Spirituality Course

 Comments on Lesson 16 – Dr of Spirituality course

We all need to form relationships whether with members of our family, friends or ultimately with a spouse as a lasting one with someone we feel we can spend the rest of our lives with. Relationship with anyone comes from a true deep feeling of love – a true love borne of a real understanding and empathy with the one we love.  As pointed out in this lesson, only a union with God provides us with an everlasting and really true love on which our own efforts are modelled.

We can form relationships with anyone we meet which may be lasting or very short and transitory. All these contacts should be founded in love and should enable us show love in our approach even though the contact may be very short. Even a short contact should enrich us by what we give and receive from the other person.

In a closer life contact with a person, we search for the ideal opposite number, someone special but very sometimes difficult to find. Regrettably, our efforts are sometimes in vain and we settle for someone who appears at the time to be the right one, but after a time we begin to see our choice differently and the relationship goes downhill from then on. We realise we have made the wrong choice and the illusion of love makes itself felt. Despite attempts to improve the situation by counselling, inevitably we reach the point where the only course is to terminate what we thought was a relationship of love.

The course points out the need for forgiveness whichever path we choose, and forgiveness and love can go hand in hand if the partners in a relationship look deeply into their motives before finally committing themselves to each other. Mutually shared goals assist the completion of a partnership when both partners know fully what thoughts the other one has on key subjects affecting each of them. Even things which appear to be obstacles can be sorted out and come to an amicable conclusion even though there may be some differences of opinion on which the partners can agree to differ. Nothing is too difficult for the Holy Spirit to solve if we turn to Him for help.

Holy Spirit, I turn to you to ask for your help in learning understanding and enlightenment  and to  give us strength to follow your way each day. Help us to bring to you our difficulties and differences so that a true solution may be found. Show us the way of  forgiveness that we may receive your Truth in our lives and grant that true Love of God may guide us in all we do. In Jesus' name.  Amen.

Derek Kemp

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