relationships

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…

My friend and neighbor Jill invited me over for coffee a few days ago and we got on the topic of time and how it goes by so quickly. “How is it already 2017?” she asked. “You have been here two years in June.”

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…

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…

This week, I’m over at Start Marriage Right sharing some practical thoughts on loving your spouse for the long haul. After my husband asked me out on our first date, we were inseparable. We couldn’t get enough of each other’s company. Our dating days were filled with joy, delight, anticipation, …

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 …

After a long day of traveling home from this particular summer vacation, my husband Jeremiah and I got into a big argument. We were over-tired and not thinking straight…

“What words come to your mind when you think of trust?” I asked my husband while we were driving down the road the other day. I told him how I wanted to write my next article on trust…

God interrupted my story the summer after I graduated from college. I interned at a Christian publishing company in Nashville. I loved my work and what music city had to offer. I wanted to plant roots there but…