April 14, 2024 — Episode #15

Jerry and Becky Drace explain why “special time” with a spouse has to be scheduled on purpose — because if it isn’t, life will quietly steal it away.

They share a letter from a career-driven couple who realized how much their success had cost them relationally, and warn against letting children, or an overloaded work schedule, gradually take over the space a marriage once occupied. They recall favorite getaways of their own — overseas mission trips, a favorite historic town, quiet evenings on their front porch — and reflect on a mass wedding event held during the recent solar eclipse as an example of intentionally creating shared memories. The episode closes with a walk through Ecclesiastes 3’s “a time for everything” and Ephesians 5:16’s call to redeem the time.

Topics discussed:

• Why marriages tend to dissolve quietly rather than explosively
• Letting children take over the space meant for the marriage
• Carving out couple time despite demanding work schedules
• Favorite shared travel memories
• A mass wedding held during the solar eclipse
• Ecclesiastes 3 and “a time for every purpose”
• Redeeming the time from Ephesians 5
• Revisiting the “dialogue daily, date weekly, depart quarterly” habit

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