Blessings In The Battles

In the late 1990's there were a series of books titled:   “Don’t sweat the small stuff.”   They had, “Don’t sweat the small stuff at work”   “Don’t sweat the small stuff with your family” “Don’t sweat the small stuff for women” and several others.   With over 25 million copies in print, the Don’t Sweat philosophy has touched multiple generations of parents & grandparents, teenagers & kids.   Many of you may have a copy of one of these books on your bookshelf or nightstand right now. The problem with that philosophy is that the little things that we leave unresolved will continue to fester and can eventually ruin our relationships.   Solomon writes in Song of Solomon 2:15  "Quick!   Catch all the little foxes before they ruin the vineyard of your love..."-NLT If it is the little things that can easily ruin our relationships, why don't we catch them?  Why do we let them continue to run around in our relationships and ruin our ...

One of my favorite things to do with Alana is "people watching."  One of the great things about people watching is that you can do it almost anywhere.  We will sit in the restaurant or the park and and we will pick a couple or a family and ask, "What's their story?'  As we continue to watch them interact with others we will formulate "their story" in our own minds.  By the time we leave the restaurant or the park we know all about these people without ever talking to them, at least we think we know them from what we see on the outside.   As I " people watch" Solomon and his finance interact I see two things in their relationship that convince me they are truly in love.  They desperately want to spend time together and they speak lovingly to one another.  Our eyes only allow us to look on the outside so we will never know for sure, but I believe there are two outward observations that are good ...