The stakes that landscapers use for newly planted trees provide a great metaphor for coaching. These stakes are there to support the tree so it can thrive and grow, and after a while they are removed. Similarly, coaches come alongside people in times of growth, change, or hardship in order to support and encourage them for a time.
{Home is the starting place for lived-out-love, a place where the needs of the whole person are cared for. This post explores encouraging personal growth.}
This is the final post in this series! This week we’ll consider how we care for each others’ need to learn and grow as individuals, which includes encouraging and celebrating each other!
Throughout this series of posts, we’ve explored the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual aspects of home. We also considered how we extend love to others beyond our home. Home looks different throughout the seasons of life; yet we all need these aspects of home and can build them in intentional and creative ways! I began this series with this verse:
“The wisest of women builds her house …” ~Proverbs 14:1
Continue reading “Learning and Growing Together {Home, Part 7}”
All of a sudden our grass has turned green again! For weeks it looked sickly, like maybe there were pests or the watering wasn’t quite right, or was it was just the hot hot southern Utah summer? I couldn’t quite make anything work. Then I fertilized, and that seemed to take care of it. I just mowed four days ago, and as you can see, it’s already out of control!
Live a Life of Love 