Through the lens of Young married

The most striking feature of Israel’s camp was its geometry. The tabernacle in the center. Levites around it. Tribes around them. Concentric circles around the presence.

Marriages need this geometry too. The Father at the center. Then us. Then the kids. Then the friends. Then the broader community. When this order shifts — when the kids become the center, when work becomes the center, when our own happiness becomes the center — the whole camp gets disoriented.

Most marriages I know that are struggling have the wrong thing in the middle. Not because they intended to put the wrong thing there. Just because they didn’t intentionally keep the Father at the center.

One small thing this week: ask each other honestly — what is currently in the center of our marriage? Whatever surfaces, talk about how to put the Father back there. The geometry of the camp is real. So is the geometry of your home.