EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
I love to tease my mother-in-law Darlyne because the first time my husband John saw me we were at church. I was the 16-year-old cutie sitting in the back row. He was the 20-year-old Marine who was on leave for the weekend and was visiting is family. (John’s father was the pastor.) After church, when [...]
The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy. Psalm 126:3 NIV One of the greatest things the Lord has done for us is giving us older, wiser women to model godliness for us. We see these women all around us–at church and in our communities, our moms and mothers-in-law. [...]
1. Thanks for doing that. It means a lot to me when you serve me in little ways like that. 2. I am such a different woman because of the way you _____ (love me, gently lead me, make me feel secure, etc.). 3. I know you and I haven’t been seeing eye-to-eye lately. But [...]
My mother and grandmother had a contentious relationship. I say “relationship” very gingerly. As a youth the divorce of her parents put a wedge between them that would last until Nana’s death at age 77. Mother, daddy’s princess, could not and would not forgive Nana for separating her from her daddy. It began a root [...]
We have all probably heard the old adage, “A daughter is a daughter for life. But a son’s a son ’til he takes a wife.” As the mother of boys, this literally makes me want to cringe and cry at the same time! I would like to propose, however that this does not have to [...]
A while back one of my sweet friends complained her husband had ruined something while doing housework—and he heard all about it. Several times. My first response was, “He does housework?” I’ve been around the sun more than a few times and I’ve heard more wives than you can imagine complain about their husbands. Sad [...]
A friend with a steamy married life (but not without conflict), recently remarked that our late 30s through our 50s should be the sexual peak of our lives. “What? Aren’t the early 20s the best time for that?” Yet, as I hadn’t been married in my early 20s, I couldn’t say. She went on [...]
It was time: My husband and I took a night away just before the new year. We needed to pray, to plan, to think—both alone and together. We needed to reevaluate and gather vision for so many things—in parenting, in our work here in Uganda, in our relationships, in our marriage. I found myself wishing [...]
I have to say it wasn’t always easy for me to let John lead. When he and I married in 1990, I was a single mom of a little boy. I was used to making all the rules, so allowing John to lead was really a struggle. I wanted to set Cory’s bedtime. I wanted [...]
“How are you?” I tilted my head and looked in her eyes. “Fine,” she nodded. But then the up-and-down of her head shifted to side-to-side. “Actually, I’m not.” My friend had just arrived in my driveway to pick up her kids, but only after her errand had taken a detour. Turns out she’d gone [...]
