Army Wife Life
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Learn How to Love Your Husband: the Key is Secret Service
Learning how to love your husband can be as simple as secret service. It was the key to unlocking my bitter, angry heart and learning to love my husband again, which, in turn, saved our marriage. What I really needed to learn was how to love your husband according to the Bible! We still really loved each other, but something was very broken. My husband was angry all the time. I was bitter. We could barely talk about anything without bickering, so we didn’t. I did my thing. He did his. We slept in the same bed, but we weren’t any kind of team. (keep reading for how dirty underwear…
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Helping Your Kids When Military Life Hurts
Sometimes, military life hurts. I’ve cried a lion’s share of tears waving at white buses carrying my soldier away or moving away from treasured friends. But today, it wasn’t my heart that hurt. Thankfully, our family is past most of the ways military life hurts. We’ve faced and survived our last deployment. We’ve posed for pictures at his retirement ceremony. For all intents and purposes, we’re civilians now. Except, we didn’t leave our military community. And it’s PCS season. For my non-military readers, PCS stands for permanent change of station. It isn’t really permanent, but means for the length of your orders you will be stationed at one base. PCS…
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Why We Need Christian Sisters to Overcome Obstacles in Life
How well do you overcome obstacles? I used to think I did a pretty good job of handling the things life threw at me. I realize now that my idea of handling things was to let my inner perfectionist control freak run rampant. There was no grace in how I handled things. If I knew better, I had to do better, even if it was at the expense of my physical, mental, or emotional health. I didn’t realize the importance of allowing people to help me. I wore my independence and self-sufficiency as a badge of honor around my neck, only to at some point realize, perhaps it really was a…
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How God Can Use Suffering to Transform your Marriage
Transform your marriage through suffering? That doesn’t sound like the romantic vision of marriage most of us have when we walk down the aisle. But sometimes, God’s plan for your life is so much better, even when it involves suffering in order to transform your marriage. My marriage didn’t turn out to be the perfect romance I expected. I’ll admit, after my proposal, I had pretty high expectations! But, my marriage definitely didn’t fit the Hallmark movie ideal. At least, not at first. God used some hard things to take us from the brink of disaster to happily celebrating our 11th anniversary! (And two years more since I originally wrote…
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Is Christ the Center of Your Social Media Message?
Social media can be one of the darkest places in the world. People comment with cruel disregard for people on the other side of the screen. Yet, Christians have a responsibility to be the light of Christ in everything, including our social media message. Twenty years ago, many of us couldn’t imagine social media existing much less consuming large portions of our lives. But, it has become how most people get news and interact with the global community on a daily basis. I don’t know the exact statistics, but most people check social media first thing each morning. June 30, 2010 people celebrated the first World Social Media Day, which…
