• Singleness & Marriage

    A Happy (but embarrassing) 17th Wedding Anniversary

    We’ve enjoyed a restful Sabbath—that also happened to be our 17th wedding anniversary. Piles of chaos were left out around the house after our two weeks of hosting guests and we dove into numerous games (all of us) and videos (the kids and Fred) and time to just talk and be. It was refreshing—but also a tad embarrassing when we pulled out our box o’ love letters and our wedding scrapbook. I didn’t remember being so sappy! But I was. Verbal and sappy—not a great combination. Still, it was very fun to discover that Fred switched from a secret admirer to a not-so-secret-admirer on December 17th (1993)—ten years to the day…

  • Relationships & Peacemaking

    Pursuing Peace: A Christian Guide to Handling Our Conflicts

    I just added Robert D. Jones’ new book to my LibraryThing and I can’t wait to read it: Pursuing Peace: A Christian Guide to Handling Our Conflicts I’m a big fan of his other book (Uprooting Anger: Biblical Help for a Common Problem) and I have greatly appreciated his wisdom over the years I have known him because of our mutual work with Peacemaker Ministries.   Thanks, Pastor Jones, for blessing us all with this book. And many thanks to Crossway for publishing it too! I just know it’s going to be great … 

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    Meet the Superhumans

    When I met my now-husband, Fred, he was one semester into his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a secondary focus of rehabilitation engineering. The title of his thesis was Dynamic Analysis of Handrim Wheelchair Propulsion: Verification and Analysis of System and Pilot Testing. (And how fun is this? I just found his thesis online on Google books–he even has his very own QR code. Pretty snazzy!) Anyway … When we were falling in love and getting engaged and RIGHT up to our wedding (he published his thesis the week before our wedding), I spent a lot of time in his research lab, which was located in the same building…

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    Eight Things to Keep in Mind Regarding Conflict

    Of course there are many important points regarding the heart, functional idolatry/wrong worship, and gospel change that this pastor does not cover in his “eight things” list.  But it’s still a great list and definitely worth the read: Eight Things to Keep in Mind in Regards to Conflict at Work/Church (HT: Z) 

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