The Same List
The 7 Deadly Habits catalogs them.
How to Win Friends and Influence People is the grandfather of all skills books about them.
It’s even on Twitter:
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NoWealthButLife Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. -Ursula K. LeGuin 3/30/11 11:07 AM |
The Beatitudes pours them upon a crowd from a mountain top
The largest measure of earthly joy we receive and share is relational.
The largest anguish of earthly sorrow we mine is relational.
We are a relational creation wired to plug into each other and create community.
Dr. Covey, Dale Carnegie, LeGuin and Christ all talk about the same list of behaviors that seed and wound relationships:
Behaviors that Wound Relationships
- impatience
- intolerance
- blaming
- jealousy
- pride
- shame
- selfishness
- unforgiving
- malevolence
- self-righteousness
- abuse
- suspicion
- fear
- worry
- hopelessness
Behaviors that Seed/Maximize Relationships
- patience
- acceptance
- affirmation
- humility
- wonder
- Grace
- honor another
- keeps no record
- rejoices in truth
- protects
- trusts
- hopes
- loves
Each day we are given an opportunity to Trust Love and move in community.
The behaviors we choose bring wounding or fruit to those around us.
I have been given this gift of today.
My children have been given this gift of today.
Together we have an opportunity to follow the Call of Love upon our lives together.
There are relational valleys in the lives of a couple of the girls I most love in this season.
I pray that together we may build upon the wise relational templates all around us.
I trust my Portion Deliverer will fill our every deficit so that we may support each other to not just walk it out, but dance it in a joyous gig accompanied by Praise!
With my love and my sadness
I come before You Lord
My heart’s in a thousand pieces
Maybe even more
Yet I trust in this moment
You’re with me somehow
And You’ve always been faithful
So Lord even now
When all that I can sing
Is a broken hallelujah
When my only offering
Is shattered praise
Still a song of adoration
Will rise up from these ruins
I will worship You and give You thanks
Even when my only praise
Is a broken hallelujah