I am a resource for parents and caregivers, offering coaching and education to help create
loving relationships by understanding their child's needs and ways to support their growth individually and within the family system
I have dedicated myself to helping couples reconnect and build supportive,
loving relationships by working with them to overcome past injuries and correct harmful cycles.
Duckworth demonstrated the importance of grit in
loving relationships by collecting grit scores from 6,362 middle - aged adults.
Reflect on
your loving relationships by exploring contemplative, dream - like islands.
At eHarmony we connect people for long lasting,
loving relationships by identifying 29 Dimensions of Compatibility ® in each of our couples.
Not exact matches
Some were made to feel happy and secure
by hearing about
loving, supportive
relationships.
It was disclosed
by her older brother, Thomas Markle Jr, who told DailyMail.com that Markle's father was «proud» of the
relationship and that the prince and the actress, 35, were «very much in
love».
Undoubtedly, Jesus still
loves us all more than either of us could ever fathom but the only way you, me, we're going to be able to live fulfilled and victorious lives is
by accepting God's truths as they truly are in the bible and
by leaning on His grace for empowerment to walk in them in our personal
relationships with him.
Then, even though they may apply cultural references to other scripture, they refuse to acknowledge (or at least look at some unbiased research) that
loving committed gay or lesbian
relationships today do not resemble the types of homosexuality referenced
by Paul in Romans or 1 Corinthians.
As far as it being condemned
by God, you can see some of my earlier posts where we talked about there being legitimate theological interpretations of Scripture that allow for
loving, committed gay
relationships.
My belief system about romantic
love was influenced
by my cultural upbringing, my family history, and my early
relationships.
Of course, they're ignoring the fact that an alcoholic is destroying themselves and hurting those around them
by being addicted to alcohol and that a gay person is doing neither (remember we're talking about those involved in or seeking out
loving, committed, monogamous
relationships... not promiscuous behavior which can be physically and emotionally damaging).
I have struggled with this a great deal as I want very much to maintain a close
relationship with my family but find myself growing increasingly distant because it is just too painful to be close to people that I
love dearly but feel completely rejected
by for something that I have come to recognize as a core part of who I am and how I view myself and the world around me.
Being in a
loving, monogamous gay
relationship (or marriage where allowed
by law) is none of these things but rather promotes
love in the stead of promiscuity and lust.
Some awkwardness and misunderstanding is inevitable in
relationships, but sometimes, Christian women get so bogged down
by the concept of men being «leaders» that we fail to recognize that God only calls us into this kind of «leading»
relationship within the walls of a
loving, respect - filled, and mutually submissive marriage.
The purposes of this
relationship are (1) the mutual
loving support of husband and wife and (2) their
loving service of life
by bringing children into the world and raising them to be virtuous and productive.
His «formal exposition of the concept of God's self - communication» in terms of four pairs of interrelated concepts, that is, (a) Origin - Future; (b) History - Transcendence; (c) Invitation - Acceptance; (d) Knowledge -
Love,
by his own admission is more a brief sketch than a full - scale presentation of a new interpersonal understanding of the God - world
relationship.
Like Kerry, I think that our
relationships / family are the vehicle in which
love is shown and given in life and I'm not surprised
by the fact that most people talk about family on the deathbed.
Being taught
by the spirit, teaching one another how to draw more fully in healing our souls with the atoning power of Jesus Christ, lifting one another in
love and service: these define LDS worship and
relationships.
-LSB-...] i want to encourage you to read today's post
by him... here's an exerpt: «But in order for
love to determine the nature of our
relationship and to actually maintain it, we hold our opinions lightly and are honestly open for change.
The
relationship can stand moments of anger if they are followed
by forgiveness — feelings and expressions of
love.
Similarly sizable majorities said that h0m0s are generally less happy than heter0s 73 % and less capable of mature,
loving relationships, 60 % A total of 70 % said that h0m0 problems have more to do with their own inner conflicts than with stigmatization
by society at large
What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies
by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their
relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing
love.
Viagra til the day we die... Or what about a friend of mine who has been sexually abused
by her father and uncle beginning at age three, who only ever went from abuse to abuse and never had a
loving sexual
relationship.
One on one
relationship drawing us into a worldview anchored
by love, compassion, tolerance, and humility.
