Finding the wife of his youth, again.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Proverbs 5:18

This weekend I had the priviledge of spending time with a new teen couple and they were stinking sweet. I am convinced that we do not spend enough time with the younger generation. They could help us out a lot if we allowed it. They would remind us to enjoy the one we love, how to shut out all the background noise and just focus on The One we choose to walk this life with. And in turn we could help give them tools to create a strong spiritually centered relationship, after all we have been there, made the mistakes and bought the T-shirts. 

Okay so one thing that struck me as I was with them is how much fun they had together. There was no shortage of laughter and bantering back and forth. As life crowds in on us we get more and more serious and forget to joke and just be senselessly silly with the love of our life and in a lot of cases our fun loving spouses can annoy us and cause us to resent them if we are not careful and do not change our attitude. So in this spirit I started tweaking my date night list (yes there is a list, sad I know but I am a list person). I came across Seventeen Magazine's Romantic Date Lists and what struck me was how many of these date ideas had never been crossed off my list. Now how much fun is it going to be to just seize the day with the man of my dreams? I will get to enjoy all the folly of youthful dates, with the joy of marriage. I believe this is what God had in mind when he created Adam and Eve and marriage. Not the stress ridden institution we try to make it. When stress takes over it is time to stop and re-evaluate our priorities and try a different plan of action in many cases. There is freedom in a Godly marriage to explore and enjoy one another with God's blessing. I know this may sound silly to some of you, just promise me you will give it a try. You never know how much fun you might be missing. And I guarantee you that it will bring you closer to your love.

Fun date idea links:  http://www.essortment.com/55-creative-cheap-dating-ideas-teens-50053.html
            http://www.seventeen.com/love/date-ideas-for-teens#category1-1

Get to know you better activity: http://www.ordinaryinspirations.blogspot.com/2013/01/spice-up-your-marriage-30-date-your.html