Good Thoughts that should Prompt Action

Tonight at church was our last set of classes about Practicing the Presence of God. These were classes about Spiritual Formation....spiritual formation in prayer, in the Word, in relationships, in practicing the Sabbath, and one other class that I can't remember. I went to the class on relationships. It has been a good class. Jaime Goff taught the first class about practicing the presence of God in our sexuality. She did a great job. The next class was taught by Deon Botha and he talked about all the things that we are polluting our worlds with...he started out with the illustration of a beautiful pond...peaceful, pristine, sunfilled, trees reaching out over the water....and yet, you can see a pipe that is dripping some foul stuff into this pond...what is the foul stuff leaking into your world?
Tonight Jackie Halstead talked about the big picture in relationships...our work, our families, our church...good, practical stuff. The one thing that I know will stick with me forever is...there are three roles you can choose to take when you are part of a couple. You can be the critical parent, the adult, or the child. When one partner is being the critical parent, then that makes the other person the child. These roles flip sometimes but if we choose to concentrate on ourselves and what we need to do to improve our relationship, then we are choosing to be the adult and it makes it harder for the other person to play the other roles. It would be great if both partners were the adult. The relationship would be much healthier.
Any thoughts?