Lovin' It

Last weekend, as I mentioned in a Prayer Monday post, we went to our church's marriage retreat in St Louis.  I can't remember the exact title of it but it had the word Extreme in it and was workout themed because we have to work at our marriages.  It was an amazing time and we got a lot out of it.

You know sometimes after you go to a retreat the effects start to ebb away?  Well in anticipation of this our speaker had a sign up if we wanted to for six weeks of an Extreme Marriage Challenge.  Each week we get an email outlining our challenges for the week.  There are verses and questions you ask each other for five days of the week plus he adds at the bottom some actions to do each week.  For example:  Write a love note for your spouse.  Different things like that.  I am LOVING these challenges.  Some of the questions you and your spouse ask each other stretch you to really communicate and talk about some tough stuff.  One of the days though the questions were goal and dream based.  At the retreat he encouraged to dream together.  Even if those dreams might not happen.  I loved this idea and am glad this was incorporated into the 6 week challenge.  It is nice to talk about the fun things and not just the serious stuff!

This has been good for us because it has made us make time to spend together without our son.  Not that we don't love our son but we rarely have time just the two of us. We are going to work harder at time for just the two of us.  Date nights once a month are going to be a good start :)

PS Any married couple could do these weeks of Extreme Marriage Challenges even if you didn't go to our marriage retreat.  There are only a couple of questions that say anything about the retreat in the first week so you could just skip those.  If you are interested let me know and I can email them to you.  My email is a.miller051708@gmail.com