Reframe Your Challenges And Strengthen Your Marriage (Clip)
It's really going back and remembering how God has blessed you, how God showed up, right? An empowering perspective on life is feeling that you've gone through things before and you've come out of it. We believe that there's a divine blessing and favor on our lives and we know that God shows up and we know that God takes us through things and there's also our own responsibility to partner in that. But when you look back and you think about the story that you're telling yourself around all these defining moments, you want it to be in a way where when you look back on your story, you're not thinking, I didn't have any control over that and so that's why I'm here where I am today.
Well, this happened to me and that happened to me and well, then my wife just couldn't stop her shopping habit and so we're in the place where we're at pretty much because of her and because I have to cater to her every needs, that's why I have to sacrifice for myself now and I can't be happy. You get to define at what point you're going to take back control of your life and maybe your defining moment is right now, finally saying, wow, looking back on all this, I realize I've been framing this in a way that hasn't been empowering to me. I realize how important it is the way that I'm looking back on our history together.
I'm going to focus on the things that are going to enrich our relationship, that are going to bring us to a better place and not a worse place and it's not a place where we're just getting by, keeping the status quo, trying to make it work for the kids or whatever it is, you have a choice right now. You have a choice in how you're going to view your marriage because your mindset affects the way that you would treat your spouse. It affects the way that you view your life and how you show up in life for your spouse, for your kids.
