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Above and Beyond

Above and Beyond By Bonnie Hoover The kids had gone to bed, and I was making one last sweep of the kitchen to ensure it

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Made for More

Made for More By Bonnie Hoover Wake up, work out, eat breakfast, drop the kids off at school, head to work, pick up the kids,

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Making Room for Growth

Making Room for Growth By Bonnie Hoover One sunny afternoon in February, just as tiny buds were beginning to swell on the branches, I spent

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Spring is Coming!

Spring is Coming! By Bonnie Hoover Cold, rainy winter days feel like a wet blanket on my soul, and it’s been raining where we are

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Tricky Transition

Tricky Transition by Bonnie Hoover “I don’t feel like I’m losing a daughter but gaining a son.” We often hear this lovely sentiment from the

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Unexpected Detour

Unexpected Detour Marriage is messy, and “til death do us part” is a long time. We rarely know what sharp curves and pitfalls we’ll encounter

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This is Love

This is Love By Bonnie Hoover “I never knew what real love was until I looked in the face of my newborn baby.” Have you

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Becoming One Flesh

Becoming “One Flesh” By Daniel & Bonnie Hoover Of all the ways we connect with our spouse, the intimate bond that is formed between a

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Connection is Costly

Connection is Costly By Bonnie Hoover It happened on mile 3 of our 5-mile hike down from an overnight stay at the Len Foote Hike

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Daily, Weekly, Monthly…

Daily, Weekly, Monthly… By Daniel & Bonnie Hoover Several years ago, I (Daniel) received a phone call from one of my best friends. At the

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Beyond Expectations

Beyond Expectations By Bonnie Hoover Typically I wouldn’t say I like surprises. You see, I’m a planner and don’t enjoy things being sprung on me

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Good Fences

Good Fences Early in our marriage, I felt something was missing. It wasn’t money, a big house, or children, though we didn’t have those either.

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Sounding the Alarm

Sounding the Alarm “It doesn’t even seem sporting. I pretty much sit on the porch and pick the deer off from there. It’s almost like

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Tweaking the Recipe

Tweaking the Recipe A couple of weeks ago, our twelve-year-old daughter had a friend over to hang out on New Year’s Eve. We usually do

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Dreams Cost Money

Dreams Cost Money By Daniel Hoover When our kids were younger, some of their favorite tv characters were Dora the Explorer and Diego (her cousin).

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Rekindle the Romance

Rekindle the Romance By Bonnie Hoover I’ve never been much of a fan of Valentine’s Day. No, really. When I (Bonnie) was in college, I

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The Freedom of Grace

The Freedom of Grace By Daniel & Bonnie Hoover How many “friends” have you lost in the new year? We were all ready for 2020

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Reluctant Grace

Reluctant Grace By Bonnie Hoover “Mama! Maaaaake him STOOOOOP!” The annoyance between the nine and eleven-year-olds in the back seat had escalated to the point

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Rivers in the Desert

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2021! Most people flip the calendar from one year to the next in anticipation of a fresh start. This

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Thankful Hearts

In September 1620, 102 passengers left Plymouth, England, on a small ship called the Mayflower. They endured 66 days at sea in the tiny vessel

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L.I.F.E.

LIFE. Life is a word that holds different meanings. For most people, it simply means that you have breath in your lungs and you are

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Eternally Ever After

Eternally Ever After  When I (Bonnie) was a young girl, many, many moons ago, I had this picture in my head of my “happily ever

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“You Complete Me”

“You Complete Me” Don’t you just love a good romantic movie? The year we got married, the romantic-comedy Jerry McGuire hit the big screen. It

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Situational Awareness

Situational Awareness Wikipedia defines Situational Awareness as “the perception of environmental elements and events with respect to time or space, the comprehension of their meaning,

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Married Sex

“I’ll make it worth his while when I get home from my girl’s night out.” “I cleaned the house, so I’ll be getting some tonight!”

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Catch the Little Foxes

Catch the Little Foxes Every night we walk through the same routine at bedtime. We say prayers and tuck the kids in bed. Then, I

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Sex… God’s Idea

Sex… God’s Idea “Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to

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Patterns Have Partners

“Nice of you to join us,” I said sarcastically, as Daniel put a plate in the microwave to reheat his dinner. The kids and I

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Patience Required

This summer, we set out, with the help of my (Daniel’s) brother, to teach our ten and eight-year-olds how to water ski. My brother pulled

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12 Things Happy Couples Do

By the time this posts we will have just celebrated twenty-four years of marriage! Yep! Happy anniversary to us! Realizing we’ve been married for over

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Shiny Happy People

Many years ago we were watching a video curriculum with our couples’ small group. The speaker made a point that initially stung us that we

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Don’t Be Mean

Though I don’t have any idea what I was so upset about at the time, I will never forget something that happened during our second

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Casualties at War

Both mine and Bonnie’s grandfathers fought in WWII. Bonnie’s grandfather was a gunner on a B17 Bomber. During one of their missions, his plane was

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Committed to “Us”

I (Daniel) started playing football when I was little.  Well…at that point in my life I wasn’t exactly little.  Little Debbie was one of my

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Winning at Marriage

We recently had the privilege of meeting a Major League Baseball pitcher, best-selling author, and Emmy award-winning Atlanta Braves broadcaster for Fox Sports South. We

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Living with a Mission

A few years back, our church went through a rebranding of sorts. I (Daniel) helped lead our pastor and team in developing a new mission/vision

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Intentional (Im)balance

 After spending the first nineteen years of our marriage working together in ministry, I (Bonnie) felt caught in a vicious tug of war match between

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Speak Life

Have you ever had one of those days or weeks when everyone in your home was in a rotten mood? A couple of weeks ago,

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Time-Out

We’re sitting at home writing this on a weekday with our ten and eight-year-old doing school assignments online. Today marks the beginning of a two-week

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We are SO Different!

When we were dating and getting to know each other, we thought we were just alike. We both loved Jesus, our families, and the outdoors.

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Think on These Things

We are usually cautious about what we allow our ten and eight-year-old to watch on TV. They often ask why they can’t watch some of

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Marriage Maintenance

My (Daniel’s) parents recently came for a visit, and we helped them drive from the Northside of Atlanta down past the traffic south of the

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Preparing for the Empty Nest

When we started out on this Marriage Adventure, as twenty-three and twenty-one-year-old college students, it was just the two of us. We were ready to

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This is My BEST Friend

“He said he’s not my best friend anymore,” Colby related the workthrough tears as he got in the car after school.  My (Bonnie here) heart

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#1 Rule in Conflict

As most mornings, we were in a crazy rush trying to get everything together to leave for school.  “Colby, get your shoes on.”   “I can’t

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