This volume delineates a developmental theory of love relationships that provides a comprehensive approach to treating couples. Drawing on her 30 years of clinical experience, Sheila A. Sharpe conceptualizes marriage and other committed partnerships as comprising multiple patterns of relating that develop over time in a parallel, though interconnected, fashion. Seven universal patterns of intimate relating are identified: nurturing, merging, idealizing, devaluing, controlling, competing for superiority, and competing in love triangles. Sharpe demonstrates how these patterns originate in a person's early experience, are reworked in different ways throughout life, and express everyone's basic needs for both connection and separateness. Supplying vital insights and tools for therapeutic work, the volume offers the clinician a multifaceted perspective on how couple relationships grow and what happens when their growth becomes derailed.
John and Joseph Loya, brothers who serve the Catholic Church as a diocesan priest and a religious priest, respectively, take fifteen of Jesus' most well-known parables: The Prodigal Son, The Publican and the Pharisee, The Good Shepherd and the Lost Sheep, The Generous King and the Fearful, Lazy Steward, etc., and weave a philosophy and theology of love as told--and lived--by Jesus. The authors employ the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) as a theological touchstone for the proper understanding of Christian love, and offer additional inspirational commentaries on love drawn from the spiritual traditions of both the Christian West and the Christian East. This gentle, engaging book will assist readers in discovering the peace, joy and freedom that come with loving as God loves us. +
The Ways and Power of Love was originally published in 1954 when Pitirim Sorokin was in the twilight of his career and leading the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism. His elaborate scientific analysis of love with regard to its higher and lower forms, its causes and effects, its human and cosmic significance, and its core features constitutes the first study on this topic in world literature to date. Sorokin was the one absolutely essential twentieth-century pioneer in the study of love at the interface of science and religion. Bringing The Ways and Power of Love back into print allows a new generation of readers to appreciate Sorokin's genius and to move forward with his endeavor at a time when civilization itself continues to be threatened by a marked inability to live up to the ideal of love for all humankind. It is certainly right to hope, with Sorokin, that progress in knowledge about love can move humanity forward to a better future. Turning the sciences toward the study of love is no easy task, but it can and must be done.
INTRODUCTION POETRY CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!!! As I flow with words passionately not asking for no ones opinion on how to speak releasing inner thoughts from my mind, body, and soul. Delivering untold stories from beyond As I mold these words into fantasies, hopes, and dreams making you believe you just seen this shit on TV. Based on true stories not make believe I get lost in my words like my virginity. Start flowing like Kelis and Busta rhymes " I love my baby yup yup. Yup I love my boy" Poetry is, "THE SHIT" My main squeeze Never a disappointment or Underestimates me. Given me love constantly. Flowing through my veins like ecstasy. "DAMN I am high as hell! Rolling words up in a strawberry blunt I "Puff, Puff" Hold it....Hold it...Hold it like waiting to exhale. Not needing a man to penetrate me, because poetry goes DEEP.DEEP..DEEP like black street do you feel me? Getting better and better everyday Im closer to my dream like Goapele No I cant stop now like baby face because Im just beginning to write 4 you, To write 4 me To write for the love of poetry...Thank you.
Competing answers to dilemmas involving love, sex, marriage, and family scream to us from nearly everywhere. The Redemption of Love reveals what the Bible has to say about these issues by applying the growing economic study of religion. Using Genesis, Jesus, Paul, and the Song of Songs, Carrie Miles outlines a consistent description of biblical love throughout Scripture, asserting that it is the only effective solution in today's battle to save marriage and family. This book is a valuable tool for clergy and laypeople.
The capstone and crowning achievement of the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction... Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.
This book is all about God’s deep affection for each one of us. The Bible makes it clear that he is our father, and we are his beloved children. Kyle uses Scripture and his life experiences, especially those with his own dad, to convey that truth. This is a book written by someone who is broken for those who are broken about God’s unending love for the broken. Best of all, there is nothing that you can do that will ever cause God to stop loving you!
