So hearing from her how wonderful I am is one thing that communicates love to me, but that love language doesn't work for her.
Of course, love language doesn't apply only to intimate relationships.
Yes, one
love language does inch out the others, but all my children have a second language that is almost as strong.
Because they have different
love languages we do a few things both leading up to Valentine's Day and on the day itself.
As my love languages don't fit every love language, I'll need your help, if you fit in the current category or know some great ways to show love in this category won't you please leave a comment with some tips and ideas too?
The problem is, our spouse may not speak the same
love language we do.
As Dr. Gary Chapman explains in his book, The 5 Love Languages, primary love languages don't always follow along traditional gender stereotypes.
Not exact matches
But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the
love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the
language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the
language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.
Before they can understand the messages in the Bible (or any written or spoken thought), children must learn to understand
language, but they
do not need to understand words to feel and express
love.
Words
do not tell the story adequately...
Love has it's own
language... and we have seen it in this poor man and the Pope.
«13 If I could speak all the
languages of earth and of angels, but didn't
love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Most of us are familiar with the
love languages concept for marriages by Dr. Chapman, but this book for children has been a huge help for the ways that I don't receive
love in the same ways as my tinies.
His extraordinary gifts as poet — and these are the most salient aspects of what he has left behind — enable him to reach everyone who
loves to watch or hear
language do everything it can
do.
Virginia Woolf observed that the poets give us
language for all sorts and conditions of
love but don't offer ready
language for a common headache.
Christians are not bad, we don't have our own
language and if we
do that
language is to be
love, and hope and peace.
We say that the natural
loves are transformed and perfected, but that
language does not quite capture the truth of our experience.
It may be that kerygmatic allusions to Jesus» humility, meekness, gentleness,
love, forgiveness and obedience derive from historical memory of Jesus; but the «historical value» which such material may have is far from its kerygmatic meaning, which is more accurately stated by Bultmann, in
language actually intended to state the significance of the pre-existence in the karygma: «That Jesus, the historical person,
did this service for us, and that he
did it not out of personal sympathy and loveableness, but rather by God acting in him, in that God established his
love for us through Jesus dying for us sinners (Rom.
It would be more in accord with the spirit of myth to regard man as just one element in an infinite universe — even the New Testament
does so in clear and classical
language; it says, not «God so
loved mankind», but «God so
loved the world».
Thus, when he is speaking in
language of his own choice he
does not say, «Thou shalt
love God.»
Words for parts of the body have equivalents in every
language, but words like «shame,» and «honour,» and even «belief, «
love» and «mind»
do not.
I always find it amusing that the people that
love to tear down religion usually
do it with hateful, emotional and condescending
language, then in turn accuse those that believe of being emotionally tied to their beliefs.
@John And while you presumably can say «I
love you» in every
language and have it mean more or less the same, you
DO N'T say «if you don't believe as I do, the loving god will subject you to eternal torment and, oh by the way, gays are an abomination and god doesn't want them to have the same rights that you and I enjoy» in every religio
DO N'T say «if you don't believe as I
do, the loving god will subject you to eternal torment and, oh by the way, gays are an abomination and god doesn't want them to have the same rights that you and I enjoy» in every religio
do, the
loving god will subject you to eternal torment and, oh by the way, gays are an abomination and god doesn't want them to have the same rights that you and I enjoy» in every religion.
Still more, there is sometimes backbreaking and dangerous labor, or tedious and boring work, that must be
done if we or our
loved ones are to live, but the
language of vocation imbues such work with a kind of meaning and significance that may seem unbelievable to those who must actually
do it.
I've always said that mixes are my «
love language,» and one of my favorite things to
do when I make one for a friend is to write a poem using one line from each song in the order that the songs appear.
And yet, while Brown's most recent work,
Love's Body (Random House, Inc., 1966), indicates he is familiar with Barfield's discussions on
language as metaphor, Altizer
does not seem to see the necessary connection between this concept and Saving the Appearances.
I could be wrong I
do believe in a higher power and in
love as the universal
language (for lack of a better phrase of words, although it might be more universal today to say sex is the universal
language) and in this post just now realized I have to change my 100 % enabler label to 99 % based on the higher power belief.
human
language has not found the words to express the pleasure, the joy, the surprising awakening to another world, that god exists, that he lives and
loves me, the missing part, the answer to all questions with one touch, to see life as it is and as it should be, and to
do nothing to have entered into this dimension except to ask, to beg, to plead with all one's strength - merely to know him, if he is there.
I feel like I tested «
Love as a universal
language» and «the body
does not lie» and bless you is okay.
Did not the burning bush speak, the moving finger write on a despot's wall, the Tower of Babel confound
language and, thus, communication, the Pentecost bring tongues of fire that translated
love into each listener's native
language?
So I find myself second - guessing the «leaving evangelicalism»
language, not because it's an inaccurate representation of what I'm experiencing, but because I don't want anyone to think for a moment that this means walking away from the many, many people who identify as evangelical whom I
love and respect very much.
and we explain spending time with people and
loving them, they look at us like we're speaking an alien
language, and then ask again, «But where
do you go to church?»
Never
did I think that a hockey game would be my
love language, but with my guy, it totally is.
You are speaking my
language with this glorious chocolate recipe,
love your extra special twist you
did on this!
It's not that often that my two
loves - cooking and
languages - cross paths, but recently they
did just that!
I realize that for a lot of people on this board English is not the first
language (myself included), but for the
love of god, next time
do everyone a huge favor, and proof read whatever it is you're typing.
where's trev to show us what
language can
do where's steve T to show us his weller tattoo where's cynic god, i
love cynic
Not only
did it lead to a book that was translated into at least four
languages, more writing and a work path that I couldn't
love more (or have imagined at the start), but it has connected me with so many of you through the years, and I couldn't be more grateful for that.
If you learn what your wife's
love language is, then you don't have to waste effort on the stuff that doesn't matter.
It seems to me that with
loving support and consistent routines at home, she'll start to ease into daycare more and more until she doesn't even really notice it anymore (like the point at which you wake up and realize you've been dreaming in a foreign
language).
How
did you enjoy last month's book and learning about
love languages?
Remember, you want to be multi-lingual, but having an idea for the
love language of your child helps you make sure you give extra focus to that
language so it doesn't get neglected.
Do you have any advice on how to
love (or how not to
love) a person whose
love language is Words of Affirmation??
I
love these short summaries of the points in the
love languages book, it helps to remind me to check and see if I am
doing those things as a parent.
But sometimes, we're not speaking our children's
love language and that can lead to frustrated children who don't feel connected to their parents.
Children who have Acts of Service as a
love language will best appreciate your
doing little things for them.
So how
do you know which
love language works for your child, and how
do you use that knowledge to better communicate
love to them?
When parents and caregivers don't understand the
language of behavior they often react to children's empty - cup / refill - request behaviors with anger, rejection and punishment instead of responding with the
love and attention that children need to fill the cup back up.
We
love promoting learning other
languages in the B household,
do you??
I think my biggest obstacle is linked to my «
love language» I tend to express & receive
love best through acts of service — i.e.
doing things for other people.
While he liked getting a note in his lunch, it doesn't attach the same importance as it
does to someone who's
love language is «words of affirmation.»