Celebrations, Marriage & Family, My Story
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Celebrations, Marriage & Family, My Story
Our Autumn Vision Retreat [PHOTOS]!
Y’ALL ~ Autumn is amazing! I know, I know: Ironic for a girl named Summer, but my husband & I just had the best weekend playing in the Ozark Mountains & I wanted to tell you about it. Sunday night we returned from a whirlwind 4-day trip to see the leaves change. Neither of us had ...
Confessions, Culture, Feminism, Marriage & Family, Masculinity & Femininity
Have I Forgotten My Ministry As a Wife?
This message is very special to me, one I’m learning more about as a new wife! Before continuing, I encourage you to read about the Proverbs 31 woman. . . . . . . . . . . “Being my husband’s wife is my most important ministry.” ~Wisdom 4 Wives Some days seem to ...
Challenges, Faith & Prayer, Marriage & Family, My Story, Wholeness
The Prayer That Changed Our Marriage
No marriage is perfect. We’ve all learned that by now 🙂 Such an intimate relationship requires us to face our fears and (even scarier) our true selves, and the outcome isn’t always pretty. But there is great power in prayer! I have experienced firsthand prayer’s ability to ...
Inspiration, Marriage & Family, Videos
Find Vision for Your Life & Marriage
Jimmy Evans of Marriage Today Ministries may be one of my new favorite heroes in the Christian world! After attending Jimmy & his wife Karen’s marriage retreat last fall then laughing my way through their Marriage on the Rock study last semester, I can attest to the incredible wisdom ...
Friends & Dating, Marriage & Family, Sex
Sex by Design
I had this crazy epiphany yesterday, a radical paradigm shift in my thinking! But to make sense of it, I should start at square one. The environment and culture I grew up in echoed a recurring message to me: Sex is bad. As a result, I not only learned that there is something inherently ...
Friends & Dating, Inspiration, Marriage & Family, My Story
Expecting Prince Charming
Ladies, this one is for you. You know when you like a guy — like, REALLY like him — so much you’re willing to let him get away with “bad behavior”, maybe treat you less than you hoped for? Maybe you jump at his last-minute invitations, excuse him when he fails to ...
Blessings, Friends & Dating, God's Love, Marriage & Family, My Story, Victories
Tribute to My Best Friend: My Husband
Through the years we’ve all gotten on and off various treadmills in our lives. Such treadmills are when we try to earn somebody’s love, attention, respect and admiration. I think we’ve all done it–even when we were unaware that’s what we were seeking. The driven ...
Beliefs, Devos, Forgiveness, Living Free, Marriage & Family, Quotables, Relationships, Wholeness
Settle It Today
A most excellent post–one of the best I’ve read in a long time (by author Regi Campbell). I want to implement this principle in my life: Always settle it today. I hope you will, too. xoxoxox, Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Challenges, Faith & Prayer, Fear, Forgiveness, Living Free, My Story
Playing it (Too) Safe
Just turned twenty-eight. Wooohooo. Blow the kazoo, I’m one step closer to 30! From the get-go of this year, I sensed God saying that this was the year I’d face my fears. Uh oh. You see, I had this sudden twenty-eight-year-old epiphany. I’m not fully living. Why ...