True Shared Experience July 7

When the love of God embraces us and enhances our love ability, we can obtain that energy to share with another human being. We can actually target that love quality towards another, with the continued result of never feeling alone. Sharing life with the right person makes life a delight. Sharing life with the wrong person can make a death.

Sharing life with the right person can truly offer opportunity for enhanced independence, the right two really is better than one. How is it better?

You can absorb any hurt or help that results in making the world a better place. Christians are image bearers. We are supposed to make things better.

Independence with God July5

 

When we give our individual selves to God or even to another person, we can find and have the opportunity for the life to absorb the hurts and helps that come our way.

We do not have to give up our independence that is linked with our personality as to who we are. We can enter a shared independence that maintains our unique individuality. Motivation does change. God joins our individual self, that part actually made originally in His image, Genesis 1. He gives us the power to absorb hurt and enjoy help at the same time.

We just have to learn by being better earth repairers and living His representative as image bearers that show God is still in control. The special relationships we choose and even those we don’t need to see us living the image God provides---one of Grace, forgiveness, and long suffering. Meekness is not weakness. Meekness is seekness, searching how to forgive and how to accept grace of God and others.

 

Independence Day July4

 

Yes, our forefathers wanted independence from what they considered an unfair sovereignty that, among other complaints like over-taxation, took away freedom. The sovereign power thought that if the Continent really loved them, they would gladly stay under the sovereign’s wing. So, love and independence got interpreted as “giving up stuff” and gaining stuff. Maybe this is one foundation of the idea that if you are going to love someone, you have to give up your independence.

I am suggesting that a two-way street of loving may not be a “giving up” but a redefining for a shared independence. When two individuals get together in a definition of love, maybe they can find the better way of joining personalities in a definition of shared independence and both benefit from any hurt or help discovered.  How?? And what happens when we give ourselves to God?

[More to follow]

Shared Independence July2

 

Of course, this is the time of year we talk independence, but let’s look at the word in a personal setting and not just political.

Psychologists and philosophers will tell you that dealing with the issue of independence points to the love/idea that to enter any love relationship means you have to give up your independence in order to share life with someone, that you have to give up certain personal ideas of money, time scheduling, and even sometimes personal hobbies. The “giving up” idea causes such friction today. Maybe there’s another way.

What is shared independence?

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Today’s Prayer June 28

 

Lord, I often do not have the courage or strength necessary to meet my spiritual and moral challenges. But still. . . help me!

I admit my contrite helplessness.

What Love? June 27

 

People in the know talk about love, but where does it come from and how do you get it?

The truth is when someone who is supposed to love you, hurts you, one of two things will happen.

You will work [even unconsciously] to get them to pay back the fact you cared for them. You try to get them to right the wrong somehow.

Or you can experience vulnerability and accept the hurt, hoping they will someday get better.

Learning to absorb the hurt in order to honor the Christ is the more Christian way. We have to learn the right kind of love that receives and gives in a kind of balance to honor heavenly Father.

What we Need to Know June 24

We are always seeking what we need to know.

We have a very clear word as believers.

“All that the Father has is mine [says Jesus] ; therefore, I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.”  John 16: 15