Get the Phone, I'm Calling the Parks...

So...

About three years into our marriage we had to have a bit of a 'come to Jesus' meeting about the state of our union. 

This was right about the time that we joined a small group through our church that met at an older and a more experienced couple's house. 

Enter the Parks:

The Park's hosted our group and made the mistake of telling all of us:

"If anyone would like to talk afterwards we'd be happy to take the time to do that."

We decided to take them up on that offer.

"Well, now that the honeymoon is over I guess we should dance on over to the Park's house and learn how to do this thing right. 

Everyone needs some Parks. 

I mean, not specifically these Parks:

Although, these Parks are great. 

Wait! Rabbit Trail!

Billy and I always wondered about their kids because they were always just so dang good. 

They were nice and fun and polite and all that. 

One night we were out at the local ice cream place and saw the boys there with all their buddies. 

Now they didn't see us so we were all kinds of gleeful because we just knew we were going to see them participating in some sort of foolishness. 

They acted totally normal for teenage boys except...

After all the other boys left, they stayed behind and pushed in everyone's chairs and tossed the trash that had been left behind. 

Dang it, they really are good kids.

So, the Parks were great because they really taught us how to communicate better and ultimately have a much better marriage. 

They were handy like that. 

Anytime we hit a brick wall in our communication or couldn't come to an agreement about something one of us would say:

"Do we need need to call the Parks?"

Actually sometimes it was more like:

"Don't make me call the Parks!"

We stayed late at their house one night a week for a couple months having informal marriage counseling. 

I'm always a little surprised when I hear people acting ashamed of having had to go to counseling. 

I mean...

The amazing thing is that anybody makes it without going to counseling. 

So...

Your assignment tonight:

Go find some mentors.

Click here for a good blog on mentoring.