Accepting Brokenness

Accepting Brokenness

  A Christian Vision for Love, Friendship, and Marriage   Maybe you and I were never meant to be complete Could we just be broken together? If you can bring your shattered dreams, and I’ll bring mine Can healing still be spoken and save us? Casting Crowns,...
Marriage and Love of Neighbor

Marriage and Love of Neighbor

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord – Leviticus 19:18 I remember when I discovered the Song of Songs uses the same word we translate as “neighbor” in Leviticus to describe the...
The Road Les Traveled

The Road Les Traveled

Travel is not always about some exotic geographical location. My wife and I have recently taken the journey down the road of surgery.  A few years ago, I observed that she had had five surgeries. I had had five surgeries. Mine were 100% self-inflicted. Hers were 100% ...
Marriage and Love of Neighbor

Marriage and Self-Denial

For if someone wants to save his or her life/soul/self, he/she will lose it. But whoever loses his or her life/soul/self for me will find it. – Matthew 16:25 It was more than a decade ago. My wife and I were not yet married. We were both insanely busy graduate...