The Crucible of Marriage

“Just be prepared. You two are going to have a very difficult first year of marriage.” Well-meaning friends repeatedly expressed their concern during our engagement and early months of marriage. We spent a great deal of that first year on high alert. Was this “the...
Love Is…?

Love Is…?

“Love is an earthquake meant to relocate the center of our universe.” So writes Mike Mason in his brilliant book, The Mystery of Marriage. Each time this destabilizing, tectonic shifting pitched me off balance during my first decade of marriage, I assumed I was a...

Establishing Family Values

Above: Us, displaying family value #5 Where there is no vision, the people perish (Proverbs 29). Several years ago while hiking with our kids in one of the most beautiful paces on earth (Rocky Mountain National Park), we realized that our beloved boys were doing a...

When a Disability…Isn’t

My nephew just spent the week with us. From 7:00 AM until 9:00 PM, he played Phase Ten, Yahtzee, and ping pong, bounced on the trampoline, learned to dive, discovered our dog loves ice cubes and outlasted all five of us everyday. In between practice dives, he...

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