But the June Bride hears the song of a spring that lasts all summer long… As Ashleigh and I were both celebrating such milestone anniversaries this year, and as our weddings were exactly five years and one day apart, we thought it would be special to post a series on our wedding days and the…
Archive | June, 2009
June Brides ~ Five Year Perspective
Oh, they say when you marry in June, You’re a bride all your life. And the bridegroom who marries in June Gets a sweetheart for a wife. Winter weddings can be gay Like a Christmas holiday. But the June bride hears the song Of the spring that lasts all summer long By the light of…
Interview with actress Marilyn Burns
“Two families. A large backyard. Nine cousins with a big dream. Four years ago, this was all they had. Today, the film ‘Pendragon’ is a testimony of God fulfilling their dream in ways that they never imagined.” So YLCF reader Sarah Ferraro sums up the story of the Burns Family Studios‘ movie “Pendragon.” I had…
Set Apart
Set-Apart Femininity: God’s Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman is unlike the average book at your local Christian book store. As the title implies, it is most definitely set apart from the rest. It is not a book about being a happy, fulfilled, Christian woman-at least not in the terms we normally think of happiness…
That Happiest Day of Beginning
It was the happiest day of my life. I didn’t actually crawl into bed until well past midnight on the day that I was to be wed, and awoke just two short hours later. I was sick, feverish and coughing, but all that mattered little. Today was the day that all my life, consciously and…
Waiting for His Timing
piece and photo by Joanna K. DeHond The Lord spoke to my heart a while back concerning the bare trees and my time of waiting. I had quietly noted within myself how drab and unlovely the trees were looking during the winter months and was contemplating it all and feeling quite sorry for them and myself when all of…
Saying Sorry
I recently came across a heartfelt post over at We are THAT Family that spoke to both Gretchen and me. As mothers, it’s easy to take for granted how much our children sense of our own heart attitudes, which can do more to harm to their precious little hearts than we even realize. I stopped him….
First Kisses
It was the summer before I turned 13. The summer before I met Merritt. The summer my world changed from that of a little girl to a teenager. It was the summer I read His Perfect Faithfulness by Eric and Leslie Ludy. All I knew about dating was what I observed from afar in the…
“monkey see, monkey do”
At times it is uncanny how much I feel like I’m looking in the mirror when I look at my little daughter. Though she has so many of her daddy’s features, she looks so very much like my baby pictures, I often take a second glance: isn’t that me I’m looking at? But more and…
To Begin Again
by Alice W. The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. -Lamentations 3:22, 23 Every day is a new day. Each sunrise is a fresh start and a renewed opportunity to begin again. It is a time to learn from the mistakes of…
