Married Couples - Making Great Marriages
This podcast discusses a number of reasons to have a great marriage if a couple expects to be together forever following a temple priesthood ordinance. Therefore, divorce is not part of the Lord's program for married couples unless there are serious elements in the marriage such as abusiveness, adultery, abandonment, perhaps financial disaster due to one spouse's extravagance, or other elements detrimental to the dignity, safety, or mental health of a spouse. However, it rarely is due to the actions of just one spouse. It usually takes two to make a great marriage and only one can ruin a relationship. Where there is repeated absence of kindness, a lack of positive communication or hurtful criticism of a spouse over time without repentance, and a host of other serious elements that can fracture one's soul. If we expect to live among other exalted couples in the celestial kingdom, we must acquire character traits and attributes that will make it comfortable for us to be among such couples. Our Heavenly Father put us in an environment here on the earth where good and evil exists, so that through our use of agency, we learn how to live a celestial life by making only those choices that prove that we want to live the kind of life that God lives and other exalted beings life.
Married Couples - Making Great Marriages
Episode 1: Making Marriage Great Again
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Marriage is the great adventure of our lives. Finding another compatible sweetheart and combining two lives to create a family and then to add family members by our ability as male and female to add to our family size, and then rear them to maturity is perhaps the most important thing we do in this life. Unfortunately, there are too many who seem to disregard their marriage vows (covenants) and look for an exit to the marriage -- sometimes after not many months or years. That has to stop. Marriage was designed by Deity to be an eternal compact and the Church builds temples and provides sacred places for the couple to be sealed together for time and all eternity. In that ceremony, the sealer represents the God of heaven and offers the couple at least 14 blessings as a part of their ceremony. There is simply no excuse for the extent of divorce that takes place in our society, both in and out of the Church. Both companions are interviewed by a bishop and a stake president prior to the temple ordinance and receive counsel. Parents provide lavish receptions where well-wishers bring tons of presents to help get them off to a good start and then they stand ready to help the couple in any difficulties that may arise.