Show me the path where I should walk, O Lord
To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. I trust in You, my God! Show me the path where I should walk, O Lord Point out the right road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me for You are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in You. Remember O Lord your unfailing love and compassion which you have shown from long ages past. Forgive the rebellious sins of my youth…Archive for marriage
weaving in your marriage
It seems the new routine is an occasional post. I don’t desire to end this blog like I have for other things (especially due to the occasional interest in having an ‘outlet’) but there’s certainly a lessened interest most of the times. Anyway…
As of late we’ve been part of a marriage small group with our church family… it’s been great and involved a lot of really thoughtful and diverse discussion. I’m the ‘apprentice’/assistant and that means occasionally I get to ‘lead’/facilate discussion. Yesterday was the first and the topic already identified was Weaving. It’s part 3 (with part 1 being Leaving, and part 2 being Cleaving). The best part of the night wasn’t anything I had written unfortunately – it was the discussion. Alas, I don’t take notes well for that sort of thing… but I leave you with my entire plans for discussion if for some reason this would be of value to someone.
marriage disagreements…
A week ago, we had the chance to get away from the kids for a night. We already had plans to take part in a Couples’ Café (the primary purpose of this post), and then afterwards we picked up some Chipotle dinner since it seemed everything we really wanted around the area was already closed at a little past 10pm. Read the rest of this entry »
marriage, viewpoint from 6 years
2001
Marriage. It’s one of those journeys you never really know were you’re going to be at next. There sure are some dips and some serious turns and a LOT of stuff you don’t expect. It seems if you’re like me you can try to plan it all you want, but it doesn’t always work out like you expect. A lot of times this is usually BETTER than anything I could plan on anyway. It’s a real joining of two people – and a strengthening of each other FOREVER. I find it sad though because it seems that frequently I have seen workshops about divorce recovery but not so much on marriage strengthening…
But marriage sure needs it. If you’re married, you know it is NOT easy, it is NOT simple, and it DOES require a lot of understanding, patience and determination. I find it very easy to get myself in a mess through not talking, or putting other things ahead of my wife. I don’t always feel like doing a lot of things, but what I have lately begun to realize, it’s not all about her and it’s certainly not always about how I “feel”. It can and should be so much deeper than that and when it is, everything in life is simply magnitudes better than ever before. I find it really hard to explain, but know Paul Newman really got it when he said “Why would I go out for a hamburger when I have steak at home?”
By the way, the picture to the right is from 7 years ago (almost a year before we were married). Read the rest of this entry »
Go, or stay…
Just watched a really awesome video from this Church for Men Florida post that was Keith Green that focused on one little command to “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”.
