Marriage (continued)

I'm moving this from the comments section into the main blog in hopes that someone will see it... so read the comments from the first Marriage blog below, and (hopefully) respond somewhere.

-From the Comments-
I'm glad yall get where I'm coming from. I hate that the analogy of a messy car (kudos to the DP mention) fits my walk, cause my car is a mess way more than its clean. I hate admitting that thats true much of the time.

And I think that doing all the stuff that we do as Christians does often outweigh, or even wind up substituting the real relational work of getting to know God (any part) better.

Rachel mentioned the word steady, and thats how I feel a good deal of the time. But not steadily working hard in my walk like Jessica was talking about. Its more like floating around in the lake not really doing anything (also common in marriage).

Once the honeymoon period is over, is determination what drives you to push deeper, to stretch... to love better? Is it commitment? I'm not sure right now.

Little help?