After the Conference...

For most people, the Weekend to Remember conference is a time of hope and encouragement; a time for marriages to be renewed and refined. Unfortunately, we struggled through the entire time together. Perhaps it was just too much to assume we should take on a weekend like this. But we felt, and had many encourage us, it would be good for us. There's much I could share, but the most important thing to share is that we still desperately need your prayers and your understanding as it is hard to be vulnerable and real with friends and family that surround us both because the feeling of failure and confusion is currently running rampant in both of us. I wait on God as I sit here in yet the third hotel room this week (I just left Seattle after a board meeting and am now in Boise for a couple of days for donor visits.) asking God why we are struggling so much in this marriage.
To be sure, I would certainly encourage any and all of my friends to attend the Weekend to Remember. It has fabulous, Biblical teaching, great times set aside to spend with your spouse, a fabulous hotel (at least ours was!) and offers many resources to ensure future success in marriage and family relationships.
Perhaps I had my hopes set too high for what I wanted to see happen this weekend in our marriage. I don't know what it is I'm supposed to be learning from all of this, but please pray the lessons are learned quickly. This season is a rough one and I am very ready to be back up on a mountain top.
Please, please don't feel the need to share the benefits of being in a valley - I've been in valleys before in other times of my life and I know that God is still holding me and being my All in All. No pep talk needed. :) I also know that God can do the deepest work during the loneliest hours - trust me, I know what I would say to my friends if seats were traded. But, just know, I've already heard it. JUST PRAY!