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<h2><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Ray and Elena&#8217;s story</strong></span></h2>
<p>Let me relay a true story to you about Ray and Elena, &#8211; a middle aged couple with two kids, &#8211; Kim and Susan:</p>
<p>Ray and Elena met at a youth group many years ago. Ray was &#8216;the bomb&#8217;, &#8211; handsome, outgoing and charismatic. He was the all round &#8216;nice guy&#8217; and the girls were lined up for him. He had the choice of almost any girl because of his good looks and hearty character.</p>
<p>Elena&#8217;s childhood was not easy&#8230; She clashed a great deal with her father. Her dad was an alcoholic and she resented it and rebelled.</p>
<p>Perhaps when Elena left home she said what I have heard before: &#8220;Now that I have left home my dad and I get along much better.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ray and Elena decided to get married. They both loved God and wanted to serve Him with their life.</p>
<p>Even though Ray and Elena wanted to serve God with their lives, Elena did not deal with the deep issues of the heart she thought she had left back home. The issues began to bubble up… Once the romance had faded, Elena started to treat Ray badly. She had trained her mind to think badly about her father all those years. Ray now became ‘that’ man in her life. He wasn’t an alcoholic, but the pattern of thinking she had developed through her rebellious years about her father started to emerge… All this because she had not dealt with the deep issues of the heart. She had allowed the past to stunt the growth of her Godly womanhood, &#8211; her true femininity that God intended for her.</p>
<p>Current situation &#8211; Elena and Ray are still married&#8230; but only just… Elena gets annoyed with Ray and constantly wishes she could leave him. Her sour attitude towards her husband has now been ingrained into her kids, Kim and Susan &#8211; they despise him too. Instead of dealing with the hurts of the heart… Instead of disciplining herself to selflessly love her father, Elena has influenced another generation to dishonour and despise the men in their lives.</p>
<p>Dr James Dobson of Focus on the Family:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;I have also observed that a woman’s respect for her husband is significantly influenced by the way she perceived her father. If he was overbearing, uncaring or capricious during her developmental years, she may disrespect her husband and question his judgment. But if Dad blended love and leadership in a way that conveyed strength, she will be more likely to live harmoniously with him.&#8221; [1]</p>
<p>Leslie Ludy tells a story of her husband in their book, &#8216;Teaching True Love to a Sex-at-13 Generation&#8217;:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;When Eric was growing up, his mom used to tell him, &#8220;Son, the way you treat me is the way you are going to treat your wife someday.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m going to treat her better than that Eric countered confidently. Like many in the younger generation today, Eric didn&#8217;t see the correlation between the way he was treating his current family and the way he would treat his future family. He knew he was often insensitive and disrespectful toward his mom. But he reasoned that once he got married, those flaws would somehow melt away, and the tenderness and respect for his wife would come naturally. Anyone who is married knows that logic doesn&#8217;t stand! Marriage doesn&#8217;t naturally bring out our selfless servant hearted side. In fact it brings out our very worst! Today&#8217;s Christian marriages are often full of selfishness and pride rather than serving and giving.&#8221;  [31]</p>
<p>Lets deal harshly with our attitudes. We cannot let our difficult past with parents, our rebellion, or invisible wounds to determine our future. Lets allow God teach us to love and cherish our parents, to revolutionize our mindsets, so that we can experience the fullness of relationships that God placed in our lives.</p>
<p>God wants to heal us now &#8211; before we get married, so that our children one day will love and cherish those soul mates that God will one day bring into their lives.</p>
<p><strong>It was their fault&#8230; It was my fault&#8230; It hurt&#8230; I don’t know whose fault, but something was wrong&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>In relaying our own experience with your past we may say:</p>
<p>&#8220;My mom or dad treated me really badly and I was a rebellious child.&#8221; &#8230;or perhaps I didn&#8217;t act rebellious, &#8211; I was just wounded deeply by somebody close to me and it affected me&#8230;</p>
<p>Maybe we grew up in a wonderful, loving and accepting family but just went through a rebellious, selfish stage in our lives which formed our mindsets.</p>
<p>&#8230; or maybe we didn&#8217;t even go through a rebellious stage but just grew distant from our parents&#8230; Perhaps we lost our parents at an early age and missed their love and direction in our life.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter what exactly happened, only two things matter:</p>
<p>- Did you miss out on the parental input in your life that is critical to your development as a &#8216;whole&#8217; man or woman?<br />
- Were you a hurt, rebellious or selfish child &#8211; allowing you to develop wrong thinking and mindsets about those in authority and those that you were close to?</p>
<p>Satan will use whatever he can to ruin you – the beautiful, loving person God created. He will try to build up wrong thinking about love and life in your mind with every intention of destroying your future.</p>
<p><strong>Remember this&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Whatever those people close to you did&#8230; you have a decision to make!</strong></p>
<p>You can&#8217;t change the past&#8230; you can&#8217;t change them as a person&#8230; you can&#8217;t make them feel sorry for what they did&#8230; but you can change your thinking about them.</p>
<p>With God’s help you can choose to love them. You can choose to forgive. You can choose to selflessly give to them. This is one way you change your thinking, your mindsets, and attitudes. Making a choice to love and allowing the Holy Spirit work in you, &#8211; growing your ability to love, your patience and commitment.<br />
