I hunched over the chalkboard, pink and blue dust covering my hands, carefully writing. We were browsing a cluttered vintage shop in Lancaster. Delmar and I both stopped and stared at a plaque against the wall. We both knew those words belong in our house. Their fate (slightly edited) was my chalkboard. I wrote the words this afternoon as [...]
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We Do Grace
Posted in family, home, love, people, prayer, vision, vulnerability on September 9, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Listening
Posted in devotional, love, marriage, respect on July 14, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I hear it all the time now: couples correcting each other in public. The husband is in the middle of a story and the wife nudges him and says, “It was a blue shirt, not a red shirt.” Or the wife is ready to tie up her story with a flourish and the husband dumps [...]
Join the Club
Posted in church, devotional, love on May 10, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I would be rich if I had a penny every time I have heard someone say about an eccentric standard of their church, “Well, this is just how we as a church decided to do things.” Something always jars inside of me when I hear that common justification for a culturally based ultimatum (you must [...]
Love Comes Softly
Posted in contentment, love, marriage, memoir on May 6, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Our dating days were fun, our engagement sweet, our wedding day beautiful, our honeymoon dreamy: and the first six months a journey of becoming one. I know they say that it keeps getting better, and I do believe them, but at the same time it’s hard to believe. I think my heart can’t contain any [...]
Enough
Posted in celebration, devotional, love on April 12, 2011 | 12 Comments »
I remember being exposed to a certain mindset that said: pleasure is wrong, play is unnecessary and the more you deny yourself, spouting how God is enough the more pleased God is with you. God is enough. But, He is not easily intimidated or weird. He wired us to enjoy his beautiful world and to [...]
married bliss
Posted in love, marriage, Uncategorized on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Let The Wind Blow
Posted in love, marriage, wedding preparations on October 20, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I grew up on this short story. It came back to me this summer and became my inspiration for wedding preparations: A young man applied for a job as a farmhand. When the farmer asked for his qualifications, he said, “I can sleep when the wind blows.” This puzzled the farmer. But he liked the [...]
10.10.10
Posted in love, wedding preparations on October 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Delmar’s birthday was special for many reasons. It was on a wonderful number sequence, it was his 25th, and it was the only day we would see each other in 17 days. I was hopelessly excited to go and see him. He was leading a personal development trip in upper state New York for ten [...]
Construction Worker Blesses Starry Eyed Couple
Posted in celebration, Engagement, Lancaster City, love, marriage, wedding preparations on September 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Delmar and I went to the courthouse on my birthday. Our mission: to get a marriage license. We were very happy. Even the brisk, to-the-point clerk couldn’t help but twitch a smile. It was a speedy process (I’m not sure why everyone isn’t married with how fast the process goes!), and we were out the [...]
God, how can You…
Posted in devotional, love on August 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
God… How do you watch someone you love hurt? How can you watch those whom you love hurt others? How can you love past the sin and into the hurting person inside? How can you love when you are misrepresented and judged? How can you keep walking in truth when you are surrounded by lies? [...]
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