I Keep Saying Thank You (for my marriage)
For you, Jack… I will love you for a thousand years A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 I haven’t written much about my marriage because, even after over 14 years, I am still mystified. Of all the blessings I have been given, Jack’s love stands alone as the greatest miracle of my life. He has loved me back from the brink of insanity, honoring his commitment to our marriage when he had every excuse to leave. (For our full story, see Our Story.) He believed in me when there was barely a Me to salvage. When I refused to receive love from God, God loved…
Trust enough to Sabbath
Manna, Quail, and Breastmilk, Part 3 For my Dad Then the LORD said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day. In that way I will test them, whether they will follow my instruction or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on other days.” Exodus 16:4-5 In my parents’ home, growing up, Sunday was Sabbath day. We weren’t Jewish, even though my dad’s insistence upon our honoring the Sabbath did earn him the nick name “Old Testament…