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What you did…</strong></p>
<p>You can&#8217;t change your rebellious and selfish past if you had one, you cannot change yourself&#8230; but you can admit where you were wrong, and allow God to make the change in you!</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>I feel as if I can&#8217;t love or commit like I should</strong></span></h2>
<p>In relating to my young single friends I have quizzed many of them on their relationships with their parents, &#8211; specifically their relationship with their father. My findings were sad and shocking. I found out that many of my friends had experienced a difficult relationship with their father in their growing up years. Nearly every one of these same people also had, &#8211; or are currently having issues in romantic relationships &#8211; dating, courting or marriage.</p>
<p>My friends would tell me about their relationships using statements like:</p>
<ul>
<li>“I would never tell my girlfriends I loved them”</li>
<li>“I would not allow them into my life – I felt as though they were nosey”</li>
<li>&#8220;I am not sure which girl to choose, I enjoy being with them both”</li>
</ul>
<p>God had created these precious people to love their soul mate that he had brought across their path. They were unable to fall in love properly &#8211; to wholeheartedly commit to and love the opposite sex &#8211; and sadly they often didn&#8217;t realise why.</p>
<p>If they were male, they were unable to lead and love like they should. If they were female, they were unable to trust and be cared for, following the man in their life. Both sexes showed an internal difficulty to commit &#8211; in different ways.</p>
<p>The common factor? In nearly all cases it seemed to be their relationship with their father! They had been rebellious to their father, he had been absent in their lives, or he had wounded them in some way.</p>
<p>How these people valued their father was affecting all their other relationships. The most saddening part was that they were often blinded to one fact: Their relationship with their dad was drastically affecting their relationships with the opposite sex.</p>
<p>Issues with their father whilst growing up had allowed wrong mindsets to be built up. These very mindsets were blocking them from enjoying all the sizzling and carefree romance with the soul mate that God may have made cross their path.</p>
<p>AWARENESS ZINGER: If we allow these wrong mindsets to stick around, satan has every intention of using them with full force to sap the love, joy and potential out of our romantic relationships.</p>
<p>Today, somebody I know well &#8211; Jim, related to me a past experience he had on a date with a girl that had been adopted. She had a really bad attitude to guys. On the date, she shared with Jim that men were only good for one thing &#8211; sperm donors. When Jim asked about her adoptive father, she said that he was nice, but took the view that women do everything.</p>
<p>While most hurting Princesses and Princes may not be as outspoken about their hurtful feelings toward the opposite sex, maybe you have noticed a girl who get annoyed when men invade their territory, or a guy who neglects the woman in His life.</p>
<p>Jim was quick not to organise another date with the girl. I find it heartbreaking that many allow true love to slip from their grip, because of bitterness or rebellion they had growing up with their father or mother. I am not as quick to write people (like Jim&#8217;s date) off. My heart aches for them. I see these people lovely creations that God created. Because of the wrong mindsets they allow to be built up in their mind, they will often sabotage every good relationship that God tries to brings them. Jim could not try change her his date, &#8211; even Jesus himself can not change her &#8211; unless she allows Him.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Because of a mistake her father made, a friend of mine has a distorted view of men. She’s constantly complaining about them and is annoyed by them. She mistrusts most men. They better not make a mistake, for every mistake is magnified. She meets them with a furrowed or raised brow or a pinched lip. Despite her desire for marriage, she truly believes there are no good men. My heart hurts for her.”   -Longing for Daddy by Monique Robinson [23]</p>
<p>You have probably heard it said by your single friends: “Now that I have left home, my parents and I get along much better”</p>
<p>These days so many kids don’t get along with their parents and move out of home, thinking it will solve everything. Unfortunately whether we realise it or not, the issues with our parents follow us wherever we try to escape to &#8211; like elastic bands drawing us back to the same problems. We think we are leaving our problems at home, but are carrying them along with us…in our heads… in the mindsets we have developed over the years. We need to un-attach from our problems properly, &#8211; not just try to walk away from them. With the help of the holy spirit and determination, we can!</p>
<p>Bear with me&#8230; there is hope and healing. Things that are totally impossible with man, &#8211; healing the deep hurts of the heart&#8230; are dead-easy with God! He takes every aspect of our old lives&#8230; nails them to the cross&#8230; &#8211; if we allow Him &#8211; and He gives us a brand new life.</p>
<p>Christ gave us the power to transform our thinking &#8211; to throw away old mindsets and ways of thinking, &#8211; and to renew our minds to God&#8217;s higher ways. Satan has tried to make you a prisoner to your past, to that thinking that has developed over the years of rebellion or hurt. Jesus came to earth so that he could free you from your chains of wrong thinking. I know a miracle worker that came to to perform a miracle in your life &#8211; if you allow Him to.</p>
<p>In the old testament, Jeremiah sent a letter with encouragement to people who have been made captive by a foreign land. I believe God would send this same encouragement to you today:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">For I know the plans I have for you,&#8221; declares the LORD, &#8220;plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,&#8221; declares the LORD, &#8220;and will bring you back from captivity.&#8221; Jeremiah 29:11-14</p>
