When a groom stands before an audience and watches his bride come down the aisle, he doesn't

have a clue about the immeasurable joy ahead for his life.

Nor does he have any idea about the intense relational trials coming.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall teaches from one of the most familiar passages

in the Bible for husbands and wives.

And over the next few days, we hope to gain a whole new appreciation for the wisdom contained

in these spirit-inspired words.

Chuck titled today's message, Hope Beyond I-Tune.

A wedding is one thing, but a marriage is something else entirely.

But a difference between the way things start in a home and the way they continue.

You who are married are smiling right now.

Marriage begins like a romantic moonlight sleigh ride, smoothly gliding over the glistening

snow.

Doesn't that sound great?

It's living together after that honeymoon that turns out to be, well, rough backpacking

across rocks and hot sand.

For two people to live in domestic harmony, well, that takes a lot of give and take.

If you need any confirmation of that outside your own home, just look at the statistics.

No, better still, don't look at the statistics.

Just look around you, like on your job at the office.

Maybe around your neighborhood, even at church.

It's a litany of broken marriages and separations, divorces and fractured homes.

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