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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Happy Hour
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a Happy Hour feature, and today we have a great blog to share with you. Bonny Logsdon Burns mainly focuses on encouraging wives who have low libido and helping their marriage become … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Love, Christian Marriage, Happy Hour, Summer Date Ideas, Travel, Vacations
Tagged Bahamas, Carnivorous plant, Gardens, Home, Romantic Getaways, Venus Flytrap, Wilmington
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The Long Tomorrow
We have good friends who are busy planning a huge celebration for their parent’s 65th wedding anniversary. Can you imagine? 65 years together, walking through all kinds of changes. They were married in 1948. Most likely before any of us … Continue reading
Anniversary Round-Up
We’ve been collecting the anniversary dates of our FB fans the past couple of days, and last count we were at 156. We have nearly 3k fans, so we’re hoping to get a lot more of our readers to respond. … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Celebration Dates, Celebrations, Christian Marriage, Creative Dates, Date Night Ideas, Growing Strong Marriages, Romance in Marriage, Unique Dates
Tagged African Methodist Episcopal Church, Baskin-Robbin, Oklahoma, Olive Garden, Opal, Othello, Outback Steakhouse, Shopping, Wedding Anniversary Ideas
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Finding Satisfaction From Our Dissatisfaction
I know this sounds impossible. How can we be satisfied in something that makes us the opposite? Left to ourselves it would be impossible. But God uses the very things that dissatisfy us to bring us to a place where … Continue reading
It’s The Little Things
Romance. It means so many different things to different people. Some love to give and receive gifts. Some love to hear little words of affirmation. Still others enjoy surprising acts of kindness. Whatever your love language or your spouse’s–you should … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, Hindrances to Romance, Music, Romance, Romance in Marriage, romancing your husband, romancing your spouse, romancing your wife, The Gospel & Marriage
Tagged Andrew Allen, Christianity, God, Little Things, One Direction, Romance in Marriage
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Expect-cations
You may have never put these two words together, but most likely you pack them both when heading out the door for your family get-away: Expectations and vacations. They seem to go hand in hand. But is this a good … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, The Gospel & Marriage
Tagged Christ, Christian, Christianity, expectations, Family, God, HolySpirit, Jesus, Successful vacations, vacation
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Our Views Have Changed
When we bought Barefoot Cabin we knew upfront there were several things that needed to be done to make the property safer–like cutting down the 9 dead trees surrounding the cabin. It was sad to see these sentinels that used … Continue reading
The Wedge of Infertility
When most couples get married they are filled with hope of building a family together. Some choose to wait a few years to begin, some decide they don’t want to wait at all and end up getting pregnant on their … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Difficulty, Growing Strong Marriages, Infertility, Troubled Marriage
Tagged Bible, Elkanah, Family, God, Hannah, Infertility, Pregnancy, Samuel
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Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Slices, The Romantic Vineyard, Wordless Wednesday
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Just You Wait And See
I’m used to it after 34 years together. We’ve painted countless numbers of walls together, and Tom never thinks the color is right. I’ll  hear him say over and over, “Are you sure this color is good?” or “Do you … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages
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Is Your Marriage Primed?
We are spending three weeks at Barefoot Cabin getting it ready for the rental program. We started the long, arduous task of painting the interior walls. Most were either hunter green or red. We want to lighten and brighten the … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Forgiveness, Growing Strong Marriages, The Gospel & Marriage
Tagged Christ, Christian, Forgiveness, Jesus, marriage, Paint, Primer (paint), Relationships
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