<h2><span><span style="color: #800000;">Filling the void of masculine love from the wrong places</span></span></h2>
<p>I am involved in a large, very lively church packed with youth. Often a whole group of us would go to the local restaurants in the city &#8211; to an area renown for its gay bars. It touches my heart to see such amazing people, trapped in their lifestyle&#8230; hopeless to change themselves&#8230; not realizing that there is so much better &#8211; healing &#8211; in store for them.</p>
<p>Often, &#8211; but not always people look for masculine love in a gay relationship.</p>
<p>Here is a true story about two people I knew whom will nickname Adam and Rob:</p>
<p>Adam’s dad died at an early age. Growing up he lacked a fatherly influence and became involved in the gay lifestyle. Many years later he met Rob who also lacked a fathers influence. Adam and Rob lived together as partners for many years. During that time Rob started going to a church, genuinely seeking God in his life. He put himself in a position to hear from God, and God started working on his heart. Recently we heard the good news &#8211; Rob had left Adam and started dating a girl.</p>
<p>Sometime back I was speaking to a middle-aged friend of mine. (We will nickname him Fred). Fred had been previously had been living in the gay lifestyle. He is now married to a lovely wife and is following God. You can guess the question I was keen to ask him! I asked Fred about his relationship with His father! He relayed an incredibly sad story to me. His father had been a gambler and he was hurt by his parents always fighting. Fred had been terribly bitter with his father&#8230; I could hear the emotion in his voice as he relayed to me the sad story. I am thankful that my he allowed God to start healing his heart &#8211; he had made a choice to drastically change and can now look forward to a hopeful future with God and his wife.</p>
<p>In The Datetalk Audio Series, Wolfi Eckleben says:</p>
<p>&#8220;Listen. there&#8217;s some things that a man is, there&#8217;s something that a woman is &#8211; and the truth is that what God made you to be &#8211; a man or woman &#8230;Wholeness comes when you accept that for yourself.&#8221; [11]</p>
<p>&#8220;Now the interesting thing is the bible says that God created them male and female, &#8211; but it says that it was the man who left his father and his mother and was joined to his wife. So he was born a male &#8230; he was only ready to be joined once he was a man. Now being a male and a female is a matter of birth, but being a man and a woman &#8211; ready to for relationship is a matter of choice, a matter of maturity. It&#8217;s not just the plumbing that makes us different. Its about maturity. &#8211; Have you accepted your manhood, your womanhood?&#8221; [11]</p>
<p>When we miss the father input &#8211; the masculine input in our lives, &#8211; we place ourselves at risk filling the void of masculine love from the wrong places.</p>
<p>In &#8216;Wild at Heart&#8217;, John Eldridge writes: &#8220;What&#8217;s fascinating to note is that homosexuals are actually more clear on this point. They know what is missing in their hearts is masculine love. The problem is that they&#8217;ve sexualized it.&#8221; [12]</p>
<p>Asked in a TV interview by Larry King why people choose a gay orientation, Joyce Meyer replied:</p>
<p>&#8220;I think a lot of different reasons. I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they&#8217;ve been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don&#8217;t know how to function right in those relationships.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can&#8217;t trust people, once you feel like that they don&#8217;t care about you, that they&#8217;re really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships. And you know, I&#8217;ve been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife, you know. I mean, I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn&#8217;t even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it&#8217;s because they&#8217;ve been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wolfi Eckleben says: &#8220;&#8230;Resisting &#8230; your sexuality, resisting your gender is a form of rebellion &#8230; against God your maker. And I want to encourage you there is healing. There is wholeness. There is restoration. I am fully confident that God made them male and female, and nothing in between. The anything that comes in between, or that marrs or changes, that is &#8230; not what the maker did, but what society has put on you or the choices that you&#8217;ve have made. And it may not be your fault, but it is your responsibility &#8230; This is my life to live and I&#8217;ve got to make the choices to change. I might not have control of my past, but I do have control of my future in every area of my life.&#8221; [11]</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">We learn how to commit and love by practicing with our family</span></h2>
<p>If you are a guy, your mother may have said: &#8220;Johnny, be sure to look out for a girl that relates well to her dad, because that’s how she will treat you one day if you marry her.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you are a girl, she may have said: &#8220;Suzy, marry a boy who treats his mom like gold. That is the way he will treat you one day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Time and time again, I have seen examples of people who do not place value one or more of their parents. They will generally find it difficult to place value on those that they have relationships with, &#8211; people who represent those parents. On the other hand there are examples of people who cherish their parents, &#8211; and they in turn cherish and go overboard for those people (who represent their parents) in future relationships.</p>
<p>For example if a guy takes care of his mom, when he meets that special soul mate, he will take care of her. If a girl highly prizes her father, she will generally prize the man that God brings into her life.</p>
<p>If we got annoyed quickly with our parents we should not be surprised at all when we get annoyed with that man or woman that we asked God to put into our life. If we had no time for our parents, considered them a nuisance, or were rebellious to them, lets not fool ourselves in thinking we will act any different to our future soul mate.</p>
