My husband and I celebrated our third anniversary this month. I know we haven’t been married long, but it’s becoming hard to remember life without him. These past three years have been a crazy, wonderful, and sometimes challenging ride. We’ve lived in three states, completed our master’s degrees, have a beautiful one-year-old child, and are…
Priorities. They drastically change after marriage. You see, about a year and a half before we said “I do,” I moved out of my parents home. Within that period, I worked as a live-in nanny in my city. Then I moved across the country and in with a church’s host family, then with a friend…
If we want transformed lives and a transformed marriage, we need to confess our sins to each other regularly. Confession is simply an honest, humble admission of the ways we have fallen short of God’s laws and hurt someone in the process. Author Soong-Chan Rah writes in Prophetic Lament, “Confession acknowledges the need for God…
Dear Future Husband, You do not complete me. And I do not complete you. As much as I would love for you to be Tom Cruise (plus Jesus, minus whatever religion he’s into now, the paparazzi, and subpar acting—is he really still making movies?!) in Jerry Maguire and have you burst through my door declaring…
Most of us have been to someone’s home and upon walking in the door immediately felt the presence of peace. It’s like it hits you in the face right as you walk in and you feel enveloped by it while you’re there. Why do some homes feel full of peace and others don’t? How can…
