Think about your wedding day. What were some of the feelings and emotions you were experiencing? If you’re anything like me, I felt an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. Getting married was the day I had looked forward to ever since I was a little girl. Everything I did in life somehow related to this goal of finding my one true love and sealing our lives together for time and all eternity. In my mind, August 19th, 2016 would forever go down as the moment I had finally arrived. I made it! I reached my ultimate goal! Though it’s only been two short years since that day, it didn’t take me long to realize how wrong I was. MARRIAGE IS NOT A DESTINATION. It’s not about the wedding rings, the venue or the photographer. It’s not about what song you had your first dance to, or the flavor of the cake you smooshed in his face. That stuff is only the beginning. It’s only the first step. Marriage is everything that comes after all that!
What if you want so much more, but you don’t even know where to start?
Let’s see what Alma had to say about this:
“But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.” -Alma 32:27
In other words, if you’ve got a desire to have an awesome marriage, then you’ve already begun. The next step is to slap on those rubber gloves and protective goggles and start experimenting.
experiment
ex·per·i·ment \ ikˈsperəmənt \
noun: a course of action tentatively adopted without being sure of the eventual outcome.
verb: try out new concepts or ways of doing things.
My favorite part of this definition is, “without being sure of the eventual outcome.” Sometimes you need to step out of your comfort zone and give something a try even if you have no idea what is going to come out of it. (See 1 Nephi 4:6-7)
In this week’s episode of the podcast, we sat down with Celeste and Rich Davis from the Marriage Laboratory to talk about the importance of experimenting.