By Angela
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I had the most interesting conversation the other day about a couple I know. They have been married twenty-one years. They have three children and seem as happy and in love today as they did over thirty years ago, when they first got together. My friend asked me if I knew how they managed to stay together so long and still appear happy. She said they really seemed to belong together. She asked if I knew how they did it. I couldn’t really answer her question. But it got me to thinking about this book I read a while back about relationships. It is by Neale Donald Walsh. He says “When our reason for relationships is aligned with our souls reason for being, not only are our relationships understood to be sacred, they are rendered joyful as well.
According to him, a great relationship is one of truth-telling. He says there are five levels 1) you tell the truth about yourself; 2) you tell the truth to yourself about another; 3) you tell the truth about another to yourself; and 4) when you tell the truth about another to that other; 5) you tell the truth to everyone about everything. He also says relationships fail because people enter into them for the wrong reasons. That the only way a relationship can work is for both parties "to agree, consciously, that the purpose of their relationship is to create an opportunity for growth, for full self-expression, for lifting each others lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea each has ever had about themselves, and for ultimate reunion with GOD through the communion of their two souls"
I found this last point to be so interesting, I asked a few people I knew what they thought of this passage Did they agree with Neale Donald Walsh as to how relationships can work. I must admit it was fifty-fifty, half agreed with him and half did not. But talking with my friend made me think of this passage again and so I thought I would put it out there.
What do you think? Take a minute. Do you agree that the only way a relationship can work is for both parties "to agree, consciously, that the purpose of their relationship is to create an opportunity for growth, for full self-expression, for lifting each others lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea each has ever had about themselves, and for ultimate reunion with GOD through the communion of their two souls"
What do you think?
2 comments:
I do not agree. Most of us don't speak our goals like that when we enter into a relationship. I think that we enter into relationships solely because of love or attraction or something that one of us can do for the other. Then,when that thing ends, so does the relationship.
That's the problem we have. . .folks don't want to enjoy one another and take it for what it is which is why we have so many demolished relationships. I have a sista girl who always taught me that both should lift one another when in a relationship. I just don't think we give it what it deserves.
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