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When Relationships Become Collateral
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What happens when the people you love start getting whatever time and attention are left over?
In this Cup of Grace in the Grind, Cody looks at the kind of relational drift that rarely begins with conflict or indifference. It usually happens quietly — while we are busy doing good things, carrying real responsibilities, serving people, and responding to whatever feels most urgent.
Jesus calls us to love God and love people, but Scripture also shows that love must be rightly ordered. This episode explores how work, ministry, pressure, and constant availability can slowly displace the relationships God has already entrusted to us — our spouse, children, family, friendships, and church family.
The issue is not simply time management.
It is whether our patterns of attention actually reflect what we say matters most.
Sometimes faithfulness looks like slowing down long enough to love the people right in front of us.
Scripture: Mark 12:28–31; Luke 10; 1 Timothy 5:8; 1 Timothy 3; Haggai 1; 1 John
Pot 2 — Cup 5
Grace in the Grind is presented by Arrow & Roots Coffee Company — where faith meets the everyday.