A Weekend To Remember - WOW!

Last week Thursday Greg and I got on a plane headed for Park City Utah for some much needed time away and to a marriage retreat. Why Utah? you ask. We wanted to get out of town, away from the distractions of life and enjoy God's creation in the mountains. Park City was an excellent choice.
Thursday evening we walked around Park City enjoying the old town and the beauty of the surrounding Wasatch mountains. We had dinner at a very nice Asian Grill called Wahso. The atmosphere was wonderful. We were seated in our own little dining room and our waiter was very attentive, but not intrusive. I had for the first time ever a Ahi tuna and mango tartare. I also had fresh green papaya summer rolls and Tom Kha Ghai (a Tai soup). It was all incredibly tasty. Greg had the Korean barbecued salmon and the coconut creme brule.
Friday we got up early and headed for the mountain peaks. We drove through the mountains for several hours stopping to see various sites. The highlights of the day were a beautiful waterfall that we stopped at and the rough, 4x4 road that we took in our little 2 door Pontiac rental. Greg just kept saying on the way up that he was glad the off roding was my idea and not his. Another highlight was the short hike we took to some very pretty lakes.
We got back to the hotel at about 2pm, went swimming and then got ready for dinner. We ate at a place called Grub Steak, which was good but not as good as Wahso.

Our Weekend to Remember Conference started Friday night at 7pm and went on through the rest of the weekend.
These are some of the things I learned this weekend:

"What if marriage is about more than just your happiness?"

• Marriage is more significant than you may have thought.
• Marriage was designed by God and is defined by God.
• Marriage is the center of God's purpose for mankind.

The purpose of marriage is to first and foremost to mirror God's image (Gen 1:27 )
Our marriage should be a picture of the relationship between Christ and his church.

Next it is to mutually complete one another (to experience companionship). Marriage was designed by God as the first social institution and it is the priority relationship of the family.

Marriage is also designed so that you can multiply a Godly legacy. This could be in the form of biological or adopted children

We should see our marriages as a spiritual discipline and laboratory to cultivate the image of Christ in one another (Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas)

I learned that my husband is a gift from God and to treat him in any other way other than with respect and love is directly telling God that His gift was not good enough (reject the gift - reject the giver).

The conference had several projects that we were required to complete on our own and as a couple that were so helpful and a great part of the weekend. We were so very impressed with the quality of the weekend that we have signed up to promote weekends like this through Family life. We have a promotion code that will give anyone who registers for a conference in the next year using our code an $80 per couple savings on the registration fees. I would highly recommend this to all my friends and family.

There is a conference in Louisville, KY starting Oct 31st and one in Milwaukee, WI starting the weekend of Nov 14th. If you are interested in registering with our code please leave me a comment and I will get the code to you.