Introduction:
This is a "blog" for our small group to continue in its learning and application of what we've covered in recent weeks. The intention of this blog is:
- keep us "fired up" on gambling with relationships
- allow for an interactive forum for our small group members
- prepare for our next meeting cycle beginning in Feb 2009
- begin construction of "what" we will cover
Primer Questions:
What are your challenges about what was covered?
For example: "I don't understand how to apply the 'relational strip poker' concept to the relationship with my friend. I'd like to role play that. Can we do that?"
What questions do you have that you'd like to see addressed?
For example: "What does it mean when it says 'Love always trusts.' out of 1 Corinthians 13?"
What other questions do you have for this blog discussion or for realtime discussion in our group time?
Documentation:
Here's a link to a Word document that covers the 9 weeks worth of material on this topic for your reference. If you'd like more information, please let me know and we'll post a link to that as well.
What other information would you like to see here?
2 comments:
We've talked about relationships having purposes of reason, season or a lifetime. What do we do when we feel a relationship has a different purpose than the other person? You don't want to break the relationship completely, but the interest and effort isn't balanced. It's nothing personal you just feel the purpose is different.
A friend had this on her blog and I thought it was fitting for our group!
"Everyone knows perfect love in their heart, for the human heart is a direct channel through which absolute love pours into this world. At the same time, human relationships are imperfect expressions of that love. This creates a painful gap between the perfect love we know in our hearts and the imperfect, incomplete ways it is expressed in our relationships. When we imagine that relative human love should be something it is not -- absolutely unconditional -- we suffer disappointment and wind up distrusting love itself. We also hold grievances against others for not loving us rightly or against ourselves for not having won that love. This gives rise to a universal human wound -- the sense of not feeling loved for who we are." ~ John Welwood
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