Category: Insight for 2020 Series
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How to Be More Grateful and Make Your Marriage Stronger

Being grateful is not an attitude and choice I easily make most days. Because I’m rather detail-oriented, my eye immediately goes to the visual imperfection or the disappointment in most situations. Yes! Iām rather embarrassed to admit Iām more of a glass-half-empty kind of gal. But I remember a story I read in middle school…
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How Scripture Can Help You to Be a Better Parent

Making āparentingā my focus this week means Iām either way behind, since today is Motherās Day, or Iām way ahead since Fatherās Day is more than a month away! š I choose to frame this as being really organized and thinking ahead, though I never was great at that as a mom most days! Today…
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How to Be More Content in Life and Generous with Your Money

During this global crisis, most of us have grown worried about money and how financially secure we will be moving forward. I, for one, hate to even think about the huge dent my and my husbandās retirement investments took with the recent stock market downturn. But so many around the globe are facing much greater…
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How to Improve the Connection in Your Marriage

A good connection and closeness in marriage is always the desired goal, right? But in this time of an unrelenting quarantine, connection and closeness can sometimes feel less like holding hands and more like hand-cuffs! š We have little to noĀ time to pull away and experience other connections that help to fuel our desire to…
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Do You Need to Trust Your Spouse More?

Iām writing this post to help you gain insight into how wise youāre being and how well youāre doing on trusting your spouse. Itās always necessary to have certain boundaries and biblical principles in mind when granting trust, especially if your spouse has consistently acted in untrustworthy ways. Nowhere in Scripture does God expect you…
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How to Find the Motivation to Submit to Your Spouse

With fear of a pandemic spreading across the globe, some people are running amuckāantibacterial gel and toilet paper in hand! š What’s even more ridiculous is how we often completely ignore the other ārelationalā illnesses that afflict our lives and marriages. Most of you know that when my marriage was at its messiest, arguing was…
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How to Be Generous Instead of Selfish in Your Marriage

I just knew that looking into this weekās focusāselfishnessāwould hurt! Thatās because, when push comes to shove, Iāve often chosen to be selfish rather than generous with my mate. It would be easy for me to point to my upbringing as the somewhat spoiled youngest in my family. My parents yielded to my way an…
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4 Reasons Why We Deceive and How to be More Honest

Iām hooked on the TV show āThe Good Doctor.ā Part of its appeal for me is the way Freddie Highmoreās characterāas a surgeon with autismāis so extremely honest. He cannot pretend he feels a certain way when he doesnāt like most of us can and often do daily. š Although this can get him in…
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Find Out How to Improve Faithfulness in Your Marriage

Anyone whose marriage has been rocked by an affair certainly knows the monumental need for faithfulness. But there are a lot of ways we can be faithful (or unfaithful) to our mates other than sexually. Though thatās certainly a foundational way! Iāll be broadening the idea of unfaithfulness to any way that we show devotion,…
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How Forgiving are You? Take the Inventory to Find Out!

Years ago, I grew very interested in the subject of forgiveness, mostly because I realized how much I needed it in my marriage! So I committed to continuing education and training, as well as applying the principles to my own life with Godās help. This not only profited me with a new coaching niche but…


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