05/17/2026
This weekend I was in Temecula for my church’s first ever marriage retreat.
I volunteered to organize it … because that’s what I do. I thought through the arc of the weekend. Where we’d stay, how meals would flow, what the free time could look like.
But I showed up expectant that it would mean something to my own marriage in a way that had nothing to do with the details.
And it did.
Marriage is all the things. If you’re married, you don’t need me to explain further.
What a gift to show up somewhere with your partner and both commit to lean in, learn, and do the work required to move toward the kind of marriage you actually want.
We were led by two people whose knowledge, vulnerability, and love for each other made the whole weekend possible. and Kyle - grateful doesn’t cover it.
But I am. So grateful.