Thoughts from the Marriage Retreat

We returned from a marriage retreat just last Saturday evening just in time to rush off to Dy’s wedding. They were really pretty. Kai Yun looked real good too.

The retreat has really tender moments for Praise and I. We looked at a number of areas including our level of communications and how we loved and needed one another. Pastor Larry was talking about Stewardship and how God has given us our wives for us to be steward over.

Two things I wrote down as he was speaking:

1. My wife and kids don’t really belong to me. I refer to them as MY wife and MY kids and they actually belong to God and I am to be a steward over them. That’s not too difficult to figure out.

2.  If I am a steward representing God in my family, then, my wife will experience the person and nature of God to her through me. That is, if she wants to know how God loves her, she should be able to figure that out from observing how I treat her. If she wants to know how God provides for her, she should feel that same sense of security when seeing how I provide for her in the family.

Of course, it is a given that in doing all that, I am myself depending on God to come through on those things and she is also first encouraged to how a personal relationship with God. Still, just as countries experience one another through the person of the Ambassador to the nation, so my family’s experience of who God is be largely influenced by who I am to them.

When I think of my family in those terms, it really challenges my to bring my game to whole different level. I know I do tend to take a lot better care of my buddies stuff than my own.