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…
Gretchen Louise 6 Minute Read If you want to make your husband the happiest man in the world, then start right now. When your boyfriend talks to you, listen with your eyes, not just your ears. When you are married, there will be many more distractions to get in the way, and fewer opportunities for good conversation–take advantage of them…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read Ever since their first date (a Sunday afternoon presentation of The Messiah), she had known he was the one. “I laid it before the Lord and left it there,” she wrote. But she was called as a missionary to Tibet, and he was not. “Do you believe that God brought us together?” he asked her…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read I don’t know where I heard it, but it’s always stuck in my mind: “Marry a man who will make a good father.” Ever since I met my husband in Yellowstone National Park that day, I knew he liked children. My little sister was just 1-year-old at the time, and though 13-year-old Merritt and I…
Dr. Bill Brink 3 Minute Read (from a letter written to Gretchen some years ago by her grandfather) Wisdom defined God’s way as this–the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. My daughter, if you will receive my words to lay up my commandments with Thee, so that you incline your ear unto wisdom and apply your heart to…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read As a wedding present, relatives from New Mexico gave us this unique wedding vase. Janey told me the double opening represented the fact that now we would both drink from the same well. A few months later, I was reading Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s new book Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage, and found much the…
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…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read For a single girl, I must have a record number of books on marriage. My man and I often laugh about how many books on relationships I have read, versus the number he has read. (It would probably be something like 100 to 1/2, except I don’t know how many relationship books I have actually…
Gretchen Louise 8 Minute Read For those who wanted to hear about our wedding plans…or for those who are looking for tips and ideas…here is a glimpse into the many details of wedding planning! The moment I knew we could truly get married this year, I started planning our wedding in earnest. Even before I had a ring on my…
Gretchen Louise 9 Minute Read “My greatest ambition is to have a successful, happy marriage,” proclaimed Nancy Davis in her college yearbook. And it is because of her successful, happy marriage to President Ronald Wilson Reagan that Nancy Davis Reagan is my hero. “I knew that being his wife was the role I wanted most,” said the actress. She knew…
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