So, last Sunday was pretty cool. Three couples...we discussed the question we raised two weeks earlier, "What would you like to see change in you?" Great conversation. Great honesty. And I am continuing to be amazed at the weaving together of lives that is occurring as risks are taken and community is emerging. Change is possible and when there is hope held forth in a caring community, and we journey together, that hope grows and change happens. I am looking forward to looking back in celebration on the change we will each and all see. During our time together, I had a bit of an epiphany. I've often read, heard and recited a phrase in the 4th chapter of Ecclesiastes -  "a cord of three strands is not easily broken". Oftentimes it's applied to God's role in marriage. What if it might be about a "third party"? When any couple has "issues", those issues are often common to every marriage, not just theirs. In my own, I've learned many issues are not "Mark/Lyn" issues, but husband/wife or even male/female issues. Caring third "strands", whose lives are woven together with the couple or people "in the throes of battle", who walk, share, hope and cry together - what a gift! And what won't be "broken" if those relationships persist, grow and deepen? So, sometimes that third strand brings perspective, creates space for the "interested" yes even heated parties to see more objectively - to look outside in. We need each other. Some of these things (like life and marriage) we can't do on our own. We're made in the image of a relational God. There is no Plan B for life...

Wow

Check out this link...what do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zk31Uc_pCY&feature=related

Hope to see you Sunday at our house at 6. We hope to start the conversation on the John Ortberg book, The Me I Want To Be.

Mark down April 17 as game night at Mike and Claudia's.