In a matter of days, I’ll say goodbye to a dear friend and neighbor who I’ve grown close to since our move to Holyoke almost three years ago. Katie Wilson and her family have been a treasure to my family. She’s changed my youngest son’s diapers, we’ve celebrated our girls’ birthdays together, and she’s watched our kids any time we had a need…
relationships
Finding Your Tuesday People: Out of Loneliness and into Community
About six months into my family and I being settled into our new home in a new state, I expressed to my husband that I felt really lonely. I was loving everything about where God had put us. The serenity, beauty, community, and the simple way of life had my heart (still does!), but I still felt like something was missing. Solid relationships and friendships had been important to me since I was young…
How Our Life Together Began at the River {An Engagement Story}
We’d been walking for a few miles. The humidity was thick and my jeans stuck to my sweaty legs. It was our fourth day in Israel and Jordan and my boyfriend Jeremiah and I were with our classmates and professor from seminary, visiting and learning about all the sites Jesus once walked. We were so excited to see the Jordan River for the first time. We had learned about it all our lives, both having grown up in church, and now we finally got to experience it. We arrived at the bank of the Jordan and it was more narrow than I thought…
Conflict Resolution: The Need for Face Time
I’m not writing anywhere specific today but someone I know who is really awesome and amazing is! My husband! Today Jeremiah is writing his first article for StartMarriageRight.com, helping us discern how much we should share digitally verse face to face communication in our relationships. He gives practical wisdom on what …