Stacy & Stacy

Tool #1 - Boundaries! Stacy & Stacy discuss the confidence of sacramental marriage and how that helped them understand how to set healthy boundaries.

Here is the one main tool that helped them understand the grace of Christ in marriage as Catholic wives. Boundaries! They recommend the book by Henry Cloud and John Townsend. And they bring that idea into the Sacrament of Matrimony. 

Stacy & Stacy walk you through how to confront your Good, Bad, and Ugly using Clint Eastwood's spaghetti Western, Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi, and St. Augustine's Confessions. (Clint's in good company!) This exercise is about digging deep in yourself, through grace, to give all of yourself to Christ so you can then love all of the people in your life. It's about healing all the discord, and it works! Let's get real and kick some devil booty.

Scriptures Quoted:

• "Or do you hold his priceless kindness, forbearance, and patience in low esteem, unaware that the kindness of God would lead you to repentance?" Romans 2:4
• "For I know well the plans I have in mind for you—oracle of the LORD—plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope." Jeremiah 29:11
• "...all our just deeds are like polluted rags..." Isaiah 64:5 (NKJV says "...all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags.")

Stacy & Stacy talk about 1) how scary it was while priests in a Tribunal sat around a table in a poorly lit room deciding the fate of their futures, 2) how foreign the word "annulment" is to non-Catholics, 3) learning to trust God in the process, to trust God in His Church, 4) the ongoing helplessness as people in ministry can seem unwilling to empathize, and 5) how God has His ways of reminding us that He's with us all along. (Oh, and there were thunderstorms rumbling in the background!)

Stacy & Stacy get real about the paralyzing fear of watching our kids exercise free will, especially when it involves mortal sin. They dig deep to talk about how to confront the helpless feeling with hope instead of "wallering" in despair.