How long have you been married? It’s a harmless question, seems simple enough to answer…for most people. For us, as we share with people that we divorced on our 14th wedding anniversary, but that our divorce just didn’t work out…well, it makes answering that simple question tougher. We’ve been married 22 years or so, give or [Read On]
Keep Calm
May 10, 2013 by 1 Comment
As a military wife, so much of the day to day weight of our family fell on my mom’s shoulders. Dad was out to sea, it seemed, every time something broke or the basement flooded. Did my mom flip out during these crisis? If she did, she did it behind closed doors after the water [Read On]
Marriage without Loopholes
April 29, 2013 by 12 Comments
Kick him to the curb. Move on. You deserve better. You’ve got the escape clause, get out now while you can. That’s what Matthew 19:9 says, right? If your spouse commits adultery, you’ve got a get out of marriage free card. It’s the loophole scripture, right? When learning your spouse has committed adultery, you are [Read On]
Testing or Trusting God?
April 18, 2013 by 3 Comments
I confess. Even with our small family of three, I was one of those women who always knew exactly when vegetables, pasta, sauce, chicken (and so on) was going on sale and I would fill our pantry and freezer that week to overflowing. Every week something was on sale, so it looked like Armageddon was [Read On]
Move Heaven & Earth
April 11, 2013 by 5 Comments
Move heaven and earth. That is what we urge couples to do when they ask for counseling, and one of our first encouragements/requirements is for them to attend The Art of Marriage. It doesn’t fit into your schedule? MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH. GO! Yesterday, Craig talked about Learning the Hard Way. There’s a better way [Read On]
Our Marriage Was Dead
April 1, 2013 by 11 Comments
Who doesn’t like a good story? Stories are powerful ways to communicate, entertain, and teach. Stories give us glimpses into other lives, worlds and ways to live. God is writing a story in every single one of us… Easter is an incredibly powerful time for us, in so many ways. Yes, it is foundational to [Read On]
Secrets of Super Husband
March 25, 2013 by 11 Comments
“Sherry is SO lucky, her husband is so sweet and such a godly man. I wish my husband….” Really? Are you sure? Super Husband wasn’t always so super. When I heard this a while back, it dawned on me that people who know us now, didn’t know us before 2005 in our testimony gathering time. [Read On]
How did I not know?
March 18, 2013 by 6 Comments
“I feel like such a fool!” We hear that all the time from spouses who have found out that their husbands or wives have been having an affair and they didn’t know about it. And they feel like such a fool because they feel they should have known about it. They beat themselves up with [Read On]
The Writing is on the Wall
March 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
“The writing is on the wall.” What does that mean to you? Doom? That is EXACTLY what it meant for King Belshazzar. During a banquet he held for his nobles, his wives and concubines, they drank from goblets of silver and gold that had been taken from the Temple in Jerusalem, all the while praising [Read On]
Do You Want to Be Well?
March 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Who hasn’t fallen into a rut? I know that about eleven years into our marriage (yeah, it took that long) I woke up one day realizing that we had fallen into the horrible cycle of disagreement, anger and discontent simmering into a full blow up argument, followed twelve hours later with “making up” and being [Read On]
