(My brother Steve, his bride Nadia and her parents) May 2010

What Every Wedding Makes Me Realize

July 22, 2015

“Do all that is good for her. Have compassion on her and always hasten to do that which will gladden her heart.” Excerpt from Orthodox wedding ceremony

I was honored to be able to perform a wedding ceremony yesterday for two of my very close friends and it happened again. It always happens after weddings. Weddings just have a way of doing that to me.

I won’t go so far as to say I cry or anything like that, but every time I attend a wedding ceremony – especially when it’s a couple that I feel close to – I feel different afterwards. I don’t leave the same way I came. I leave with a renewed sense of appreciation at what God has given me in my wife Marianne and a rejuvenated desire to be the best husband I can be to her.

Changing Your View of Your Spouse

July 16, 2014

Your spouse is NOT your enemy. Your spouse is God’s gift to you. You and your spouse were made to be dangerous for God.

Those three statements summarize the main lessons that I took away from this past weekend’s Weekend to Remember conference that Marianne and I just attended. As promised, this week I’ll be sharing different lessons that we came away with from the conference.

But first, let me tell you how the conference started for me. It started with a strange encounter with some very different people. Last week, I blogged about how we are all different and we must learn to appreciate our differences. Well, God put that to the test this past weekend.