Category: Marriage
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On Turning 50: Discoveries and Delights about God, Myself, and the World
Big birthdays provide opportunities to celebrate and reflect. In honor of turning fifty on Monday, I thought it would be fun to share with you my list of 50 discoveries and delights as I reflect on my life at this point. May they bring a smile to your face, and perhaps, a nod or two…
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On 25 Years of Marriage
I was 20 years old when I married Brad. He was 23. He loved my spunk and zest for life. I loved his quick mind and the fact he was a good conversationalist. We were kids, really. But we loved each other and we loved God and we trusted that our love would work the rest…
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In Celebration of Marriage
“Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land….Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” Proverbs 31: 23, 28 It’s not everyday that a person celebrates a 50th wedding anniversary. And it’s certainly not everyday that one celebrates…
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A Letter to my Younger Self
Earlier this summer, while visiting family in the Midwest, I decided it was time. For the past twenty-three years, my wedding dress has been carefully persevered in a sealed box, neatly stuffed with tissue paper and form-shaping pieces of cardboard. During my family’s years of moving for graduate school, my parents agreed to store “the…
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We were made for the years
I mentioned in my last post that on the day our family moved into our new home Brad and I celebrated twenty years of marriage. (According to my master plan, we were supposed to be in Paris or somewhere romantic like that—not in sleeping bags on the floor of an empty house!) I was twenty…
Alicia Brummeler 