Today we begin a series on Pillars of A Healthy Relationship. Please note that a healthy relationship is not a perfect relationship, because we may never achieve that while on this side of eternity. It is a relationship that is built on godly principles and values.
The foundation of any healthy relationship is going to be your capactity to offer unconditional acceptance to other people, especially the one you share intimate relationship with. Whether it’s your best friend who is amazing and thinks you’re amazing and feels totally safe and values your relationship and honors you, OR its someone who just broke your heart…stomped on it, kicked it around in the dirt, fed it to the dog.
1: LOVE
And the greatest of these is love…
True love is a safe place. True love creates an environment where I can be vulnerable, where I can open up my life and you can look at it and you can see ME. “Into me you see” can only really happen where there is a practice of an environment of SAFETY, where I feel PROTECTED by your attitudes and your perceptions of me.
Love is a quality of environment and the relationship happens in that place, and if I don’t know how to create that or protect that or preserve that then, it’s something else – something more confusing.
When we talk about love it means that we have a SAFE PLACE where the two of us can come together face to face and into me you see. And remember, it’s rooted in: WHAT YOU SEE, YOU DON’T NEED TO CHANGE.
CAN YOU CREATE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOU CAN BOTH BE KNOWN FULLY TO EACH OTHER?
This safe environment has to be there for there to be a healthy relationship, where there is Shalom (peace of God), where there is JOY, where there is HOPE.
Cultivating a pillar of LOVE, is a choice you must make.
Have a Grace filled day – Good News awaits you.
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Last modified: December 5, 2015
