Mama Mare POV: Don’t trail away from the wedding aisle

 

  It has been almost seven years since my husband and I said “I do” amongst Tennessee mountains. We held hands below a transom of transitioning leaves in the month of October. We solidified our love for each other and God as we braided three cords amidst chords of Irish ambience. 

Often, I walk back to that day and revel in the lowering light of the adoring Autumn day. It was a day of sweeping love like the nearby horse pastures. It was a day of sweet solidification of committed hearts. 

To maintain a tight three cord marriage, don’t trail away from the wedding aisle:

Overloaded days can overturn the wagon of balanced communication. Overtime, connection with your spouse becomes unhitched and trails off into the distance away from the original wedding aisle. 

Make sure to solder daily “meet-ups” before the wagon of communication has a chance to unhitch. “Meet-ups” can include sweet texts throughout the day or a short telephone call to pray with each other. Most importantly, when the children are tucked into bed, reconnect wholeheartedly without distractions and converse amidst evening lamplight. 

Arguing and tenseness are occasionally inevitable within a marriage. During those times, pride may grasp both of your hands and pull you away from humble and familiar beginnings. 

In those intense instances, release pride and grasp each others’ hands with love and forgiveness. Walk with each other to the wedding aisle where you vowed humility. 

Throughout your marriage there will always be culprits that tamper with the hitch of your strong connected relationship. Excessive mundanity can dry-rot passion. Busyness with children and day-to-day doused duties can weaken your bolted relationship. Life in general, can hinder your hitched and healthy marriage. 

So, daily, reconnect with your spouse. Hitch to each other’s hearts and “become one” once again. Walk back to the day where you both solidified your love with a lifetime commitment of relationship goals. 

“and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” - Mark 10:8-9