Category marriage
15 Lessons in 15 Years
We recently celebrated 15 years of marriage. What a wonderful thing. There are a million things I could write that the Lord has taught me through this union. I probably cannot even fully grasp how much he’s used marriage to teach me more about Christ, his love, and what it means to love as he […]
The Feminist Mistake: A Poem
Friedan called it, the problem that has no name,and without considering, we threw ourselvesinto a world of producing.Not life, not homejust little letters that followed our names,and more zeros in our accounts. The sacred art of homethe dignity of cultivating lifethe great mystery of being a wifeWe thought inferior to men’s work. A dollar sign […]
Let’s Talk about Sex
Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no! It is an ever fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand’ring bark,Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.Love’s not Time’s […]
The Infinite Gain of Giving
In the longing in the foretaste comes the telling of mind and heart that ourselves are not a waste when self ends and God doest start. -Carolyn Weber Early in marriage and motherhood I had a consistent–albeit hidden–fear that the endless repetition of homemaking would squeeze out who I was. I thought that my writing […]
On Family: From the Girl Who Didn’t Want One
I met my husband at 20. Ironically I was concurrently terrified of marriage. At the time, I saw marriage and family as a gateway to an isolated, consumeristic, and vapid life. It looked to me to be severely limiting and, in contrast to the life I was leading, profoundly unfulfilling. I was a senior in […]
Oceans Never Fill 