Bear one another’s burdens
It is 26 degrees this morning. It’s dark, cold, the hummingbird feeder is frozen solid … and the wood-box is empty. So, I pull on my coat and boots and trudge out through the snow to the woodshed. …
The Holidays … and hard relationships
The Holidays bring up a lot of pain when it comes to hard relationships. We’ve been heating our home with a wood-burning fireplace heater. This requires me to constantly be adding wood … all day long. Giving and…
A grounded kite
In today’s background photo you can see hubby and me, as I am trying in vain to get a kite into the air. It was Thanksgiving week, so the thought of “relationships” was on my mind. Probably most…
Life lessons learned … enriching the soil for others.
Throughout the month of October, we’ve been discussing the topic of marriage and dating. I began our discussion on marriage with a photo of this Big Leaf Maple in our backyard. It is a great illustration of what…
Marriage is a garden
This past weekend hubby and I pulled up the last few remaining bean plants and tomato plants. It’s November and time to prepare the garden for winter. Marriage is like a garden. Our garden plot (which you can…
“Poverty Rock”
This past Sunday hubby and I were given last-minute tickets to the Seahawks game! Whoo-Hoo!! On our way down to the stadium, we drove I-90 across Mercer Island and into downtown. Mercer Island is known for being where…
What to do with the hard times??
Marriage is like “building-out” a flowerbed of life together. The original lay of the land, and the plants which had previously filled up the “flowerbed” of singleness are “dug up” and “rearranged” … and together, a new “flowerbed…
Flowerbed “build-out”
Today’s background photo was from this day in history two years ago. As you can see, at the time hubby and I were in the middle of “building-out” a new flowerbed. When it comes to marriage, each person…
Building a life … it takes a team.
Building a life is hard. This morning I felt overwhelmingly exhausted as I watched hubby’s headlights back out in the cold darkness, and as he drove away to face another grueling day of work. It’s the exact same…
Building a life … two visions = division
Perhaps you might be in a dating relationship, and perhaps you might be wondering: “Is this person ‘the right one’? Should I get married??” As stated yesterday, the first thing to consider is: How has God called you…