The Story of Us

Yesterday I watched one of my favorite movies...The Story of Us! It is a great movie about marriage. What I like most about the movie is that it presents a fairly accurate account of how a marriage really is. It is full of changes, disagreements, arguments, tears, occasional yelling, kids, and temptations. But it is also full of happiness, growing, sex, children, family and laughs. It's the, "You never listen to me!", "You haven't grown up!", "You won't let things go!", "Your just like your mother!" And it's the "I Love You!", "I'm sorry!", "You make me happy!" and the who's gonna go put the tooth fairy money under the pillow! Marriage is not easy!

Like many marriages both sides sometimes feel that the negatives far outweigh the positives in our relationships. We began to wonder if it is worth the struggle to "make things work" and we start to wonder if we would be better off separating or even getting divorced. We wonder how it would affect the lives of our children. If we continue to listen to these lies and stay focused on the negatives, we will sacrifice all we have worked for and give up!

I hope, however, that we choose to stick it out! Not just for the kids, but for US. I hope we can see that despite the struggles their is a growing and changing relationship that God has put together. I hope that we can look past the arguments and learn forgiveness, love and respect. I hope that we, like the characters in the movie, choose "Chow Funs"! Watch the movie.