Marriage & Family
A household remembers what it can see, so God told Israel to stack stones where their children would ask about them. Picture your kitchen counter on a Saturday morning: a calendar, a stack of mail, a few school forms, a coffee mug. Everything the week demands is visible, and nothing there yet records what God…
God carries the one who is carrying, which means you can care for an aging parent without carrying it alone. You may be the person in your family who now gets the phone call: an appointment to arrange, a house getting harder to manage, a parent who needs more than they will ask for. Have…
The way your spouse is wired differently from you is not a problem to manage; it is a gift God placed on purpose. You may know the differences well, how your spouse decides, recovers from a hard day, or spends a free Saturday, and have settled into working around them. Have you ever considered that…
The same grace before dinner, the same Bible reading plan, going to the same Church, can get repeated so many times it started to feel like one more box to check. Moses had a different word for that kind of repetition. He called it sharpening. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What is CHEW? — a 30-second practice…
It’s easy to let the thing your spouse does every single day — the lunch packed, the call made, the lawn mowed — stopped registering as effort and allow it to become an everyday, unnoticed fact of life. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What is CHEW? — a 30-second practice that grows into a day woven with…
Your spouse could probably draw a floor plan of your kitchen from memory. They may not be able to name a single person you sit across from in meetings all day. Most executives don’t mean to keep their work life with their spouse — but they’ve built a wall around it and never noticed.. C.H.E.W.…
My son moved out completely a while back, and I expected to lose something when he did. What I didn’t expect: my influence with him didn’t disappear. It just changed shape entirely. C.H.E.W. with Me New here? What is CHEW? — a 30-second practice that grows into a day woven with God’s love. C – Clarity: I…
Your teenager has never once watched you decide to give something away. Not because you’re stingy — you give plenty, quietly, often automatically, a check written or a transfer made somewhere they’ll never see it happen. You’ve just never done it where they could actually watch, and a money lesson taught entirely in secret doesn’t…
My twin boys just turned 21. My daughter is 18. All three are believers. All three have jobs they love. All three are now facing taxes, buying their own things, and living with the consequences of their own choices — real adulthood, arriving in real time. I wish someone had handed me a manual for…
You both stopped talking about it. That’s not the same thing as both of you agreeing it’s over. Somewhere on the calendar sits the unmarked anniversary of a conflict that ended in exhaustion rather than resolution — one of you went quiet first, the other followed, and life simply moved on around the unfinished business.…