Excellent blog on such a very sad and realistic reality for many parents who once had
a good loving relationship with their children.
It is always a tragedy when grand parents are denied access to their grand children especially if they have had
a good loving relationship with them in the early years.
A good loving relationship has no fear.
Unfortunately, many men (husbands and fathers) have not led by example or had
good loving relationship with their wife and children but become abusive, lazy, unspiritual, and the children of those fathers begin to feel distrustful to men and could steer towards accepting women who have possibly been more obedient to God or seem more pure.
One important aspect of
a good love relationship, is what may be called need identification, or the pooling of the hierarchies of basic needs in two persons into a single hierarchy.
When that love relationship is healthy, we have a greater chance of developing
good loving relationships ourselves.
We now know what
a good love relationship looks and feels like.
Working toward common goals, sharing dreams and values define the dynamics of
a good love relationship.
Not exact matches
He found that even if a man had a successful career, made a lot of money, and had
good health, without
loving relationships he wouldn't be happy.
Even if a man succeeded in work, amassed piles of money, and experienced
good health, without
loving relationships he wouldn't be happy, Vaillant found.
When you lose a
loved one, you begin to know all too
well the importance of
relationships.
Of course, the
best relationships show
love year - round.
We are
better with more, not less people living in committed
loving relationships.
And isn't the
relationship with God, and each spiritual journey going to lead us in different directions — why do we need to judge others who profess
Love of God, who profess love of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as well as God d
Love of God, who profess
love of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as well as God d
love of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as
well as God does.
But I have a feeling that you would call three men, a goat, and some farm implements «a
loving relationship» and «
good», if that's what somebody wanted.
Our church was blessed to create the YouVersion Bible app and so we obviously
love technology, but I'd have to say I have a
love - hate
relationship with it as
well.
One of the
best ways of strengthening your
love for your friends and your mutual commitment to your
relationship is to be in prayer.
Instead, we should be illuminating what is
good,
loving without conditions, forming
relationships and living out the fullness of grace and truth.
I am doing my
best here to try to convert you heathens into a
loving relationship with Jesus, but you are all like, «blah blah blah, atheism, blah blah blah, bible contradictions» Do you even know how many of you there are on this forum?!
And he made human fathers and he gives us the example of
good fathers so we can understand the kind of secure
relationship of
love and protection he offers to us.»
If you are two consenting adult human beings and you desire to have a
loving, committed
relationship in which to raise a family, and you wish to have all of the benefits and responsibilities that comes with it, marriage is a
good choice.
(CNN)- Americans
love kitsch, and the holidays bring out the
best in our
love / hate
relationship with products that are so bad they just might be great.
The
Love & Money Podcast — we work on building better relationships with money and with each other, taking on these topics, together so we can thrive in both love and mo
Love & Money Podcast — we work on building
better relationships with money and with each other, taking on these topics, together so we can thrive in both
love and mo
love and money.
And I see no reason why the self - sacrificing
love of Jesus can not be modeled in a committed same - sex
relationship as
well as it can be modeled in a committed heterosexual
relationship.
In this
relationship of trust, the priest may speak the words and the
love of Christ, the
Good Shepherd, and leave the person in question free to respond to Christ as they will.
Marriage also recognises that our
relationships with each other are more than physical: they should involve knowledge and
love - seeing and accepting the truth and
good that each human being is.
Thus, instead of emphasizing aseity, or self - containedness as
well as sheer self - existence, as God's essential nature, such theologians give the central place to
love - in - action, which presupposes and entails
relationships.
* worship God, whose will is and who has always yearned for us to...... be free and independent;... think;... be curious;... be intelligent and wise;... value knowledge over ignorance and compassion over knowledge;... be creative;... grow and mature;... live long healthy satisfying lives;... live non-violently without vengeance;... be generous;... be hospitable;... be compassionate;... do no harm;... heal and rehabilitate and restore;... forgive and reconcile and include all and have all participate;... be
good stewards of all resources;... live here and now as one family;... live in a
loving intimate
relationship with God;... be transformed through resurrection; and... be the kingdom of God.
