To the Mama Whose Husband is Away Alot, I know it can start to feel like the days and nights are one endless blur. The laundry and dishes start to pile up and your house starts to feel more like a prison. You want to enjoy your kids, but all you can think about is having just one minute to not be in charge. There's hope, Mama. You're not alone. (Read Part 1: A Letter to the Wife Whose Husband Works Long Hours) You don't have to stay in survival mode. (Read Part 2: To the Woman Whose Husband is Gone All Week) You don't have to feel like you're drowning. Refresh, refocus and … [Read more...]
To the Woman Whose Husband is Gone All Week
To the Woman Whose Husband is Gone All Week - you don't have to live in survival mode! Cultivate healthy rhythms to help you cope and move you from surviving to thriving. Read Part 1: A Letter to the Wife Whose Husband Works Long Hours here. My husband and I were talking the other day about how the majority of our relationship has been long distance, including our marriage. We never thought it would be this way, but this seems to be the season we are in. I've been angry, confused, bitter, annoyed, codependent, too independent, and pretty much every other thing you can think of. … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Choose Love When Marriage is Hard
Love isn't a feeling, it's a choice. I probably heard that a hundred times leading up to my wedding, but didn't really understand it until the first big hurdle we faced as a married couple. We've walked through job loss and unemployment, sickness, difficult work situations, death and loss in our short 4 years of marriage. And I'm finally starting to understand the idea that love is in fact a choice. I choose how I respond to my spouse when things get hard. As I was thinking about this lesson God is teaching me, I made a list of 10 ways to choose love when marriage is hard. You can read … [Read more...]
To the Woman in the Valley
The valley is deep. We were discussing the verse "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death" at my GriefShare class last week and one of the ladies who had just lost her husband was sharing her discouragement. When you are walking through a valley, it can feel as though there is no way out. Dark, hopeless, endless. As though nothing will ever be the same, be normal, be tolerable ever again. Maybe you are walking through a valley right now. Maybe you just experienced a great loss - the death of a loved one, the realization that a dream won't come to fruition, a … [Read more...]
Loving Your Spouse Well In Difficult Seasons
I've been pretty open about the difficult season we've been in as a family. Some days I feel like our entire marriage has been a difficult season - not just because the blending of two lives is messy but also because of all the external factors we've encountered in our short (almost) 4 years together. Job loss, illness, depression, death - these things can easily cloud the last few years of our lives and make it seem as though there weren't any good seasons. I'm learning that there is an ebb and flow to marriage, as there is in life. Just like the tide comes in and goes out regularly, we … [Read more...]
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