Through the lens of Young married

Jacob does something at the end of Genesis 28 that every marriage needs to learn how to do. He takes the stone he had been using as a pillow and sets it up as a marker (Gen 28:18). He marks the spot. He names it. He builds a Bethel.

A marriage that does not name the moments God shows up will eventually forget that He ever did. And when the dry season hits — and it will — there is no Bethel to return to. No memory. No marker. Nothing physical to point at and say, He met us here.

The markers don’t have to be elaborate. A note on the fridge. A line in a journal. A walk to a particular spot. A picture you keep on the dresser. A practice — we always pray here, we always celebrate this anniversary, we always tell our kids the story of how God moved — that turns into a stone in the desert.

One small thing this week: name one Bethel from your marriage so far. A moment God showed up. Then build a marker in some form — a written note, a spoken story to your kids, a place you both can return to. So when the next desert comes, you have a stone to remember by.