This past year has forced me to take a long, hard look at the idea of commitment in marriage. I've watched so many people struggle through relationship issues and then walk out on their spouse. What are we doing differently these days that is pulling us away from honoring our marital commitment? I've spent a lot of time talking with the Lord in hopes of improving my own marriage, and God has shown me two areas where I have been lacking. Please Continue Reading
A Wife Driven to Desperation
Many wives are dissatisfied, discouraged, angry, depressed, lost . . . searching, simply waiting out their existence. Misled and desperate. Desperate for change, fulfillment, love . . . something. So they turn to things. Another man. An addiction. A secret life. A pit. A deep, dark, desperate pit. Are you in that pit? All alone? Ready for change, but still going back to it because that's where you're safe? Because hoping for change is harder Continue Reading
Embracing the Seasons of Your Marriage
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:" Ecclesiastes 3:1 Embracing the Seasons of Your Marriage If I could go back to my 27-year-old self and share with her what I know now about embracing the seasons of marriage, I could have saved myself a lot of heartache. Not coming from a Christian home, I truly did not have all the tools I needed to have a successful marriage. All the women around me had skewed views Continue Reading
The Secret Sin of Pornography
There are many sins which we commit daily that we cannot hide. A mom is frustrated and loses her temper at the grocery store, a man lies to his boss in order to avoid getting reprimanded . . . but I am convinced that the SECRET SINS of our lives do far more damage than the known ones. My husband was into pornography since he was a little boy. While we were dating, he had a pin-up calendar and pasted a picture of my head onto their bodies. When I Continue Reading
11 Ways to Make Couples Devotions A Habit
I reached across the bed and squeezed my husband’s hand. “We’ll get through this, babe,” he said. “Let’s pray and ask God for help.” Looking back, I honestly don’t remember what was troubling me that early morning. I just remember that I’d come into the bedroom a few minutes before with tears on my cheeks and a heart full of frustration and anger… and I’d been so relieved to see my husband waiting for me in our bed, ready to meet me for our Continue Reading