The first recognizable symptom occurs on our wedding anniversary, June 1, 2016. Not a maybe symptom, but a for-sure symptom. Something is wrong. A biopsy reveals what we suspected: endometrial cancer. The good news is the cancer cells are slow-growing, “grade 1.” The first surgeon I see about a hysterectomy pronounces this fact “awesome,” an…
I couldn’t believe what my husband was telling me. A group of people had made an unexpected and hurtful decision that greatly affected our young family. That one act instantly changed the circumstances and trajectory of our lives in ways we neither wanted nor sought. We didn’t think their decision was correct, let alone deserved….
I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. (2 Tim. 1:12 NIV) For some believers, a particular Bible verse shines with personal meaning. We often call this a “life verse.” My life verse is 2 Timothy 1:12. I learned it…
This might come as a shock to any of you who are still completely starry-eyed about marriage, but no such partnership lives out its life in perfect harmony. You and your spouse will have what I’ll call differences. And even if you got many of those differences out on the table in premarital counseling or…
I recently caught a few minutes of an episode of the old Golden Girls sitcom. Educator Dorothy was telling her fellow fifty-something roommates, Blanche and Rose, about having such a great time talking and laughing with younger teachers that day that she forgot about their age difference. Then she was shocked to find an “old woman”…
Most people immediately connect the word testimony with witnesses sworn to “tell the truth and nothing but the truth” in courtrooms. Me? I think of testimonies that revealed God as ultimate truth to a young girl. My father was a church pastor when Sunday evening services and Wednesday night prayer meetings were still standard in…