• Before your scheduled date location listen to this 18-minute podcast to remember the purpose of your marriage.

Take turns answering each of the following questions.

• Before listening, what would you have said if asked to explain the purpose of our marriage?

• How does understanding God's design for marriage change or influence that answer?

Quietly Reflect

The Marriage Masterpiece audio described characteristics of God's marriage that should be reflected in our marriages. Quietly identify which of those characteristics are easy for you and which are hard?

• A COVENANT MARRIAGE: A lifelong, unbreakable commitment

• A PASSIONATE MARRIAGE: Fully giving myself physically and emotionally

• A FIGHTING MARRIAGE: Forgiving quickly and fighting FOR the relationship

• A ONE-SIDED MARRIAGE: Placing my mate's needs above my own

• A HEROIC MARRIAGE: Humbling myself and serving my spouse

Ask One Another

What is one thing I can try to do that would help move our marriage closer to the masterpiece it should be?

Brainstorm the following to come up with at least ten answers.

Let’s say the Romance Fairy just flew up and handed us ten million dollars that must be spent on a five day get-away without the kids. She said we can't go to a place we've been before and we must try some new adventure. Where would we consider going and what adventures would we try together?