Level Up Your Marriage Sample

There existed a time when the only way to get professional-looking photographs required hiring a professional photographer. Family portraits took place once a year, if that. Families often waited until the local church brought in a photographer for the church’s membership catalog. Then time slots were chosen, outfits were purchased and families made their way to pose for the camera. A few weeks later, the photographer placed different package options in front of each family to be considered and chosen for purchase. Purchase at a pretty steep price, mind you.

Today; however, professional-looking photographs often require little more than your, or a friend’s, smartphone. The resolution quality, along with the camera’s pre-programmed abilities to isolate the position of focus can make the average person’s pictures look like portraits. In fact, one smartphone even offers “portrait” mode to give the additional effect of blurring the background while sharpening the person or object of choice. 

Focus matters. 

What the professional photographer understood to do with the various buttons, lenses and lighting options necessary to operate the equipment from days gone by, smartphones now enable pretty much everyone to do simply by aiming in the right direction. 

The ease of this focus has allowed families to have portraits made much more frequently than before, not to mention much more cheaply. It’s allowed for not just a roll of film, or two rolls, to capture a vacation but rather hundreds, if not thousands, of photos to catch and share these memories. It’s also allowed parents to have more than the yearly portrait of the littles as they grow, but rather a daily timeline of growth, joys, activities and sweet-sayings caught on film. Yes, live-photos now add video and audio to a photo as well. This enables all of us to seize segments of our seconds at random, simply for our sentimental remembrance.

The bottom line: We’re able to do more when we’re able to focus well. 

The same holds true for marriage. When you as a couple follow the principle set for us in Colossians 3:2 about setting your eyes on God and living with an eternal perspective, you will experience a greater depth of love in your marriage. Let's explore more on how that works in tomorrow's reading plan entry.