Category Archives: Contentment

Single-Minded

As I type this, I am sitting at my husband’s desk at his office, waiting for his engineering day to end so that we can moonlight as a couple of painters. We have the company break room in our sights and I’m lobbying for a crazy shock of red to replace the tired gray of [...]

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Blessed Insignificance

“So… what do you do?”
The question has been presented in various forms over the two years John and I have been married. I heard it again last weekend at the wedding we attended.
Before I answer, I ask myself, what do I do?
Thinking over my days I remember the many little things that fill them. [...]

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Marriage Is Not My Highest Calling
Part Two

Click here if you missed Part One.
We often speak of things such as being a wife or mother as God’s calling. “This is my highest and noblest calling,” we might declare. I beg to differ. God’s calling to a life is the thing that will never, under any circumstance, change in that life. Throughout scripture [...]

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Marriage Is Not My Highest Calling

I believe strongly and wholeheartedly in solid, godly marriages. Marriage is an awe-inspiring, truly blissful thing and something to be lauded and heralded as the God-ordained institution it is. We are people created for marriage and, once married, we should strive daily, at every possible opportunity to encourage each other toward even stronger, even holier marriages.
But marriage is not [...]

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The Magic Word

It’s not a checklist.
It’s not a to-do list.
It’s not a game with hidden rules.
Though sometimes it feels like all of those combined.
Being single is not something I like to talk about. Because there are days, if you want me to be honest [and I think you do], being single feels like a curse.
A punishment.
A loss.
And [...]

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