Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Christian Life, Married Life
This Thanksgiving, I’m particularly grateful for my husband, Zach. He really is the best and I’m so glad I get to spend the rest of my life (God willing) with him. One of the things I have learned in our life together is that it’s easy to take one another for granted. You actually have to work to be grateful …
Single Life
Oh “The One.” Supposedly, they’re the person in this world that we have to find in order to be perfectly happy. Supposedly, this person is the one our soul is destined to combine with to create a perfect couple that will have a perfect marriage and be perfectly happy for ever and ever amen. According to popular belief, you have …
Married Life, Sex
In God’s eyes, sex is only supposed to happen within marriage. We talked a little bit about this in last week’s post, but I wanted to go a little deeper. Not only is sex only supposed to happen only in marriage, but it’s big part of marriage. Let’s be clear, sex is not the most important part of marriage, but …
Christian Life, Single Life
In my humble opinion, February is the worst month (you can read more about my feelings here). You just want winter to be over, but it’s still in full force. If you’re single, February can be a terrible month for another reason: February means Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day means an awkward day where you don’t have any special someone to …
Married Life
If you were a fly on the wall during many of my single days (especially as I was in my early twenties) you might have thought that I believed that marriage would solve all my problems. In some ways, I was right. My main problems at the time were not feeling loved or wanted or chosen. Marriage, at least thus …
Married Life
Welcome to Marriage May on the blog! Since wedding season is starting soon/in force now and marriage and May both start with M, I figured it was an appropriate theme for this month. My goal is to share a few things that I learned since I got married for those of you who are married, are getting married, or would …
Christian Life, Married Life, Theology
Zach and I have been married two and a half years now. We now know that there are some things that each of us do that drive the other crazy. Here’s a short list: Things That Drive Ashleigh Crazy: When Zach leaves the kitchen cabinets open. If Zach forgets to put things away (particularly forgets to put things back …
Christian Life, Married Life, Sex, Single Life
Let’s be clear here: purity is not only for single people. Despite that fact, if you looked a Christian books, sermons, and other resources that talk about purity, the vast majority of them would be geared towards singles. A good chunk of them would probably be geared towards the youth group/college age crowd. When we see purity as simply …
Married Life, Single Life, Theology
Every Disney princess movie pretty much ends the same way: said princess and her prince charming ride off into the sunset. From this, we assume that all their problems were permanently solved and they stay married forever. You don’t really think about how their life progresses or how it ends. Married Life Is Still Unpredictable The truth is that life …
Married Life, Single Life
First off, it feels a little weird as a married person to tell you that sex is not a right. It feels a bit like a person gorging on cheesecake telling a person who’s fasting that dessert is not a right. It’s true, but it feels a little weird to say currently. That’s not to say this issue isn’t still …