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It Colors Every Choice
"but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15
God gives each of us gifts, talents, time and choices. Our choices determine what happens to the gifts, talents, and time. There is one fundamental choice that will drive and color all the others. Will I serve myself, do what I feel like, and seek to expand my self image or will I serve the Lord, doing what I may not always feel like and expanding His image? Let us forget our past poor choices and reach for the high calling of living in and for Christ. Life in Christ is only possible if Christ is living in us. He will live in us if we genuinely repent of serving self and trust Jesus for direction, purpose and fulfillment.
This book may be of interest to you. If you've already read it let me know what you think of it.
=== from Paul Byerly ====
One of you sent me a link to a story about John Gottman, author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert . Dr. Gottman is a mathematician who has found ways to apply math to couples and very accurately predict who will stay married and who will not, or more specifically to tell with better than 90% accuracy what is going to happen to a relationship over the next three years. By looking at what is done by couples cope well versus those who do not, Gottman has found ways of significantly helping 75% of couples in very short periods of time.
A few interesting tid-bits from the article:
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God gives each of us gifts, talents, time and choices. Our choices determine what happens to the gifts, talents, and time. There is one fundamental choice that will drive and color all the others. Will I serve myself, do what I feel like, and seek to expand my self image or will I serve the Lord, doing what I may not always feel like and expanding His image? Let us forget our past poor choices and reach for the high calling of living in and for Christ. Life in Christ is only possible if Christ is living in us. He will live in us if we genuinely repent of serving self and trust Jesus for direction, purpose and fulfillment.
This book may be of interest to you. If you've already read it let me know what you think of it.
=== from Paul Byerly ====
One of you sent me a link to a story about John Gottman, author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert . Dr. Gottman is a mathematician who has found ways to apply math to couples and very accurately predict who will stay married and who will not, or more specifically to tell with better than 90% accuracy what is going to happen to a relationship over the next three years. By looking at what is done by couples cope well versus those who do not, Gottman has found ways of significantly helping 75% of couples in very short periods of time.
A few interesting tid-bits from the article:
- 67% of couples have a significant decrease in relationship happiness in the first 3 years following the birth of their first child.
- 96% of the time the way a conflict goes for the first 3 minutes determines how it goes for the rest of the discussion.
- 69% of the time couples are talking about the same issues year after year - and these are usually based on basic things like personality differences.
- Sharing dreams had a huge positive impact on couples.
- Couples who have no connection, but put on a good marriage show, tend to divorce 16-22 years after they wed.
- Similar situations tend to cause women fear and men anger.
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