Jana and I have noticed a bunch of marriages around us that seem to be hanging on by a thread.  People that are staying put because of a sense of duty or obligation, but have no sense of hope or joy or expectation that they can ever be happy again with their current spouse.  They want things to be different, but they don’t know how to get there, or when they begin to make effort, they feel like everything they do ends up ticking off their spouse.  Is this what marriage is supposed to be like?  Is this all there is?  If so, why do people do this to themselves.  Meanwhile, if you’re going to stay, there has to be a better way.  If Jesus said he came to give life to the full, how do we move into that in our marriage?

We are meeting with a group of couples at the end of January 2009, in what we’re calling a marriage “intensive”.  Maybe a weekend away, to pray, to be strenghtened, to be given a sense of hope, will be good for all of us.  Keep you posted on how it goes.