Lauren Flake - Grief & Texas
“This is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another” (1 John 3:11 ESV). A hand-painted sign above my front door reads “Love one another” in elegant script. While the lettering and words are beautiful, I have the sentiment displayed there not because I like how it looks, […]
My husband recently reserved a campsite in a nearby state park to take our daughters, ages three and five, on their inaugural camping adventure. As we headed out in his truck that weekend, loaded with all our gear and food for a cookout, I knew a lot of rain was in the forecast. Even so, […]
“It [love] … always hopes, always perseveres.” (1 Corinthians 13:7 NIV) We have our first kiss. We fall in love. We say our vows. And then, we find out that all that “in sickness and in health, ‘til death do us part” stuff is for real. We fight depression and “man” colds, job losses and […]
It seems like I’ve spent the last 10+ years in a perpetual state of grief and caregiving, coming up for air just briefly enough to survive and then going back under again. When I was offered an opportunity to review an advanced screening of To Joey, With Love, I knew basically what I was getting […]
This week’s “Dear Daughter” letter comes from another friend across the pond, Helen Kerr. Helen is a writer, mother, and English teacher in Scotland. I love the guidelines she gives her daughter to help her choose and keep a worthwhile mate. Below are Helen’s six rules for dating and marriage. (And yes, I changed her British spellings […]