<p>Family is special nest created by God. It exists to nurture us, comfort us and to challenge us to greatness. I am convinced that as a rule, if a boy grows up as &#8216;mommies boy&#8217; or a girl grows up as &#8216;daddies girl&#8217;, that is the way they will try to treat their future mate. As a backup, God often places older brothers and sisters in our lives who can, &#8211; to an extent, take the place of a mother or father in our lives if our parents are absent.</p>
<p>Dr David Stoop says of the teen years:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;The parent will affirm them in their own developing manliness and womanliness and will show them how to relate to other people of the opposite sex.&#8221; [30]</p>
<p>BE ENCOURAGED! BE INSPIRED! If you were never &#8216;mommies boy&#8217;, or &#8216;daddies girl&#8217;, be encouraged! Christ has the best in store for you, waiting for you to take hold of the best years of your life. Love, intimacy, companionship, commitment and romance are all in reach if we will allow Jesus into those walled gardens of our life.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; no family is perfect. In fact most parents (and kids) are pretty dysfunctional in one way or another, but that is the way God gives us the opportunities to love the unlovable, to respect the un-respectable, to be patient with those who test our patience, to defy common culture and to do good to those that wound us.</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">They just can&#8217;t love?!: The myth and the reality</span></h2>
<ul>
<li>I have heard it said before that some people don&#8217;t know how to love their soul mate.</li>
<li>I have also heard it said that some people just go a lot deeper than others.</li>
</ul>
<p>The first statement is true &#8211; some people do not &#8216;know&#8217; how to love deeply. The second is false &#8211; God made everyone with emotions to love that go deep down. God intended us to selflessly love, commit and sell themselves out for their soul mate. He wants people to throw everything to the wind and pursue a whirlwind romance that He has for them.</p>
<p>The reason why some people do not know how to love is because there is a devil in this world that tries to take that perfect love that God intended and warp it through our background and our thinking. He has been around a lot time and knows how to use mistakes of our parents, or our own selfishness and rebellion, &#8211; to wreck closeness in relationships that God intended.</p>
<p><strong>Mental walls that block our soul mate out</strong></p>
<p>When we have been wounded, selfish or rebellious, we can build mindsets, &#8211; walls in our thinking that we consider normal, walls that are hidden to us, &#8211; walls that block us from receiving and giving love in the way God designed. We don&#8217;t allow our soul mate to cross these walls, &#8211; they block out the perfection of romantic, selfless love that God designed for us to enjoy.</p>
<p>How we think today is a result of the way we have trained our minds to think over many years. If the devil can continue to make us think wrongly, he will cause us to sabotage every meaningful relationship that God brings across our path.</p>
<p>We cannot let our past rebellion, selfishness, or the father and mother wounds in our lives stop us from experiencing all the blessing of love and romance that Jesus died to give us.</p>
<p>Remember that we are God&#8217;s prized possessions &#8211; extra special to Him. Satan will use parents mistakes or our own rebellious and selfish actions to block us from experiencing the promised land that God has for us.<br />
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Take hold of the promise</strong></p>
<p>If we have given our life over to Jesus, just like the Israelites in the bible we have been &#8216;brought out of Egypt&#8217;, but Satan will try to make us &#8216;die in the wilderness&#8217;, &#8211; instead of entering in and experiencing the &#8216;promised land&#8217; that God intended.</p>
<p>That promised land is truly a land of milk and honey &#8211; the very best that God life could dream up for us&#8230; a life of light hearted romance, joy, &#8211; and productivity for God&#8217;s kingdom alongside our soul mate&#8230;</p>
<p>The only thing stopping us&#8230; is us!</p>
<p>You or those you are close to may think that you don&#8217;t know how to love. I know a Jesus that came to heal, restore and make you totally new and fresh. God can teach you to love selflessly and without reservation. You can be totally generous, crazy, and sold out for your future mate, but God requires something from you to work with &#8211; your faith, resolve and action.</p>
<p>The words resound in my mind: Honour (value) your father and mother so that it may be well with you.</p>
<p>It is never too late to start honoring our parents. We can&#8217;t change our past, but we can change the future with some simple actions. And with what Jesus did for us, &#8211; we can be a totally new person &#8211; and start life with a clean slate, not hindered by the past. Let&#8217;s take advantage of it!</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Back to school: Learning to love</span></h2>
<p>I can remember my exam days in school and university &#8211; just a few years back. I was never the academic kid of the family &#8211; that was my brothers spotlight. For me &#8211; exams existed to be passed, and I generally did what was necessary to get over them shortly and quickly. The aim was not so much in gaining the knowledge, but rather to get the qualification at the end.</p>
<p>Often I would work out when the exam was and leave the intense studying as close to that date as possible. Still cramming a few minutes before the exam actually was a regular occurrence. Most study was there to be endured, before moving on to the more enjoyable aspects of life.</p>
<p>Too often, that&#8217;s how we treat our relationships with our parents &#8211; something to be endured, for as little time as possible before we move out of home. But regardless of whether our parents were good parents or not, God put our both our of them in our lives for the long haul &#8211; people who God would teach us to love. They may not have been great role models, but that&#8217;s the beauty of it. We learn to value our parents even if they mess up.</p>
