My cell phone rang on Monday morning while I was working at a client’s office. “Lori, can you meet me at home? I’ve just been let go from my job.” I packed up and got in the car and started to drive, my heart pounding, my mind racing…then the tears started, and I began to pray. Just the previous Sunday afternoon, Del and I had been talking...

“The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels…” Prov. 26:22 I once saw an advertisement that enticed people to buy cell phones so they could engage in more “gab, blab, and gossip.”  Are you a talker?  Do you enjoy gabbing, blabbing, and gossiping? There’s nothing wrong with enjoying good conversation, but the Bible warns that...

Our search to understand love is obvious when you consider the numerous books, articles and talk shows dedicated to the topic. People around the world deem love as essential to being happy and look for it in many different places and ways. Television and movies tell us what "real love" should look like but somehow something has been lost in the definition. What...

Do you want to be good to your marriage? Now, not later when the kids grow up, is the best time to be good to your marriage. Your marriage can actually influence your children in a very positive way -- especially when you're good to it! Children who grow up in happy, intact, functional families with parents who love each other unconsciously learn...

Many marriages and relationships are not violent, but they are not healthy or happy and far from the ideal of great. Why? Often, it's because one person in the relationship becomes a giver, and the other a taker. Here's an example of such a relationship described by a young woman who wrote to me for counsel. Q: This summer I found out from...

The other day I read some statistics on the high percentage of marriages that end in divorce. And thought of the countless others that are unhappy, frustrated relationships, not ending in divorce but inadequately meeting the needs of the partners. Lack of communication seems to be one of the prime causes of marriage breakdown. Titles such as "Communicating...

Men often get a bad rep for being closed-off when it comes to discussing feelings. Women, as we know, are able to talk for hours about hopes and dreams and feelings. If men seem less inclined to do so, it may be that they have good reason. I was surprised to read recently that one author claimed that revealing feelings is as uncomfortable for men...