“Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.'”

Genesis 2:18

Take Action

Now is the time to take action.

I want you to start listening to your relationships.  Get tuned in to them. 

Not only listening but also getting fully in tune with it. 

I mean fully IN TUNE! 

Listen, feel, and look.  Then put the elbow grease into getting your relationship in the best condition it has ever been in. make it shine like it’s brand new, just like when you were dating and falling in love!

Prayer

Lord God, today we come to you with a few things.  First off we pray that you would help us to get in tune with our relationships. We pray that you would help give us the strength and endurance to put the elbow grease into our relationships to keep them in the best looking and running condition that we possibly can.  God, we also pray that you would give us the knowledge to know where to make minor adjustments to every one of our relationships.  When we do that we get amazing results. Last God we would like to give you every single relationship that we have.  Whether it is with our dog, our spouse, our coworker, our boss, our parents, or our siblings.  We give them to you.  God, we know that by giving them to you we are actually gaining more control of our lives and our relationships. God thank you for these wonderful opportunities to grow with you.

In your precious Son’s name.

Amen

A Little More

Recently we brought Dr. Gary Chapman the author of the 5 Love Languages to Durango, CO for a couples conference.

I was extremely excited and SCARED beyond all measures for this entire event.

I was stoked and excited because I could see the potential for the event. Not to mention I was pretty excited to meet Dr. Chapman.

We picked him up from the airport on Friday afternoon, then went to lunch.  After lunch, I asked him if he wanted to go to the hotel or go for a drive?

He just got off of a long plane ride, so I figured he’d like to go rest a little in his room. But he shocked me by saying that he would love to go for a ride into the mountains. 

So….

We dropped Jenna off at her vehicle and Gary and I cruised up into the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.

As we drove up into the mountains he was in awe of God’s creation and the fact that we can drive up through it.

We had a great conversation as we drove.  I learned so much about him, his wife, his kids, and his history.

I felt like it was a one-on-one interview that lasted for about 3 hours.

It was amazing.

One of the conversations that we had was all about how we lose track of our partner after we get married. 

Before we are married our entire being is devoted to them.

We take all kinds of time trying to impress them.

I mean tons of time.  Our every thought is about them and how we can “win” them over.

We bring them small gifts all the time. 

Our breath always is minty fresh.

We shower every day and right before we go to see them.

They are all that we can think about. All the time. 

So why does this change after we tie the knot?

The realization that I came to was that if I paid as much attention to my relationship as I do my truck I would know every issue that was about to happen.

I mean I can tell you the second the tone of my engine changes. But there are times that I can’t tell my relationship is on the rocks until I’m stranded and the engine won’t run any longer.  Then I have to do a major overhaul, instead of simply adding a few quarts of oil.

In the end, we lost a little money bringing in Dr Chapman, but it was well worth every single penny that we spent, because of the life lessons that I learned in those 2 short days.