<p>When we value our parents, its not only for their benefit, but ours! Our characters are formed. We learn priceless lessons about treating our friends, the person we are courting, and future husband or wife. We learn to be patient with our parents when they mess up. We learn to give when we don&#8217;t feel they deserve it. We choose to love a person who can sometimes be unlovable.</p>
<p>We learn to quickly forgive when they mess up. We learn that they are imperfect humans, so we are not shocked when God brings a fellow human (our soul mate) to build our life with who is not perfect. In honoring our parents, we learn invaluable lessons and build characteristics that will be useful in our future romantic relationship with our husband or wife. The greatest lessons we learn are:</p>
<ul>
<li>to die to self</li>
<li>to love, be patient with and value imperfect people</li>
</ul>
<p>These days people travel to the other side of the world to educate themselves, &#8211; to build a future. Isn&#8217;t it sad that we don&#8217;t realise that the best future we can build is in our home town. It&#8217;s in that 20-or-so meters of confinement that surrounds us and keeps us warm at night, &#8211; our very home.</p>
<p>I know a lot of people who have come to the country I live in to learn English, study a vocation or find a better life. They descend from every corner of the globe &#8211; India, Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brazil&#8230; the list goes on. It&#8217;s amazing and awesome to meet and have friends from every area of the globe.</p>
<p>In searching for the amazing life God has promised us, sometimes it seems easier to go find an answer on the other side of the world, but we fail to realise that answer may be waiting for us back at home where we left it. Parents and home are often the &#8216;unwelcome&#8217; packages that God places in our lives to learn from. Too often we find it hard to receive from them, give to them and love them, &#8211; so we discard them.</p>
<p>These important qualifications are not found at Harvard, Princeton, Oxford or Cambridge University. Instead its found at a much higher calibre school &#8211; called &#8216;Parents University&#8217;. This university can sometimes be a lot more challenging than any other educational establishment, but the benefits are priceless in comparison.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you honor your father and mother, things will go well for you&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>You may be still living at home and still have time left to value your parents. Now is that time to take advantage and make this quality time, honoring both your parents.</p>
<p>You may say to me: &#8220;I get along well with one parent, &#8211; but because of some reason my relationship with my other parent isn&#8217;t a great&#8230; its good but not great&#8230;&#8221; Now is the time &#8211; with God&#8217;s help &#8211; to build that relationship!</p>
<p>What happens if you have left home? It&#8217;s simple common sense: When you get lost, retrace your steps and go back to where you went wrong. Then carry on.</p>
<p>In the story of the Prodigal son, Jesus tells us of a rebellious son returning back home, saying &#8220;Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.&#8221; As long as there is no risk of physical abuse, &#8211; maybe its about time to return home to serve, love and honor your parents (even if it is thousands of miles away).</p>
<p>The time spent learning now, &#8211; practising selflessness with our parents can save years of heartache in future courting and marriage relationships.</p>
<p>If your parents aren&#8217;t alive anymore, pray for God to send parental replacements into your life that you can learn to love and honour &#8211; as if they were your parents. Maybe they are an older, mature couple at church, or your boyfriend/girlfriends parents.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s never too late to start valuing our parents!</strong></p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how old we are. Regardless of whether we are 5, 16, 28 or 50 years old we can learn to value our parents and it can do us the world of good.</p>
<p>&#8216;Neuro development&#8217; says that movements of a baby help develop the neural pathways of the brain &#8211; from the time that the baby is inside the womb, &#8211; to exercises like crawling and walking outside the womb.</p>
<p>A person may be under-developed in coordination or other ways if that miss out on these &#8216;baby excercises&#8217;. The truly phenomenal observation is that a person can actually still develop their brain if they carry out the same exercises when they get older.</p>
<p>Remember: It is never, ever too late to start honoring our parents. God said in Joel 2:25:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Love is a choice. Just like with studying, we know what we need to do, but we need to take action &#8211; to get out our books and start cramming. In this case we just need to take action in honoring and valuing our parents. If we have in the past have devalued our father or mother &#8211; for whatever reason &#8211; we need to learn to love them. Just like any other discipline in life, &#8211; we have to &#8216;work at it&#8217;, &#8211; not in our own strength, but through the power of God&#8217;s Holy Spirit living in us.</p>
<p>That way, &#8211; when God brings that perfect Prince or Princess into our life, &#8211; we will choose to prize them like we should.</p>
<p>The bible promises that if we allow God to renew our minds we can experience God&#8217;s perfect will for our lives &#8211; WOW!:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but <strong>let God transform you</strong> into a new person by <strong>changing the way you think</strong>. Then you will learn to<strong> know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect</strong>.&#8221; Romans 12:1-2 (NLV)</p>
<p>Because of what Jesus did for us, we have so much benefit to take hold of. The choice is ours, now. Make the most of now!</p>
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<p>[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soul Mate' series. View other parts of this series and references <a href="http://www.sloppynoodle.com/honor_parents_value_soulmate.shtml">here</a>.]</p>
<p>[Most names used in stories have been changed to protect identities]</p>
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<p>[1] &#8211; http://www.family.org/parenting/A000001230.cfm<br />
