“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:41-42 There is a great line in Moby Dick. The sailors are rowing furiously while the whale boat is racing […]

other than getting your parents to buy one for you (my addition) Borrowed from Mary Hunt from her daily blog called Everyday Cheapskate Some of my family is in the automobile business and I hope they do well forever. However, there is nothing quite so expensive as a brand-new car. There are times, rare though

When I married the first time, I’ll admit I was looking for a good woman who would serve me. That’s what I thought a successful marriage was: finding someone to serve you. That’s because I was a chauvinist. I thought men were better than women. Needless to say, the idea of me serving my wife

Any time you hear or see a story of a quest to climb Everest, the unsung heroes are the mountain guides or sherpas of high in the Himalayas. They lead you, protect you and guide you, but here’s one bit of information that most people don’t know unless they’ve worked alongside a sherpa. After 50

Someone has said that the greatest mechanical sexual device ever invented was the lock on the bedroom door! Having young or even adolescent children around can put a serious dent in a couple’s intimate life. But it does not have to be that way! With a little thought, planning and attention, parents can be lovers

Lisa Penn-James offered these golden tips on a Better Marriages Group site on LinkedIn that I follow. These are dynamite! “Talk to your spouse more kindly than you talk to anyone else in the world. Too often we speak the most harshly to those closest to us.” “He needs you to be his cheerleader. Let

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 We’ve got a clock in nearly every room in our home. The one I like the best projects time on the ceiling at night so I don’t have to prop up on one elbow and look over Barb to

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. II Corinthians 5:17 In his book Teaching the Elephant to Dance, James Belasco describes how trainers shackle young elephants with heavy chains to deeply embedded stakes. In that way the elephant learns to

But no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison. James 3:8 Shortly after midnight on Saturday, April 26, 1986, routine maintenance was in progress at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the north east corner of the Ukraine when an uncontrolled power surge raced through reactor No. 4,