We need the revenue streams that we can obtain. “It’ll help us perhaps handle the cap a little bit easier. “It’s a time now where we need a revenue stream that will help us do such things as build the indoor facility,” Brown said. That starts with the idea of giving in and potentially taking his father’s name off the building. He’ll do so again Wednesday with a temporary indoor practice facility being constructed next door, the potential name change on the stadium for the first time hanging above and a looming battle over the lease and future of the stadium. Much has changed around the golf cart where Brown sits on the sideline, watching nearly every practice since inheriting the team over three decades ago. And we are often more focused on what the other is failing to do and more focused on waiting for him to get his act together than we are on our own commitment to doing whatever is daily necessary to make our marriages what God intended them to be.Brown, 86, suddenly captains a ship of one of the most popular, emergent NFL teams and has to start asking questions about what his father would do if he were around today. We want the good things to come to us without the hard work of laying the daily bricks that will result in the good things. We have already considered that it turns us in on ourselves, but it does something else. We have already examined the antisocial danger of this thing inside us that the Bible calls sin. And I am absolutely persuaded that laziness is rooted in the self-centeredness of sin. We want to be able to coast and have things not only stay the same but get better. Oh, I'm not done! I think there is an epidemic of marital laziness among us. Now, be prepared to have your feelings hurt: you and I tend to want the other to work hard because that will make our lives easier, but we don't really want to have to sign in for the hard work ourselves. Why do we quit paying attention? Because it is hard work to care, it is hard work to discipline ourselves to be careful, and it is hard work to always be thinking of the other person. How Are Good and Evil Depicted in the Christmas Story? You make little decisions without consultation. You complain about how the other does little things, when it really doesn't make any difference. You quit asking for forgiveness in the little moments of wrong. You allow yourself to do little rude things you would never have done in courtship. You fight for your view of beauty rather than making your home a visual expression of the tastes of both of you. Day after day you leave for work without a moment of tenderness between you. You allow yourself to go to bed irritated after a little disagreement. You fight for your own way in little things, rather than seeing them as an opportunity to serve. You complain about the dirty dishes instead of putting them in the dishwasher. You squeeze and crinkle the toothpaste tube even though you know it bothers your spouse. Let me play out this life of little-moment inattention for you. The problem is that we simply don't pay attention, and because of this we allow ourselves to think, desire, say, and do things that we shouldn't. The development and deepening of the love in a marriage happens by things that are done daily this is also true with the sad deterioration of a marriage. Things become sweet and beautiful progressively. Things in a marriage go bad progressively. The character of a marriage is not formed in one grand moment. Things don't go bad in a marriage in an instant. We must have a "day-by-day" approach to everything in our lives, and if we do, we will choose our bricks carefully and place them strategically.
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