{"id":723,"date":"2010-06-22T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T21:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/?p=723"},"modified":"2010-10-04T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T19:55:42","slug":"celebrating-29-years-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/2010\/06\/22\/celebrating-29-years-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 29 years of marriage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-725\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2010\/06\/Yours-forever1-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yours forever\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2010\/06\/Yours-forever1-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2010\/06\/Yours-forever1.jpg 866w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Who are those young kids?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Yep, it&#8217;s us, just a few decades back. Last weekend\u00a0we celebrated another anniversary and\u00a0honestly, it just keeps getting better! Who knew all the adventures and fun that God would have for us?<\/p>\n<p>What one piece of\u00a0advice would we give to\u00a0younger couples?<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Pray together every day&#8230;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If there is one thing you can do to improve your marriage, it would be to pray together. <!--more-->At\u00a0first, it may seem\u00a0awkward to pray out loud together. This is pretty normal.\u00a0But be\u00a0persistent until praying together every day becomes your habit.<\/p>\n<p>Independent studies have reinforced this truth about good marriages. So why don&#8217;t more of us take full advantage of this tool God has given us to build intimacy and dependence on Him?<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">We triple-dog-dare you to join us in praying as a couple!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Let us know if you take the dare and how God blesses and encourages you. As you\u00a0keep God the focus of your lives individually and then together,\u00a0you will have the love and patience you need to not only to have a\u00a0marriage that lasts, but one that keeps getting better!<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Do you take the dare?<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are those young kids? Yep, it&#8217;s us, just a few decades back. Last weekend\u00a0we celebrated another anniversary and\u00a0honestly, it just keeps getting better! Who knew all the adventures and fun that God would have for us? What one piece of\u00a0advice would we give to\u00a0younger couples? Pray together every day&#8230; If there is one thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18738],"class_list":{"0":"post-723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"tag-family","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}