This week was full of information and sharing!
After last week’s class, I realized I hadn’t talked about Engedi. We had gotten so busy talking about other things last week that I had forgotten to have them mentally walk through their bedroom during class. So, this is where we began this week.
This is always a fun topic to teach. The sharing from the ladies about things they would want to do to their bedroom is entertaining to say the least. Sometimes it’s as simple as buying a lock for the door–something I strongly affirm when it comes up. Others feel convicted about keeping children from coming into their room to sleep at night.
My favorite comment this week was when one of the ladies shared how she absolutely loves her bedroom. I don’t hear this very often so I was intrigued along with the other ladies. It seems as though the big reason why she loves her bedroom in her present home is because her previous one had no doors on her bedroom! Her bedroom was at the top of the stairs to the second floor, and her daughter’s bedroom was right next to hers–again without a door between them. For three years she had tolerated this lack of privacy in her bedroom. Amazing!
Personally, I can’t imagine what that must have been like. Luckily for her now, she enjoys a bedroom that is secluded in the house, and has a door with a lock! It is always amazing to me what people will tolerate!
Following this fun exchange, we moved on to the discussion about love and its various definitions. After we talked about the three different aspects to the word, “love,” I showed a short DVD (11 minutes) by Rob Bell entitled, “Flame.” Rob Bell does a great job in this DVD and explains how these “three loves” are seen in Song of Solomon. It really helps to make the point of how all three types of love are needed in a marriage. I highly recommend you consider using this in your class as well.
Then we talked about faithfulness and temptation in marriage. After I read the section in Shannon Ethridge’s book, Every Woman’s Battle, we talked about how a woman’s thought life needs to be guarded. As we discussed the topic of admiring qualities in other men, one lady shared how she keeps this in perspective. She said that whenever she is tempted to focus on another man’s qualities, she tries to offset this with thinking about something that irritates her about this same man. For her, she says it helps her to continue to appreciate the man she married. Good advice I’d say.
Once again, Kevin Leman’s quote of “Satisfied partners don’t wander,” was a great way to end this discussion. It enabled us to talk about how we can focus on our own mate and try to be sensitive to what his needs are and working on meeting these needs in our relationship.
With this, we ended another great week of sharing.
