Lanier Ivester 12 Minute Read I received an email some weeks ago from a dear younger sister approaching marriage. It was peppered with question marks, sincere queries from a woman that truly wants to be the best wife that she can. As I read them over, I thought how blessed her future husband already is to have a girl so…
Jeannie Pederson 13 Minute Read How do you feel about singleness? More importantly, how do you feel about marriage? If you are getting a little older, you may also be getting a little discouraged. Perhaps you’ve experienced a broken dream or relationship. Probably many of your friends are married and having children. We single girls can get caught in the…
Elizabeth Jackson 4 Minute Read I am a romantic at heart. Whenever I read a good love story or courtship account, I add “and they lived happily ever after” to the end, even if it is not written in so many words. I often look back on my own life forgetting all the troubles and deep heartaches and remembering only…
Ruth Wiechmann 5 Minute Read by Mrs. Ruth Wiechmann You have probably heard the saying that “life’s not a bed of roses.”When circumstances go awry, disillusioned people are hard put to find the good in life.Even when things run smoothly, there’s always a pessimist about who will find a little squeak in the wheels to fuss over.It’s the perversity…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read “Ah! the true rule is—a wife in her husband’s house is his servant; it is in his heart that she is queen. Whatever of the best he can conceive, it is her part to be; whatever of the highest he can hope, it is hers to promise; all that is dark in him she must…
Lanier Ivester 6 Minute Read “The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” -Marianne Dashwood How many of us sighed at that endearingly-rendered line of Kate Winslet’s in the movie Sense and Sensibility? I know I did, and giggled with…
Elizabeth Jackson 3 Minute Read The question was recently asked: Where do I draw the line between holding out for God’s best [in a husband] and holding out for an ethereal dream that may be blinding me to reality? How detailed were you in your expectations for your husbands? And did God provide every detail of your dreams? Where did…
Elizabeth Jackson 3 Minute Read Most of us have given thought, and perhaps even have high ideals, of what makes a good wife. I know I thought about it often in the days before my marriage, for I wanted to be not only a good wife, but the best wife, by God’s grace, I could be. I did not expect…
Lanier Ivester 5 Minute Read Three weeks ago today I was on a ladder in the backyard doing yet another of those absolutely imperative tasks that must be completed before vacation: spraying the peach trees. I had already had that conversation with myself about how stupid it was to get up on a rickety ladder with a heavy, awkward sprayer…
Lanier Ivester 6 Minute Read I had always wanted a vegetable garden. But our first summer of marriage we were too busy getting married, honeymooning and writing thank you notes even to think of it. So I tucked some tomato and pepper plants in among the lantana and verbena in my flower garden and commenced dreaming of the enormous vegetable…
Lanier Ivester 2 Minute Read The Scottish-American preacher Peter Marshall is one of my heroes. Not only for his robust faith and his imagery-laden sermons that read like poetry. Not only for his distinction as one of the most respected chaplains of the United States Senate. And not just because his beloved Westminster Presbyterian was right here in Atlanta.I absolutely…
Lanier Ivester 6 Minute Read In the 1963 Walt Disney film Summer Magic, Hayley Mills sings an adorable little song that would have ended up on the cutting room floor in this day and age—if it had even made it that far, which is doubtful. She and Deborah Walley cheerfully instruct another girl on the wiles of womanly allurement as…
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