We have spent the last few posts looking at what love means. If I can take the liberty to explain what I came up with in writing this biblical study on relationships, this is what seems to be a good description.
From the book:
“In contrast, real love is a conscious decision to put the welfare of the one I love above that of my own. I commit myself to making the life of the one I love better. I work to build up my partner. I share his hopes and dreams and do what I can to help make the dreams become reality without jeopardizing my state of uniqueness, separateness, and wholeness. I discover my prince and turn to kiss him, for he has been there all along. My partner, following the same commitment on his behalf, works to help me change my own dreams into fact. He turns to kiss his princess (me, how cool is that?) to ‘make it real.’ The key word is ‘commitment: to entrust; to pledge or bind.’ The secret for long-lasting love requires the long-term application of this promise. Voicing a periodic reminder to the partner of my commitment reinforces it within me and ingrains a sense of permanence in my counterpart.” (Taylor, Joy S., Before You Kiss the Frog…Can We Talk?, Lily of the Valley Publishing Services, 2025, Indiana, p.17.)
Are you ready to develop relationships as God directs? If you are a parent of teens, get this book and go through it page-by-page along with them. If you are an adult who works with teens or college students, buy this book and study it with them. If you are a grandparent, buy this book and speak into the lives of your grands.
It is a little book with a lot of biblical insight!
Do you struggle with relationships? The decision trees in this book will change your perspective and give you a path to more successful relationships.
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Joy S. Taylor is a follower of Christ, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her workdays were spent using the Master of Science in Accounting degree that God graciously allowed at the age of, well, greater than 40. She led a divorce recovery support group sponsored by her church for seven years, and spent more than a decade in leadership roles for Celebrate Recovery, using what God had done in her life to point others to the healing only Jesus gives. Now retired, she concentrates on writing for Jesus from her beloved hickory grove in Indiana, yet devotes some of her time to volunteering for Care Net.