Let Love Lead

Let Love Lead

As we prepare for our upcoming marriage seminar, "It Takes 2!" I'm excited to share the heart behind our theme: GPS - Let Love Lead. Just as a GPS guides us through unfamiliar territory and recalculates when we take a wrong turn, letting love lead provides the navigation system every marriage needs to thrive through all of life's seasons.

Marriage is a journey, sometimes smooth highways, sometimes winding mountain roads, and occasionally unexpected detours. But when we choose to let love lead, we discover that love is more than a feeling; it's a decision, a commitment, and a daily choice that has the power to transform ordinary moments into extraordinary memories.

Love Leads with Intentionality

In the early days of marriage, love feels effortless. The butterflies, the excitement, the newness, it all comes naturally. But as seasons change and life grows more complex, love requires intentionality. We must choose to prioritize our spouse, to carve out time together, to speak words of affirmation even when we're tired, and to serve even when it's inconvenient.

Letting love lead means putting your marriage on the calendar before it gets crowded out by everything else. It means turning toward each other instead of away, especially during the mundane moments that make up most of our lives.

Love Leads with Patience

Every marriage navigates seasons: career building, raising children, caring for aging parents, facing health challenges, or rediscovering each other as empty nesters. Each season brings its own joys and pressures, and not every season feels easy.

When love leads with patience, we extend grace for the struggles our spouse faces. We remember that we're both works in progress, and the person we married twenty years ago is still growing and changing just as we are. Patience gives us the endurance to weather storms together rather than retreating to separate corners.

Love Leads with Forgiveness

No marriage is perfect because no person is perfect. We will hurt each other, disappoint each other, and fall short of each other's expectations. But when love leads, forgiveness becomes the bridge that keeps us connected.

Forgiveness doesn't mean pretending the hurt didn't happen. It means choosing not to let that hurt define your marriage. It means releasing resentment so that bitterness doesn't take root. When we let love lead through forgiveness, we create space for healing, growth, and deeper intimacy.

Love Leads with Communication

The GPS in your car only works when it knows where you're trying to go. Similarly, love can only lead effectively when couples communicate openly and honestly about their needs, dreams, fears, and frustrations.

Letting love lead means listening to understand, not just to respond. It means being vulnerable enough to share what's really in your heart. It means having the hard conversations with kindness and respect, knowing that understanding each other is worth the temporary discomfort.

Love Leads with Sacrifice

First Corinthians 13 reminds us that love "does not insist on its own way." When love leads, both partners willingly lay down their preferences, their pride, and sometimes their plans for the good of the other and the health of the marriage.

This isn't about losing yourself in your marriage; it's about finding yourselves together. It's the beautiful paradox of marriage: when we both give sacrificially, we both receive abundantly.

Love Leads Back to the Source

Ultimately, our ability to let love lead in marriage flows from our connection to the ultimate source of love, God Himself. As we abide in His love, we're empowered to love our spouse with a love that goes beyond our natural capacity. His love fills us so we can pour out love to each other, even when our own tanks feel empty.

When we let God's love lead our marriage, we tap into a love that is patient and kind, that keeps no record of wrongs, that always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.

Join Us for "It Takes 2"

Our upcoming marriage seminar, "It Takes 2," is designed to help you recalibrate your relationship GPS and discover practical ways to let love lead in your marriage. Whether you're newlyweds or celebrating decades together, whether your marriage feels strong or you're hoping to reconnect, this weekend is for you.

Because it takes two people committed to letting love lead.

Two people choosing each other every day.

Two people navigating life's journey together.

And when both partners let love lead, there's no destination you can't reach together.

We can't wait to see you there!