37 WAYS OF MARRIAGE AND FAITH

1. You need to know God has brought you together.

2. You need to know you’ve made a covenant with your spouse. Not a business contract.

3. You need to know to turn your marriage over to God every morning. He has some thoughts about it.

4. You need to know to agree beforehand what role faith will play in your marriage. And what role it will play when things go south.

5. You need to know that you must be at peace with God before you can be at peace in your marriage.

6. You need to know that if you make your spouse your god, they will always disappoint you.

7. You need to know to not try to change your spouse’s beliefs. That’s God’s job. Not yours.

8. You need to know a spiritual foundation is vital to a healthy marriage. There will be times when it carries you.

9. You need to know that marriage isn’t about the two of you. It’s about the three of you.

29 WAY OF WEDDING AND LOVE

1. You need to know there’ll be some days you’ll have to really work at loving the other person. Especially those days when she’s snarling at you.

2. You need to know that love is showing patience for a man who hasn’t picked up his laundry in three days.

3. You need to know love is caring more about another person’s happiness than your own.

4. You need to know true love is loving another person in spite of their annoying little habits that
would drive another person nuts.

5. You need to know love is letting another person lean on you.

6. You need to know love is listening.

7. You need to know love is reassuring your pregnant wife that her gas problems don’t embarrass you.

8. You need to know that love is agreeing to go to a therapist even though you think it’s the other person who has a few loose screws.

99 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT WEDDING PLANS

1. You need to know the marriage is more important than the wedding. And requires even more planning.

2. You need to know your relationship will be sanctified.

3. You need to know you’re promising “till death do you part.” Not “till the good times end.”

4. You need to know to marry for character more than for good looks or money. Okay, a little more.

5. You need to know to use your mind as well as your heart when you choose a spouse.

6. You need to know a happy couple is made up of two individuals committed to each other.

7. You need to know about Trash to Treasure, where you can find everything fromwedding gowns used once to deep-discount wedding decorations.

8. You need to know you’re choosing the person you’ll spend the rest of your life with. And still make
passes at when you’re both on walkers.

9. You need to know you’re launching into a fifty-year conversation, interrupted by life.

WHAT IS A WEDDING?

A wedding is a joyful celebration of two people being so in love they make a spiritual and public vow of their decision to come together. A marriage is what happens after the ceremony.

Weddings have become a huge money-making industry. But staying married is what couples really need to spend their time and energy on. It doesn’t matter if you’re getting married next week or if you’ve been married twenty-five years, you will face challenges and issues that could break you apart.