Get To The Root with Adi-Oh!

Blended families are SO tough! It takes a special heart to purposefully walk into the lives of other people's kids and love them as our own, and that fact alone should be recognized and respected. On the flip side of the coin, our new spouse's ex is apprehensive about a new person having a hand in the shaping of their children. It's a two-way street, and it takes a lot of work to co-parent the kids without the bitterness and misgivings from a breakup that has nothing to do with the kids. Everyone just check your emotions at the door, and just love those kids!!!

Tears are not for the weak. Of course, all familiar with alligator tears, but in this episode, we're getting to the root of real tears from real hurts. We are allowed to cry, and we are, in fact, designed to do so when we get too full of hurt, disappointment, anger, and frustration. Our Creator understood the pressures we would one day face and gave us release valves to relieve those pressures in the form of salty tears. Through time, we run into people who make us feel less than human for daring to cry, but my encouragement to you is to ask you to not have so much pride that you don't allow yourself the relief created for you. "Soft" is not a bad word. It is a part of you.

There is a difference between letting things go and complete forgiveness. Forgiveness is the same as exoneration...that is, it means to completely remove blame from the guilty. We have a bigger responsibility toward the prosperity of our relationships than we think, and the biggest part is seeing the people in our lives as they really are and loving them enough to forgive them. May you be blessed enough to truly forgive someone today!

Welcome to the first installment in the Waging War Series. We're starting with the inner voice because many of our life decisions come from what we've been told and what we learned to believe. It is possible to blot that voice out and replace it with voices of wisdom and life, but it's not something that can be done overnight or alone. Getting there is hard, but we cannot allow ourselves to stay comfortable being guided by voices that lie to us on a daily basis. We have to grow. We have to live. In order to do so, we have to change the way we think about ourselves and the world around us.

Whether we like it or not, we are responsible for caring about one another...even for those we don't understand. Not understanding, however, is not our excuse to not actively learn from resources that are available to help us. We need to care. We need to act. We need to grow.