Don’t freak out, but there’s a bear on your right,” my friend whispered in my ear. Mm-hmm, sure, I thought. For the past hour, she’d been trying to scare me with fake bear warnings as we hiked through Glacier National Park. Still, I turned good-naturedly to look up the hill. To my horror, I linked…
I was 21 when James proposed to me. He was my first love. We knew we were created for each other. He was the one, I knew it. Without a doubt. We were young, in college, and giddy with excitement during our engagement. We heard all the usual advice from people about marriage: “Never go to…
I got lost on my first hike up the tallest mountain in the Northeastern United States. While I knew that “up” was always the right direction, at some point on the trail I took a wrong turn. I expected to meander along quaint streams in a flower-filled valley. Instead I climbed vertical rocks on all…
Marriage and gender are like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: it’s not pb&j without the pb&j. We cannot have marriage without the roles of male and female living together. Genesis 1 through 3 explains that we have distinct gender roles and that these roles were created in equality. Marriages, like a good peanut butter…
Near the end of our first year of marriage, Bill and I told some friends we needed a mini-retreat just for the two of us, but we couldn’t afford it. We had some decisions to pray and talk about. I forget what they were, but they were important enough to merit a day in a…
