Family The Family Cycles

Family

The Family Cycles

 

This seven passenger conferencing tricycle teaches team work

In the cycles of family how is your family working together?

You have heard that a family that

prays together stays together.

Apparently a company in Germany believes that

a family that cycles together stays together.

Eric Staller has developed a Seven Passenger Tricycle

where the passengers face each other in a circle and

each one contributes to getting from point “A” to Point “B”.

 

Companies like Google and Cirque du Soleil

believe the crazy price tag of $20,000 is worth it

to build team dynamic with their company family.

 Although the seven passengers tricycle has some

great potential for conferencing and team building

there is another type of family cycle.

There are six cycles for a family to navigate.

 

“Cycles of Family Life”

·        The marriage

·        Bearing children

·        Raising children

·        The empty nest/launching new family

·        The declining years

·        Death in the marriage

Family cycles should be a great

experience for the whole family.

There will be the downhill ride where life seems

to be effortless as the breeze refreshes everyone.

There are also the uphill struggles where

the energy of everyone is tested.

Like the seven passenger tricycle,

one person is responsible for steering.

 

Another responsible for breaking.

 

But all are responsible for peddling.

The six cycles of a family are seasons.

In each season the number of seats change

but there are always three things needed…

  Steering, breaking, and peddling.

These three things involve daily decisions and energy.

No matter what seat you sit on or

what cycle of family you are in…

You have responsibility to the family.

Which family cycle are you in?

How is the cycle going?

What is our heavenly Father saying to

you in the family cycle you are in?

What goals do you have in this family cycle season?

 

Video Bicycle built for 7

https://youtu.be/BaVSUUl-olQ

Scripture Reading

 1 Timothy 5:7-8 NIV

7 Give the people these instructions, too, so that no one may be open to blame. 8 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.