Nuggets

That is why I am commanding you to share freely. Deuteronomy 15:11 This blog for which I’m indebted to Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott reminded me of the reputation that church goers have gotten for their lunches after worship on Sundays. Ask nearly any wait staff if they enjoy working in food service on Sundays. […]

Dick and Barb Ivey Educators, Mentors, Coaches The gorgeous redhead and I are not on our first marriage. We both wish that wasn’t so and that somehow God might have put us together the first time around. We stumbled around in the darkness for lots of years getting relationships wrong until one day we both

Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. Psalm 68:13 Here is a note for today. We borrow a story once again from Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott. At one time Andrew Carnegie was the wealthiest man in

All too many of us come to marriage with the notion that we are in it to be served. When each of us is independently able to care for our most common of all needs, that is an easy error to make. However, when either of us loses some capacity, as I have recently with

When Barb and I got married, we had no intimacy…we thought we did, but alas, all we had was sex. We had sex, and for awhile that was enough, but that’s an outward type of intimacy. On the inside, we barely had any connection at all, and we were busy teaching others how without really

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Ephesians 4:29 I’m laid up recovering from surgery for an Achilles’ tear. Avoid that if at all possible. It’s an onerus surgery and it

This is good stuff…pay attention! Adapted from Jill Savage, CEO, Hearts at Home Every Friday is date day for my husband and me. It’s a decision we make in advance. Learning to make advance decisions can be one of the best strategies for protecting your marriage and keeping it a priority. In 28 years of

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. Mark 10:9 NASB I bet you are not aware of the research that has shown that about two-thirds of all divorces today are occurring in low-conflict marriages. Many of these come from what we like to call parallel marriages. Couples get their mail, eat, sleep,

A departure from our usual blog on creating and sustaining a healthy marriage to consider the new world into which we were thrust yesterday. Make no mistake, our commitment has not changed, and it won’t. In April this year, we were privileged to be with the Spring Retreat sponsored by the Development arm of Southern

Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love makes up for all offenses. Proverbs 10:12 It hadn’t been a good morning. Just before breakfast they had blown up at each other. Oh, did that sound like any of you? It goes something like this… Actually it goes EXACTLY like this: “You are so self-centered and insensitive,” she