-
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! I’m rather embarrassed to admit I’m more of a glass-half-empty kind of gal. But I remember a story I read in middle school…
-
Do You Miss the Feeling of Being Free? By Maree Dee
Welcome guest blogger, Maree Dee, from Embrace the Unexpected, as she encourages those who are caretakers with loved ones who are chronically and/or mentally ill. Maybe it is due to your current circumstances, or perhaps this longing has been festering for some time. Quite possibly, the wants and needs of others have taken priority, and…
-
How Scripture Can Help You to Be a Better Parent

Making “parenting” my focus this week means I’m either way behind, since today is Mother’s Day, or I’m way ahead since Father’s Day is more than a month away! 😉 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…
-
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 husband’s retirement investments took with the recent stock market downturn. But so many around the globe are facing much greater…
-
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! 😉 We have little to no time to pull away and experience other connections that help to fuel our desire to…
-
How to Settle the Matter that Matters the Most

It’s so easy to let the troubles that keep invading our lives these days consume our attention and focus. If and when we do that, we make ourselves vulnerable in more ways than what simply washing our hands or wearing a mask can prevent. 😉 I say this full knowing you or a loved one…
-
How Much Do You Trust God in Time of Crisis?

With a pandemic coming ever closer to our door, I felt like this was a perfect time to shift from a marriage focus to a spiritual one of trusting God more. Rest assured, our trust in God is a marriage issue! We are also much better parents and grandparents. 😉 Our confidence and hope in…
-
How to Understand Emotional Differences in Marriage Using the Bible

As women, God made us special. We are uniquely designed with different emotional makeup than a man. Why do you think God made a woman for Adam instead of creating another Adam for Adam? He created a woman for Adam because Adam needed something different than himself. Men and women are different because God made…
-
Do You Need to Trust Your Spouse More?

I’m writing this post to help you gain insight into how wise you’re being and how well you’re doing on trusting your spouse. It’s 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…
-
How to Find the Motivation to Submit to Your Spouse

With fear of a pandemic spreading across the globe, some people are running amuck—antibacterial gel and toilet paper in hand! 😉 What’s even more ridiculous is how we often completely ignore the other “relational” illnesses that afflict our lives and marriages. Most of you know that when my marriage was at its messiest, arguing was…


You must be logged in to post a comment.