The one thing you can count on in marriage is that you and your spouse won’t always see eye to eye. There will come those times when there will be quarrels, arguments, and disagreements. Some will be heated, some won’t. Sometimes you will be right, and sometimes you won’t. I’ve been learning that a lot…
I had a conversation with a friend recently that really got me to thinking about this seemingly off the wall topic, An Affair with God. I was shocked and educated the day we conversed. I pass along gathered pearls of wisdom to hopefully steer you from having to walk a mile in her shoes. With…
My wife and I came from very different spiritual backgrounds…and temperaments…and expectations. A bit of the “opposites attract” thing. So of course when we got married the idea of devotionals had totally different meanings for each of us. I was pretty much the straight-forward Evangelical of the crowd: we get up early (like Jesus), we…
There are two questions we can ask within marriage that will take us to two entirely different dimensions. We have to choose which dimension we want to live in. The two questions are these: How can I bless you?” Or: How can I get my own way?” If we live in the second dimension (“How…
To be filled up. That is what we all seek in life. We need our emotional tank filled up. Our physical tank filled up with touches and affection. We also need our spiritual tank filled up. When we get married, without meaning to, we can look to our spouse to fill up our tank. At…
