Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

Mike Smith:
Heidi St. John joins me again today. Heidi, you have some helpful illustrations of ways that marriage can tend to stray, and a great image of how a husband and wife can stay connected. Would you share those with our listeners?

Heidi St. John:
Well, when couples lose touch with each other, it’s often because of something I like to call parallel lives. By parallel lives, I’m talking about two lives that represent individual lives, but because they’re focused primarily on their own pursuits and interests, they rarely intersect.

Now you can go along fine for a while, maybe even a long time, like this, but the danger is, even if you throw a millimeter of distance between those two lives, what happens to them? Well, the more time goes by, the further apart they become. So to keep this from happening, you’ve got to make sure you and your spouse are doing things to connect or draw these lives together frequently. Most people think, “Well, it’s physical intimacy.” But it’ much more than that. It’s finding things to do together that give you a shared purpose as a couple.

So when you add the two intersecting, entwined lives with the strong, growing relationship with the Lord Jesus, you’ve got the strong cord of three strands that Solomon refers to in Ecclesiastes. The Bible says that that chord is not easily broken.

Mike:
Heidi, these are really practical and great insights. Thanks for sharing them with our listeners! And until next time, I’m Mike Smith.