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A good marriage is worth the fight. I’ll preface this with the thought that of all the readers of this article, I would suspect that yours truly has had maybe more exposure than most to sheer numbers of marriages and marriage issues simply because of my role as a pastor. When marriages go south for people in the faith community (or any community), we are often the … Continue reading Worth the Fight
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“Catch all the foxes, those little foxes, before they ruin the vineyard of love” Song of Solomon 2:15Little foxes can do a fair amount of damage if there are enough of them. Little foxes can be those funny mindsets we travel through life with. When our mindsets are healthy the rest normally follows, but when they’re not it’s like trying to launch a space shuttle when … Continue reading Little Foxes
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Our family is far from perfect. Mostly because they won’t do what I tell them to… (… is how most arguments go:)We all want a perfect family, but people aren’t robots and every time a giant corporation tries to take over the world with robots it never turns out well (in the movies that is). The problem is that if my family was perfect there wouldn’t be … Continue reading “Perfect” Family
“Awwww! That’s the Babiest Bunny Ever!!!” So said Erin on our early morning walk as the rain misted down on us and the world’s tiniest bunny huddled on the walking path. I responded with my usual (sensitive) “He looks fine. All that fur…” “He’s cold (you monster!)” she said. “I don’t know babe, it’s kinda like interfering with nature?” You know, gentle readers, there are … Continue reading The Decision
I’ve been married long enough to be amused by star-struck lovers. “Oh Pastor, you don’t understand! We’re in LOVE. We have a song! We’re not going to have problems like other married people.” Right. Let me throw up in my mouth a little… I get it. What would someone who’s STILL married after all these years know about marriage? What would someone who’s twenty years … Continue reading They Have a Song…
Every day I run for 38 minutes on my treadmill and I hate it. I’m actually afraid to say I hate things because once I decide I hate something I reallyhate it. Like the last winter I spent working much of the time outside before shifting to an inside job, I did a silly thing and decided I hated winter. Canadians who decide they hate winter … Continue reading Treadmill and the Jet
How you view setbacks will determine how far you go. Did you notice I didn’t say how you handled setbacks, but rather how you viewed them? And how you view setbacks is decided by the first thing you decideto say about them. Example: my father is a positive person, ergo he dealt with nearly everything I can recall positively, including negative things. There were very few … Continue reading I Decided to
There are no married people problems. Before you prove me wrong by pointing me to your marriage (which has obvious problems), let me beat you to it by admitting ours is definitely a work in progress too. So let me say this: There are no married people problems, only people with single people problems who get married. This slightly revised concept of Andy Stanley’s retains … Continue reading No Married People Problems
One of the worst decisions of our marriage was shopping for new house lighting together. They say to build a new home you need to make around 1100 decisions and, because I’m an idiot, I decided I should save some money and contract it myself. Erin was living in Calgary and I was living in a little town where we wanted to set up our … Continue reading My Brain Committee
Why is it that most mornings I’m half distracted when my girls are talking to me on the way to school? From Katie’s stories which are always far too detailed to hold my attention, to Neela’s ridiculous little ramblings about butterflies, it’s hard to focus. My older two talk on a different level about relationships and their subsequent pressures and joys, and I can’t help … Continue reading The Walk to School
COREY KOPE 