circumstances that cause you to…
We know that our spouses need love and respect and we know that our marriages need commitment and attention. But we rarely stop to think about how our spouses long to know that we delight in them! Delight is an essential part of a healthy marriage, but we often fail to express it. When the…
Melissa and Bradley are planning their wedding. They’re happy together and are “convinced” their marriage will succeed. Well, actually, they are mostly convinced. Melissa has been married before and brings two reluctant teens into the relationship. Brad says he loves Melissa’s children. He wants to be their father, but senses their resistance. In a recent…
Let’s start with hot sauce, shall we? If the question arose in the aisles of Harris Teeter whether we should buy Texas Pete’s or Frank’s Red Hot, my husband Ted quickly answered, “Both/and.” After all, you could never have too much hot sauce, right? Right. It didn’t take long for me to realize that Ted…
Dear Future Husband, I squeeze my toothpaste from the middle. It’s true. I’m one of those people, though I never thought I would be. I always pictured myself as the strategically-push-every-last-drop-from-the-bottom person. But alas, God did not make me one of those. He made me a squeeze-from-the-middle person. Why am I telling you this? First,…
