The Peacemaker Marriage
Posted
Monday, February 25, 2008 8:07 PM
We started a mini Bible-study session at church last night called "The Peacemaker Marriage." It's about 4 weeks long, so not long at all. It was a lot of fun! I found that my husband and I share a lot of similarities with Pastor Roger and his wife in terms of how we are in marriage. We kept giving each other looks when something described the other to a T. He couldn't understand everything 100%, but he was able to even catch some of the jokes ("She's impractically romantic." ..."He's practically unromantic!"). ^^;; I look forward to seeing what the next few weeks have to offer.
I'm starting to take more initiative in getting involved again at the church, getting to know more people. It's truly amazing what feeling like you can relate to others can do for you. I signed up for a special 10-week study on Tuesday nights called "Family of Origin", which basically explores how the family you grew up in has played a part in who you are today. I am already very highly aware of some of these points, but I think it will be really interesting to go through. I think it has the potential to really play a big impact on our marriage, as our #1 and almost only complaint with one another regards each other's characters and the like. We don't argue over chores, financing, romance...all of those typical things. We just get on each other's nerves sometimes, so I think this will be good.
Immigration Update: Exactly as I had feared. They are processing applications at a rate slower than a month's worth in a month. As of January 15th, St. Paul was on June 27th. As of February 15th (which they just updated today), they are only on July 19th. July received such a HUGE surge of applications, so we know it will probably be at least another two months before we even start going through the real processing. (We sent ours at the end of July, but the receipt date, which is what we have to go by, is August 12th.) -.-;
Anyway, I'll have more updates later, for sure! Back to work now. ^^;;