A question asked by a wise husband and wife I know when they talk to couples is Would you rather be right or happy? What they mean is that insisting on proving youre right often gets in the way of being happy. If you...The post Friday Flashback: Would

Doing the rerun series on busyness has been an insightful experience for me. It originally ran fourteen years ago, and I can see how I was sharing something God was doing with me at the time. I added the margin tag a month after... The post Are You Open t

When I originally wrote the sin of busyness series in June of 2012, Lori and I were not yet doing Sabbath so it didnt get mentioned. Now I see what an important part of the puzzle Sabbath is. God created us. He knows...The post Add a Sabbath Rest to D

As someone said in the comments a few days ago, another source of business is church. This comes in three flavours or a mix of them: Feeling you have to be at church every time the doors are open. I have a friend who... The post Don’t Let Church Make You

The posts on busyness came about because of the number of women who indicated they said no to sex because they were too tired, which is mostly about being too busy. Today, I want to differentiate between being too busy for sex, and being... The post Being

Given the need to feed, clothe, and provide shelter for our families, earning income must be a high priority. Sometimes that means putting the demands of the job ahead of the desires of the family better to miss some event than to be...The post When Wo

Some folks seem unable to think clearly when things involve the children. Others get guilted into doing things they dont feel right about doing because theyre chided to do it for the children or asked how can you say no to the children. This...Th

One way to deal with the danger of being too busy it to have checkpoints. If you go X number of days without doing _______, youre too busy. If you spent less than Y minutes doing _______ last week, youre too busy. And if...The post Time Use Checkpoints

Last Friday, I reran the first in a series I did about the sin of busyness twelve years ago. Its a very important issue, and rather than running it on Fridays until Thanksgiving, Ive decided to do it all together. Know why so many...The post Too Busy i

On Tuesday, I told you to Be Sensitive to the Power of Your Wifes Habits. Habits can have a huge impact on sex, and its a mixed bag. You and your wife have sexual habits. When you have sex, what you do for foreplay,...The post When Sexual Habits Help