posted by Jennie on Aug 28
“Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life” (Proverbs 4:23)
The verse above is what we encourage other married couples to hold on to. It is so easy to get distracted by things around us. More often than not, that one time leads to mistake that your family will have to pay consequence for the rest of your life. In our culture where we see marriages break apart, left and right, it is easy to just settle on the thought that it is never gonna get better.
While I know my being married to my husband for 9 years will not exactly give us that strong authority to talk about marriage, we firmly believe we have what, or should I say, “Who” it takes to have a marriage that only gets better through the years. This is not because we are great individuals. On the contrary, we are broken individuals bound to be unselfish but choose to have the Lord mend and mold us to the husband and wife He has designed us to be.
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posted by Jennie on Aug 27
My husband and I share the same birth month. He is exactly a year and 15 days older than me and he will soon turn 3-5! Two weeks until then! I’m not sure why I always get more excited about his birthday than mine. Celebrating the day of his birth has always been meaningful to me.
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posted by Jennie on Aug 18
The husband shared about Receiving Gifts as one of the Five Love Languages in 2008. I totally agree that “You can give without loving, but you can’t love without giving.” Receiving Gifts is my secondary love language. The first being, Quality Time. I cannot feel emptier than having my husband not spend quality time with me. Indicators will just about envelope the house that it will be so hard not to notice. 
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posted by Jennie on Aug 15
My husband has always been a sports buff who has been actively playing all sorts of activities, from soccer to basketball and even martial arts. He has a regular exercise regimen, which I have always admired in him. I continually reinforce this with healthier food choices. He can get very picky with food sometimes. But with a little nudging and giving him materials I have studied about the health benefits of incorporating a particular food in our diet, he is almost always agreeable.
But this very agreeable man of mine just recently rebuked me of my health choices – about my now non-existent exercise regimen otherwise known as sedentary lifestyle, that is. This actually made me stop and think as I later agreed with him. Now that he is looking for a Dojo place where he can resume his Aikido program in, I can’t believe I actually asked him if he thinks I can join him. And he got pretty thrilled as he answers as a matter of fact, that there are women who are Aikido black-belters. Yikes! I honestly cannot see myself going on a rolling spree and getting my joints wrestled. I wasn’t too serious when I asked him that and he was taking me on a mini-orientation drill already. Just what did I get myself into!
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posted by Jennie on Aug 4
This is how our 9 year old non-digital wedding album looks like. I have been putting off getting the photos scanned because I knew it was not going to be an easy task. I was kidding the hubby, this is what we get for getting married during the stone age. Well, digital photography coverages for weddings were already available back in 2001 but because of their being so few and scarce, the price was steep. Digital photos back then weren’t as good as they are now anyway.
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posted by Jeff on Jul 26
Growing up, you have probably taken some type of lessons on certain skills. You might have taken music lessons, swimming lessons or dance lessons. But one are that many of us have probably no taken lessons on is the area of relationships. We all need lessons on loving.
The great thing is that God, who built us for relationships, did not leave us without any guide on it. There is actually a whole chapter about it found in 1 Corinthians 13. One particular phrase I looked at and used in one of my sermons is found in verse 4, “love is kind” and kindness is simply love in action.
Romans 15:2 says “We should consider the good of our neighbor and build up his character.” Part of being kind is building up somebody, particularly, our spouse’s character. But how do we build up our partner? Below are four things we can give them that will bring out the best in them.
1. Give your spouse a personal challenge
We all know that there is more to life than just living for yourself. There must be a cause, reason, purpose that I’m here than to just take up space. All of us need somebody in our lives who can inspire us to be what we could be. God gave you your husband or wife God wants you to build him or her up. God wants to use us to bring out the best in them, to inspire them to be what He knows they could be.
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posted by Jennie on Jun 3
Father’s Day will be on June 20, 2010. That will be less than three weeks away. While we cannot deny the reality of the epidemic of missing fathers, we should nonetheless celebrate fathers who have stood up as the head of the family that they are purposed to be. If truth will be told, a whole bunch of fathers are but taken for granted. Just because they are expected to provide and protect their respective families, they should be left unappreciated. Methinks fathers should be appreciated and affirmed more by their loved ones.
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posted by Jennie on May 26
The hubby has been telling me he’d make it up to me before he leaves for Africa. How he’s going to do that, I have got no slightest idea. I keep reminding him that he’s said this before when he got too busy with the youth camp preparations. My love language being Quality Time, cannot take so much of busyness very gracefully.
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posted by Jennie on May 19
For someone who has coordinated wedding for years, an invite for the We Heart Weddings event came really close to home. But as much as I love doing weddings, my schedule can no longer accommodate the task. The most that I could do nowadays is a consult. I love my current “jobs” to drop them and go back to coordinating.
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posted by Jennie on May 13
…for lack of a better title. The song just keeps ringing in my head even as I was concluding this post.
The hubby has been crazy busy nowadays taking care of several things. The upcoming 7th anniversary celebration of SBC-Makati and the missions trip they are leaving for in less than a month, among other things. Alas, the forgetful person in him would often unleash himself uninvited. Ack! He’s so much of a process person. And we recently figured out (yes, it has been troubling us so much, wondered too long that we just had to sit down and talk about it), that it is possible that all that he needs to do cannot keep up with his pace on how he process things. Confusing? I think not. It totally makes sense.
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posted by Jennie on Apr 28
It was just recently that the hubby and I noticed that we have practically done away with our “Couch Time.” We are not a perfect couple. We may stray away from what’s ideal from time to time. But we make sure that we go right back to the basics as soon as we are reminded about it.
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posted by Jennie on Apr 23
Just Jewels launched Rings of Promise last April 21, 2010 at the Enderun Atrium in Fort Bonfacio, Taguig City. The event unveiled three custom-made wedding ring designs by Just Jewels endorser Dawn Zulueta-Lagdameo, columnist and designer Tessa Prieto-Valdez and designer Debbie Co. And what a timely launch this is, with the wedding month just around the corner.
People are built for relationships and marriage is the ultimate of it all. This is why the author of marriage, Jesus Christ Himself paralleled marriage to His relationship with His bride, the church. And from the mere traffic that Marriage and Beyond gets every single day, for the search string Christian wedding symbols, it tells that there are considerable number of couples who do not just marry in haste. They are intentional even as they would look into the very reasons why these symbols are there to begin with. The most prominent of which are the wedding bands – Rings of Promise.
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posted by Jennie on Apr 18
Statistics have it that it is more common for married couples to have affairs than they are to separate. This is definitely hands down one of the most heart breaking issues the hubby and I would deal with, with some people that we encounter from time to time. This is also why we are very passionate when it comes to influencing the younger generation to make the right decisions while they are in their youth.
More often than not a person carries the principles he had when he was in the dating scene to the time he will be married. And most likely, a compromising lifestyle in your youth will influence you for the rest of your adult life. There are few exceptions to the rule, true. But a compromise ceases to look like such when you have gone that road. Until that lie eats you up and you find yourself in the midst of a dysfunctional married relationship. A different, more modern culture does not change the need in a human’s heart to be loved faithfully.
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posted by Jennie on Mar 3
The hubby and I watched Richard Eyre’s The Other Man the other day. It has been a while since the hubby and I watched a movie together. There are a few that we have lined up but the tons of work prevent us from watching movies very often.
This particular film focuses on the story through the husband’s eye. It was told in such interesting manner, as opposed to what is usual in movies of such taste – crime of passion. I will post a more decent movie review in the coming days.
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posted by Jennie on Feb 16
“Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears . . . believes . . . hopes . . . endures all things.” (1 Cor. 13:4-7)
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