Dare #5 of The Respect Dare – Trust God or Idols?
Of all the dares in the book, Dare 5 strikes the most nerves. A child is injured. Mom saw it coming. Choose to Trust God? She chose to stay out of His way, and God showed up to teach her husband...
View ArticleDare #5 Journey – An Exercise in Trusting Him
Reading through a journal entry from 4 years ago, I came upon this experience in trusting Him – even when the stakes were high. Seeing the connection to our Dare #5 work, I wanted to share it with you....
View ArticleDare #6 of The Respect Dare – Conflict
Several years ago, I facilitated a retreat that equipped organizational leaders to effectively handle conflict. We spent a good deal of time talking about some of the behaviors of people in the...
View ArticleDare # 6 Journey – Got Friends?
Got Friends? You could take one look at me as an 11 year-old and feel my pain. I often stood at the fence outside the school, dreading another day of torturous interaction with my classmates. I had...
View ArticleDare #8 of The Respect Dare – The Problem with Memories
I Remember the Time… The lunge line was in one hand, the end of the rope in the other. I quietly told my horse to lunge (walk a circle) around me to the left. She did this. Then she sprung into the...
View ArticleDare #9 of The Respect Dare – No Doormat
The reviews are in… I made the mistake of spending too much time reading reviews on Amazon recently, and while The Respect Dare has around 212 reviews, and a 4.5 out of 5 star rating, of course I...
View ArticleDare #13 Journey – Feeling Like You Have to Do It All?
Mrs. Do it All You’ve seen her. You might know her. You might even be her. She’s the one who is going and doing and busy all the time, and can’t figure out why she has to physically DO everything, or...
View ArticleDare #13 Bonus – STOP Doing it All
Stop doing it all. Earlier this week, I wrote about the entire “housework” issue in Dare Thirteen in terms of who is actually doing what. Yesterday, I wrote about the “Do It All” woman, the one who is...
View ArticleDare #15 of The Respect Dare… GOT STUFF?
Story of Stuff It was 35+ years ago. I stood outside the police station with a group of 12 year olds, waiting for things to get started. As I watched my dad drive away in the car, my heart started to...
View ArticleDeflate Defensiveness in 2018
Deflating Defensiveness in 2018 My marriage isn’t easy, but I married a really wounded man, he was neglected as a child, and those wounds show up in his lack of trust that anyone is ever really there...
View ArticleDare 1 of The RESPECT DARE
Got expectations? They might be destroying your marriage. Sitting next to each other in the church pew at a conference for young girls and their moms, my daughter and I smiled at each other. Standing...
View ArticleDare #2 of The Respect Dare …
Research shows that our childhood may be messing with our marriage – and Dare #2 of The Respect Dare: 40 days to a deeper connection with God and our husband brings this to life for us all. Given that...
View Article5 Steps to Putting the Brakes on Divorce…
Maybe you’re thinking about it. Maybe the dreaded, “D-word” has popped out of your mouth in a sentence. Maybe you find yourself thinking, “I can’t keep living like this. I need to get away from this...
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How to overcome the death of childhood dreams… Dare 2
Dare 2: How to Overcome the Death of Childhood Dreams 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new...
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