We’ve been looking at defining what love is in the last couple of updates. Philosophers and relationship pundits with academic credentials far greater than mine have grappled with that definition for centuries. However, I venture it is worth taking a personal stab at our own individual definition as to what we expect is the answer, since this is a study on personal application. If you would allow me to shake it down from my own experience, I put this out there for your consideration. In the book, I look at the thoughts of known spiritual leaders and the biblical description in the 13th chapter of Corinthians. I ask the question, “Do you crave to love well in the same way you crave to be loved well?”
From the book:
“The optimum outcome occurs with true reciprocity, giving back in the same measure that you were given. Events get in the way of our ability to follow through. Circumstance easily clouds our thoughts and experience that ebbs and flows with time and tide. Love remains a constant decision to fulfill a promise regardless of circumstance. We all crave that type of persistence. The phrase, ‘You are so important to me. I want to spend the rest of my life making your life better,’ represents profession of true love in my estimation, but it must be lived out.” (Taylor, Joy S., Before You Kiss the Frog…Can We Talk?, Lily of the Valley Publishing Services, 2025, Indiana, p.18.)
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.