Me:  Are you trying to send a message Prodigal?

Prodigal:  Yep, just want to spend some time with those I love!

Me: I am sure something will get figured out this week!

Prodigal:  I know it will!

 

Today’s book is from Dr. Larry Crabb and is Men & Women Enjoying the Difference

A good relationship is one in which each person uses his or her resources primarily to promote the other’s well-being and not his or her own, regardless of the cost.  Martin Luther put it even more strongly when he wrote:  “To love is not to wish good for another person, it is to bear another’s burden; that is, to bear what is painful to you and which you do not bear willingly.”  (I presume willingly here means something like naturally.)  When we say that God is love, we mean that the three Persons of the Godhead always relate with perfect other-centered energy toward one another and toward their creatures.  Good relating is therefore other-centered relating.

 

Busy, Busy and maybe a little bit more busy.  That is what  you are feeling right now.  Well with that business you forget to focus on loving someone and helping them carry their burden right now.  I know you don’t have time.  I know you don’t have energy really.  So ask God for the extra energy and figure out how to help carry that person’s burden right now.  God will allow you the strength to do it all.

 

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org