When two become one, does it mean you have to do everything together? Today’s Marriage Monday looks at what “doing life together” really means. Mark says… Yesterday, we spent much of the afternoon and early evening working in the yard. There...
The Bible tells us that when a man and woman are married, they are to “leave and cleave.” That wording is found in the King James version of Genesis 2:24. We don’t tend to use the word “cleave” in today’s language so here’s...
This week I’ll be in Colorado. I’m going to speak at two MOPS groups, to do some recording for Focus on the Family, and to get the word out to the moms in Colorado that there will be a Hearts at Home conference in Colorado October 7-8! Over 28 years of...
For the last part of last week and the first part of this week, we’re focusing on slowing down and simplifying. Today’s Marriage Monday continues on in that theme. Mark says… When Jill and I have our schedule maxed out, our marriage suffers. We...
In one of our more difficult seasons of marriage, we discovered that we were speaking different languages to each other. Mark was loving me the way he wanted to be loved and I was loving him the way I wanted to be loved. The problem was that we felt unloved by each...
So yesterday morning…on the way to church…Mark and I got into an argument. Yes, the Marriage Monday people have conflict in their marriage…and yes, they have conflict even on the way to church. We’re still not done with the argument yet, mind...
Several years ago, we decided to step into unfamiliar territory by taking some ballroom dancing lessons. We made the weekly Monday night lessons our date night, often stopping for coffee or dessert afterwards. Dancing has become a shared hobby for us…and...
Last weekend at Hearts at Home, one of our speakers made this statement: “100% of divorces are caused by selfishness.” Mark and I have been talking about this statement all week and we have to agree. So today’s Marriage Monday is all about the...
It’s post Hearts at Home conference here in the Savage home. We had two wonderful, but incredibly exhausting, days of encouraging over 4500 moms at the mom conference here in Normal, IL, Friday and Saturday. Now that we are on the other side of the conference,...
(Because we had technical difficulties last Monday, and we didn’t want anyone to miss this important communication, we are reposting this Marriage Monday.) It’s happened again. Last week, we learned of another family has been broken up because one person...
Several weeks ago someone introduced us to a new book by Linda Dillow called What’s it Like to be Married to Me? That’s a powerful, scary, and possibly life-changing question that we’re going to use as the theme for today’s Marriage Monday....
This past Tuesday, we read a letter in the Dear Abby column in our local newspaper. Signed “Happier Than Ever,” the author of the letter shared how a simple change in routine THAT COST ABSOLUTELY NOTHING transformed her marriage. After reading the column...
I remember celebrating both sets of my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary’s. This Thursday, my parents will now celebrate 50 years of marriage. What a blessing it has been for Mark and I and our kids to witness such strong commitments to marriage in several...
Our friend Jody made this statement, “The two best indicators of whether you’re living your value system are your calendar and your checkbook.” As we start the new year, most of us give some thought to “resolutions,” or ways that we...
Last week when when I was reading Thriving Family Magazine, one article title caught my eye: Become Your Spouse’s Publicist. In the book world, a publicist is one who advertises and promotes books. It got me thinking…Do I more often give my...
