Be Curious

Presence guides us to a healthy sense of self-restraint and self-sacrifice, enabling us to play with our attachments, to confront our own prison.  We may learn to slip out of the stranglehold of egoism, which is based in desire and in the thoughts generated by desire.  In being present ot the play of desire we [...]

Authentic Self goes to Church

I’ve been teaching a Sunday School class at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church here in Waco, America.  This coming Sunday is the last installment of “Monday through Saturday Spirituality.”  I’ve been using the concepts of Authentic Self and small self to discuss how we bring our spiritual lives to the practical tasks and issues we face [...]

Leave Your Spouse While You’re still in Love – Part 3

DO YOU KINDLE? If so, would you please part with 99 cents and download my first Kindle “mini-book”experiment? It’s titled Blessing, Grace, and Incarnation: The Foundations of the Spiritual Marriage and Family.  I’m looking for additional ways to fund the The Waco Foundation for Mental Health Care, and so your feedback on this first project [...]

Leave Your Spouse While You’re still in Love – Part 2

Thank you for your comments and questions on my last entry (some left on the blog, some emailed to me).  Many of you said that you could relate to my experience, and the question most raised was something like, “But how can we actually move back toward Love?”
The process is, in my opinion, theoretically simple, [...]

Leave Your Spouse While You are Still in Love – Part 1

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A few years ago I thought I might want to leave my marriage. During a struggle that lasted over a year, only one person ever said to me, “You mustn’t do that.”
It wasn’t any of my friends.
…..It wasn’t any of my family members,
……….It wasn’t my pastor,
……………nor were any of my in-laws this straightforward.

The only person [...]

Responses to “Marriage as Formation”

Greetings from beautiful Leakey, Texas, a tiny burg that lies along the Frio River. My family has been spending the week of the fourth with a passle of friends from Austin for nearly 15 years!

I received more comments on my last blog entry, Marriage as Formation, than on anything I’ve written so far. Some of [...]

Marriage As Formation

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Marriage as Formation
“I marry in order to mature.”
In previous blog entries I’ve suggested that people marry for different reasons (duh) and that it can be helpful to understand how each of three core reasons might be effecting your marriage.
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In Marriage as Survival I point out that for most of human history people married [...]

Marriage as Enrichment

Formatting issues abound in Blogger – line spacing issues… weird font size changes, etc…. I’ve looked into other blogging platforms, and concluded that Blogger has about the same number of issues as the others. If there are any experts out there who have figured out how to minimize the formatting problems with Blogger, I’ll be [...]

Survival, Enrichment, and Formation

A few more ideas on how we develop into mature humans have been taking shape for me….
Its generally accepted that we develop in all areas of life. All this means is that we do not start out growed up. Certain things have to happen for us to get there. It is also generally accepted that [...]