The Judgment
3 Minute Read I was only ten when I learned to turn up my nose to people who weren’t “like me.”
Actually, I had learned it a few years before and was simply starting to put my training to good use…
3 Minute Read 3 Minute Read The Fettered
3 Minute Read Trudging, weighed down, through deep, clinging mire.
Aching legs, sore feet.
Shoulders bent with the heavy load.
Bondage, to a lifestyle thought wanted,
Thought beautiful,
Turned ugly.
Stopped, by one without a load.
You don’t need to carry this. Drop it.
The Rules
2 Minute Read I believed for years that God loved me more than He loved other people.
Of course I didn’t say so.
But I thought He cared about me more because…
The Forest for the Trees
4 Minute Read Tomorrow morning, I whisper to myself, Tomorrow morning I’m going to get up as soon as the alarm goes off. I’m going to have time. Time to soak in scripture, time to pick up my pen and scribble words on paper, time to figure it all out. And then I sink into my pillow, tired…
The Lost Art of the Mother’s Helper
4 Minute Read We’re in the middle of a big move. My little family is pulling up our roots (my roots anyway) in California, loading up a moving van and driving a bit north and a bit east, eventually landing in a tiny Rocky Mountain town (my husband’s roots). You may remember that my husband is a Marine–a…
Blessed Insignificance
5 Minute Read “So… what do you do?” The question has been presented in various forms over the two years John and I have been married. I heard it again last weekend at the wedding we attended. Before I answer, I ask myself, what do I do? Thinking over my days I remember the many little things that…
Lasting Love
4 Minute Read It is my firmly held belief that each spouse in every marriage ought to perpetually have on his or her nightstand a good book on the topic of marriage. This is not to say, exactly, that John and I are both devouring a new marriage book every day, nor that my primary reading is necessarily…
Marriage Is Not My Highest Calling
7 Minute Read I believe strongly and wholeheartedly in solid, godly marriages. Marriage is an awe-inspiring, truly blissful thing and something to be lauded and heralded as the God-ordained institution it is. We are people created for marriage and, once married, we should strive daily, at every possible opportunity to encourage each other toward even stronger, even holier marriages. But marriage is…
June Brides ~ Five Year Perspective
6 Minute Read Oh, they say when you marry in June, You’re a bride all your life. And the bridegroom who marries in June Gets a sweetheart for a wife. Winter weddings can be gay Like a Christmas holiday. But the June bride hears the song Of the spring that lasts all summer long By the light of…
Be Still
5 Minute Read It had been “one of those” mornings.It was the middle of December–Christmastime. Things were crazy. Everything from the past two months seemed to have hit me that day–my newborn, my husband’s surgery, a trip to Colorado, Christmas preparations, and a deployment date looming in the near future. This particular day was filled with a million…
The End.
The End.