The same water that gushes with enough force to wear away the rocks and turn boulders into pebbles, is the same water that with diversion can become a refreshing flow of a cool and cleansing shower, or a pool of refreshing, or ...
But, if you've lost that loving feeling, you might want to do what I did one day when I sat down and honestly reflected on whether I really loved my husband. What I discovered caused me to get to work to learn how to love my h...
So. . . my general rule is that if my husband is particularly annoying, rather than immediately jumping to the conclusion that he is just purposely trying to annoy me, so that I might get irritable and cranky, and react in a wa...
Pain is one way of knowing you are in love. Not a self-destructive form of love of pain, that's sick, but a realistic acknowledgment of the risks and an intellectual choice to assume the risk for the resultant rewards.
If you wrap yourself in the cloak of offense, thinking it is warm and fuzzy like a mink stole, beware, because it is insidious as indelible ink, as mysterious as a misty mirage, and it will bind you with strong ropes of repress...
And if you are in a marriage where sparks fly -- well, that can be a good thing! Become tempered through the heat of adversity, and then the sharpening will be useful and beneficial. The pain isn't so great when you know there ...
One thought led to one attitude that led to one word that led to one discussion that led to one argument that led to one unresolved conflict that led to. . . the end of a lifetime of memories, the resources they had built toget...
It was a day when I wouldn't give in because I was right, and he wouldn't give in because he was wrong -- thus we were at an impasse -- until one of us moved toward God's redeeming love.