I always try to emphasize one thing to a bride as her wedding day approaches. “It’s your wedding. It’s your celebration. It’s your day. You and your groom deserve the fairy tale; your fairy tale. So, when it comes to your wedding, don’t be shy about being honest with your dreams and hopes. It’s your…
It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God… – 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 Once upon a time, I…
The butterflies ceased, the kind words of affirmation came to a halt, and those go-out-of-my-way gifts for him dwindled. I didn’t know when or how this happened, but one day I realized we were brother and sister, not friends and lovers. When I was engaged to my husband, I never thought for a second that marriage…
When Jesus is our everything, we are freed to truly love another because we don’t need anything in return. Sit with that statement a moment. Read it over two or three times. Allow it to sink in. What would happen if we simply made Jesus our everything, and then rested in Him? If we were…
Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all. (Nathan W. Morris) A masterpiece is something incredibly good — the best example of something. That is what marriage should be — an incredible example of something good. Marriage is like a book. It has many different pages, and you start writing the…
