5f. – Boundary Laws – Proactivity

This week as we continue to discuss the Laws of Boundaries, from the fifth chapter of the book Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend, we come upon a law that sounds good and beneficial.  We may have actually used the term “proactivity” or “proactive” many times in our life. Boundaries and our reactions and

5e. Boundary Laws – Evaluation

The fifth chapter of the book Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend continues to unveil wisdom to benefit each of us over and over again.  This weeks law is not that impactful when you see the title “Evaluation”, but if you are like me, when we uncover this law of boundaries, it will change

5d. Boundary Laws – Motivation

The fifth chapter of the book Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend continues to pour out insight, wisdom and challenges in each of our lives. The laws of boundaries, much like the other laws or facts in life (Newton’s law, law of supply and demand, law gravity, etc) are fundamental practices and knowledge of

5c Boundary Laws – Respect

The fifth chapter of the book Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend has been packed full of real life drama as well as boulders of wisdom. When we get to the root of the matter of our struggles with boundaries, we can see the motivation and cause of many of our actions. Last week

5b. Boundary Laws – Power

As we continue to learn from the Laws of Boundaries presented in the book Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend. In chapter 5, a comical example of what it might be like if an alien came to earth and how similar that is to our beginnings here on earth.  This week we continue in

5a. Boundary Laws – Sowing & Responsibility

Like the alien described in the beginning of chapter 5 of Boundaries, by Cloud & Townsend, people raised in dysfunctional families, or families where God’s ways of boundaries are not practiced, find themselves lost, confused, and easily hurt in adult life.  They don’t understand the spiritual principles that govern relationships and personal well-being. Those principles

4b. How Boundaries Are Developed

Last weeks discussion of how are boundaries are developed was large; it was deep and it was real.  With the importance of the material, it was decided to break the review up into two parts. If you did not go through the first part of the discussion, please click the following link and review it.

4a. How Boundaries Are Developed

As we continue to work our way through Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend, we get exposed to a wide variety of ideas and concepts relating to boundaries. Either the boundaries we don’t have, or the inappropriate ones we do have. In many cases, we don’t know or realize some of the dysfunction in our own

3. Boundary Problems

This week in chapter 3 of Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend we learned some character defects around boundaries, our boundaries, lack there of, and boundaries of others. The difficult situation we can get ourselves into; saying “Yes” to the bad, and “No” to the good.  This chapter began to lay out some basic fundamental categories

2. What a Boundary Looks Like

We hear a bit about boundaries, we even started this book about boundaries. We have our internal perception of boundaries and in reality, we experience boundaries every day. Good ones, bad ones and of course the results of boundaries. Chapter 2 of the book opened up with the story of some parents that were having