A Valentine’s Gift for Your Marriage

A Valentine’s Gift for Your Marriage

Valentine’s Day is a time of year where we can find out if a marriage is living the glass half full or half empty.  Some marriages see Valentine’s Day for love and romance while others will complain it’s a Hallmark conspiracy.
My post today is for both those marriage glasses.
Please check out, bookmark, and share these [...]

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Zesty Links {February 5}

Zesty Links {February 5}

Welcome to the Marriage Channel’s Zesty Friday.  This is the day we link up with Patty and Heidi’s Adding Zest to Your Nest website.
If you’ve never visited them before, let me assure you it is a safe place for Christian women to discuss, learn and grow in the area of sexuality.
This week, Patty encourages us [...]

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The Look of Love

The Look of Love

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I adore this picture.  In it I see the look of a love that never died, never went adrift, that has grown in intimacy over the years and has kept its focus. For me, this picture captures what it’s like to be deeply in love.
Despite their advanced years, they look into each other’s eyes [...]

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Zesty Links {January 29}

Zesty Links {January 29}

Welcome to the Marriage Channel’s Zesty Friday.  This is the day we link up with Patty and Heidi’s Adding Zest to Your Nest website.
If you’ve never visited them before, let me assure you it is a safe place for Christian women to discuss, learn and grow in the area of sexuality.  There is a nice [...]

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Great expectations. It’s not just the title to a Charles Dickens book. It’s also the burden that buries itself in the deepest recesses of the American marriage. Most often, it’s expecting someone to do something we would do in the same situation. I have suffered many years from great expectations and the conflicts that came [...]

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Zesty Links {January 22}

Zesty Links {January 22}

Welcome to the Marriage Channel’s Zesty Friday.  This is the day we link up with Patty and Heidi’s Adding Zest to Your Nest website.
If you’ve never visited them before, let me assure you it is a safe place for Christian women to discuss, learn and grow in the area of sexuality.  There is a nice [...]

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Marriage Q & A ~ When the Boxing Gloves Come Out

Marriage Q & A ~ When the Boxing Gloves Come Out

This month’s Q & A  came from 3 different readers.  The question is best summarized like this:
“If marriages are made in heaven, then why is there so much conflict in my marriage?  Sometimes I feel like I need to wear some boxing gloves to protect myself from the attack of words.  What does God think [...]

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Forgive or stay mad?

Forgive or stay mad?

“Don’t talk to me now. I’m still mad at you.”
How many times have you heard that? How many times have you said it?
I don’t know about you, but sometimes it just seems to feel good to be angry, more so when I am convinced that I am right and my husband has been wrong, or if I have [...]

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A Lesson In Oneness From a Mountain Creek

A Lesson In Oneness From a Mountain Creek

I’m enamored with water.  Whether it’s watching an ocean roll onto the shore, the serenity of a still mountain lake, the energy of an overflowing water fall or the sound of a rushing mountain creek, I am captivated by its sights and sounds.
Recently, I paused at the juncture near our home where two mountain creeks [...]

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Break the Mold

It’s a time for parties, reflection, confetti and watching the 2010 ball drop.  Don’t you wish previous baggage disappeared as fast as the ball dropped on Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve?
The new year is the time for new beginnings, resolutions and goals.   When it comes to your marriage, I want to propose something other [...]

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