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Photo Inspiration: Running Into Your Arms
“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” -Jonathon Carroll Photo by...
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The Weight of Being Responsible
Our husbands have a lot of responsibility on their shoulders. Sometimes, I forget that. Other times, I see it for what it is and I feel badly. I’m so glad that I don’t have to have the leadership role...
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You’re Frying The Eggs Wrong
These eggs are really underdone.” I uttered these words to my husband who had just cooked me breakfast. This sweet, handsome man had just prepared food for me . . . and I told him he did it wrong. I...
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Get Your Pom Poms Ready
Some days my battle weary husband straggles in the front door with brooding eyes, slumped shoulders, and a defeated countenance. The world beats him up and tosses him around unmercifully. Condemning...
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When Your In-Laws Visit
My husband’s family isn’t like mine, and because of that I worried that they wouldn’t like me. When Derek and I were dating, we visited his family in Odessa, Texas a few times, and I’d seen them on...
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Photo Inspiration: A Beautiful Friendship
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes...
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Just Drop It
“I don’t want my writing room and the gym to be in the same room,” I bowled my husband over with my (better) opinion before he had even closed his mouth. We hadn’t been in our new home for two hours,...
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But You Have God
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...
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Awkward Moments in Marriage
My wife and I will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary in June. Not much time to really get to know a woman. New things come up all the time. For example, the other day as we were talking, something...
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Photo Inspiration: Great Love
“Whatever your financial status in life, or whatever work you do, know that you can make a significant contribution to your family and world by doing small things with great love.”― Joyce Vissell Photo...
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The Tough Decisions
It was an easy choice to say “yes” when Jonas asked me to marry him in 2005. Saying “I do” after a stressful engagement was the next landmark decision in our relationship. It had been a long road, but...
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One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Future Marriage
Getting married carries its own risks and rewards. Bringing two individuals into a life-long covenant relationship truly requires God-size love and faith. Having been through an unwanted and very...
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The Special Event Book
When I was a newly wed, my in-laws gave my husband and I a journal. You see, every month they did what they called a “Special Event.” Each one took a turn to plan a special date or event to do with the...
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The Man List
I sipped my latte and patted myself on the back with an invisible hand. I must be a more mature Christian, I thought. “I taped it to my bathroom mirror,” Elly continued. “I titled it, ‘No Compromise’....
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What’s Under Your Marriage Microscope?
We had this taxidermist friend, well, more of an acquaintance, really. Years ago Bill pastored a church that met in a crumbling old Gothic Revival building on Main Street in a small Pennsylvania town....
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Moving as a Married Couple
The first time my husband and I moved was two days after our honeymoon. We loaded up a trailer with our wedding gifts and other odds and ends and set off to drive three hours to where Derek had lived....
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Sometimes You Just Need Someone To Listen
I was having a tough day. It was just a day where my emotions were feeling raw. I was frustrated and discouraged over some thing and the tears came quickly to my eyes all day. And I mean alllll day! I...
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Respecting the Man in Your Husband
My husband won’t get a pedicure. I’ve begged him to join me for a quick 30-minutes of footwork (pun intended), but he’s laughed me off every time. I have to respect the man that my husband is....
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The Power of a Peaceful Home
Most of us have been to someone’s home and upon walking in the door immediately felt the presence of peace. It’s like it hits you in the face right as you walk in and you feel enveloped by it while...
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The Real Happily Ever After
When I was growing up I adored watching romantic comedies. You’ve Got Mail, Return To Me, Sleepless in Seattle, The Little Mermaid, these were my bread and butter. Movies like this made love look so...
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