These posts on Lifestyle Design & Marriage have been detailing ways to have an easy four step relationship review each week.  In previous posts we’ve learned how to:

Now, after you’ve spent roughly 30 minutes on the previous two topics, you can move on to Testimony Time.  Here’s the quote from the original relationship review post.

“Companionship Inventory is a left over from when I was a full time missionary in Vancouver, Canada. As such, testimony time is a time to share with each other our feelings about what really matters - our spirituality. Some people may not feel comfortable with this, but for the two of us, it’s an intrinsic part of our lives and our marriage. Your testimony time could just include your thoughts on what’s really important to you or what you’ve been thinking about during that week. It’s often the most fulfilling part of our Companionship Inventory.”

Whether you and your spouse share the same religion or not, it’s important to talk about what you believe.  Do you still believe the same things?  How has your belief grown or changed this week?  Usually this is brief.  We each share a short story or anecdote that impacted our faith that week, and what that event meant to us.

If you are not religious, or if you are not comfortable talking about religion with each other, then you could discuss other important things.  I suggest you discuss what you’re grateful for that week, or what good thing happened to you.  No matter how bad things are, something good had to happen that week.  Life is full of those tender little mercies.

My question for you: Do you discuss your religion or spirituality with your spouse on a regular basis?  Why or why not?

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