Making A Shift — Superior Marriage — Marriage, Relationships, and Premarital Counseling with Dr. Kim Kimberling

That is an attention-grabbing time of 12 months. One 12 months has drawn to an in depth and one other opens. I used to be trying again at among the issues that I’ve written up to now right now of 12 months. Normally it’s upbeat with the promise of a brand new 12 months and all that may deliver for us.  

December 2019 was a kind of years. Not solely did we’ve got a brand new 12 months in entrance of us however we additionally had a brand new decade. I used to be pumped. I had plans for Nancy and me and for Superior Marriage. We had been going to have fun 50 years of marriage on January 2, 2020. Superior Marriage was rising in methods I couldn’t have imagined. 2020 was going to be nice. 

Then we had a pandemic and 2020 didn’t go the way in which any of us deliberate. That cloud nonetheless hangs over us in so some ways. Marriages have struggled. It has appeared a lot simpler to be vital than grateful. We now have targeted on what we don’t have greater than what we’ve got. We evaluate ourselves, our partner. and our marriage to others. We get slowed down within the unfavourable and see little of the constructive. Our actuality is that the world could by no means change. In reality it might worsen in 2022. 

But, we will change. We will shift our focus and our pondering. We will deal with the constructive and never on  the unfavourable. We will make our listing of issues to be glad about. In Philippians 4:4-7, God tells us, “Rejoice within the Lord all the time. I’ll say it once more: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is close to. Don’t be concerned about something, however in the whole lot, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, current your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” 

Learn that verse once more. Learn it time and again till it sinks in. Take into consideration this. Most Biblical students agree that Paul wrote this letter to the Philippians whereas he was in jail beneath home arrest in Rome. Paul knew lots about hardship. God didn’t give Paul these phrases when the whole lot was going effectively. As an alternative, He gave them when issues had been tough. I don’t know your circumstances however I do know God. His promise to Paul is His promise to us. God by no means modifications and can’t lie. He’s all the time there for us. It’s the excellent news of Christmas to take with us into this new 12 months. 

This week I’m writing down the whole lot I’m grateful for. Then I’m going to thank God for the whole lot on the listing. I’m additionally making a listing of the whole lot I fear about that I can do nothing about and giving all that to God. My last listing consists of these issues I can do one thing about after which asking God for His steerage and knowledge in every of those. Lastly I made a brand new each day guidelines for me for 2022. Right here is my guidelines:

If I constantly do these each day in 2022, it doesn’t matter what else 2022 brings. As I make these a each day behavior, God will guard my coronary heart and my thoughts. He’ll do nice issues. Guess what? He’ll do the identical for you!