Family Life

Christmas of 1996 was the holiday-from-you-know-where for my husband and me. Despite the very best of intentions, I practically ruined everything by trying to make …

Many years ago, I was a young Navy wife living in Long Beach, California. My husband, on sea duty, had been deployed overseas for eight …

“It smells like something is burning,” my son-in-law exclaimed. It was the night before Thanksgiving, and I could smell the pungent odor of smoke too. …

“If we take her to the doctor, they can surgically shorten her toes, and then she might wear shoes two sizes smaller,” laughter shot across …

Todd, a thirty-one-year-old software engineer, has been a loyal husband for 12 years. When he met his wife, Stacy, they were both wounded, needy adolescents. …

I believe at the heart of every deeply dysfunctional conversation—whether you do it “nice” and restrained or just trumpeting your fury with the raging carelessness …

It would be five years before I saw my son again, but God accomplished a lot of work in that time, and the reunion is …

One Friday afternoon, I stopped by a car rental counter to pick up a van for the weekend. The attendant at the counter asked me …

Have you ever caught yourself disciplining your child today for something that last week you let slide? Or constantly changing the house rules because of …

Jesus is one of the greatest storytellers. The gospels are filled with His parables that have lessons far more significant than what appears to be …