Serious About Faith. Light-Hearted About Life.
In the last few months, God has really been working on me in my wife-heart department.
“It’s been a blast,” said this wife never.
But seriously. It’s been hard. But really, really, REALLY good. I’ve learned a lot about myself. The good parts of my heart. And the no-so-legit parts of my heart.
I feel like it’s going to be a very transformative year for me in a variety of ways– health/fitness, boundaries in various areas of my life, and as you probably guessed, my marriage. [Read more…]
I used to be quite the fun-lover.
Please notice the operative phrase there: “Used to be.”
Growing up, I was also ready for an adventure, be it catching frogs in the pond or swimming in the stock tank. In college, I was usually the first one loaded in the car when somebody said “road trip” and thoroughly enjoyed spontaneous escapades of fun.
Even when Barn and I were dating and first married, fun was easy to come by.
And then… Life happened. [Read more…]
If you ask most people what the happiest day of their life was, I am willing to bet a majority will answer:
1. The day our kid(s) was born.
Or…
2. The day we got married.
How sweet. How romantic. How dangerous. [Read more…]
In college, we used to have a saying:
“It’s only weird if you make it weird. So don’t make it weird, OK?”
And that is going to be the slogan for today’s blog post. Because as we discuss the building blocks of creating a Christ-like marriage, we really can’t leave out the, um, errr, ahem… Physical part.
See, there I go. Making it weird before we even get this party started. [Read more…]
Over the years, I have had several best friends.
Some were just for a season, like during high school, college or for a specific duty station. Others have lasted through the years. They have lived in a variety of states and been at different stages of life.
And for the last several years I have had a best friend in Brandon, my beloved husband.
It’s great.
But there is always one sneaky little heifer that tries to wedge her way into our relationship:
MONEY. [Read more…]
Miscommunication. It is one of those seemingly insignificant aspects of our life that remains insignificant until it actually happens and you and your spouse are engaged in a no-rules-who-will-tap-out-first-cage-match situation.
Not that I would know, of course. I mean, Brandon and I communicate perfectly. Flawlessly. We communicate so well, it is practically an art form in our house.
OR NOT. [Read more…]
I used to be quite the Bible scoffer.
Yes, you read that right. Bible scoffer. Not Bible beater or Bible reader– Bible Scoffer.
When I first started legitimately walking with Christ as an adult, I can remember ever-so-vividly scoffing, yes, audibly– out loud with a deep raspy throat sound– about any verses that dealt with husband-wife submission and sacrifice. I can go to the bookshelf right now and show you the exact page where I wrote in my journal 1 Peter 3:1 about “wives, submit to your husband.” It was day two of Brandon and I doing bible study together in our relationship. My words were full of ME, not him. [Read more…]
Marriage. What a blessed, challenging and complicated aspect of life.
One that I personally believe is well-worth discussing, especially from a Christian perspective.
So that is we are going to do… Today begins a new series called “Building a Christ-Like Marriage.” Each week we will be discussing a different component of marriage and how it make it the holiest it can be. [Read more…]
I recently heard a commercial on our local Christian radio station that got me pretty fired up.
It was the founder of E-Harmony, the online matchmaking website. Now, I have nothing against online dating and whatnot– God can use a variety of avenues to bring a man and woman together in marriage. But during the commercial, this dude said something that made me sigh, raise my eyebrows and get a little twitchy.
To paraphrase his statement, he said something along the lines that “the decision of who you marry will have the biggest impact on how happy you will be in life.”
Um, I don’t agree. [Read more…]
Today I would like to share with you another fun marriage post “from the archives” with a few updates and modifications. It doesn’t matter if you are a wife, know someone who is a wife or is preparing to become a wife… I am sure you can relate… 🙂
Be blessed,
SGK
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God sure has a sense of humor. It still cracks me up almost daily that He had the idea to create man, then create woman, make us COMPLETELY different and say “Ok, live together for your entire life. Play nice. Love each other. I’m here when you need me. Good luck.” [Read more…]
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