Scripture # 3 from our Five Scriptures Lesson. "For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost...?" Most couples spend more time planning the wedding than planning the marriage. The wedding is literally a piece of cake. The marriage, however, is a fifty to eighty year (if you are really lucky) commitment with adjustments, bills, illness, babies, overdrafts, debt, teenagers, tuition, heartbreak, and so on, and so on. John Bytheway paraphrases a popular saying, "Ask not what your marriage can do for you, ask what you can do for your marriage." Maintaining a marriage can be as simple as asking a few questions of one another on a weekly basis. Questions like, "Is there anything I could do better?", "Am I being a good husband/wife?", "How do you feel about things?" Then REALLY LISTENING to the answers. If you want to "build" a celestial marriage, it is a good idea to "sitteth down" first and count the cost.
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