What a great New Year this has started out to be already. I’m pumped and ready to help springboard you into a better life and better eternity.
In case you missed the link at the top left of the blog and missed my new introductory video in the “What’s Going On Here?” page, I wanted to share it with you.
Here is the link for my e-mail readers.
Enjoy.
I wish you the happiest New Year and look forward to helping you catapult your way into a better life, filled with serenity, peace, joy and success.
Some friends were over last night and we watched Dan in Real Life for what must have been the 10th time for Marita and me. I just love that movie.
Granted, I have to say I don’t buy the Hollywood message that we really can know true love in just three days. I think Dan was right the first time when he said that was infatuation and not real love. On the other hand, real love can grow out of that infatuation if they work hard for the years to come.
However, what I really wanted to highlight in today’s Springboard for Your Family is how easy it is to give good advice and not really pay attention to it yourself.
Steve Carell plays Dan Burns, a widowed parenting advice columnist with three daughters. While at a yearly extended family weekend, he meets a woman at a bookstore and feels an immediate connection. When he gets back to the family house, he discovers this woman is actually his brother’s girlfriend. Then the fun really begins.
It’s a romantic comedy of errors as Dan tries to shut off his feelings for Marie and in the process breaks nearly every bit of advice he would offer parents with his own girls. I see me in Dan. Don’t get me wrong, I never wanted to date my brothers’ girlfriend (especially since my brothers are more than a decade younger than I am). But I do, sadly, often break the very advice I would offer others about how to relate to my wife and children.
Hey, this is about progress not perfection. But, at the same time, before we spend all our time telling everyone else how they should parent, taking their inventory about their relationships, we need to take our own inventory. In fact, before we tell our spouse how to live and behave to fix our marriage, we should look at how we are behaving. Before we tell our kids or parents how to behave, we should look at how we are behaving.
In the end, Dan finally gets the girl, makes amends with his daughters and gets the girl. His brother finds someone else and all is well for Dan in Real Life. Granted, real life doesn’t always work out so handsomely. But it will always come out better if we look at how we are behaving first.
Just for fun, here’s the trailer:
I know I rely pretty heavily on Tim Hawkins
Have fun.
There I was, minding my own business, doing my work, updating my blogs. When it dawned on me. Oh yeah, I’m supposed to be watching the kids. Why can’t I hear Trina (my 10 month old)? I guess I better go look for her. Lucky for me, she is apparently not allergic to peanuts.
Check out what happened.
Maybe Marita won’t leave me alone with the kids anymore.
I have to apologize. I was all ready to write my new installment on what I have learned about preparing for temptation. However, I came across this video today (No, I don’t just surf YouTube all day long, I only do it for half of the day).
It now explains my new favorite Bible verse. By the way, I’ll get my next point about temptation preparation in a day or two.
Enjoy.
