A Dozen Roses on Valentine’s Day (for Kim!)

Marriage Made in Heaven (redux)

The Holy Family. I’m talking about none other than the Virgin named Mary, Joseph her husband and the Child called Christ. And I guess the second important lesson the Holy Family affords us (the first lesson in A ‘God’ Thing) is this: Marriage is between a man and a man or a woman and a […]

A Mountain Top Prayer

I climbed to a mountain top recently. It wasn’t just any old mountain top. It was the mountain top where I had prayed for a wife many years earlier. I prayed there, “Lord, I want to get married. It needs to be a woman who loves You just like I do.” And so this was […]

Marriage Made in Heaven

This is now the second post in a series entitled: “Lessons from the Holy Family.” (Read the first post by clicking here: A “God” Thing.) And the second lesson we learn from the holy family (Mary, Joseph and Jesus) is this: Marriage is between a man and a man or a woman and a woman […]

Marriage Made in Heaven

This is now the second post in a series entitled: “Lessons from the Holy Family.” (Read the first post by clicking here: A “God” Thing.) And the second lesson we learn from the holy family (Mary, Joseph and Jesus) is this: Marriage is between a man and a man or a woman and a woman […]

All You Need is Love – Part 2

In Part 1 of this blog post series I spoke of the Beatles’ song: “All You Need is Love,” and how many couples believe that’s what it takes to stay together: l-o-v-e, love. Yet I suggested that the kind of l-o-v-e, love, that it takes to stay together is different than what many people understand. […]

All You Need is Love – Part 1

“All You Need is Love.” It’s the Beatle’s song long ago in the 60s. Wasn’t it? – those of you who are getting old like me? (Yes, I was around in the 60s!) It’s the Beatle’s song: “All You Need is Love.” And it’s true in marriage. All you need is love. And men and […]