This is Day 9 of a 10 day No More Perfect Marriages series chronicling our journey from infidelity to restoration. You can click here and find all of the posts in this series. Mark says: When sharing my story with others, I have often said that I identify with Peter...
This is Day 8 of a 10 day No More Perfect Marriages series chronicling our journey from infidelity to restoration. You can click here and find all of the posts in this series. Jill says: One night shortly after Mark left, our daughter Anne called me and said she’d...
This is Day 7 of a 10 day No More Perfect Marriages series chronicling our journey from infidelity to restoration. You can click here and find all of the posts in this series. Today we’re offering the perspective of one of our children. Our oldest daughter, Anne, will...
This is Day 6 of a 10 day series. You can find the other days here. Mark says: In all areas of my life: in ministry, in my job, with God, and in my marriage, I didn’t feel like I was “enough.” It felt like I was falling short in every relationship I had. The only...
This is Day 5 of a 10 day series. You can find the other days here. Jill says: I sat across from my emotionally closed off husband in the marriage counselors office. He indicated that he knew the affair was wrong, but he did not want to stop it. Mark says: I had shut...
This is Day 4 of a 10 day series. You can find the other days here. Mark says: Yesterday we talked about pursuing honest communication. One of the biggest blocks to honest conversations are defensive responses. Defensive responses are self-justifying and...
This is Day 3 of a 10 day series. You can find the entire series here. Mark says: I didn’t realize coming into marriage how much idealism and unrealistic expectation drove my everyday thinking and perspective. I’ve always struggled wanting our relationship, our...
Thanks so much for joining us! This is Day 2 of an 10 day blog series. You can find the entire series here. Mark says: After our trip to Florida, I began talking regularly with an old girlfriend on Facebook. She had gone through a divorce and we had briefly...
Jill says: Some of you have been hanging around here for a long time and you may remember when I shared about Mark leaving 3 years ago and then several months later about him coming home. Some of you are newer friends and aren’t aware that my marriage has been through...
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
You know what I love about God? He’s all about FRESH STARTS! Seriously, there are so many stories in the Bible about fresh starts. In the Old Testament there’s Noah. Abraham. Ruth. In the New Testament there’s woman caught in adultery, the...
Today’s post is from Maggie Paulus’ new book, Finding God at the Kitchen Sink: Search for Glory in the Everyday Grime. This is a book that just causes you to exhale…I’ve never read a book that actually destresses me while I’m reading it....
“In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.” ...
Over the holiday break I cleaned out my pantry for our new healthy eating journey. (More about that later!) When I was trying to figure out what to do with my aluminum foil, saran wrap, wax paper and such that had been taking up precious storage space on my pantry...
“You change your life by changing your heart.” ~Max Lucado
