“Before You Kiss the Frog…Can We Talk? – 19
From the book:
“Can we talk? Are you thinking these issues through with me? I know we are walking through the tough stuff in this study but stay with me because the benefit of making wise choices changes lives. It will change yours for the better. Anytime you let a new relationship into your life, it changes you. Why not make choices so that your coming together brightens the area where your lives intersect? An unwise choice burdens or darkens the intersection of your time-space continuum.
“When two complete, whole, and unique individuals come together, the intersection of their lives is brighter. When one complete, whole, and unique individual comes together with a still-wounded individual, the wounded one draws off the wellspring of the partner to fill their deficits. Perhaps the phrase, ‘You’re sucking the life out of me,’ originates from this.
“When two wounded individuals come together, the intersection of their lives leaves a void until each works on their healing to become separate, whole, and unique. Two unrecovered people that come together have a permanent void in the middle of their togetherness. I suggest that these two not come together until they recover from their past through a relationship with Christ that heals all the wounds, creating two complete, whole, and unique people. The probability that the shared hurts of damaged couples give them commonality on which to build a successful relationship comes up short of zero. A past of hurt constitutes grounds for dysfunction. I reiterate that you make the choice, not I. I want you to understand the implications of the bad choices I made. Life involves trade-offs. Look to make trades that better your future.” (Taylor, Joy S, Before You Kiss the Frog…Can We Talk?, Lily of the Valley Publishing Services, 2025, Indiana, pp.64-66.)
Are you ready to develop relationships as God directs? Do you think this book of biblical decision trees can help you guide in discussions? If you are a parent of teens, get this book and go through it page-by-page along with them. If you are an adult who works with teens or college students, buy this book and study it with them. If you are a grandparent, buy this book and speak into the lives of your grands.
It is a little book with a lot of biblical insight!
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Joy S. Taylor is a follower of Christ, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her workdays were spent using the Master of Science in Accounting degree that God graciously allowed at the age of, well, greater than 40. She led a divorce recovery support group sponsored by her church for seven years, and spent more than a decade in leadership roles for Celebrate Recovery, using what God had done in her life to point others to the healing only Jesus gives. Now retired, she concentrates on writing for Jesus from her beloved hickory grove in Indiana, yet devotes some of her time to volunteering.