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15 Lessons from Being Married

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Today marks fifteen years Andy and I have been married. I think fifteen is significant enough to make a list of lessons learned. Here is a list, in no particular order. Prayer is essential. Although you might want to be right, if it gets in the way of being kind, it’s not worth it. Kind is always better. Forever only works without contingencies.Forever must always remain the only option. Knowing someone loves you as much as you love them is true love. The thing is, sometimes I’m hard to love… Read more 15 Lessons from Being Married →

Breakthroughs

Jay has never returned to the same school, with the same kids. Never. He has four years under his belt and has never experienced returning. He doesn’t know whether his friends will be there next year. He doesn’t know if he will be there next year. It’s not a stretch for the imagination to realize that the end of a school year might kick up some hard emotions if all previous life experience tells you that you start over again in August. Not just a new teacher, but a new… Read more Breakthroughs →

Weaving a Story {35 of 40 Stories}

Click here for the backstory. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part… Read more Weaving a Story {35 of 40 Stories} →