Mark and I spend alot of time mentoring broken marriages. A large percentage of those relationships are broken because of infidelity. And most of the time those affairs happened not because someone set out to have an affair, but because there were no protective...
For those of you who get my blog posts by email, I’m sooooo sorry that you received so many multiple posts in one email yesterday. I was updating my different blog pages and completely forgot that if I updated the date of the page to the current date it would...
Just a quick reminder that the Best Value Registration deadline for the NorthCentral Hearts at Home conference in Rochester, MN is right around the corner. The conference is November 12-13 (Friday evening, all day Saturday) and the Best Value Registration...
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our...
My friend Angie was over at my house a few weeks ago. We opened my mudroom coat closet to find something and Angie marveled at my unique way of storing winter scarves, hats and gloves with a shoe organizer that I had my husband attach to the inside of the doors...
At the Savage home, our kids know that before they can go to a movie, we have to read about it on Plugged In. Plugged In (www.pluggedin.com) is a website produced by Focus on the Family that provides up to date reviews of new movie releases and information on...
Today’s a holiday…the kids are out of school…and we’re returning from an overnight in Indiana where we celebrated Mark’s mom birthday with a surprise party. So today’s Marriage Monday will depart from it’s normal...
“God did not give you your children so you could fix them or whip them into shape. God gave you your children to make you more like...
Last Thursday I had the privilege of hearing professional organizer Stephanie Calahan speak. She shared about how she and her husband have very different organizational styles. Then she explained how they have found a middle ground of organization they can agree...
I recently heard this:”God has the ability to judge and love at the same time. We, however, cannot do both at the same time. If we are judging someone, we can’t be loving them. And if we are loving them, we can’t be judging...
