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Meditations

The Walk

April 26, 2010

After my last post, I wanted to share this more positive story. This is how Ben usually handles my suffering: This morning when my husband found me sobbing over my computer desk, he invited me to join him on a walk through the rain. I had complained earlier that just last night I had committed [...]

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Forgiveness

April 26, 2010

I wrote this several months ago. So no need to comfort me – I’m over it. But I thought the message was still relevant. Also, with this story, I risk making my husband out to be a really big jerk, but I promise he’s usually a super-nice guy and really supportive almost all the time. [...]

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My Brains are Not Made Out of Mashed Potatoes. Or, Why We Need Encouragement

April 21, 2010

I got a job a few weeks ago working for a small publishing press not far from my town. The editor got my name and contact info from a former employer of mine and he emailed me, asking if I wanted a job as an office assistant. I wasn’t really in need of a job, [...]

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Divorcing the Church and Doubting Marriage

April 15, 2010

When I was a teenager I came across a book in a Christian bookstore entitled Stop Dating the Church. It was written by the same guy who wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye, a runaway bestseller in the Christian nonfiction industry, and I book that I had eagerly gobbled up. But this one didn’t really strike [...]

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How Do you Define Marriage?

April 13, 2010

A few months ago, Alisa from Project Happily Ever After (a blog that I just adore) asked her readers how they would define marriage. I was struck by how tricky I found her question. As Alisa explains, there’s the legal definition of marriage — the contracted cohabitation of two people within the same household for [...]

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To Buy or Not to Buy (A House)

April 7, 2010

When you think about marriage, you probably automatically envision it being lived out in a house — one that you own together as a couple. A yard. Maybe a porch. A  kitchen of your own and perhaps a second bathroom. You imagine painting the interior in all your favourite colours, saying things like “We want [...]

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“Marriage is Hard Work” . . . Or is it?

March 30, 2010

It is a truth universally acknowledged that marriage is not easy. To say at a social gathering that marriage isn’t hard would be like saying eating chicken feet isn’t disgusting. Of course it is. There is generally no debate about it. It’s just an accepted truth. In fact, Jon Acuff jokes about the popularity of [...]

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The Value of Relationships. Or, Why Too Much Alone Time Will Make You Crazy

March 12, 2010

“Will somebody please ask me out on a coffee date for tonight? I’ve been alone 4 days straight and I’m about to kill myself for loneliness.” I wish I could say I read that Facebook status on my news feed. Then I could use it as an illustration for why we need human contact in [...]

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Confessions of a Married Girl Who Knows Nothing About Divorce

March 9, 2010

I’ve never had to think too much about divorce. Unlike most Westerners, I’ve never really had to face the issue. My parents, along with all the aunts and uncles I grew up with, as well as all my friends’ parents, are all still together. Not all of them are in happy relationships, but they’re all [...]

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Marriage and Lent

February 15, 2010

As a Mennonite-turned-evangelical-turned-God-knows-what, I have never participated in Lent. It’s not something that my church or family ever did. I never knew what it meant or why certain people were refusing to eat Reese Peanut Butter cups during certain times of the year but not the rest of the year. The few people who I [...]

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