Emotional Growth Weekend

Six men share their growth insights. They attended an emotional growth weekend. Here is what they learned.

Husband #1: I have lived isolated my whole life. This week I connected with my wife’s pain. It was the first time. We both wept.
Husband #2: I have started to feel sad for my younger self. I am now connecting my sad past to my current lack of peace and rest. Wow. My eyes are being opened.
Husband #3: I have feared rejection my whole life. That fear has stunted and driven me. Today I am learning and face that old, monster of a fear.
Husband #4: I am learning emotional words. I need them to help me explain how I’ve felt my whole life. My new language includes shame, hurt, and unworthiness.
Husband #5: Growing up I was bullied a lot. I took on a victim role. I had no voice. But today I’m starting to stand up and find my voice.
Husband #6: I have lived divided and confused since childhood. I love Jesus. But I have not let him touch my wounded past. Today I’m inviting Him inside.

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These men have an old story. They are also the promise that they could be made new. And they are claiming the promise.

Father, please keep growing me. Jesus, show me a new, better way. Holy Spirit be my guide and comforter. Amen.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: the old has gone, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17