Well, it has been a while since I last published to this blog. I am sorry for all of you who have been enslaved by my blog and have been checking it daily since the last entry only to find it has not been updated. Thank you for your patience and guess what, it has been updated.
This past weekend was our annual Marriage Retreat held at the Glen Allen church of Christ just outside of Richmond, VA. Eight couples from church attended and enjoyed spending the time away from home focusing on their marriage.
Terry Lafferty, my good friend from Western PA came down for the weekend and did a terrific job facilitating our discussion time. He used material from the book GETTING IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME by Barry and Emily J. McCarthy to focus our attention on some key components of a successful marriage. What Terry was able to add to the message of the book was a spiritual approach and some personal examples from his marriage.
Terry mentioned that respect, trust and intimacy are core to any marriage (chapter 2) but that a marriage lacking God could not be as successful as one that included God.
Questions begging for response:
1. What do you believe constitutes a successful marriage?
2. Do you believe that have a successful marriage you must be one with God? Why or why not?
3. What do you do to make your marriage a success?
2 comments:
First of all I'm glad you are finally back. Thought I was going to have to tell you to "Take a Risk"!!:)
I think my parents marriage is a "successful marriage". They've been married 53 yrs...thru good and bad, poor and poorer, and happy and sad. One thing they did was let us(kids) see them have disagreements as well as the "I'm sorry" make up part. That taught us not everything is perfect and there are ups and down's, but hang in there!! I also know God plays a big part in their marriage(I know mom prays alot more now dealing with dad's Alzheimers), and God is also a very big part of my marriage. Without God as a partner in the marriage, it would be too easy to give up. Marriage takes work, one of the ways we make ours work is just sitting down and talking to each other and listening to each other.
Didn't mean to write a book! ;)
Miss you RogBro!!
Good comments Kelly. Intential, good communication is vital to a healthy marriage.
I include in the weddings I perform the passage from Ecc 3:12 that mentions the strength of three strands (God being one of the three).
We miss you guys too!
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