Weekend To Remember

My wife Kim and I attended a Family Life Weekend To Remember recently. It was a great weekend. The weekend is designed to focus your attention on each other, eliminating as many of the distractions of everyday life. Friday evening opened with a speaker telling us that through the weekend we would come up with some key things to remember. These would be things that would make your marriage stronger. I had overlooked this page 1 until the Sunday session. Of course my wife had been keeping up by writing down a few things. I had some ideas in my head, just didn't take time to write them down. There is a huge difference between in my head and on paper. The "in my head" tends to get forgotten or lost. If I write something down, I am forced to look at it and remember why I wrote it down.
The following are some things that I wrote that day. I need to encourage Kim more. I sometimes take her for granted and need to acknowledge what she does for me much more often. I need to listen to her better. I usually have some distraction that causes my focus to be elsewhere other than on Kim, or another that is talking to me. A third thing is to remember that the day doesn't end at 5pm and I need to "save something" for when I get home A last thing is to spend time individually with my daughters. I have twin daughters that are a week away from turning 12 years old. We do many things together. I need to spend time with each of them alone, so I can see that they are different and unique.

I encourage each of you to take your wife to a Weekend To Remember. It will help you understand each other better. This was our third time and we still came away with something learned. Weekend To Remember also is a good tool for those thinking about getting married. They have times focused on this group of people.

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