relationship check up-ouch!

healthy relationships don't "just happen"

there is no "easy button"

there are no short cuts

I am guilty of looking for both

I have misjudged

I have misunderstood

I am guilty of making faulty assumptions

I have been lazy

I have taken family and friends for granted

I am guilty of having expectations

some unrealistic

some unreasonable

I am convicted

cultivating is hard work

maintaining takes planning ahead

 I need to make some changes

commitment takes choosing what is right

sacrifice takes choosing what may be uncomfortable

  I need to be more consistent

relevant means knowing what is important 

on purpose means not coasting

I need to be more aware of what speaks to the hearts of those I love...

and then act on what I know

healthy relationships don't "just happen"

"Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, 

but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, 

but also to the interests of others. 

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 

who, though He was in the form of God, 

did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 

but emptied Himself, 

by taking the form of a servant, 

being born in the likeness of men. 

And being found in human form, 

He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, 

even death on a cross."

Philippians 2:3-8