Choice Tidbits From the Marriage Retreat:: Four Commitments

You can read the first part here...

Four commitments that will make my marriage what God ordained it to be:

1) Commitment of priority:
This commitment says "Next to Christ you are my highest priority."

What are my priorities? It doesn't matter what I say my priorities are, what matters is does he feel valued?

A) Practice the priority
B) Protect the priority
Does he feel like my priority?

To protect the priority:
1) Date. Get creative.
2)Get time out of town
3) Limit the kids' activities so you aren't slave to the soccer/ gymnastics/ football schedule
4) Limit social activities. Learn to say no
5) Get out from under financial burdens

Next to my relationship with God, my relationship with my husband is the most sacred.

This one really struck me. I had not ever considered the sacredness of my relationship with my husband. It is something holy. Am I treating it as such? Am I interacting with my husband in a manner that lets God know that I highly revere this man He gave me? That I respect this person He created to complete me? That this relationship honors and mirrors the very sacred relationship that Christ has with the Church? Marriage is sacred, a holy thing, in God's eyes...do I see it the same way He does?

I will be posting the next commitment later on this week