Family Honeymoon the Foundational Period

Family

Honeymoon the Foundational Period

Marriage is the uniting of a man and a woman

to become “One flesh”

Two different people, two different lives, from two different families.

This is the math equation not taught in school.

Math says 1+1= 2

We have been taught this all our lives.

Marriage is not a math equation, it is a formula.

The formula for 1+1=1 takes the following…

Love must be recognized as a choice.

Love must be added to everything you do.

Love is not a feeling.

Feelings are the result of love in action.

Communication is the blender.

Where what is inside each person comes

out in verbal and non-verbal ways.

Time, oneness, unity takes time.

It is the commitment of time in the wedding vows…

“Till death do us part”

  

These three things, even four that make the formula of 1+1=1.

Love, Communication, Time, and Commitment

In Deuteronomy 24:5 the law of God’s people was…

“If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have

any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay

at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.” NIV

The first year of marriage is a time for the

husband to bring happiness to his wife.

This first year is Marriage 101.

It is true “happy wife happy life”.

This is so important as the husband learns how to take

his role of leading and being head of his wife and family.

The honeymoon where two

become one flesh is a valuable time.

It is the beginning of two lives becoming one life.

This first stage of the Family Cycle is very

important to the next stage of child bearing.

It is the foundation to the life of the Family Cycle.

The newlyweds should allow this season to shape them.

It is more than the body that is

undressed on the honeymoon.

The soul and the spirit,

the thoughts and emotions

are undressed in the honeymoon phase.

This can be embarrassing and uncomfortable.

Remember love covers a multitude of sins.

Always let love be the blanket of security

you cover your spouse with.

 

Because love never fails.

There are 6 cycles for a family to navigate 

“Cycles of family life”

The marriage

Bearing children

Raising children

The empty nest / launching new family

The declining years

Death in the marriage

Family cycles should be a great experience for the whole family

Scripture Reading NIV

Genesis 2:23-25

 The man said,

"This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called 'woman, 'for she was taken out of man."

24 For this reason a man will leave his father and

mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Deuteronomy 24:5

If a man has recently married, he must not be

sent to war or have any other duty laid on him.

For one year he is to be free to stay at home

and bring happiness to the wife he has married.