The love of God crosses all boundaries. Every. Single. One. Every day, millions of people lament the loss of civility, respect, and hope, and they wonder if it's possible to cultivate a love big enough to overthrow hate and heal our hurts. With courage, authenticity, and relevance, Jacqueline A. Bussie proclaims, "Yes! It's possible!" and urges readers to widen love's wingspan and to love as God loves--without limits or exceptions. In Love Without Limits, Bussie imparts practical solutions for people of faith who yearn to love across division and difference in these troubled times. Through poignant personal memoir, engaging theological reflection, inspiring true stories of boundary-busting friendships, creative readings of scripture, and surprising shout-outs to some of love's unsung heroes, Bussie challenges readers to answer God's call to practice a love so deep, it subverts the social order; so radical, it scandalizes the powerful; so vast, it excludes no one. "A must-read for all Christians interested in inclusivity for their communities." --Publishers Weekly
In a world where cultural norms often dictate our understanding of love, "Walking In Love: Cultural Versus Divine Expectations" invites readers on a transformative journey to discern the stark contrasts between societal ideals and the profound wisdom of divine teachings. In this enlightening exploration, the author unveils the stark disparities between what society dictates and what the scriptures decree. Our culture, with its fleeting notions, urges us to "fall" in love, yet God's eternal truth beckons us to "walk" in love. Drawing from timeless Biblical wisdom, the book underscores the fragility of "falling" and the strength inherent in the deliberate, steadfast "walking" in love. Delving deeper, the author illuminates the prevalent misconception that love is merely a transient emotion, dispelling it with the unyielding truth that love, as affirmed in the Scriptures, is a conscious choice, a deliberate act of will. Through poignant reflections and scriptural exegesis, readers are empowered to embrace the liberating reality that love transcends fleeting sentiments, anchoring itself in unwavering commitment and selflessness. Moreover, "Walking In Love" challenges the prevailing narrative surrounding marriage, confronting the cultural emphasis on finding the "perfect" partner with the divine imperative to cultivate love within the sacred covenant of marriage. With compelling Biblical narratives and verses such as Ephesians 5:25 ("Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her"), the book underscores the profound truth that true fulfillment in marriage emanates not from seeking the right person, but from becoming the right person. As readers navigate the pages of "Walking In Love," they are guided towards a deeper understanding of love as envisioned by the Divine. Through introspection and alignment with timeless truths, they discover that true happiness and fulfillment lie not in conforming to cultural expectations, but in surrendering to the transformative power of divine love. "Walking In Love: Cultural Versus Divine Expectations" serves as a beacon of hope and guidance in a world ensnared by superficial notions of love, offering readers a pathway to embrace the profound beauty and enduring strength of love as defined by God's eternal wisdom.
From the beginning of time, man's ability to reason and question the love of God has been the topic on the hearts and minds of many. With all of the hurts and disappointments that we have suffered at the hands of those who declared that they "loved" us, do we truly know and understand what TRUE LOVE is? Through this book God beckons us all to come, that He may show and share with us the depths, heights and immeasurability of a love that we will never completely understand nor comprehend but will desire more than life itself. A Love "UN" Matched is sure to be a Christian literary classic that belongs in the library of every believer and the hands of everyone who needs to know about and understand the limitless, boundless unmatched Love of God! Frances A Mosley is a radical lover of God and a handmaiden of the Lord committed to establishing believers in the uncompromising truth of the Word of God. She flows in a powerful dimension of the gifts of healing, the prophetic and counseling. Raised up by God to address the spirit of error in this generation with zeal as an agent of restoration to the Body of Christ, Frances is a published author, a dedicated wife and mother and leads weekly teaching meetings where she disciples believers into maturity and fullness.
A diary written by a young naive Missouri girl during the depression details her hopes, dreams and heartache as her marriage and hopes for a large family are sidetracked by grief and despair. She leaves it unfinished with the hope her middle daughter will someday finish the story. In so doing, Beth Anne Brunswick discovers secrets of her own and through faith and love finds answers and peace.
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