Russ and I are coming up on our 34th anniversary, which makes me feel like I really know what I’m doing marriage-wise. We’re also still in the midst of parenting kids with complex needs, which sometimes makes me think I know very little. What I do know is how to persevere and look for...
Part 2 of my thoughts on the coming year and our theme of Completion and Restoration. Don’t miss Completion and Restoration for our Marriage and Family in 2017 | Part 1 Last week I wrote about the theme of Completion for the coming year. What about Restoration? With so much upheaval in our lives, relationships...
As we enter the last two months of 2016, I’m looking toward 2017 with hope for completion and restoration. In a moment of solitude, I was praying and thinking about Russ, our marriage, and the coming year. I was wondering how I could love and serve him better – how I could nurture our...
Russ and I celebrated 32 years of marriage last Thursday with as many tears as joy. We agree this was the hardest year of our marriage. June 9, 1984, when we were twenty years old, we made vows before God, our families, and friends. We loved Jesus. We loved each other. We were young...
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther Last month, Russ and I got away for a few days to be refreshed and spend time devoted to our marriage and one another. Over these past weeks we’ve returned to some of our conversations again as...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, ““It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison The day Russ and I were married, we entered into a covenant which will be broken only by death. We fervently meant it then, and we mean...