[2] &#8211; http://www.joycemeyer.org/NR/rdonlyres/7F8EC7E7-B280-492E-BACD-7780FC0374A/0/BalancelookatSub.pdf<br />
[3] &#8211; http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/Devotions/Irvin_father_eyes.aspx<br />
[4] &#8211; http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/EverydayAnswers/Articles/art51.htm<br />
[5] &#8211; http://www.rickross.com/reference/meyer/meyer9.html<br />
[6] &#8211; http://www.enotalone.com/article/3701.html<br />
[7] &#8211; http://www.rickross.com/reference/meyer/meyer23.html<br />
[8] &#8211; Love Means Sacrifice, Not Selfishness: http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/EverydayAnswers/Articles/art19.htm<br />
[9] &#8211; &#8216;Always Daddy&#8217;s Girl&#8217; H. Norman Wright (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1989) p. 208<br />
[10] &#8211; Two Are Better than One: http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/EverydayAnswers/Articles/art6.htm<br />
[11] &#8211; The Datetalk Audio Series with Wolfi Eckleben: http://sloppynoodle.com/datetalk.shtml<br />
[12] &#8211; Wild at Heart by John Eldridge P95,P95<br />
[13] &#8211; &#8216;Captivating&#8217; by Staci and John Eldridge pg 52<br />
[14] &#8211; Derek Prince &#8211; Husbands and Fathers audio<br />
[15] &#8211; http://www.aboutdivorce.org/us_divorce_rates.html<br />
[16] &#8211; http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/bevolking/publicaties/artikelen/archief/2005/2005-1818-wm.htm<br />
[17] &#8211; http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G1135&amp;t=kjv<br />
[18] &#8211; http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G435&amp;t=kjv<br />
[19] &#8211; <span id="phArticleTitle">Eight Specific Reasons Why Christians Suffer: </span>http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/EverydayAnswers/Articles/art37.htm<br />
[20] &#8211; God uses nobodies: http://www.sloppynoodle.com/God_uses_nobodies.shtml<br />
[21] &#8211; 1 Kings 12<br />
[22] &#8211; http://www.ccel.org/contrib/exec_outlines/he/he_07.htm<br />
[23] &#8211; Longing for daddy by Monique Robinson p.37<br />
[24] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.15<br />
[25] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.27<br />
[26] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.35<br />
[27] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.39<br />
[28] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.46<br />
[29] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.33<br />
[30] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.41<br />
[31] &#8211; Teaching True Love to a Sex-at-13 Generation by Eric and Leslie Ludy p.145, 146</p>
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<p>[A maioria dos nomes usados em histórias  foram alterados para proteger a identidade]</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Ray e história de Elena</span></h2>
<p>Deixe-me retransmitir uma história verdadeira  sobre Ray e Elena, &#8211; um casal de meia idade com dois filhos, &#8211; Kim e  Susan:</p>
<p>Ray e Elena se conheceram em um grupo  de jovens, muitos anos atrás. Ray era &#8220;o cara&#8221;, &#8211; bonito,  simpático e carismático. Ele era o cara legal durante todo o tempo  &#8216;e as meninas estavam interessadas nele. Ele tinha a opção de escolher  qualquer menina por causa de sua boa aparência e caráter entusiasta.</p>
<p>Elena na infância não foi fácil &#8230;  Brigou muito com o pai. Seu pai era alcoólatra e ressentiu-se e se  rebelou.</p>
<p>Talvez quando Elena saiu de casa, ela  disse que eu tenho ouvido antes: &#8220;Agora que eu tenho saído de  casa meu pai e eu me dou muito melhor.&#8221;</p>
<p>Elena Ray e decidiram se casar. Ambos  amamos a Deus e queria servi-lo com a sua vida.</p>
<p>Mesmo que Ray e Elena queria servir a  Deus com suas vidas, Elena não podia lidar com as questões profundas  do coração ela pensou que tinha deixado em casa. Os problemas começaram  a borbulhar &#8230; Uma vez que o romance tinha desvanecido, Elena Ray começaram  a se tratar mal. Tinha treinado sua mente para pensar seriamente sobre  o pai de todos esses anos. Ray tornou-se agora o homem em sua vida.  Ele não era um alcoólatra, mas o padrão de pensamento que se desenvolveu  durante seus anos de rebeldia sobre seu pai começou a emergir &#8230; Tudo  isso porque ela não tinha lidado com as questões profundas do coração.  Ela havia permitido que o conluio com o passado o crescimento de sua  feminilidade piedosa &#8211; sua feminilidade verdadeira que Deus quis para  ela.</p>
<p>Situação atual &#8211; Elena e Ray ainda  estão casados &#8230; mas só agora &#8230; Elena se irrita com Ray e constantemente  deseja que poderia deixá-lo. Sua atitude azedo para o seu marido já  foi enraizada em seus filhos, Kim e Susan &#8211; que desprezá-lo também.  Em vez de lidar com as mágoas do coração &#8230; Em vez de disciplinar-se  a amar abnegadamente seu pai, Elena influenciou uma geração de desonra  e despreza os homens em suas vidas.</p>
<p>O Dr. James Dobson do Focus de Familia:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;Tenho observado também que o respeito  de uma mulher para seu marido é significativamente influenciado pela  forma como ela percebeu seu pai. Se ele era arrogante, indiferente ou  caprichosa durante seus anos de desenvolvimento, ela pode desrespeitar  o marido e pergunta o seu julgamento. Mas se o pai o amor misturado  com liderança de uma forma que transmitia força, ela vai ser mais  propensos a viver em harmonia com ele. &#8220;[1]</p>
<p>Leslie Ludy conta a história de seu  marido em seu livro &#8220;Ensinar o Verdadeiro amor para a Geração  Sexo-13 &#8216;:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;Quando Eric estava crescendo, sua  mãe costumava dizer-lhe:&#8221; Filho, do jeito que você me trata é  a maneira que você vai tratar a sua esposa um dia. &#8220;&#8221; Eu  vou tratá-la melhor do que Eric combatida com confiança. Como muitos  da geração mais jovem de hoje, Eric não vê a correlação entre  a maneira como ele tratava sua família atual e a maneira como ele iria  tratar de sua família no futuro. Ele sabia que era muitas vezes insensível  e desrespeitosa para com sua mãe. Mas ele argumentou que, uma vez que  ele se casou, as falhas de alguma forma iriam desaparecer, e o carinho  e respeito por sua esposa viria naturalmente. Qualquer um que está  casado sabe que a lógica não resiste! Casamento não é, naturalmente,  trazer para fora o nosso lado servo abnegado coração. Na verdade ele  traz a nossa pior! Casamentos cristãos de hoje estão frequentemente  cheios de egoísmo e orgulho em vez de servir e dar. &#8220;[31]</p>
