by Darlene Schacht | Oct 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Life is challenging. Marriage is beautiful, but it’s not always easy. If it was easy, the divorce rate wouldn’t be as high as it is. Here’s a heartbreaking statistic: “About 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce. The...
by Darlene Schacht | Sep 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Find out more about this book at DecentExposureOnline.com It was Friday afternoon. I went to my mailbox to find this big envelope with a book inside. I tend to get a lot of books sent to me, but most of them are the usual 200 page paperback books. This one was...
by Darlene Schacht | Sep 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s often been said, “Don’t pray for patience, because you’ll get trials. Don’t ask for patience if you don’t want tribulation.” And that’s true. We don’t want tribulation. Who wants to be put through the fire? I don’t, but I know that it’s...
by Darlene Schacht | Sep 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Do you ever get a hankering for a snack? I do. Sometimes I’ll dig through the pantry, and if I don’t find what I’m looking for, I might hop in the car and go for a ride. Like the other night for instance. I was on the hunt for a chocolate bar with...
by Darlene Schacht | Sep 11, 2015 | Honoring Our Husbands, Uncategorized
Guest Contributor, Gina Smith, Real Life Titus 2 I was sitting at my dining room table with a friend. My husband had just left for work, when my friend bravely spoke, “May I tell you something?” She asked. “Sure.” I answered. She paused and...
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
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