Staying In Love On the Field

A Top Ten List On How To Stay In Love On The Field
(This applies to all couples. Not just those on the field)

10.Start with the end in mind. Set goals together and make a plan on how to reach those goals as a couple.
9. Romance! Romance! Romance! Date, Set aside time for your spouse, Be intimate.
8. Get of the Couch. Stay physically fit. Staying active will also help lower your stress level.
7. Play with Purpose. Put your mind in neutral. (Take time everyday or at least once a week to enjoy life). Take your days off, plan and take vacations.
6. Maintain Your Balance. Balance your time between work, play, family, kids, spouse, and friends.
5. Recognize Your Vulnerabilities. Don't become over-confident. Rely on the Father and be open and honest with your spouse and friends.
4. Build a Moral Purity Strategy. Have people in your life that will ask you the hard questions of accountability.
3. Discover a Mutual Ministry. Serve alongside one another.
2. Enter the Prayer Closet Together. Pray together for each other's needs and the needs of others. This is the fastest way to build spiritual intimacy.
1. Stay Spiritually Strong. As an individual, as a couple. Maintain consistency in your quiet time. Worship together as a family.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

We spent the morning analyzing our personality type using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. We've taken many of these personality indicators before. Each time they help to remind us why we do what we do and help us to realize our tendencies and also respect and work well with others of opposites personality types.

Marcus is ISTP, which is best described as Introverted Thinking with Sensing. His highest score was Sensing (17 out of 30). The description that describes ISTP really describes him well.
ISTP
-Logical, analytical, and objectively critical
-Careful observers of the world around them
-Able to quickly find the solution to a practical problem
-Not comfortable with regimentation and rules, thrives on variety and novelty
-Usually seen by others as independent, adaptable, confident, action oriented, and risk taking

I am ESFJ, which is best described as Extroverted Feeling with Sensing. I scored one point in the Extrovert column, which makes me pretty balanced between being an Introvert and Extrovert. My highest score was Feeling (30 out of 30). No surprise there.
ESFJ
-Warm, sympathetic, and helpful
-Personal, cooperative, and tactful
-Conscientious and loyal, value security, stability, and tradition
-Focused on the present, make decisions based on experience and facts
-Usually seen by others as sociable, enthusiastic, energetic, organized, and traditional.

Shots

Today both Marcus and I got our first round of shots. Marcus got 5 and I had 4. Don't be fooled by our faces, they really weren't that bad. Thank goodness for good nurses who give shots well, because I still have to have 4 more and Marcus has to have 8.

One on One Relationship by MP

Well we have been here in VA for just over a week now and the Father is teaching us some amazing things and our relationship to the Father is growing closer and closer.

As we look around at some of the people that we are here with, it just blows our minds at the kind of relationship that these people have with Father. Some of the disciplines that these men and women have seems to be completely perfect and almost unobtainable. I have to remind myself that these people sometimes struggle and that life is not always peaches and cream. Don’t get me wrong, my relationship to the Father is probably the best it has been in a long time, but why is it that we humans must always compare ourselves to others. Either to build ourselves up or to inadvertently cause ourselves to feel inadequate, and I know that seeing others that are stronger in certain disciplines can be a motivational booster or even a resource to learn how to increase and perfect our disciplines, but today I have really had to claim the truth in Galatians 6:4 to show that I must measure my relationship to the Father by my relationship and not another’s.

I am so joyous that He bases our relationship on our relationship and that He is interested in my knowing Him in the way that He is revealing Himself to me and the Truths that He leads me to daily. I don’t have to worry about fitting into a perfect little cookie cutter shape. He grants me the blessing to live out our relationship in a way that is full of truth and grace. For that, I am truly grateful today.