* be guided and instructed by the
Good News message, which is: ---- God is unconditional boundless grace and unlimited unrestrained
love and always has been; ---- God wants to have a
loving intimate
relationship with each of us without exception and without qualification; ---- seek justice as healing and rehabilitation and restoration; ---- seek universal reconciliation and inclusion and participation; ---- in healthy partnership, compassionately serve all who are hurt or lost or oppressed; ---- be generous and hospitable to all; ---- live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness of death and worldly powers; and ---- be — here and now — the Kingdom of God.
The all - determining notion of power which Barth in fact develops demonstrates divine freedom
well enough but sometimes makes divine
love and even the possibility of genuine divine
relationship with a real «other» more difficult to conceive.
Reconciliation: We are once again in a
loving relationship with God, who asks us to be reconciled and
loving to each other as
well.
There will be no future healing if a couple delude themselves, through a pastor's misguided attempts to provide
loving support, into thinking that their divorce is a momentary inconvenience which is
best forgotten rather than a broken
relationship which will exert continuing influence on their lives.
As parents, we need to work to ensure our children have a
relationship with Jesus, not just a desire to be part of a
loving community doing
good.
If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the
love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has
well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man
relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.
But from where I'm standing, it looks like the Church in America is actually doing pretty
well when it comes to individual
relationships of
love and care.
Well guess what that has nothing to do with the saved
loving relationship of a gay couple now does it.
As Christians, we don't have to fear changes in our
relationships, because the God who never changes sent his Son to walk among us and show us how to
love one another
better.
However, to have a stable, healthy
relationship, one needs to have a healthy self -
love and self - acceptance, which is psychologically possible only when one can accept one's sexuality as morally
good and, in a Christian context, compatible with God's
love.
The growth counselor's function is to help such persons as they work through their resistance to bury a dead
relationship; uncouple without infighting so as to avoid further hurt to each other and to their children; agree on a plan for the children that will be
best for the children's mental health; work through the ambivalent feelings that usually accompany divorce — guilt, rage, release, resentment, failure, joy, loss — so that each person's infected grief wound can heal; discover what each contributed to the disintegration of their
relationship; learn the
relationship - building and
love - nurturing skills which each will need either to enjoy creative singlehood or to establish a
better marriage.
But yes it's not much
good claiming an identity with Jesus Christ if our
relationship with Him isn't a living one putting on Christ and allowing our
love to radiate to our fellow man... gay or otherwise.
The exceptional fidelity, self - sacrifice and affection, as
well as the pain, grief and sorrow and the deep spiritual response to the suffering and bereavement that is being expressed, is a sign to the churches of the presence of the Spirit of
love in these
relationships.
In fact, I would argue that a big issue in the mental health of many people is the lack of
well bounded, supportive,
loving, same seex
relationships.
This is because the stress in the pictures is on the divine all - sufficiency, total control, demand for moral rectitude, and active self - assertion, none of which fits in very
well with the focus on
Love — for love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of t
Love — for
love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of t
love is always a matter of receiving as
well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of
relationship which matters to and has its results for each of them.
Jesus prayed that the church «may be one» just as He is in the Father (John 17: 21), and this goes for a
relationship as
well — it is essential a couple be united by their
love for God.
The fact that two people like (as
well as
love) each other and therefore enjoy being together and communicating makes the sexual part of their
relationship deeply gratifying.
Coming out, I come into the realization of myself as
best able to relate most intimately — to touch and be touched most deeply, to give and receive most naturally, to empower and be empowered most remarkably —
best able to express everything I most value — God in human life, God in justice, God in passion, God as
love — in sexual
relationship to a lover who is female.
Sex without companionship in marriage is
better than no sex at all; but its pleasure falls far short of sex within a
relationship of
loving and trusting.
A strong marriage
relationship is constructed by two people who are willing to work at it, year - in and year - out, «for
better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to
love and to cherish, till death us do part.»
I can't prove anything to anyone, but I can stand here and tell you how thankful I am for my
relationship with Jesus because I am a different and
better person because of my experience of His
love for me.
The
Good News is concerned with how
well we live our lives, with how
well we interact with others, and about each of us having a progressively more
loving and intimate
relationship with God.