The comfortable routines of our lives together are not only comforting but enabling. Walking together, drinking coffee, singing in the car. You will find the reassurance of the ordinary a healthy antidote to the uncertainty of the unknown. It creates safe spaces for managing conflict and finding rest.
Category: marriage
Happy birthday Katie
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. Hush, hush, my doubts! death is but a narrow stream, and thou shalt soon have forded it. Time, how short—eternity, how long! Death, how brief—immortality, how endless! Methinks I even now eat of Eshcol's clusters, and sip of the well which is within… Continue reading Happy birthday Katie
Modesty matters
And the man and his wife were both naked and they were not ashamed. —Genesis 2:25 In 2000 a young feminist named Wendy Shalit published A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue. Why," asks Shalit, "is sexual modesty so threatening to some that they can only respond to it with charges of abuse or… Continue reading Modesty matters
First comes love, then comes…
“It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains the love.—Dietrich Bonhoeffer” In an interview in the Wall Street Journal today, Elizabeth Gilbert discusses her new book: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray Love, is in her second marriage. She… Continue reading First comes love, then comes…
old flames
I’m not much of a “what if” guy. I never spend a lot of time thinking about what would have happened if I had made other choices. It’s probably the Calvinist in me. But sometimes I run across things that remind me of what those choices were. I reconnected with an old college crush on… Continue reading old flames
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