Chapter 2 The River of Family
1. Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935; renewed by Oswald Chambers Publications Association, 1963), 250.
Chapter 4 The Rocky River
1. Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, 169.
2. Ibid., 13.
Chapter 7 Get Your Peace Right
1. Gal. 5:22–23; see also Prov. 17:9; 25:15; Eph. 4:2, 29; and Phil. 2:3.
Chapter 8 Accept Your Family, Your Role, and Your Limits
1. Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (New York: Viking, 2010).
2. Andy Stanley, Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012), 11.
3. C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 135–36.
4. Max Lucado, Twitter post, February 11, 2013, 11:00 a.m., https://twitter.com/maxlucado/status/301043026338390016.
Chapter 9 Be Patient, Curious, and Attentive
1. Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, 169.
2. Peter Bregman, “Employees Can’t Be Summed Up by a Personality Test,” Harvard Business Review, August 19, 2015, https://hbr.org/2015/08/employees-cant-be-summed-up-by-a-personality-test.
1. Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most (Colorado Springs: WaterBrook Press, 2007), 193.
2. Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936), 36.
3. Paul Tournier, Guilt and Grace: A Psychological Study (New York: Harper and Row, 1962), 98.
4. Simon Sinek, “How Great Leaders Inspire Action,” Ted video, 18:04, filmed September 2009, https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.
Chapter 11 Model What You Want to See
1. “Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech—1997,” YouTube video, March 26, 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM.
2. The Free Dictionary, s.v. “perspective,” http://www.thefreedictionary.com/perspective.
3. Keith Richards with James Fox, Life (New York: BackBay Books/Little, Brown, 2011), 47.
4. Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, 250.
Chapter 12 Release Your Family, Your Role, and the Results into God’s Hands
1. Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer (Toronto: A. G. Watson, 1885), 99.
2. Beth Moore, Children of the Day: 1 & 2 Thessalonians, session 4 (Nashville: LifeWay Christian Resources, 2014), DVD.
Chapter 13 Drops of Grace into Your River
1. Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, 179.
2. See William Henry Channing, The Spirit of the Age, vol. 1 (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1850), 408.
3. BJ Fogg, Tiny Habits, http://www.tinyhabits.com.
Chapter 14 One Big Step in Your Most Challenging Family Relationship
1. Vance Havner, When God Breaks Through: Sermons on Revival, comp. Dennis J. Hester (Grand Rapids: Kregal, 2003), 9.
Chapter 15 Dock of the Bay
1. Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, 66.
2. C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves: An Explanation of the Nature of Love (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960), 175–76.
3. From “Dear Abby,” Times-Picayune, New Orleans, June 17, 1981, section 3. The article that tells the story can be found at http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/30/violet-forgive/#return-note-7337-17.
Acknowledgments
1. Joseph P. Lash, Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy (New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1980), 496.