Marriage blog

The last two months have been a fairly intense period of writing and sharing for us. We are realizing that our typical pattern in almost 10 years of marriage has been to share our heart with our journal and then shut it up and not let anyone else - especially each other see it. Insights are captured quickly, but never exposed into the light of interaction, or the accountability or knowledge and encouragement of prayer. So in the last two months there has been a good amount of opening journals and pointing to pages, passages, documents that spoke in the moment to our struggles and questions. We have found that we were often speaking the same things into our journals, each asking the same "Why are you that way?" question. We have even laughed about it. So in the moment of reflection on our marriage and our life - in a monthly anniversary - the commitment is still to write often, but to turn the words into letters rather than journals.