Marriage
LISTENING
LISTENING A.P.B.: Missing here! A right ear and left ear! No sign of whereabouts! Relations in the pouts! Listening: you go first! Listening for heart’s thirst. Listening for their mopes, Listening for their hopes. Listening for their thoughts, Listening for sore spots. Listening when they’re curt, Listening for their hurt.…
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Marriage “Tune-Ups”
Lots of things in our lives require maintenance. My car needs an oil change, oil filter, tire rotation, new tires, new transmission fluid, new windshield wipers. We reset new goals for the new year. We revisit our budget. We upgrade our wi-fi network, we redecorate and remodel rooms in our homes. For some reason, we…
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Marriage Seminar – “Building Lasting Marriages” – Saturday, January 11, 2020
SIGN UP HERE: Building Lasting Marriages Have you always wanted a strong marriage, but haven’t been sure what it takes to “build” a marriage that truly lasts? A strong, growing marriage doesn’t just “happen.” It does take “work,” but it also takes wisdom. Marriage is a lot tougher and more complicated than you’ve imagined. On…
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“Unconditional” Love
While everyone wants unconditional love and mostly assumes that their love is unconditional, real life often exposes our “real” love to not be all that unconditional! Unconditional love doesn’t just “happen.” It is grown in the crucible of hardship, love unreciprocated, and sometimes getting kicked in the teeth. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE Unconditional love, most deeply desired, Is rarely…
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Lessons from King Solomon
SOLOMON A prayer for wise guidance, Book of Proverbs, you penned. What could be wrong with that? Solomon, what happened? Fortune 500 guy And pleasures unbridled, Um, a thousand women??? What’s with foreign idols??? Outside? All “together.” Inside? Another matter. His heart’s center, he lost. His life then would shatter. If…
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Life Unscrewed Devotions–part 2 DAY 1 We continue in our series, “Life Unscrewed.” It’s very easy to “screw up” my life. It’s a lot harder to get it “unscrewed.” Last week we looked at how we bring stress upon ourselves. This week we look at male-female relationships. For millennia, in cultures around the world, women…
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