A Stronger Knot #12: We Forgive, Part 2
Several years ago we created a list of values that we wanted to live by in our family, look upon, and strive toward. These family values were also the premise of Aaron's book by the same title. We spent several weeks praying about the compass by which we felt the Lord wanted us to live. And we came up with these: We live for God. We love people. We speak life. We laugh loudly. We are honest. We are thankful. We forgive. We are real. We have purpose. For the first season of A Stronger Knot podcast, we are going through each of these values, what they mean to us individually and as a family, and hope to share the heart of the Father with you all. We are so thankful we get to bring you episode number 12 of A Stronger Knot Podcast. Today we’re continuing our conversation about forgiveness. The last few episodes about connection and forgiveness tie into this one so once you listen to this or before you do, head over to episodes 10 and 11 to get some background about what we’re talking about when we mention connection, conflict, and forgiveness. Well, In this episode on forgiveness we talk about how -69% of conflict is unresolved and 80% of our synapses/our WHY is from before we met our spouse. Those are some hefty statistics that we dive into in this episode. -It’s important to look deeper into our reactions in conflict to ask the WHY. WHY do we do the things we do? -Aaron and I give a personal story that was a turning point in our marriage because it made us realize the places in our own hearts, history, and minds of why we do the things we do. -And we also talk about validating each other’s subjective reality. which takes some practice and we give you some examples of what that looks like in real life. I have to tell you that this is one of our favorite episodes. There’s a lot of meat here, some vulnerability, and it’s real. Plus, this is something we are so very passionate about. I think you’ll hear the evident passion in our tone throughout the whole episode. We are so grateful to you for showing up with us every week. You guys mean the world to us and we are so grateful that we get to serve you. So here you go. Grab your coffee and join us as we continue the conversation about in our home we forgive.