Category: Marriage
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If I Were the Devil
For those of you yet to approach your senior years, you may not be familiar with the radio broadcaster, Paul Harvey. In the second half of the 20th century, Harvey had a daily news program and was famous for his “The Rest of the Story” Saturday broadcasts. I thought of Harvey recently while reading a…
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Pursuing the Wow in Marriage
It’s hard to believe that I could learn something about love and marriage from my two-year-old grandson. But I did. In church, no less. Years ago, my wide-awake, perpetually curious two-year-old grandson sat in the Crying Room at church. While he was well-behaved on this particular Sunday morning, a nearby four-year-old could not sit still.…
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Fear Stalks a Hospital Waiting Room
Maybe it’s because it was Friday the 13th. Maybe because it was the waiting room of a Cardiac Surgical Center in one of the largest hospitals here in Augusta. Maybe because you are sitting in a room with people who share the same heavy anxieties. But fear stalks a hospital waiting room like a hungry…
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Badges of Honor
Men, listen up. Marriage and fatherhood are life-changing experiences — for yourself, but more importantly, for your wife and children. I’ve written before about the qualities, virtues, and attributes of a REAL man: responsibility, sacrificial love, respectfulness, kindness, self-control, humility, and tenderness, to name a few. Authentic manhood, in other words, is defined by one’s…
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My Middle Name is Someone
One of the keys to having a long and successful marriage is for a husband to develop the ability to understand the words spoken by his wife. It is a universal truth, long accepted by the male species, that women can say one thing and mean something else. One only has to consider the use of…
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The Cure for Sleeplessness
I have been having a lot of trouble sleeping lately. Seems to take forever to go to sleep, only to wake up in the middle of the night, wide awake. Insomnia reigns. Call it too much stress, too many thoughts on my mind, or perhaps post-surgical restless leg syndrome. Whatever you call it, it makes…
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A Lesson in Humility
I recently had knee surgery. Knee replacement surgery, to be specific. Prior to surgery, I prepared myself. I studied the procedure, picked up my prescription medications, made my appointments for physical therapy, and reviewed what to expect in the weeks and months following surgery. I thought I was prepared. But I wasn’t! The pain was…
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Lessons on Marriage from the Devil
Can we learn anything from Satan other than the consequences of excessive pride? I think so. Consider these fundamentals: So, knowing that Satan hates humanity and marriage, are there insights we can learn about marriage by studying what the Devil despises? In a recent article at Aleteia.org, titled Exorcist says there are 3 ways Satan likes…
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Must Love Dogs?
I had an epiphany this week. Every woman I have married came with a dog. Dating these women didn’t come with a “Must Love Dogs” conditional statement, but the implication was clear enough — you marry me, you get the dog too. They saw it as a bonus. I just smiled and considered it a…
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The Case for Gentleness
When I hear the word gentle or gentleness, the first thing that comes to mind are the words we used to encourage our eight-year-old son holding his newborn sister for the first time. “Be gentle.” Or the words we encourage a child petting a dog — “Be gentle.” The problem with gentleness is that it…
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