Time to Get Away & Think

I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory. Psalm 63:2 Where is your place to get away together? Maybe it's a certain chair in a quiet corner of your home. Maybe it's the back deck at sunrise or under the porch light after dark, with only the rhythmic hum of the crickets to disrupt your quiet. Maybe it's a nearby creek or a nice place to walk or jog. Maybe it's a garage workshop or a cozy cafe. Or maybe it's nowhere. Maybe this just doesn’t happen for the two of you very often. One of Martha and my favorite times to talk is when we go on walks together early in the morning. With six kids you have to make an effort to get away – and it doesn’t happen as regularly as we would like! It's simply one of our ways to get away from the needs of other people. You know, the phone and email and all the other interruptions. We may share something we've been thinking about. We may dial up a sweet memory. We may talk about the needs of the kids, or we may just walk along glad to be together. If there's one reason why marriages wither under the pressures and demands of daily life, it may be the lack of having regular times and places where we deliberately go to pray, share and regain perspective. It may be because we're always puttering and planning and doing and moving from one place to the next but never stopping or listening or recharging - together. Please comment below or email me directly at curtis.songer@gmail.com