Broken

Last year, I bought an Elliptical machine to help work my way back into shape. After two weeks, the questionably made product broke. After months of trying to get a replacement part, they gave up and sent me a new machine that still works but has the same nagging weakness. Before I use it, I try to check it out because if I tighten up the part that loosens during use, it can last much longer than the one that stripped out and is unuseable.

This past week, we talked about marriage and divorce. Its a lot like my two elliptical machines. Often times we go into marriage thinking that nothing could ever fail. What we don't realize is that the regular use, the pounding of life, the friction of day to day activities begin to reveal weaknesses that if they go overlooked will cause things to become broken.

On the other hand, if we know there is places where things are likely to break, we can put special care into it, we can "tighten it up." In every marriage, there will be extra tension regarding money, regarding sex, regarding hobies and relationships. Those things will always be an area of weakness in every marriage just like every same model of elliptical machine will likely fail in the same area.

Marriage takes a lot of care. Take time to do a lot of preventative maintenance. Your spouse deserves it. Have a blessed week!