Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time I said I’d never homeschool my kids. Once upon a time I said I’d never serve overseas. Once upon a time I said, “And absolutely...
Category: Marriage
A Pair of Old Shoes {The Grove: Marriage}
“We’re as comfortable as two old shoes together.” A quote from one of my favorite movies keeps popping into my head as I reflect on...
Tune-ups: A Lesson in Car Maintenance (er, marriage)
We met on a hot summer’s day at a dusty worksite in Mexico, 1993. He was a college hockey player from Minnesota who had recently given his life to...
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A Season for Marriage
There is a season for everything… Ecclesiastes 3 was one of my favorite Scriptures to completely blow out of proportion as I unintentionally put my marriage...
Give and Take + Curry Chicken Salad
Our first 3 years on the field were the worst years of our marriage. We had only been married 3.5 years when we left for the field, a 1-year-old...
The Cost of the Almost-Right Way
I remember the first big ministry-related fight my husband and I had. We'd been on the field six months when he came home from a meeting and said, "So...
The Me I Wanted to Be {The Grove: Authentic}
Why did my husband get all the good spiritual gifts, while I was stuck with the wimpy ones, I wondered. We had discovered on our honeymoon...
Married in M-work: An Interview with Alexis Kenny
This is the book I wish we had when we started our international service as young marrieds in 2005 . . . and when we became parents . . ....
Not Your Average Headache
The topic of intimacy in marriage is not the easiest thing to talk about let alone write up a whole post and...
What I Want to Teach My Daughters About Married Sex
I’ve been married for 16 years now. While that’s not as long as some of you — and certainly not as long as my husband’s grandparents’ 70 years (!) —...
