What Marriage Can Mean
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| Intimacy has ever-changing growth requirements. We can embrace
them (and our partners) or we can let them (and our partners) drift
by. The cost of disengagement is quite real—the progressive loss
of companionship. By contrast, each conscious re-investment in the
vitality of one’s marriage increases the prospect of personal
happiness. A long-term marriage profits from long-term effort. Over
time the skills required change, because over time we long for new
dimensions of togetherness. This class is a five-week seminar on the
maturing art of sharing, which improving marriages learn. Even those
who “made a bad marriage” can improve on their experience of joy
and satisfaction. When the kids are gone and the dog has died,
couples log considerable time together. Do yourself a favor, love
your partner toward all the mutuality attainable. In particular we
will ask how two people can share fulfillments, difficulties, change
and spirituality. |
About the Teacher
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Dr. Arvin Engelson No pastor has
served longer at Saratoga Federated Church than Arvin — 27 years
to date. He is gifted in his mastery of the scriptures and skilled
at guiding souls into a deeper understanding of God, themselves, and
those around them. His first career was as a counselor at public and
private colleges. He has also taught graduate courses for Fuller
Seminary. Trained in philosophy at Westmont College, and then in
pastoral counseling and history of religion at Gordon Conwell, he
went on to doctoral work at Princeton where he studied (in
particular) formative and transformative life experiences from an
interdisciplinary perspective. The integration of spiritual truths
with the nitty-gritty of life is his expertise. |
| "When I teach, my chief motivation is to offer
perspectives and tools that equip people to live hopeful and useful
lives. I am drawn to topics with practical, quality-of-life
application. Healthy faith begets healthy persons, who leave others
better off than they find them." |
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