After putting a load of laundry on in the basement, I sat down across from my husband at the dining room table. “It looks like a Crate and Barrel down there.” My husband politely put his bookmark in the book he was reading and set it on the table, readying himself to humor me. “Yesterday,…
Matthew 13: 31-32, Mark 4: 30-32, Luke 13: 18-19 And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yes when…
Matthew 13: 24-30 Another parable he put before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the…
I’ve tried several methods of broaching difficult subjects with my husband over the course of our marriage. I’ve tried talking to him directly about them. This is the method most often suggested by people with “degrees” or “long marriages.” I have to say, I don’t care for it. Perhaps if when I brought up the…
Matthew 13:1-9, Mark 4: 1-9, Luke 8: 4-8 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying:…
