“The bread of God is the One who came out of heaven to give His life to feed the world.” ~John 6:33 TPT I sat down at the dinner table the other evening, having prepared a ‘sumptuous repast’, when my husband joined me with a flourish, stating, “And this is what makes a great marriage” …
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Refining Trust
Returning to the ‘what actually happened in Forty years of marriage’…I must address what consumed me for a really long time in the midst of married life. I worked. Outside the home. My career as a registered nurse was a huge part of who I was and what I did. So, of course, it’s part …
Surrendering the Vision
Forgive me dear readers for my lack these days. I am not usually one to be without words. I am writing, but haphazardly in my journal with scattered thoughts, broken sentences and lots of ellipsises (…) I HAVE been preoccupied. I have been walking along grief’s highway. I have been in a deep, dull, cold …
Walking Barefoot
I have spent a great deal of my life trying to be perfect at everything I put my hand to. I am uncertain now what the standard was that I held myself to…It is kind of a blur. Marriage was no different. I was so concerned about HOW I looked… My weight, my hair, my …
Surprises
Expectations are funny things. The fact that they can be altered so effortlessly or that they can dash ones’ hopes to the ground in a second are something you don’t really know when you have them. Such was the case with this little prissy, know-it-all bride. Before I ever had a groom on the horizon, …
Unlovely
Two kids from different worlds collide, grow in love and spend the rest of their days together. Fairy tale? I hadn’t been married long before I realized how very different my husband and I were. Not just the personality thing, but the tools we brought into our lives together; where we had learned them and …
Power vs. Strength
Small curly headed two year old, arms folded, little foot stamping with insistence of having her way about something…She lives inside of me, somewhere deep. Part of the little girl grew to be a woman who could assert her will graciously, even quietly; but that little foot-stamping tyrant still dwells within, whispering her will on …
Time Travel -Part Two
In the first year of my marriage, I was figuring out wifing, parenting, working and…pregnancy. That’s right. Not only did we have a toddler we were now expecting our second child… Besides trying to figure out our relationship and who we were within this covenant, we were developing our ‘Trust’ of one another in a …
Time Travel
“…Whither thou goest, I will go…” Ruth 1:16-17 As I have passed the forty year mark of marriage, I have been thinking much on life; reflecting on what exactly has happened over the past forty years, as I have traveled the road of ‘being married’. From the outside, looking into people’s lives, through day to …
Impact
The walking stick stands in the corner of my house now. It was a gift that I bought my brother, Robert, over ten years ago. My mom and my other brother and his wife had picked up Robert from the nursing home where he lived and gone to the Baton Rouge Zoo. It was ‘colder …