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"We cannot give our love fully to our loved ones if our lives are disordered."

This is a quote from our renew book, Longing for the Holy. This past week Wayne and I had to make the final preparations for a marriage talk we gave. It was crunch time, the night before, and we had a lot of work to do still. Both of us were exhausted from work and school events and as we sat down at 9:30PM we knew that we had nothing left to give except sarcasm, blame and impatience....so we went to bed.

It is amazing what sleep can do. It helped us to focus freshly on our task, it gave us energy to control our negative thoughts and work creatively together. That's what being 'ordered' helps us to do.

What is 'disorderd' (out of balance) in your life that causes you to behave in a less than kind way?


 

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