The Adventure of a Successful Marriage

Marriage is an adventure. A successful marriage is like an adventurer going on a hike through the Arctic or trekking to a mountain peak in Nepal. Just as adventurers need the proper tools and equipment to achieve the desired goal, so do marriage partners. Some tools that an adventurer to a victorious marriage need are love and commitment, as well as hope or self-confidence through wise decision-making. Men and women who desire a marriage that last into eternity are challenged to make the adventure of their marriage, successful.

Sport enthusiasts can compare a successful marriage to their respective sports. Although plans are carefully made, often they do not go the way planned. However, love and commitment for the sport keeps the adventurer going when the terrain is rough, the water is choppy or the weather is stormy. It is the same in marriage; love and commitment to the marriage will keep the couple from divorce when times are difficult. Just as an adventurer shows his/her love for sports in different ways, so does a marriage partner. Some sport enthusiasts have only a short time to spend on their sports, so they spend every moment that they have wisely. Men and women who want to achieve the goal of a successful marriage should share quality time together.

When adventurers go rock climbing or white water rafting, they hope that their plans will enable them to complete the task. The adventurer places his/her faith in the necessary tools that will ensure safety. You have the confidence that wise decision-making will help your adventure be successful. That is the way it is in the adventure of marriage; you need the tools of hope and faith to achieve a successful union. A wrong decision can take you into the deepest valley and into rapids of turmoil that can challenge a marriage. Couples who turn to God in their time of mayhem and distress find hope and self-confidence through their wise decisions.

Adventurers never want failure. Marriage partners should not always have failure or divorce in the back of their minds. Like sport adventurers, marriage adventurers can achieve their goal of success through commitment, wise decision-making, open communication and seeking protection from the storms of life. Men and women who seek and read Gods word can find guidelines for a successful marriage adventure.

Pat Strawbridge is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and the Mississippi University for Women and has done postgraduate work at University of Tennessee, Knoxville in Home Economics with emphasis in family relations. She and her husband, Drennon, live in Cleveland, TN near their son, Mike and his wife, Janice, and two grandsons Scott and Will. White Bible Ceremonies for Couples: Advice for Successful Marriage is available in manual form with instructions or CD with photos, instructions and suggestions @ http://www.whitebibleceremony.com.

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