BrauchTalk

As a Christian, I don’t believe in ghosts or in mediums who can communicate with the dead. The Bible actually warns against such people in the book of Leviticus. For those like me who have grown up in the church, we understand that once this earthly body is dead, the soul lives on, whether that be with Jesus Christ in heaven or an eternity in hell. There is no staying behind on earth to console your mourning family members after your passing to assure them you are in a safe place. With that said, I can explain how my encounter with a dead man spoke into my life a new view on life itself, and it has nothing to do with a psychic’s intervention.

This last spring I enrolled in a human anatomy class at college. The instructor let us know from the first day that we would be working with human cadavers, and warned that if someone was uncomfortable with this, they should probably drop the class. Not the best way to start a semester! It’s not that I hadn’t seen a dead person before. I’ve been to few funerals and seen a body at the nursing home I worked at, but my exposure to death was very minimal. In this class, not only would we be in a laboratory with three cadavers twice a week, but we had to study and poke and prod to learn the different parts of the body. Of course I was apprehensive! Continue reading ‘What a Dead Man Taught Me: Part One’

It has always shocked me how many people say the first year of marriage is the hardest. Believe me, I heard it from all sides when M and I were engaged. I was so excited to get married and move in with M, but for some reason people kept trying to drill into my head that I was in for a one-year struggle. I’m happy to say that after being married for one year, I can disprove this myth that the first year of marriage is the worst.

One of the first people who gave me her first year horror story is a friend from church. We had gone out to eat, and me being recently engaged, soon got on the topic of marriage. All I could talk about was the anticipation of finally being married to M, whom I had been dating for over three years at the time, and how great it would be when I didn’t have to leave his house at night anymore, because it would be our house. And the sparkling diamond on my finger kept reminding me it was really happening; we were really getting married. Soon my excitement was met by a dreary warning as my friend began to tell me what life was like after the wedding. Married life for her was full of tears, starting the first night of her honeymoon. She went on telling me how she cried basically everyday for the first year, and not because she was happy. It was as if she had post-partum depression after the wedding. To make things worse, her husband changed jobs several times in just a matter of months, and she had a two hour drive to school everyday. She admitted their lives just weren’t meshing together like they should once being married. So there I am, trying to figure out just how something as exciting as getting married could turn into something so torturous, especially when you’re supposed to be in love. Continue reading ‘“The First is the Worst” Myth’

This was my Easter gift to my wife this year! I filled this bunny full of chocolate chips and M&M’s through its ear. It weighed in at ~5 pounds.

B loved it! You need to surprise your significant other with things that she would never guess. Keep her guessing and life will be full of awesome surprise for each other. I love to surprise my wife! Make it a great day!