by Darlene Schacht | Sep 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
After 26 years you learn how to love. But here’s the thing… there’s always more learning to do, isn’t there? We try and we fail, we bless and we wound, but in it all, and through it all, we’re both learning to love. Looking back on the...
by Darlene Schacht | Sep 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Guest Contributor, Gina Smith, Real Life Titus 2 Before I was married, the conversations I had with my single friends often revolved around the topic of what kind of guy we wanted to marry. Inevitably, at the top of the list of qualities we were looking for was the...
by Darlene Schacht | Sep 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Marriage is a journey of two people on a life-long mission. Whether we notice or not, we all go into marriage with a goal or two in mind. Whatever that goal or mission is, will be different for every couple. The key is to have the same goal as your husband, and...
by Darlene Schacht | Aug 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
We all have them–disagreements, fights, tiffs, arguments, quarrels, squabbles, disputes… Call them what you will, but we all seem to have them. Michael and I didn’t really argue until our kids came along. Exhaustion and stress can do that to you....
by Darlene Schacht | Aug 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
When I set out to pray for marriages, my intention was to write 365 marriage prayers. Yeah, that’s right–365! After writing about 20 of them, I thought to myself, How can I possibly do this? Won’t I run out of ideas? Did I take on too much? I thought...
by Darlene Schacht | Aug 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Guest contributor, Rosilind Jukic With a great huff I drove to our local grocery store and bought a big bag of Tide and a bottle of fabric softener. I felt like the biggest cheater in the blogosphere. After all, I had blogged about and written a book of my own...
by Darlene Schacht | Jul 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Image created using acrylic paint and water color pencils. For the black lines and lettering, I used a Micron 01 and 05 pen. For a complete list of my supplies and to view a video on my painting technique, visit this post: Bible Journaling 101 Visit us on Facebook...
by Darlene Schacht | Jul 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Since I’ve been practicing cursive hand writing, I thought I’d share a few things in this little tutorial that I’ve picked up over the past few weeks. Subscribers, if you can’t see the video, please click through to the blog. Download dotted...
by Darlene Schacht | Jul 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
I got to thinking this week about diamonds. Multi-faceted ones to be exact, and how they remind me of marriage. If you ever hold one up to the light you’ll notice that some parts gleam while others are shadowed. In the same way some parts of our marriage shine...
by Darlene Schacht | Jun 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
We’re bound to have difficult days, days when we don’t get along, and days we don’t see eye to eye. Growing together is tough. You have two different people with two different ideas and a whole bunch of opinions that don’t always meld. So we...
by Darlene Schacht | Jun 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
I made myself a customized iPhone cover this weekend, and since it was so incredibly simple, I decided to share this idea with you. I can totally see myself putting a family photo on here next time! Subscribers, if you can’t see the video, please click through...
by Darlene Schacht | Jun 26, 2015 | Bible Journaling, Uncategorized
Over the past few weeks, some of the members of our facebook group have asked me to put together a tutorial. I’ve never done a tutorial before, so this was a whole new learning curve for me. In fact at the end of the first video, the camera is upside down. LOL~!...
