What Generosity Gives Back to Your Marriage
Have you heard this one? A woman said to her husband, "You never tell me you love me." The husband responds, "I told you I love you when we got married. If anything changes, I'll let you know." Comedian Bonnie McFarlane said, “I once gave my husband the silent treatment for an entire week, at the end of which he declared, ‘Hey, we’re getting along pretty great lately!’” "My wife says I never buy her flowers," the husband told their marriage counselor. "To be honest, I didn't
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We Knew This Was Coming. Why Weren’t We Ready?
"What time will you be home tonight?" Mark asked. "The usual time," Dawna responded, puzzled. "Around nine pm." "Oh," Mark said, disappointed. "I was hoping we could spend some time tonight talking about what this new baby is going to mean for us." When Dawna was expecting our first child, she was regularly taking stock of the changes in her body, attending to her emotional highs and lows, and thinking about what this arrival of the new member of the family would mean for our
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Learning to Be a Peacemaker
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). When we hear this beatitude, we may think of a diplomat who negotiates a treaty to end a war, or a community organizer who arranges a face-to-face restorative justice circle between gang leaders and community members. But for most of us, the place to make peace is much closer to home: across the kitchen table, while driving together in the car, or late at night after a hard conversation. Ma
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