by Matthew L. Jacobson | Mar 19, 2014 | Marriage
We tend to live as if our physical bodies belong to us. For the true follower of Jesus Christ, this is never true. Like the silver in Jean Valjean’s life, a price has been paid for us. Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost . . . and that you...
by Matthew L. Jacobson | Mar 5, 2014 | Marriage, Uncategorized
Who anticipates a season of drought followed by brushfires that strip the vegetation from the surrounding hills? This is the reality facing many in southern California. After the smoke cleared people took a breath. Thankfully, the worst was over . . . until it started...
by Matthew L. Jacobson | Feb 19, 2014 | Marriage
Age 31 arrived and with it, the cold fingers of early winter tightened their slow, numbing grip on the last week of October in Portland, Oregon. Happy Birthday, but not really. Winter is colder when you’re alone and don’t want to be. “It is not good for a man to be...
by Matthew L. Jacobson | Feb 5, 2014 | Marriage, Uncategorized
Does your husband write love poems to you that start like this? She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; No? Neither does Lisa’s! Not that I haven’t tried, but...
by Matthew L. Jacobson | Jan 22, 2014 | Marriage
I’ll never forget those eyes, dancing above the rim of her glass the moment I walked into the room, the first dance of many . . . wild and wonderful. Four days later (An eternity, she said!) we kissed and purposed to spend our lives as one. As I lay across the bed...
