In his spoken word poem, Jeff Bethke highlights frequent and problematic issues in marriage while pointing to Jesus as the ultimate healer, redeemer and restorer of marriage. Check it out! Comment Below, Let me know your thoughts.

If you haven’t noticed. It’s been quite a while since I’ve last posted. I’ve been busy with work projects, some personal business projects, a load of personal life stuff, enjoying my wife and doing more planning for things we have going for 2012. I thought – “Blast!, I have got to get back to posting on Happily Married After.”

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I come from a family that is sometimes “Leave it to Beaveresque” during the holidays. You talk about “chestnuts roasting on an open fire” happened literally at our home. It was funny because our extended family would make jokes, but secretly long to be apart of our “Cosbysonian” household. For as long as I can remember, from the day after Thanksgiving until Christmas, we would have our tree up and be decorating, and sending out cards, and my Mom would be baking cookies. My absolute favorite were always the red and green rice crispies treats my Mom would make and stack on a Christmas plate in a pyramid shape. I remember it became a theme for us on Christmas Eve to make cookies for “Santa” but my older sister and I would open a package of those little frosted cookies with beads on top for us to eat. (I always thought those cookies were disgusting, but the atmosphere was so loving I didn’t want to say so. We would make hot chocolate to go with our cookies and spend the evening watching Christmas movies. (I loved that movie, The Santa Claus with John Lithgow).

Typically I don’t comment on “high-profile” relationships in the news. Most of the celebrity marriages I don’t take very seriously in the first place. Even though the world tried to stop when Kim Kardashian decided that 72 days was enough time to ride the peaks and valleys of marriage to determine if it was a worthy endeavor to continue, my lips remained sealed.

Thank God for vacation time. Thea and I just returned from a 5 day cruise to Belize City, Belize and Cozumel, Mexico. It was great! We got a chance to really relax and reconnect with one another. It was a much needed break from our busy go, go, go pace and enjoy the warmth of Western Carribbean.