Jeremy and I had the pleasure of attending a Weekend To Remember Family Life Marriage Conference (www.familylife.com). I would highly recommend this conference to anyone married or engaged. If your marriage is struggling, you will find answers to your questions and solutions to your problems, and if your marriage is healthy, it is a great faith building preemptive strike to ensure the enemy doesn't lay hold of the marriage territory that is the Lords, because he (the enemy) doesn't have any right to it! Here are a few things that really stood out:
- My spouse is not my enemy (Satan is)!
- Unity is NOT uniformity OR unanimity.
- My spouse is a gift from a gracious God to fulfill a need that not even God himself can fill.
- To reject your spouse in any way is to say "You missed it on this one God".
- Truth without love is rude & insulting; love without truth is deception.
- Just because you've been handed a family legacy doesn't mean you have to keep that legacy for yourself.
- Conflict is a reality; the goal is not to be conflict free, but to handle conflict correctly when it occurs.
There was so much over the 3 days that we have yet to absorb and really put into practice all the things we've learned, but we are so thankful for the tools we were given to strengthen our marriage and in so doing mirror God's image!
