{"id":413,"date":"2013-02-12T14:03:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=413"},"modified":"2013-02-12T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T20:03:57","slug":"stop-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Stop counting!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine was talking to me today about a couple that she knows. \u00a0She was telling me how their relationship didn’t seem fair and how one person in the couple appeared to do 90% of the work.<\/p>\n

I have been thinking about it some more and obviously I don’t know their whole story, but from the outside it appears that the beauty of their relationship lies in the fact that the two involved are not counting.<\/p>\n

I think once you stop counting, the percentages can’t be calculated and they don’t matter anyway. \u00a0What matters is the teamwork, knowing you have a teammate who has your back and wants to support you and love you.<\/p>\n

Jesus please help us to stop counting, work together, and remember that we all have unique gifts to contribute which can’t be quantified anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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