<p>Permite lidar duramente com as nossas  atitudes. Não podemos deixar nosso passado difícil com os pais, a  nossa rebeldia, ou feridas invisíveis determinar o nosso futuro. Deixemos  Deus nos ensinar a amar e respeitar nossos pais, para revolucionar o  nosso espírito, para que possamos experimentar a plenitude de relacionamentos  que Deus colocou em nossas vidas.</p>
<p>Deus quer nos curar agora &#8211; antes de  se casar, para que nossos filhos um dia vai amar e respeitar os companheiros  de alma que Deus um dia irá trazer em suas vidas.</p>
<p><strong>Foi culpa deles &#8230; A culpa foi minha  &#8230; Doeu &#8230; Eu não sei quem é a culpa, mas havia algo errado &#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Em afinação da nossa própria experiência  com o seu passado, podemos dizer:</p>
<p>&#8220;Minha mãe ou pai me tratou muito  mal e eu era uma criança rebelde.&#8221; &#8230; Ou talvez eu não agir  rebelde, &#8211; eu estava apenas ferido profundamente por alguém próximo  a mim e isso afectou-me &#8230;</p>
<p>Talvez a gente cresceu em uma família  maravilhosa, amar e aceitar, mas acabou de passar por uma fase rebelde,  egoísta em nossas vidas que formaram a nossa mentalidade.</p>
<p>&#8230; Ou talvez nem sequer passar por uma  fase rebelde, mas só cresceu distante do nosso pais &#8230; Talvez tenhamos  perdido os pais muito cedo e perdeu o seu amor e orientação em nossa  vida.</p>
<p>Não importa o que aconteceu exatamente,  só duas coisas importam:</p>
<p>- Será que você perca a entrada dos  pais em sua vida que é fundamental para seu desenvolvimento como um  &#8220;homem&#8221; ou mulher?</p>
<p>- Foram-lhe uma mágoa, filho rebelde  ou egoísta &#8211; o que lhe permite desenvolver o pensamento errado e mentalidades  em posição de autoridade sobre aqueles e aquelas que você estava  perto?</p>
<p>Satanás usará tudo o que pode para  arruinar você &#8211; o belo, amoroso a pessoa que Deus criou. Ele vai tentar  construir o pensamento errado sobre o amor e a vida em sua mente com  toda a intenção de destruir o seu futuro.</p>
<p><strong>Lembre-se disso &#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>O que quer que as pessoas próximas a  você fez &#8230; você tem que tomar uma decisão!</strong></p>
<p>Você não pode mudar o passado &#8230; você  não pode alterá-los como uma pessoa &#8230; você não pode fazê-los  sentir pena pelo que fizeram &#8230; mas você pode mudar seu pensamento  sobre eles.</p>
<p>Com a ajuda de Deus você pode escolher  a amá-los. Você pode escolher a perdoar. Você pode optar por dar  altruisticamente a eles. Esta é uma maneira de mudar o seu pensamento,  sua mentalidade e atitudes. Fazer uma escolha de amor e permitindo que  o Espírito Santo aja em você, &#8211; fazendo o crescimento de sua capacidade  de amar, sua paciência e empenho.</p>
<p><strong>O que você fez &#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Você não pode mudar seu passado rebelde  e egoísta se você tivesse um, você não pode mudar a si mesmo &#8230;  mas você pode admitir que você estava errado, e que Deus a fazer a  mudança em você!</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Eu sinto como se eu não posso amar ou  cometer como eu deveria</span></h2>
<p>Em matéria de minhas jovens amigas que  tenho interrogado muitas delas em seus relacionamentos com seus pais,  &#8211; mais especificamente a sua relação com seu pai. Meus resultados  foram triste e chocante. Eu descobri que muitos delas tiveram um relacionamento  difícil com o pai em seus anos de crescimento. Quase todas essas mesmas  pessoas também tiveram &#8211; ou são questões que tem actualmente em relações  amorosas &#8211; namoro, cortejar ou casamento.</p>
<p>Meus amigos me contava sobre seus relacionamentos  com declarações como:</p>
<ul>
<li> &#8220;Eu nunca diria  a minha namorada que eu amava&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> &#8220;Eu não permiti-los  em minha vida &#8211; Eu me senti como se fossem intrometido&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> &#8220;Não estou  certo de que a menina a escolher, eu gosto de estar com eles tanto&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Deus tinha criado essas pessoas preciosas  para amar seu companheiro de alma que ele havia trazido em seu caminho.  Eles não foram capazes de se apaixonar corretamente &#8211; para comprometer-se  sinceramente e amar o sexo oposto &#8211; e, infelizmente, muitas vezes eles  não perceber o porquê.</p>
<p>Se eles eram do sexo masculino, não  foram capazes de liderar e amar como deveriam. Se eles eram do sexo  feminino, foram incapazes de confiar e ser cuidada, seguindo o homem  em sua vida. Ambos os sexos apresentaram uma dificuldade interna para  cometer &#8211; de formas diferentes.</p>
<p>O fator comum? Em quase todos os casos  que parecia ser seu relacionamento com seu pai! Eles tinham sido rebeldes  a seu pai, que tinha estado ausente em suas vidas, ou tinha ferido de  alguma forma.</p>
<p>Como essas pessoas valorizado o seu pai  estava afetando todos os seus outros relacionamentos. A parte mais triste  é que muitas vezes eram cegos para um fato: sua relação com seu pai  estava afetando drasticamente as suas relações com o sexo oposto.</p>
<p>Problemas com seu pai enquanto crescia  havia permitido que o espírito errado para ser construída. Estas mentalidades  muito estavam bloqueando-os de desfrutar de todo o romance escaldante  e despreocupada com a alma gêmea que Deus pode ter feito cruzar seu  caminho.</p>
<p>ZINGER consciência: Se permitirmos que  estas mentalidades erradas estejam ao redor, Satanás tem toda a intenção  de usá-los com força total a seiva do amor, da alegria e do potencial  de nossas relações românticas.</p>
<p>Hoje, alguém que eu conheço bem &#8211; Jim,  me contou uma experiência que ele teve um encontro com uma garota que  havia sido aprovada. Ela teve uma atitude muito ruim para rapazes. No  encontro, ela compartilhou com Jim que os homens eram bons apenas para  uma coisa &#8211; como doadores de esperma. Jim Quando perguntou a ela sobre  seu pai adotivo, ela disse que ele era bom, mas considerou que as mulheres  fazem de tudo.</p>
