Ramblings of a Christian Wife

I generally don't post two blogs in the same weekend or even in the same month but going to my little sister's engagement/house warming party yesterday got me thinking about all the other soon-to-be or recently married couples and what I would say to them after almost 19 years of marriage.  I know that the world is full of advice about how to have a successful marriage and many fairy tale ideas of what a "perfect" marriage looks like.  But I want to be perfectly honest and hopefully not give quip advice that will only lead to delusions about what marriage should be like. 1. Marriage is not 50/50.  The idea of marriage being 50/50 chafes my mind like a tight pair of jeans chafe my legs.  If you go into marriage with the idea that you only need to give 50% effort, you will be grossly disappointed.  When you go into marriage you should go in with the idea that you need to put 100% of yourself into the success of your marriage but you should also be aware that there are

My Mom always told me that if you want to keep your friends, you don't discuss religion or politics, in this post I was I plan to break that rule.  First, I am confident that if my readers are my friends, they will still be my friends after reading this.  Second, I feel this really really needs to be addressed.  You see every time elections roll around, I am often at a loss to explain why my fellow believers are behaving as they are.  We, who have chosen to follow the example of Christ, to remove ourselves from the behavior of a sinful world, are behaving as badly as the "liberals" we so claim to dislike.  Politics has the ability to bring out the worst in us and make enemies of friends.  It is the sadly reality of the "them vs. us" type of mentality that many of my fellow believers have yet it is not the example that Christ gave us. Politics has existed since man first established societies and people have been drawing a line in the sand just as long.  And th