02/20/2020
Meet Max Baca - A member of the leader team and his thoughts on why the XO Marriage Conference is important:
Everyone is asleep as I walk from room to room admiring each person in them. It is peaceful at this moment. Silence breathes solitude throughout my entire being knowing that there is life in the shells that lay asleep. I thank God for the opportunity, but immediately feel guilty. The guilt does not come from not being grateful, but from acting ungrateful throughout the day. The guilt comes from putting off things that my wife has been asking me to do for the past three months. The guilt comes from not displaying the patience that I expect my children to have, to my children. This guilt is crushing.
A brother in Christ recently compared marital maintenance to vehicle maintenance. The analogy took me back to the year 2015 when I first met my wife Unique. I was an ambitious fiancè/husband back then. I was on my MVP horse. I would maintenance our vehicle right away, wash the dishes, and cook breakfast without hesitation. I was on top of any issue in the house and was doing everything I could to resolve any issue affecting our relationship. But I slipped into mediocrity as the years progressed. I stopped being on top of things and unconsciously gave up on the ambitious attitude that once made our relationship run like a perfectly maintained vehicle.
I have recently realized that in losing that ambitious attitude I have lost what made my marriage thrive and inherited an attitude of complacency. Don't get me wrong, my wife and I have a great marriage and we love each other very much, but I have allowed the distractions from added responsibilities to keep me from displaying the love for my wife that once came naturally. I am attending the XO Marriage Conference at Hope Community Church to recapture the passion in this new life of distractions, that once made my marriage flourish. I hope you all will join me in this weekend of restoration!
Register Here: shawanochurch.org/xo