It was a warm, early summer day when Dennis invited me to go to lunch. We’d known each other as friends for three years in college. But we hadn’t seen each other in a year, so we had a lot to catch up on. One lunch wasn’t nearly long enough. So he invited me to go on a picnic the next day. And a picnic still wasn’t enough. On the way back to my apartment, he asked me to go to church with him the next day. So began a month of daily dialogue: sharing rides to work, dinners, and walks late into the evening. The talking never ran dry. He listened to me as it seemed no one ever had. I felt comfortable with him like no one else. Our relationship was easy and natural. Within two months this one long conversation led to a decision to get married. A conclusion we both reached after praying for God to show us His will. We married six weeks later. Like every married couple since Adam and Eve, we found ourselves in places where that early ease was quickly replaced by discomfort, disagreement, and difficulties we never saw coming. The springtime oneness that was so real when we married dissipated like dew under the midsummer sun. So how do we rekindle that oneness of first love? A definition might help. Oneness is a
Remember When You Fell in Love?
Remember When You Fell in Love?
Remember When You Fell in Love?
It was a warm, early summer day when Dennis invited me to go to lunch. We’d known each other as friends for three years in college. But we hadn’t seen each other in a year, so we had a lot to catch up on. One lunch wasn’t nearly long enough. So he invited me to go on a picnic the next day. And a picnic still wasn’t enough. On the way back to my apartment, he asked me to go to church with him the next day. So began a month of daily dialogue: sharing rides to work, dinners, and walks late into the evening. The talking never ran dry. He listened to me as it seemed no one ever had. I felt comfortable with him like no one else. Our relationship was easy and natural. Within two months this one long conversation led to a decision to get married. A conclusion we both reached after praying for God to show us His will. We married six weeks later. Like every married couple since Adam and Eve, we found ourselves in places where that early ease was quickly replaced by discomfort, disagreement, and difficulties we never saw coming. The springtime oneness that was so real when we married dissipated like dew under the midsummer sun. So how do we rekindle that oneness of first love? A definition might help. Oneness is a