Sam and Erica's Marriage podcast
Seasons in Your Marriage Part 3 of 4: Seasons - When Your Marriage is in Summer
Episode 011
April 1, 2019
Introduction
- Welcome
- Good to be back! We were on our getaway.
- Part 3 of our 4 part series on Seasons In Your Marriage “When Your Marriage is in Summer”
Discussion
What is summer in a marriage?
- How do seasons relate to marriage?
- What summer is?
- What summer is not?
- So what do we do now that we know?
- Seasons are natural laws that further reveal truths about God and His creation
- He demonstrates His sovereignty
- We can’t make a season change. Only God can!
- Make the most of each season, because when it’s over it’s over.
Psalm 74:17 It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter.
- How do seasons apply to marriage
- There are different things that we should be doing in each season
- Seasons are temporary.
- Our experiences happen in and out of season not the other way around.
- A person might describe 3 tough years in their marriage as one long season when in fact during those 3 years that person actually had a tough time that spanned 12 full seasons.
Gen 8:22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
- What summer is
- The growing season
- A great season for activity, recreation and hanging out. Ecclesiastes 3:4 “a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,”
1. Opposite of winter - Noisy
- Energized
- A time for shepherding and cultivating
- Lots of fruit ripens in summer
- Expect to begin to enjoy, for the first time, things you’ve planted in a previous season
- Season for lovers
- Romance
- Popular season for weddings
- Gratitude
- “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?” -John Steinbeck.
- What summer is not
- A season of perfection
- It rains
- Cool nights
- Grass turns brown
- The primary season to harvest
- Things that we’ve planted are growing but not quite ready for harvest
- We have to be patient and not try to harvest too soon.
scripture ?***James 5:7 ? “Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.”
- What then should we do in Summer
- Make the best of the time together
- Take time to rest in this busy season-Harvest season is coming
- Have fun!
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Next we dig a little deeper into the different “seasons” of marriage.