A New Leaf

It is most definitely time to recommitt to all your committments. Especially your marriage. Starting over is great at anytime. It gives us renewed spirit and actually refreshes our memory of our goals, wants, needs, and desires for our marriages.

Do it!

Peace

A New Thing

There is a new thing going in my marriage. It is amazing what it takes for some of us to recognize how important others are to us. My husband and I have found a new appreciation for each other. Doing so has rekindled many feelings of love and understanding.

Invite a new concept into your marriage life. Create a date night, spend time holding each other, hug more, talk more, give more, accept more, love more.

Do a new thing.

Peace

Talking to Young People

I was talking to two young adults the other day about relationships. They seem to be under the impression that it is only "young" people who don't want to make a committment. It is strange how people think age really does make a difference in how people live their lives. What matters to people is what matters to them personally. Outside of that, most people don't want to put forth any more effort than necessary to live the lives they proclaim they desire.

People, young or old, are just not willing to stay the course anymore. It doesn't matter what age. Folk are not committed, even when they make committments.

Peace

Making a Difference

It really doesn't take much to make a difference in this world. Usually it only takes a willingness to be useful. If you are feeling lonely and alone, give yourself the permission to care for and give to others. Most often what we feel we are missing, is in direction porportion to what we need to give.

Move outside yourself. Learn to love, let others live their lives and be free.

Peace

Thankfulness

Oh, how hard it is for us to be thankful. We can rarely muster a "thank you." There is no wonder that so many find it hard to be thankful. If you are alive, you should be thankful.

Plain and simple!

All it takes is life to live. Live your life.

Peace

More and More

More and more I find people have become whinners. They only want to give when it is of benefit to them, but are ready to take at any given moment. Instead of wanting more and more, we need to learn to do with less and less.

Needing, wanting, and desiring less is the answer to many of our problems. Giving more is the best way to feel satisfied because it allows you to come out of yourself each time you give to another.

Let us practice giving more and more by learning to take less and less.

Peace

Amazing!

The thing that is so wonderfully amazing about relationships is that they are fluid. They are never out of flux. We must remember that when we find ourselves wanting things to be "the way they were." It is not realistic to expect relationships to change when that's all that people do on a consistent basis--change.

Change is an inevitable part of the growth process. Although seemingly the hardest thing to do, change often comes easy once acceptance is partnered with it. It is easy to change when we accept that change is a part of being a human being. We are not solely driven by our instincts. We can make choices and make the decision to stick with or abandon any choice we may make.

Choosing to stick with the choices we make is what the book Get Out of the Way! Claim God's Will for Your Marriage, is all about. Staying married is important and vital to America's existence. Everything in America is geared toward the family unit. The subsequent breakdown of moral obligation has left the family in a bad situation. The financial crisis we are now experiencing is a direct result of people not sticking to their committments.

We must continue to be amazed by our ability to change and allow amazing things to happen when we do.

Peace