Entry into this
relationship of grace and faith involves the imitation of Christ, but this does not mean an imitation of the individual pattern of life which was required of him
by his unique vocation; it means the imitation of his total commitment to God, his obedience to God's will, and his attitude of unswerving
love for others which was the fruit of his openness to God.
Reality therapy, developed
by psychiatrist William Glasser, is an action - oriented therapy that aims at enabling people to change their behavior so that it will fulfill their basic needs (to give and receive
love and to feel worthwhile to themselves and others) in the real world of
relationships in ways that do not deprive others of the possibility of fulfilling their needs.
She tearfully described a
relationship of «day - in, day - out touching and
loving given daily here
by every shift.»
* 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.
It is also striking to note how similar the works of wisdom are to the characteristics of
love as Paul lays them out in 1 Corinthians James are marked
by practices that restore and deepen
relationships between believers.
Regarding the
relationship between
love and power, Hartshorne began
by stating that «the real trouble is not in attributing too much power to God, but in an oversimple or too mechanical conception of the nature of power in general.»
The family was confronted
by the crisis of the fall and return of the prodigal, and in this crisis the quality of the father's
love made possible a new and deeper reality of family life and
relationships.
When
relationships between parents are characterized
by love, warmth, cooperation, security, and mutual support, children and adolescents are more likely to show positive adjustment.
Sexual attraction can be incorporated into the
love relationship, and normally in the
love of men and women it is, but it never
by itself determines the presence or fulfilment of
love.
When he is outside of this
relationship he is simply an individual manipulated
by powers, which grant him the hedonistic pleasure of sexuality, but which do not grant him to
love truly and to be bound
by love.
But the various forms of meditation will be judged more
by their contribution to mutual acceptance and caring and
loving relationships than
by their deepening of individual spirituality.
You are supposed to be in a
relationship with the all powerful, all - knowing, all -
loving creator of the universe... that «fact» should be enough to inspire such profound humility... the kind of humility that people genuinely respect and are influence
by.
Though innocent of all violence attributed to Him, God allowed the violence committed
by others to be laid upon His head so that He might take the blame and thereby rescue and deliver mankind from most of the self - destructive consequences of their sin, and reveal Himself to mankind as a
loving Father who takes our sin upon Himself for our deliverance from the consequences of sin and for the sake of our
relationship with Him.
As Carl Dudley writes, «When church size is measured
by human
relationships, the small church is the largest expression of the Christian faith,» And David Ray reminds us that «small churches are the norm, primarily because many, many people still find them to be the right size In which to
love God and neighbor.
If gays know they are
loved by God and have a personal
relationship with Him who are you to assume otherwise?
The difference is that detachment leaves us in control of our passions rather than being controlled
by them, frees us to make
loving moral choices without becoming cold and distant in our
relationships.
By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Ro
By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of
love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming
love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his
relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life,
by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Ro
by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.
Behind, through, and in all our existence there is a
relationship with a
Love which is enduring, undefeated and indefeasible, faithful in its caring and able to preserve in its own unsurpassable life all that has been worthily achieved in the created order — including all that has been worthily achieved
by us humans.
That insight is nothing other than the understanding that while in one sense God is indeed unalterable in his faithfulness, his
love, and his welcome to his human children, in another sense the opportunities offered to him to express just such an attitude depend to a very considerable degree upon the way in which what has taken place in the world provides for God precisely such an opening on the human side; and it is used
by him to deepen his
relationship and thereby enrich both himself and the life of those children.
We can counter
by asking why political transactions, or forms of religious sacrifice, or ransom payments are more able to bear the freight of the divine meaning than are the personal
relationships of
love, betrayal and forgiveness.
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.
And one way in which this experienced reality can be guaranteed for what it is would be
by affirming that when this life is ended the
loving relationships will somehow be continued and given fuller and finer expression.
If I can never adequately state the significance of my
relationships with those whom I
love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted
by another and
loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my
relationship with God — a
relationship that has been broken
by my willfulness and sin.
Further the symbol speaks of
Love — expressed in the mutual
relationship of Father and Son bound together
by the Spirit — as the Ultimate dynamic reality.
Today, I am in a
loving relationship of over 7 years, and I do what I can to reach out the the GLBT community to share with them that they are
loved by the God who created them.