Gary Morland

Last week a friend talked about his Thanksgiving plans. “It’s just us and my dad. The rest of the family can’t get along during the year and I can’t stand watching everyone try to be nice to each other. I’m sick of it.” Can you relate? I shared that story with my wife Brenda at […]

It starts with your family. Your touch begins at home. But what you touch and love doesn’t end there. Home is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room - Harriet Beecher Stowe War can be anywhere. Within your heart, in your marriage, your home, your neighborhood, workplace, church, and all the relationships your family […]

See if you can relate to this. It’s from Tullian Tchividjian’s book One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World: Most parents and spouses, siblings and friends—even preachers—fall prey to the illusion that real change happens when we lay down the law, exercise control, demand good performance, or offer “constructive” criticism. We wonder why […]

If you’ve ever disappointed your parents or spouse or kids so much that you were grieved and so were they, then you understand a bit about the influence of the heart. The influence of the hand cares mostly about results. Just git er done. The influence of the head cares mostly about persuasion and convincing. […]

You have hopes and dreams for your family. You want your family to be all it can be. You want closeness, more love, less drama. You want reconciliation and healing. You also want your family to feel good to you. So how do you go there? How do you move in that direction? How do […]