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…
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…
Elisabeth Adams 7 Minute Read Human nature is the original fake. In fact, our moral frailty is one of the sturdiest constants of history: a fascinating and discouraging thought, isn’t it? Modern advertising’s common use of words like ‘genuine,’ ‘real,’ and ‘actual’ clue us in to the fact that it’s much easier and cheaper to make something that’s not real….
Lanier Ivester 3 Minute Read When I was fifteen, I decided that I needed more consistency in my devotions. So, I resolved to spend a certain amount of time in God’s word every single day. And I mean every single. Those of you perfectionists out there can appreciate, perhaps as no one else can, just how tenacious I was in…
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 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 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…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?” -Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines To be quite honest, I don’t care what anyone else has to say about beauty. All that matters is that I am beautiful to my man….
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…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read “I have found that a man will usually be as much of a gentleman as a lady requires and probably no more.” -Elisabeth Elliot Five years ago, I wrote in an article on how to treat the men in your life: “You have a huge influence on the life of every boy or man you…
Guest Author 2 Minute Read Written by a sister in Christ in response to a survey posted on the YLCF in 2004… If you had told me at seventeen (when I first fell in love) that I would still be unmarried at twenty-seven, I would have been horrified! Now, I wouldn’t trade those exciting, surprising and difficult years for anything….
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