Wisdom Quote #7 7/28/16
Marriage counseling is part of my pastoral duty. Whenever a married couple comes to me for counseling, I require them to bring some wedding pictures and other photos of them when they were dating. I would then ask each one to tell the story behind each picture. It’s fascinating to watch their reactions as stories of good old days were reminisced.
It’s amazing how this exercise can relieve tension between the skirmishing couple. Often, I observed emotions shifting from hostility to rapport, from being standoffish to being warm. This is then followed by tears as some hardened hearts were melted again by love. The wall between the two collapsed as beautiful memories were shared and brought back to life.
One of the things my wife and I love doing together is to look at our family photo albums. Those precious pictures remind us of life events that transpired through the years. Pictures refresh our memories on how we have shared together all the dramas of life, how we survived them all, and how every circumstance, good or bad made our union sweeter and stronger.
Pictures are precious, they record memories of our lives. That’s why photo albums are in everyone’s top list to save in the event of house fire. Yes, pictures are treasures and they can do wonders to a relationship. They can even save a marriage!
Hey married couples, why don’t you schedule a special date called “Photo Album Night”. Then, you might want to choose a picture that you would hang on the wall-to look at, on days when your spouse seemed unlovable. God bless you all!
P.S. We all had been using our camera phones for taking pictures nowadays and we store them as digital photos. Do you know that you could lose these photos easily? That happened to me when my phone broke and I didn’t have a back up. Have you considered ordering prints of those precious pictures and add them to your old fashioned photo album? As for me, this is one of the items in my to-do list ASAP.
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