Healthy Marriage Tips for Stressful Times

Healthy Marriage Tips for Stressful Times

We had just gotten in bed and turned on the air conditioner. After a very long day, we were both exhausted. I looked over and raised my hand for a high five. Another stressful, crazy, intense day was finished. Before turning out the light, I said, “We did it. Somehow, we’re working together through all […]

Marriage in the Redemptive Shadow of the Cross

Marriage in the Redemptive Shadow of the Cross

I was never a fan of parallel parking. I actually failed my first driver’s test because I hit the curb while trying to parallel park. Don’t ask me what I hit on the second try. That’s a story for another day.  Of course, the day my then fiancé and I were going to the county […]

The Same Page

He leans over to kiss me goodnight and shifts to prepare for the rest of his evening. The bed empties of his presence as he quietly slips on his house shoes, careful not to wake the kids we just spent thirty minutes putting to bed. I give him a smile he doesn’t see as he […]

This Week’s Theme: Being Married

Cross-cultural life has a way of peeling back the layers, revealing the places we might not want to expose as well as the strengths we didn’t know we had.  This life does that for our marriages too, doesn’t it? Perhaps life on the field has deepened and widened your marriage in ways you couldn’t have […]

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