Living Where the Sacred and Secular Collide
I’ve been using Ephesians 5:21 as a guide in all my relationships for the past few weeks. Remember that great paraphrase from The Message: Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to each other. We spent several days looking at how that principle applies to to the first relationship […]
I *think* this is the last post on submission in marriage for a bit … next week, we’ll move on to submission as parents – which I’m afraid may be even more challenging in some ways. {I’ve got a tween, y’all, and every day parenting gets more and more confusing […]
It happens in every marriage. Sometimes it is something silly but sometimes it is something significant. He sees the situation one way, she sees it another. That’s real life, y’all … and our marriages, our Christian marriages, are not immune from disagreement. But how does submission work into that? The […]
We’ve been discussing submission for the past few days … and I’ve been asking myself this simple question, “What if submission simply begins with being polite?” Though it’s a simple question, it’s not simple to live. The chaos of raising a family, managing finances, and a busy calendar can often […]
This is when it’s easy … the whole courteously reverent thing. When he’s in a tux looking at you as though you are the only beautiful woman he’s ever seen. When “till death do us part” is poetry echoing in your soul. When you feel as though your heart might […]
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ~ Will Cuppy What if, instead of merely nodding along as others speak, waiting for our chance to jump in and share our brilliance … what if, just for the weekend, we truly listened? What if, in place of […]
