Welcome back to another edition of  Married Mondays.

We all make plans.  Before marriage we plan out our career, our future wedding, our future life, we plan what we think that person we marry will be like and who it will be.  We plan in our heads what they will look like, how the engagement will happen, we plan that she will say yes…  We get married and we plan our lives together, we plan for a house, we plan for family.  We plan to do ______ when we have ______.  We plan for the whens.

But what happens to the IFs.  Many times the IF is the negative part of the process.  We never really look or think about the “what ifs” in life.  When you are working together as a team to “plan” for life, you have to look at the what if scenarios; What if one of us lost our job, what if we can’t have kids, what if we fight, what if a job requires us to move…  These are the plans that you never want to talk about.  These are the plans that will do one of two things when they have to be discussed, they will bring you closer together or pull you apart.

No one wants to sit around and plan for these what ifs but making sure that you are together is the biggest part of these plans.  Making plans for life and what you want to do, finding the vision of you what you both want out of your marriage and

Working together, communicating, and staying honest are they ways that you will be able to get through anything.  No matter what life throws at you, working together and keeping a strong faith in God, trusting God and trusting each other, you will be able to make it through.