On Our 28th Anniversary: A Celebration of Marriage in 3’s
Marriage is hard. And for that reason any still married marriage is worth celebrating. So on this, our 28th wedding anniversary, I am celebrating what I’ve learned—in threes.
Take & Possess: Canaanites, Weeds, & Driving Out Enemies (Part II)
Driving out -ites is effortful. It’s hard work to hold back weeds. Despite all our pulling and digging, wild mustard grows like gangbusters and burdocks keep sharing their spiny seeds. In fact, I plucked some burdock off my running tights this morning. Two steps off the trail was all it took; they latched on before…
8 Favorite Marriage Quotes
Not Mushy-Gushy Others can tell the mushy-gushy marriage story. We don’t have that. Ours is much more a tenacious, cling-by-our-fingernails, cleave-by-grace sort of story. This day last year marked 20 years of marriage. I condensed the first score in a post called, 3 Lessons for Incompatible Soul Mates. Number 1 was God gives us strong grace…
Why I Don’t Tell The Boys They’re Smart & Handsome*
You see, if everyone is special, then no one is. -David McCullough, Jr., You Are Not Special and Other Encouragements, p. 308 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character. -Romans 5:3-4 I pounced the moment it hit my inbox. What self-respecting parent could resist this subject…