Welcome to 28 Days, 28 Ways: Investing in Your Marriage! All month long I'll be sharing ideas and tips for investing in your marriage. You can find a list of all the posts here. Hi friends! We had a great D Now weekend with the students from our church and our community. If you are on Instagram, I shared a ton of photos. But, now it's Monday. My house is in desperate need of order after two days with 10 teenage girls. My body is in dire need of sleep. And at some point, I'm going to ... [Read More]
28 Days, 28 Ways: Pray for His Mind
Welcome to 28 Days, 28 Ways: Investing in Your Marriage! All month long I'll be sharing ideas and tips for investing in your marriage. You can find a list of all the posts here. Sundays are prayer days for us in this series. Last week we prayed for ourselves as wives. This week, we're looking at how we can pray for our husbands' minds. Recently I read this quote about the mind: Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson It's also been said ... [Read More]
28 Days, 28 Ways: Work through It
Welcome to 28 Days, 28 Ways: Investing in Your Marriage! All month long I'll be sharing ideas and tips for investing in your marriage. You can find a list of all the posts here. Our church is having a DNow {Disciple Now} for our youth group this weekend. As of last night at 9:00 our home was invaded by a herd {or maybe just eight ... so hard to tell} of 8th and 9th grade girls. The goal of DNow is two-fold: to strengthen the discipleship of students and to build their relationships with ... [Read More]
28 Days, 28 Ways: Listen
Welcome to 28 Days, 28 Ways: Investing in Your Marriage! All month long I'll be sharing ideas and tips for investing in your marriage. You can find a list of all the posts here. So, how's it going? I ask because I've found out when I get serious about any aspect of my life that's when the enemy really wants to attack me ... in that area! Here we are at day 7 and if you've been reading every post and putting into practice even one or two of the ideas I've suggested, you can be you have ... [Read More]
28 Days, 28 Ways: Fix a Favorite
Thanks for joining me for 28 Days, 28 Ways: Investing in Your Marriage. If you have missed any of the previous posts, you can find them all listed here. You know those old sayings ... the ones we joke about but they're funny because they ring true. One we hear a lot in the South is, "If Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!" {Can I get an amen?} Well, there's another one that we're going to apply today ... The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. I don't know about you, but my guy ... [Read More]
28 Days, 28 Ways: Speak Kind Words
Thanks for joining me again today. We're on day 4 of 28 Days, 28 Ways: Investing in Your Marriage. If you've missed any of the previous posts, you can find them indexed here. A few years ago, I was studying the biblical idea of submission. One of the concepts I learned during that time was that submission is rooted in being polite. At the time I asked myself and others a big question: What if submission begins with simply being polite? The fact is, we live in a very rude world. Common ... [Read More]
