Tag: marriage

"I really miss you curled up around me now. It's truly unbearable at night. So I hope you don't mind, but I'm running the air conditioner at full blast in February and I'm setting up my makeshift 'Heating Pad Hubby' on your side of the bed."

Marriage is not ultimately for us, but for the Lord.

"I realized in the midst of my argument with my spouse that I wasn’t so much lashing out at him. I was lashing out at my lack of control. I was lashing out at uncertainty, and I was frustrated that he didn’t respond to that like I did."

“Imagine being 55 years old and you hear that your parents are together and that they’re looking for you."

"I was faced with the greatest challenge of my writing career - writing and delivering the eulogy of my best friend, the father of my five children and the truest man I've ever known... You know how sometimes you’ll meet a person and think to yourself or even tell everyone around you, 'Oh my gosh, he was the nicest man you could ever want to meet!' Well, That wasn’t my husband."

"Gosh. I hate it when he’s right."

"My fists unclench and I realize just how little I trusted my husband, and how little I trusted God."

"I experienced a life-changing brokenness when I least expected it... My dreams and my reality shifted in a moment, taking the breath out of me."