Author and speaker, Gary Thomas, was in this past weekend. Gary has written numerous articles in Christian publications, as well as numerous books: Including, Seeking the Face of God (my favorite), Sacred Pathways, Sacred Marriage, Sacred Parenting, and Authentic Faith.

His Sacred Marriage Seminar is the best marriage seminar I have attended. The question he presents in this seminar is: Is it possible that marriage may not be about making us happy, but rather it's about making us holy?

It was also interesting to hear how God's relationship with His people, Israel, and marriage are often alike.

1. There's great joy and celebration
2. There's seasons of frustration and anger
3. There's infidelity and apostasy
4. There's excrutiating seasons of silence

Gary also stated that it takes, on the average, 15 years of marriage for a couple to get to a point where they stop thinking about self and start thinking about being one! That certainly makes Luke 8:15 and James 1:4 come alive with new meaning!

Are you persevering in your marriage? How are you becoming holy as a direct result of your marriage? If you have children, how does it make you feel when people treat your children poorly, or are disrespectful of them, or fail to value them? As you think about how that, I encourage you next, to think about this: Are you treating your spouse as God's child?

Let your life speak,
DpD