In this episode, we continue with part three of our series on the identity of Bride: Faithful and Honoring Love. We discuss where we have been wounded or where we have wounded others and how that affects current relationships. We chat about how being guarded can inhibit vulnerability and how to navigate our blocks to grow in intimacy. We offer insights into how to come before the Lord with our preconceived ideas and allow Him to speak the truth, as well as how to maintain fidelity in relationships. This week, let us not resign ourselves to mediocrity, but recommit to loving well.
Sister Miriam’s one thing - Tweet about faithful married love
Heather’s one thing - Restore the Glory Episode 35 “Healing in Marriage with Heather Khym”
Michelle’s one thing - “Be Devoted” by Dr. Bob Schuchts, “Intimate Allies” by Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III, and “Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love” by Dr. Edward Sri
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“Nothing cools love quite like resigning oneself to mediocrity.” - Fr. Jacques Philippe
Scripture for Lectio Divina: “Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man[a] there was not found a helper as his partner. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.” Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed. - Genesis 2:18-25
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S10 E10 Sister Part 3: Mean Girls - The Wounds of Sisterhood
S10 E09 Sister Part 2: Communion and Acceptance - Casting a Vision of Sisterhood
S10 E08 Sister Part 1: We are a Family, I Got All My Sisters With Me
S10 E07 Daughter Part 4: The Redemption of Daughterhood
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S10 E05: Daughter Part 2: Seen, Known and Loved: The Core Needs of a Daughter
S10 E04: Daughter Part 1: Delight of the Trinity
S10 E03: Journey Into the Deep
S10 E02: Ever Ancient Ever New: Changing Seasons
S10 E01: We Begin, Again
S09 E21: The Right to Hope
S09 E20: Personal Revival
S09 E19: Untying the Knots
S09 E18: Loving the Church
S09 E17: You are so Beautiful to Me
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