So I am really confused. I really don’t understand what is going on and it causes me to ask lots of questions. Just recently Ed Young, the senior pastor at Fellowship Church in Texas, encouraged the married couples in his congregation to have sex everyday for a week.

Woo hoo, right? He challenged them to do this knowing that with the economy in the crapper that times can get very stressful. Since money is something that is frequently argued about in marriages there is a very good chance that many marriages are hurting in part because of the state of the economy. Sex can very easily help a couple bridge some intimacy issues. You are paying attention to your spouse ad having fun together…I hope. Now this isn’t a fix all but at least it’s a start, right?

I am not a Fellowshipper or an avid Ed Young fan so I am not writing to back him up. I am writing because I don’t understand the media. The media uses sex to sell almost everything now. Even churches like to stretch a bit and use it too (maybe a little different but you get the point)! Well around the DFW area people and the media seem to be freaking out about this whole idea! I don’t get it! Heaven forbid a church talk about a married couple having sex! That’s just terrible!

I have been a part of a church that pushes the envelope for quite some time but I have also been to some churches that are very conservative too. I understand that some people are just not comfortable talking about sex. That’s fine. To each his own. But why are we sooooo freaking out because a pastor challenged his congregation to try to help their marriages grow stronger in the midst of hard times!?

I’m just not sure I understand. The news stations are covering this like it is completely ridiculous! They are talking about how some people don’t wanna had sex every day. Ok. Good for them! No one is forcing them to do anything! It’s a suggestion! I mean obviously sex isn’t always the best thing to do when you are broke. Actually making babies when you are broke isn’t necessarily the best practice (not sure Dave Ramsey would sign off on it). That’s how people end up on welfare with 46 kids and they wonder why they can’t afford to live. Ha.

So for those of you wiser than me, why is this so controversial? I would think people would jump at an excuse like this! I have never been to Fellowship but that’s what I call “off the chain”! (a little inside joke for you LifeChurch.tv people) I mean the idea sounds good to me! Marvin Gaye and many other R&B artists should be lining up to shake Ed’s hand for all the money they are gonna make off this!

What do you think? Is this as crazy as everyone seems to think it is? Am I the only one that doesn’t see the big deal?

I’m so sorry!  I haven’t had much time at all this week to blog!  It has been insane!  My wife and I have been in Oklahoma for a big all staff get together as well as my sister’s wedding!  She is officially married!  Maybe tomorrow I will have a real blog post for you!  But for now, this will have to do!  Thanks for coming back!  Talk to you soon!

So, I am continuously amazed by my wife.  She hasn’t had the easiest life for the last year or so, but if you ever read her blog you wouldn’t know that.  She might tell you that some stuff has been rough, but to tell you the truth it has probably been the hardest year or so of her life.  But no matter what is going on she sticks with me through thick and thin.  

Honestly, I don’t really know what that means.  (I mean, I understand what it means but it doesn’t seem to make tons of sense.  I get the thick part.  You could say, “we are right in the thick of it now” and mean that you are right in the middle of all kinds of crap, but what about the thin part?  I have never heard anyone say, “well I guess we can relax now because we are now in the thin of it!”  So where does the thin part come it?)  But that is beside the point (another phrase I don’t get).  She has been through surgery, giving up a job that she LOVED, moving in with a boy, sickness, birth control, and I don’t have to stop there!  But, no matter what, she is always proving to me that she is always there with me through it all, thick or thin, hard or easy, fun or sucky.  I cannot ask for more than that!  I hope that if the situation is ever reversed that I will be able to fight through things as much as she has!  It’s crazy.  

Maybe one day, you will get the whole story, but I’m telling you, if you are going through some rough spots, talk with my wife!  She knows how to deal with them!  She is simply amazing!

So today is just one of those days.  Yes it is week three in the college football season and that is awesome.  But that’s not it.  Yes, it is my day off and so I got to sleep in.  But that’s not it.  Yes, I’m still in bed at the moment, under the fan and listening to he rain.  That’s not it either.  But, what makes this pretty much on of the best possible situations to be in on a Saturday is that my wife and I have slept in, are still in bed, are listening to the rain, and are watching college football!  I’m not sure it gets much better than that (without taking away the rain and being on the beach and listening to the waves instead of the rain… but that would be pretty ideal for me)!

Now granted I am pretty sure that my wife wouldn’t list the college football part as part of her ideal situation, but that’s ok.  It would probably be watching Beauty And The Beast or The Little Mermaid.  I mean come on.  You can’t really beat college football.  

Well, she already went back to sleep again.  Still good times, though!

So if the average life-span of an American male is 80 years, 1/160 of my life has been officially completed with my wonderful wife!  That’s right.  For those of you that don’t like to do math in your head, 1/160 is 6  months.  My wife and I have now been married 6 whole months.  I am pretty surprised that she put up with me this long.  I mean for real?  Didn’t think it would happen.  Well, for some reason she sticks it out with me.  Must be a sucker for punishment!  Ha.  Well, anyway, she loves me and we have been married for 6 months and we are still going!  So thanks for all the prayers and support for the first 6 months!  We really appreciate it!

Well, I am little disappointed in myself today.  My wife beat me to the blogging.  Normally that’s no big deal, but when we are both blogging about the same thing, its a race.  Well, I was asleep and she was blogging.  I guess that hurts my argument for my last post.  Anyway, today is the anniversary if you will of 5 months of marriage (is it really an anniversary?).  Now I think I may just steal from her idea and give you a list of some of the things that I have learned from the first 5 months of marriage.  PS – If you don’t know my wife, her blog is http://kkjames.wordpress.com/ so go check it out!

is always the hardest.  That’s what we always here.  Not just my wife and I, but it seems like that’s what the world preaches to us.  Why is that?  Is there a specific reason that the first year is supposed to suck?  It’s because you haven’t lived with each other yet and you don’t REALLY know how they are until then, right?  Well, you don’t really let your true colors shine until you are with each other 24/7, right?