Engaged Online Goes Live
There’s great excitement here as we activate SmartLoving Engaged Online for public access. We’ve been working on the platform for three months and are very pleased with the result. There are still a few things for us sort out and no doubt lots of troubleshooting challenges in the days ahead, which is why we are…
Read MoreQuit Brooding!
Part 2 of It Takes One to Tango You are dissatisfied with your marriage. Your spouse may or may not share your disillusionment. Your spouse may or may not be willing to work with you towards a more loving, intimate connection. But without him/her, there’s not a lot you can do to improve your situation,…
Read MoreMercy Gospel Reflection: Feb 28
Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 28 February – 3rd Sunday of Lent In this week’s Gospel, Jesus invites us to repentance and to make real changes that will bear fruit as in the parable of the fig tree. Are there areas in your married life which need work? Behaviours that have crept into day-to-day life for…
Read MoreThree Ways to Do Lent
Lent is one of our favourite seasons in the Church calendar; for a decent period (but not an interminable one), we get to do a bit of spiritual spring cleaning. It’s the perfect prompt to give the boot to bad habits and pick up better ones. And it comes with some spiritual superpower assistance. Here…
Read MoreMercy Gospel Reflection: Feb 21
Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 21 February – 2nd Sunday of Lent In today’s Gospel, Peter, James and John experience the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. It was an intense mystical experience and the reading ends with the words “the disciples kept silence and, at that time, told no one what they had seen.” Take some time…
Read MoreLove Lesson
Love is complicated…or is it? A message from kids on love for St Valentine’s Day.
Read MoreBe My Valen-time!
Insufficient time together is one of the biggest contributors to relationship breakdown. Whether our relationship is flying or sinking, time together is like a balm, healing the bumps and bruises of life and stimulating our feelings of affection and tenderness. And with Valentines’ Day approaching, it’s the perfect opportunity to give the gift of time.…
Read MoreMercy Gospel Reflection: Feb 14
Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 14 February – 1st Sunday of Lent In this week’s Gospel reading, the devil tries unsuccessfully to tempt Jesus in the wilderness. It’s an experience that any married couple can relate to. Take a moment to reflect on the temptations that married couples can fall prey too. Infidelity in marriage means…
Read MoreBreaking Through
Every marriage goes through seasons – seasons of delight and seasons of heartache.Sometimes, those dark seasons are simple missteps that are corrected quickly and overcome with an even deeper tenderness the result. Sometimes they can seem interminable – stretching into a hope-voided distance. Whatever your season of marriage, the SmartLoving BreakThrough workshop is an essential experience. Unlike…
Read MoreMercy Gospel Reflection: Feb 7
Gospel Reflections for Married Couples 7 February – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time In this week’s Gospel, Jesus after teaching at the shore asks some fishermen (Simon Peter and his companions) to put out their nets. They must have been thinking “what would a carpenter’s son know about fishing?” Yet their catch was SO extra ordinary…
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