Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read The old adage that “you don’t just marry a person, you marry a family” is never more evident than during the holiday season. Even if you don’t literally go “over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house”, the months of November and December are almost always filled with lots of family visits. I…
Gretchen Louise 7 Minute Read How often does it cross your mind that the way we live as Christian women is to actually commend the Gospel? Carolyn Mahaney has written a book that brings that point home in a powerful way, highlighting “the seven virtues of a godly wife and mother” straight from Titus 2. Feminine Appeal has a powerful…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read Chantel has written several beautiful posts capturing the love and happiness of her wedding day. But I just had to tell you about two of my favorite details from Scott and Chantel’s wedding…the vows and the cows! At the reception, everyone laughed when Scott presented Chantel’s dad with twelve cows…little stuffed ones, that is! It…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read There’s nothing like watching two people in love to make old married couples fall in love all over again. The pure bliss of a newly-wed couple is contagious. But sometimes, it is downright convicting, too! The other day, a few happy sentences in a friend’s blog post left me reflecting upon my own marriage. Do…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read Two short months into our marriage, we got a rude awakening as to how quickly money can become an issue in marriage and in life–and to how quickly money can disappear! My husband’s leg was absolutely shattered in a farming accident. And by the time he got home from the hospital, the first of the…
Gretchen Louise 5 Minute Read “Two families. A large backyard. Nine cousins with a big dream. Four years ago, this was all they had. Today, the film ‘Pendragon’ is a testimony of God fulfilling their dream in ways that they never imagined.” So YLCF reader Sarah Ferraro sums up the story of the Burns Family Studios‘ movie “Pendragon.” I had…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read Set-Apart Femininity: God’s Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman is unlike the average book at your local Christian book store. As the title implies, it is most definitely set apart from the rest. It is not a book about being a happy, fulfilled, Christian woman-at least not in the terms we normally think of happiness…
Gretchen Louise 6 Minute Read It was the summer before I turned 13. The summer before I met Merritt. The summer my world changed from that of a little girl to a teenager. It was the summer I read His Perfect Faithfulness by Eric and Leslie Ludy. All I knew about dating was what I observed from afar in the…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read “Too many women jump to some rather unfortunate conclusions when it comes to the concept of homemaking. They seem to associate it solely with child-raising, forgetting that in his divine order the Lord calls us to be wives before He calls us to be mothers. It is a wonderful thing to encourage women to be…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read Josh was going out of his way this potluck Sunday. As he offered time and again to get Dr. L. something more to drink, we were pretty sure Josh had something up his sleeve. I never did find out what Josh did to the next cup of water, but the conversation it all sparked took…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read My husband Merritt and I have always wanted to learn to dance. But when he broke his leg two months after we were married, just walking without crutches again became our goal. And by the time his ankle had regained a bit of flexibility, I was too tired and pregnant to do anything but rest…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read “A real man’s got to be a hero to his wife before he can be anybody else’s–or he ain’t a real man!” I had heard the lines over and over. “You run into a burning building to save people you don’t even know, but you’re gonna let your own marriage just burn to the ground.”…
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