Divorce Isn’t The End Of The Story…

Divorce Isn’t The End Of The Story…

“Rash language cuts and maims, but there is healing in the words of the wise.” Proverbs 13:18, MSG I love sharing stories of my childhood. Our adult daughter is now sharing stories about her childhood. Sometimes I remember them the way she does but other times, I don’t recognize the story or even me in the story. Each of us perceives events, even the same event, through the filter of our own life experience. That cloudy view…

Sometimes Sitting At God’s Feet Means I Tie Myself To His Chair

Sometimes Sitting At God’s Feet Means I Tie Myself To His Chair

So when two writer friends posted writing prompts for this week that seemed to go hand in hand, I could hear a “sacred echo”. Suzie Eller’s prompt is “I’m Expecting” and Kate Motaung’s prompt for Five Minute Friday is “Dream”. What is it about expectations that can thrill us with all the possibilities and then chill us when they are unmet? Dreams and expectations are wrapped around hope and when those dreams come true, we…

When We Begin To Sound Like A Faucet With A Slow Drip…

When We Begin To Sound Like A Faucet With A Slow Drip…

  “A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day. Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind or trying to hold something with greased hands.” Proverbs 27:15-16, NLT Do you every wonder if Solomon lived with a quarrelsome and moody wife? I am just speculating here but out of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, there was surely a few surly ones in the bunch (1 Kings 11:1-3). What in…

It’s God’s Grace That Enables Us To Keep Our Vows

Is it OK for #marriagemonday to be on Tuesday? Elisabeth Elliot, missionary, author, speaker, wife, daughter and momma died this week. She wrote beautiful words. Not just beautiful words but words that moved us to change.   Kay Warren posted a beautiful tribute to her on Facebook.  Kay’s introduction to the portion she wrote about Mrs. Elisabeth’s book Let Me Be A Woman,  “Her book in the mid-70’s Let Me Be a Woman – written…