Roles Image Bearer
- Strive to be like Jesus.
- Show Jesus to my world.
- Live an unselfish life.
- Love.
- Read about Jesus and discover His characteristics.
- Volunteer to help needy children.
- Join a home group to build church community.
- Invite someone over for dinner next week.
- I tend to be selfish with my time.
- I easily back out of events when I don't know people or when I am going alone.
- I read my Bible at night and it's easy to go to sleep and/or forget.
- Working with women, it can be easy to get pulled into gossiping - this is not the way to love others.
- Speaking in love about a person who is being belittled.
- Getting hugs and seeing smiles of a child who is loved by me... and possibly no one else.
- Making an impact on someone's life by giving them my love and time.
- Experiencing first-hand a life changed by Jesus.
Wife
- Talk about and keep tabs on our ambitions and dreams.
- Do fun things together.
- Plan an adventure for 2013.
- Say yes more than I say no.
- Write in shared journal.
- I am perfectly content staying at home, so sometimes it's hard to say yes.
- Doing "things" costs money.
- Living a great story together, and not as individuals.
Speech-Language Pathologist
- See progress in the kids that I work with.
- Give hope to parents.
- Find my niche within this field.
- Stay at the same job for along period of time.
- Listen more, talk less.
- Go to the ASHA convention in November.
- Love what I do.
- Have a good reputation in my field.
- See progress.
- Learn about and focus on a specific area of speech/language therapy.
Long distance family member and friend
- Stay in better contact with my friends and family.
- Call and/or Facetime someone at least twice a week.
- Write a letter to Grandma J, Grandma S, and Maggie.
- Text less, call more.
- It is hard when I feel like I am the only one putting in effort to stay in contact.
- When I haven't talked to certain people in a while, I second guess how they feel about me.
- After talking all day at work, sometimes I don't feel like talking on the phone.
- Spending quality time with them in the same city.
- Getting to see them on Skype/Facetime.
- Hearing someone say that my letter made their day.
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