by Matthew L. Jacobson | Jun 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
Things are going well, but we’re more like business partners than husband and wife. We keep it together but it’s like we’re hardly even friends anymore. Life can turn into a grind, even for a great marriage. Our fast-paced lives are perfectly capable of edging out...
by Darlene Schacht | Jun 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
I enjoy marriage books, in fact I can’t seem to get enough of them. It’s a beautiful thing to be encouraged by other believers who have walked this path, and to glean encouragement from them that I can apply to my own life. But here’s the...
by Darlene Schacht | Jun 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
It was grade nine. There was one minute left in the game, and I was standing there holding the ball. Pivoting on one foot, I had a decision to make, do I go for the basket myself in hopes of winning the game for our team? Or do I throw it to Stacy who was frantically...
by Lisa Jacobson | Jun 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
So I had this really hard day. Or, to be more accurate, I had a really hard week. And I was close to tears by late afternoon. He asked me what was wrong and I’m sorry to say that I snapped at him. Was it not obvious? Hello…? You’d only have to take one look at...
by Darlene Schacht | Jun 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t anything I did. At least nothing I could pin point. The only thing that changed for me was my attitude. It happened some time ago. I was reading a marriage article when one sentence stood out to me more than the others. I don’t even remember...
by Darlene Schacht | Jun 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
My heart is a scrapbook, each day a new page adorned with memories of time well spent together. Love is the ink that flows through each page marking the places we’ve been and the people we’ve seen. Finger printed pages remind me of the gentle way this man...