Motherhood is One of the Hardest Things Women Can Take On: Motherhood is difficult! The other day, I saw a terrible cartoon on Facebook. It was captioned “what every woman wants.” The panel depicted a man with a pregnant belly his wife was kissing. Then he was in the...
A malcontent heart is the devil’s point of entry into your life. Malcontent is defined as dissatisfied, complaining or making trouble. I’ve recently started reading "The Anti-Mary Exposed" with a group of women friends. The book, by Carrie Gress, is a Catholic...
Not many of us enjoy change, but we’re all called to “get used to different.” "Get used to different!" If you’ve seen, or even heard of, The Chosen, that phrase is probably familiar. For centuries, the Jews operated under a strict set of laws. They waited for their...
What desert are we wandering in? I recently showed my toddler the Veggietales, "Josh and the Big Wall." It’s a great children’s version of Joshua leading the Israelites out of the desert and into the promised land after their 40 years of wandering. As a kid, it was...
“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny his very self, take up his cross, and follow me.” Taking up our crosses in life is inevitable. We work so hard to avoid it. Human instinct is to flee from hardship. It’s natural to seek remedy for discomfort....
Our nation needs fathers. The other night, I had been cradling my fourteen-month-old son while saying bedtime prayers. I am home with Peter all day. He knows me better than anyone in the world. We have a bond beyond comparison, as all children and mothers do. But when...
“We thought it would get better when we got married.” I will never forget the enlightening day in class when my professor told us these famous words she hears in her counseling sessions. She devoted that day to taking a break from the textbooks and instead sharing...
The Truth of Divorce: Divorce is an epidemic in our society! However, I argue that it should not be. In college, I studied a lot of research from a man named Dr. John Gottman. Gottman is the country’s leading psychology researcher on marital satisfaction and divorce....
Conflict is Inevitable: Conflict will arise in marriage. Do not rush through the conflict, just to avoid it! “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.” James 1:19. These are wise...
Commitment is a Weird Place, but it is OKAY: The commitment of engagement found me in a weird place. Once Joshua and I went from dating to engaged, I developed a strange feeling of disappointment. Not disappointment in my decision, and certainly not disappointment in...