How to Take Care of YOU When No One Else Is
It’s easy for wives and moms to feel overwhelmed and under-appreciated—especially during the holidays. This is even more true for women whose husbands have become habitually distant or distracted by addiction or recovery. It’s easy to become bitter when the person who vowed to cherish us, doesn’t even notice that we could use a little…
Why You Need to Forgive One Last Person
As “good Christian women” most of us strive to forgive everyone, including the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. Sometimes it’s a struggle, but we know that it is what God would have us do. There is one person, however, that seldom makes our Need-to-Forgive-list. Unfortunately, it is probably the single MOST important person…
He Will Lift Us Out of the Mire
Sometimes life is hard. Struggles come in massive waves that threaten to consume us. We get overwhelmed. We wonder if we can even keep slogging along. I think I’ve mentioned that my husband and I have been walking through a very dark valley for most of the last year. It’s been unrelenting. We’ve been hit…
When “Nothing is Impossible” Looks Like a Lie
Yep! We can’t always trust our eyes. What we see isn’t always evidence of the truth. There was a point in my husband’s recovery, where he had experienced a lot of healing and was, in general, doing VERY well. Most of the time he was enjoying a freedom he’d not known for a very long…
Focus in on a Better Life
What is your focus today? What’s at the very center of your interest or activity? Is it your burgeoning to-do list? Is it the chaos in your life? Is it the unfairness life has dumped on you? It’s so easy to let the situation around us be the thing we most focus on. It’s in…
What Every Wife Should Know . . .
