On Your Weekend, the idea of Keeping Your Relationship a Priority was discussed at some length. At this Reunion, presenters will go into depth as to how to ensure that you have the necessary tools to focus on your relationship and your spouse.
The Program is still in the planning stage, but we do know that after some presentations, there will be dialogue and small-group sharing time.
Miller auditorium, pictured here is the site of Saturday's Presentations
Reunion Presentations are Based upon the Five Tools to Keep Your Relationship a Priority |
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It is all so easy to return to a married singles lifestyle and push our spouse's need to communicate and be heard to the side. This tool focuses on ways to listen and to really pay attention to both the verbal and non-verbal aspects of our communication. Another tool discussed on the weekend is sexuality in our relationship. Sexuality is a very intimate form of communication between husband and wife. Understanding how, and why we communicate through our own sexuality, will allow us to understand how, in order to be truly intimate with each other, we must be willing to trust and risk. Jesus is our sin-less Savior. It is not because He was God that kept HIm from sinning. Rather, it was because He was in perfect relationship with the Father. Jesus continually prayed to His Father for guidance, for support, and for others. We need to model Christ's love in our marriage relationship. We need to be continually asking God for His will, His Direction and support in our lives. This tool explores the benefits of praying for each other and with each other. These is an analogy of community found in a pile of lit charcoal. If one piece of charcoal is off to the side, it cannot remain lit or burn for long by itself. But if it is part of the charcoal pile (hence, the community), it helps build and maintain the heat while keeping its own glow. This tool emphasises the importance of walking life's journey with others that share your values, desires and interests. It also lets us understand how as part of community, there are times we need to receive, and other times we need to give. Are you the same person today that you were right after high school? Have life's activities changed how you look, and interact with the world? Is your spouse the person today that they were just a few years ago. How do this impact your relationship. This tool explores how we need to keep looking at the things we choose to do, the decisions we make, and ways we treat each other in light of keeping our relationship a priority. |
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