One of the challenges and joys of a good marriage is the opportunity to work together at discovering the particular forms of belief and practice that will meet
the spiritual needs of both partners and their children.
Not exact matches
We may experience that desire as coming from ourselves, which delights God and us, or we may become aware
of resistance within ourself, which signals our
need for
spiritual growth — either way, we are just junior
partners, agreeing with our will, while God leads in infinite wisdom.
Enter Illeana as the Oedipal patch twenty years later: stern, aloof, bee stung —
needing to be won, in other words, never mind her pungent habit
of keeping a collage
of crime scene photos as her dinner mate, bath buddy, and
spiritual ménage a trios
partner.
The Imago process involves committing to understanding our own wounds and those
of our
partner, to learning new skills and changing our hurtful behavior, in the course
of which we meet our
partner's
needs and restore the lost and denied parts
of ourselves, thus achieving
spiritual wholeness.