Working as a team takes practice, and my husband and I have been working at it since the very beginning of our relationship. We now look back on the trials of our relationship as refining, and we are stronger because of them. They forced us to practice moving forward together, as a team, time and…
That was a weird dream, I thought to myself, as I managed to shake the feeling of this seemingly blast from my past circling my mind. Although I don’t remember all of the details, I do remember one “scene” that lingered with me for the first few hours of my day after waking- that’s how…
The past few weeks, God will not leave me alone. He keeps asking me to serve my husband by letting go of some major items we disagree on. Why did He keep putting this on my heart? I felt as though I was right and Caleb was wrong. Wouldn’t yielding my opinion be seen as…
The last time I wrote, I posed this question: Wouldn’t it be nice if our first inclination was to love our spouse in the way he or she needed to be loved? Let’s probe that a bit deeper. First, wouldn’t if be nice if our first inclination was to love another? Secondly, wouldn’t it be…
There are two questions we can ask within marriage that will take us to two entirely different dimensions. We have to choose which dimension we want to live in. The two questions are these: How can I bless you?” Or: How can I get my own way?” If we live in the second dimension (“How…
