The Gathering Place Where Family Matters

Your engagement is such a special time in your life. You are beginning a journey. I like to call it “the journey of a lifetime.” Marriage really is a journey that takes a lifetime to complete. No one begins a journey without good preparations. Only quick errands can be completed without much planning (probably sometimes […]

Many couples made the same discovery you are making: not everything is as you thought it would be. The first several times of intimacy probably didn’t go quite the way you imagined. Following the honeymoon, the early days of settling into the routines of work and married life may have been more challenging than you […]

Busy? You thought you knew what “busy” meant when you were in college, juggling a part-time job, deadlines for projects, dating, helping at church with either the music or children’s program and of course still writing to mom once in a while. Compared to your life today, that wasn’t so busy after all. Now you […]

In a little red cottage on the Saint Lawrence Seaway, three families with children would camp together for a week each summer. It was the highlight of the entire year. Early morning devotions, lots of fresh baked cookies every day and close living quarters created rich memories for these families. I know this to be […]