How did I mature relationally? This has been a long and often scary and painful journey for me. It has not been quick and easy. I am sharing with you some key individual steps that freed me to be able to mature from a relational infant and child to a relationally mature parent and elder….
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Keys To My Relational Maturity! 5
How did I mature relationally? This has been a long and often scary and painful journey for me. It has not been quick and easy. I am sharing with you some key individual steps that freed me to be able to mature from an infant and child to a parent and elder. These keys are…
Keys To My Relational Maturity! 4
How did I mature relationally? This has been a long and often scary and painful journey for me. It has not been quick and easy. I am sharing with you some key individual steps that freed me to be able to mature from an infant and child to a parent and elder. These are not…
Keys To My Relational Maturity! 3
How did I mature relationally? This has been a long and often scary and painful journey for me. It has not been quick and easy. I am sharing with you some key individual steps that freed me to be able to mature from an infant and child to a parent and elder. No, I’m not…
Keys To My Relational Maturity! 1
How did I mature relationally? This has been a long and often scary and painful journey for me. It has not been quick and easy. I am going to share with you some key individual steps that freed me to be able to mature from an infant and child to a parent and elder. No,…
The Emotion of Fear
My emotions are my primary motivator. The world primarily runs on the emotion of fear, and that leads to many destructive activities and ways of living. Fear motives creep into my life as I fail to mature properly. I have learned my motivation during infancy through bonded relationships with my parents. Whatever emotions my “parents”…
The True Light of Love!
”A person blinded by darkness does not know the way to live. They make others including family and fellow believers into enemies while claiming that they are living in the light of justifying their actions. In so doing, they cause others to stumble and fall. Real living is to love one another including our enemies. …
Peaceful Pain
Is pain a good thing? …… Or ……. Is pain a bad thing? Should I try to avoid pain at all costs? As a relational child I will try to avoid pain through alcohol, drugs, BEEPS …… I may even run away. I equate pain as being the opposite of pleasure. I see pain as…
Cuddling Up With Jesus!
“I will bless the Lord who guides me; even at night my heart instructs me. I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for He is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety.” Ps. 16:7-9 I often come to the…
Digging For Riches!
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how fathomless His ways!” Rom.11:33 One of they ways that I know that I have a vibrant, living relationship with God is that I eagerly await the hours of the day when I can talk with Jesus,…
Following His Purposes For Me!
“God has chosen us for His own! … so God is for us! …This is wonderful! … Having chosen me He calls me to follow him with all my heart. He then gives me right standing with Him and covers me with His glory! … So I shouldn’t condemn or pick on others for it…
Relationships That Last!
How long are relationships supposed to last? I form one permanent bond with Jesus which brings me life. This living bond goes through this earthly life and on into the next. I am now for ever alive! For those of us who are alive we are to attach to all of our brothers and sisters…
I Know You and I Love You!
Is it better to learn? OR Is it better to love? “If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know. Thinking that I know puffs up. However, love builds up. If I Love God, God knows me and loves me and builds me up!” 1Cor.8:1b,2,3…
I Am a Relationally Mature Parent!
Am I A Relationally Mature Parent?? Quick Test What does Relational Maturity look like? When I am a relationally mature “parent” what do my own family and those around me see and feel?? They will see consistency ….. They will see and feel calmness in the midst of chaos ….. They will see healthy relational…
Slaying Dragons!
I just don’t have the capacity; I am barely able to function and survive the day. I need a break, I am frazzled and fried. It is really hard to just make it through each day …. I don’t need another list of things to do. I can barely tolerate spending time with you …….
Timing is Everything!
Timing is everything! A simple statement that we have all heard. If I throw a line with a hook into the river where the salmon are rushing upstream to spawn and the fish is passing by my special spot with its mouth open and my line and hook enter that one inch opening of the…
The Great Illusion
The great illusion of life is the primary device that Satan uses to deceive people. Satan doesn’t create anything, but he destroys everything. That is his goal; To destroy what God has created. However he presents everything as an illusion: The thing that will destroy me is presented as attractive, pleasing to the eye, desirable,…
Part of The Way or In the Way?
Jesus primary purpose in coming here to earth was to bring us life! Without Jesus and His provisions for us we are all dead people walking aimlessly about. On my recent vacation I had hours to sit in the airports and observe people in their various groups. From what I saw and heard, most of…
Is It Too Late? Do I Really Matter?
Are my chances all gone? There is so much water gone under the bridge. Does God really care? Am I of any use to God? Will I be the same or different a year from now? Do I want to be more relationally mature and better connected to God and to my scattered family and…
That Perfect One!
What is perfection? Jesus said “Be perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Matt.5:48 If Jesus said it, it must be important! Those who live in “perfect country” as a part of their personality trait, cheer this idea of perfection. It’s got to be the best and the perfect! The perfect job, the…