Marriage seminar III
At the marriage seminar, Keith Condie helped us to consider how we could strengthen marriage by building emotional attachment with our spouses. He observed how often we can end up speaking to our spouses or our children in a way that is so uncivil and rude, we would shudder to even contemplate using the same language or tone in public, in our workplace, or at church. Should our marriages end up as places where basic common courtesy is suspended? Should we feel free to interrupt the one we are married to because we think we know what they will say? Proverbs says,
If one gives an answer before he hears,
it is his folly and shame.(Prov 18:13)
How much more is this so when the one we listen to is the one we've promised to love, honour and cherish!
Once more Keith reminded us that self-control and gentleness were a work of God's Holy Spirit in us.