The real challenge of wholehearted parenting is to be the adults that we want our children to grow up to be. (21)
~Bené Brown
The real challenge of wholehearted parenting is to be the adults that we want our children to grow up to be. (21)
~Bené Brown
A great tragedy of our day is that we have no framework with which to process bad things. We do not process difficult things. We ignore and soothe them. Because we can’t process it, we become cynical and jaded. No longer is life a series of seasons where some are good and some are bad,…
Love should not be relegated to mere theology, with all of its pomp and religious bravado. Love is a way of living – a style of transaction amongst souls hungry for something beyond the day to day. Love is a reckless kindness that shocks the heart back to life. Love is both costly and free….
The measure of a healthy relationship is not how quickly conflict is resolved. A better measurement is how long conflict can go unresolved and not become personal. (27)
Eventually everyone has to move beyond the wounds and the hurts they experienced as children and learn to parent their own children in a new and better way. The excuse that I didn't have good parents simply won't fly in the end.We need to stop the cycle. Beyond that we need to move to the…
"Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him." (46) ~C.S. Lewis I think this is true of every relationship…
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. (17) – William James