The weekend before Thanksgiving, Steve and I went to the Coeur D'Alene Resort for Family Life's "A Weekend To Remember" conference, sponsored by Family Life. This is the second year we have attended. Steve's unit in the Air Force gives free conference and hotel tickets for those who would like to attend.
While some of Family Life's theology is a bit skewed, it was so wonderful to spend a weekend concentrating on nothing but Steve and our marriage. When you have children it is so easy to get wrapped up in nothing but raising them correctly (and in our case, their various issues) and neglecting the most important relationship in the family - that of husband and wife. I believe the same thing happens for men with their career.
I have begun to wonder if much more time was spent cultivating a good marriage relationship in front of the kids, making the marriage top priority (outside of God, of course), whether much of the child training issues wouldn't resolve themselves.
The organization, Family Life, will be sponsoring a video seminar, "The Art of Marriage" in February of 2011. One of our favorite speakers, Voddie Baucham will be featured. We are looking forward to it.
Anyway, I highly recommend this conference - its worth the time, money and effort to get away. If you look at Family Life's website, you can probably find a conference in your location.
Til next time...
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