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3 Words That Can Change Your Marriage
You may be thinking there’s no way so few words can even touch on such a huge topic. My husband disagrees. When I texted him for his three words, he replied he only needed two: Yes, Dear. Maybe it’s not the amount of words you’re worried about. Maybe you’re wondering if words alone can really change anything. Think about your relationships with your parents, children, spouse, or friends. The people you’re close to often, with what they say, carry the power to hurt or heal. To make you hate them or love them. To make you feel good or bad about where you stand in their lives. READ THE REST…
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Are Christians Trying to be too Happy?
I spent my growing-up years in a conservative Midwestern church during the 70’s and 80’s. If I had to pick one word to define my experience, I’d chose legalistic. Between the Sunday morning sermons, Sunday evening service, Wednesday night youth group, and the Christian parenting style of the moment, I was taught there was a simple formula for happiness. And if I followed that formula, my life would be good. Maybe even perfect. At the very least, nothing too bad would happen to me. The formula itself was fairly simple, like a basic set of rules to follow. READ THE REST AT CROSSWALK.COM.
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5 Ways to Know You’re a Good Spouse
We get married for all kinds of reasons. Love. Security. Children. Fear. Loneliness. We might take that walk down the aisle as early as high school graduation or as late as in the fall or winter seasons of our lives. Maybe we chose our high school sweetheart, our best friend, a coworker, someone we met in Sunday School, or even a person from our past who becomes our future. Some us had great examples of solid marriages to look to in our own parents and mentors. Others of us saw what we didn’t want to become and vowed to do marriage differently. But no matter why, when, or with whom…
