The first week of the marriage seminar on Commitment took place on Sunday, January 12th at Grace Church in San Luis Obispo. The teaching sessions as well as the accompanying work sheets will be available on my website int he next several weeks. See www.Full-LifeCoaching.org.
Some of you have requested the seminar material and if you want to receive it by mail, please contact me at 636 Clarion Court, Suite 101, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.
A helpful assignment for couples looking to strengthen their commitment to one another is to study Ephesians 4:25-32 and to do the following.
1. Individually identify the principles of communication that appear in this passage.
2. Underscore those that are difficult for you.
3. Share your results with one another and covenant together to pray for these specific areas of need.
This is a good place to start. Next week I will identify those principles that I seeand you can compare notes with what you found.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
New Year's "Drears"
Is "drears" a word? I'm uncertain but I'm confident the word communicates with some of you.
It is not about failed resolutions from last year or the futility of anticipated resolutions for the new year. It sometimes is about a gnawing feeling in the gut of our stomach that reverberates painfully with the frightening "here we go again".
But I am another year older now. And I will be sixty-six later this month (no card or gifts, please). And I should be wiser.
The good news is, I think I am. I recognize this reoccurring January visitor and the cold water it would throw on every determined effort I make to set meaningful goals for the new year.
Nonetheless, I am determined.
I've been journaling--no one gets to read my journals--and I am hopeful--again--that in spite of missing the mark in some critical areas last year, by God's grace I did learn some lessons that are an increasingly significant part of my life resources in coping with the challenges that are sure to come in 2014.
Left to my own resources, that gives me the "drears".
Looking to Him, it diminishes my fears.
Welcome, new year.
It is not about failed resolutions from last year or the futility of anticipated resolutions for the new year. It sometimes is about a gnawing feeling in the gut of our stomach that reverberates painfully with the frightening "here we go again".
But I am another year older now. And I will be sixty-six later this month (no card or gifts, please). And I should be wiser.
The good news is, I think I am. I recognize this reoccurring January visitor and the cold water it would throw on every determined effort I make to set meaningful goals for the new year.
Nonetheless, I am determined.
I've been journaling--no one gets to read my journals--and I am hopeful--again--that in spite of missing the mark in some critical areas last year, by God's grace I did learn some lessons that are an increasingly significant part of my life resources in coping with the challenges that are sure to come in 2014.
Left to my own resources, that gives me the "drears".
Looking to Him, it diminishes my fears.
Welcome, new year.
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