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…
Chantel 12 Minute Read The four and a half months of our engagement were filled with an amazing amount of work, thought, planning and a reasonable amount of confusion and crazy-ness, some tears and a lot of laughing. We worked against several odds during those months, and it took time to find and make the elusive plan two dreams…
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 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.”…
Dr. Bill Brink 8 Minute Read pre-marital and post marital counsel from the rocking chair of 54 years of growing in love As we’re driving down the freeway of life, we have to pay attention to the signs. Don’t cross the double yellow line. Don’t go over the white line on your side of the road. The same holds true in…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read She was buying apples and pears. Just like everyone else that day. With my daughter in one arm, I rang up her sale. It was $9.92. My husband joined me behind the counter as the lady handed me a ten dollar bill. “I think I have two cents somewhere,” she said as she dug in…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read “Can you believe we’re married?” It’s a question my husband Merritt and I have asked each other often in the last almost two years. It seemed too good to be true. Best friends for so many years, finally being married to each other made our cup truly overflow. The other night, as we lay there…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read Asking for advice, a reader wrote: “It gets a little frustrating sometimes, knowing that he is the man I am supposed to marry, yet we can’t move forward with our lives and get married because we are both still in college.” Or because he doesn’t have a job. Or because my parents want us to…
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