Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
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, Sex, Single Life
Before I got married, I thought I knew it all when it came to sex. Even though I had never actually done it before Zach and I got married, I was pretty confident in my knowledge. I had read enough marriage books and dating books to think that I knew all the things I needed to know. I guess I …
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 …
Recommended Books
This month the last day of the month happens to fall on a Monday, so this week’s blog post is simply my monthly book report/review. Hope that’s not a disappointment. Good news everyone: I actually was able to finish three books this month! Actually, I was very close to four, but didn’t quite finish the fourth one in time. It …
Christian Life
Social media is ruining my life. Okay, that’s a bit of an overstatement, but the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that I’ve been spending more time on social media, staring deeply into my phone. It’s gotten to be a bit of a problem. I’m not here to say that social media is evil. I don’t think that it is. …
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 …
Single Life
My husband and I have been looking at houses since February. It’s been an interesting process. The market where we live in the Portland area is absolutely crazy. Prices are high and there’s a lot of competition (like one house we looked at got 16 offers in one weekend). Despite that, we found one on Monday, put in an offer …
Christian Life, Theology
I realize that at 28 I’m far from old, but the older I get, the more I realize that God rarely does what we expect him to. Sometimes, we try to plan out what we think he’s going to do. We try to look for signs of what he’s up to. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that necessarily. …
Uncategorized
I’ll be honest. This month, I was a little bit slack in my reading. I only ended up finishing two books. There were a couple of reasons for this. My husband and I have been looking at houses, which has taken some of my prime weekend reading time. It’s been a really busy month at work. Also, we downloaded Roller …
Christian Life, Married Life, Single Life, Theology
For some reason, when we talk about purity in the church, we’re almost always talking about sexual purity. We had a whole “purity movement” about a decade ago that was almost completely focused on staying sexually pure. While I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with that, it’s not really biblical. Purity in the Bible What I mean by …