Category: Marriage
Accept Yourself as His Child
From the journal . . . July 2005 I started this journal entry talking to the Lord about my expectations of my husband. I believe…
Lord, What Do You Say?
Mark and I both grew up in dysfunctional families. Neither of us had good examples of how to be married. What we knew as normal,…
Not Feeling It
As a kindergarten teacher, I would repeat the same concepts in my lessons over and over again to my students. My delivery and setting were…
Husband Rant With Much Venting
This journal entry is a typical mad-at-husband rant. I will edit most of it out except God’s responses to an angry me. Most of my…
Give the Benefit of the Doubt
I don’t have many memories of my dad, but I knew he loved me and that he was a proud man. He conveyed to us…
Close to the Shepherd
I was reading in Luke 18 about the blind beggar man who followed Jesus asking Him to have mercy on Him. Finally, Jesus stopped and…
Something is Missing
From the journal . . . . May 2013 Lord – I miss you. Something inside feels missing. Not sure what. Maybe it’s because I…
Be Holy as I Am Holy
I think all of us who have been married would agree that we don’t always treat our spouse as we would like to be treated….
Sleeping in Church
This was a hard season for our marriage. Alcoholism was a large part of the problem, but I had my role in the dysfunction as…
Can I Eat Candy Bars in Heaven?
My husband was the sole provider for our family of seven for the first twenty-five years of our marriage. He was a self-employed roofer, sheet…