<p>Enquanto a maioria ferir princesas e  príncipes não pode ser tão abertamente sobre seus sentimentos dolorosos  para o sexo oposto, talvez você tenha notado uma menina que fica irritada  quando os homens invadem seu território, ou um cara que negligencia  a mulher em sua vida.</p>
<p>Jim não foi rápido para organizar um  outro encontro com aquela garota. Acho que é desolador que muitos permitam  que o amor verdadeiro  caia em suas garras, por causa da amargura  ou rebelião, eles haviam crescido com o pai ou a mãe. Eu não sou  tão rápido para escrever as pessoas (como Jim&#8217;s) encontro de fora.  Meu coração sofre por eles. Eu vejo essas pessoas criações lindas  que Deus criou. Por causa da mentalidade errada que permitem a ser construída  em sua mente, muitas vezes eles vão sabotar todo bom relacionamento  que Deus tenta leva-los. Jim não poderia tentar mudar sua data de seu  filho, &#8211; até mesmo o próprio Jesus não pode mudar o seu &#8211; a menos  que ela lhe permite.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;Por causa de um erro seu pai fez,  uma amiga meu tem uma visão distorcida dos homens. Ela está constantemente  a queixar-se sobre eles e fica chateado por eles. Ela desconfia da maioria  dos homens. Eles não mais cometer um erro, para cada erro é ampliada.  Ela os conhece com uma testa franzida ou levantado um lábio ou comprimido.  Apesar de seu desejo para o casamento, ela realmente acredita que não  existem homens de bem. Meu coração dói por ela. &#8220;Longing for  Daddy por Monique Rodrigues [23]</p>
<p>Você provavelmente já ouviu dizer por  seus únicos amigos: &#8220;Agora que eu tenho saído de casa, meus pais  e me dou muito melhor&#8221;</p>
<p>Estes dias assim muitas crianças não  se dá bem com seus pais e sair de casa, pensando que vai resolver tudo.  Infelizmente, se nós realizá-lo ou não, os problemas com os nossos  pais nos seguem para onde quer que tentam escapar &#8211; como elásticos  puxando-nos de volta para os mesmos problemas. Achamos que estamos deixando  para nossos problemas em casa, mas eles estão sendo carregados junto  com nós &#8230; nas nossas cabeças &#8230; na mentalidade que temos desenvolvido  ao longo dos anos. Precisamos desanexar os nossos problemas de forma  adequada, &#8211; e não apenas tentar fugir para longe deles. Com a ajuda  do Espírito Santo e determinação, nós podemos!</p>
<p>Acredite em mim &#8230; há esperança e  cura. Coisas que são totalmente impossível com o homem, &#8211; a cura profunda  do coração dói &#8230; são mortos fácil com Deus! Ele leva todos os  aspectos da nossa velha vida&#8230; carregados para a cruz &#8230; &#8211; se permitirmos  que Ele &#8211; e Ele nos dá uma nova vida.</p>
<p>Cristo nos deu o poder de transformar  o nosso pensamento &#8211; a deixar fora a cultura antiga e maneiras de pensar,  &#8211; e para renovar as nossas mentes para formas superiores de Deus. Satanás  tentou fazer-lhe um prisioneiro de seu passado, para que o pensamento  que se desenvolveu ao longo dos anos de rebelião. Jesus veio ao mundo  para que ele pudesse livrá-lo de suas correntes de pensamento errado.  Eu sei que um milagreiro que veio para realizar um milagre em sua vida  &#8211; se você permitir que ele faça.</p>
<p>No Antigo Testamento, Jeremias enviou  uma carta com o incentivo para as pessoas que tenham sido feitas em  cativeiro por uma terra estrangeira. Eu creio que Deus iria enviar este  incentivo mesmo para você hoje:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Pois eu bem sei os planos que tenho para  você &#8220;, diz o Senhor,&#8221; planos para prosperar e não de lhes  causar dano, planos de dar-lhes esperança e um futuro. Então você  vai me invocareis, passareis a orar a mim, e eu vos ouvirei. Você vai  me procurar e encontrar-me quando me buscardes de todo o coração.  Vou ser encontrado por você &#8220;, diz o Senhor&#8221;, e irá trazer  de volta do cativeiro. &#8220;Jeremias 29:11-14</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Preenchendo o vazio do amor masculino  em lugares errados</span></h2>
<p>Estou envolvido em uma igreja grande,  muito animada e cheia de juventude. Muitas vezes um grupo inteiro vai  para os restaurantes da cidade perto de uma área de renome pelos seus  bares gay. Isso toca o meu coração ver pessoas tão incríveis, preso  em seu estilo de vida &#8230; sem esperança de mudar a si mesmo &#8230; não  percebendo que não é muito melhor &#8211; a cura &#8211; na loja para eles.</p>
<p>Muitas vezes, &#8211; mas nem sempre as pessoas  olham para o amor masculino em um relacionamento gay.</p>
<p>Aqui está uma verdadeira história sobre  duas pessoas que eu conhecia quem vai nomes ficticios Adão e Rob:</p>
<p>Pai de Adão morreu em tenra idade.Ele  cresceu e não tinha uma influência paterna e envolveu-se no estilo  de vida gay. Muitos anos depois, ele conheceu Rob, que também carecia  de uma influência dos pais. Adão e Rob viveram juntos, como parceiros  de muitos anos. Durante esse tempo, Rob começou a ir a uma igreja,  que procurando verdadeiramente Deus na sua vida. Ele se colocou em posição  de ouvir de Deus, e Deus começou a trabalhar no seu coração. Recentemente  ouvimos a boa notícia &#8211; Rob tinha deixado Adão e começou a namorar  uma menina.</p>
<p>Algum tempo atrás eu estava falando  para um amigo de meia-idade. (Vamos chamalo Fred). Fred havia sido vivido  no estilo de vida gay. Ele agora está casado com uma mulher linda e  está seguindo a Deus. Você pode adivinhar a pergunta que fiz questão  de perguntar a ele! Perguntei a Fred sobre seu relacionamento com seu  pai! Ele retransmitida uma história incrivelmente triste para mim.  Seu pai tinha sido um jogador e ele foi ferido por seus pais sempre  brigando. Fred tinha sido terrivelmente amargado com o pai &#8230; eu podia  ouvir a emoção em sua voz como ele retransmitida para mim, a história  triste. Eu sou grato que meu Deus, ele permitiu a começar a curar o  seu coração &#8211; ele tinha feito uma escolha para mudar drasticamente  e pode agora olhar para a frente a um futuro esperançoso com Deus e  sua esposa.</p>
<p>Na Serie Falando sobre encontros, Wolfi  Eckleben diz:</p>
<p>&#8220;Ouça. há algumas coisas que um  homem é, há algo que uma mulher e &#8211; e a verdade é que o que Deus  fez você para ser &#8211; um homem ou uma mulher &#8230; Plenitude vem quando  você aceitar que, por si mesmo. &#8220;[11]</p>
<p>&#8220;Agora a coisa interessante é que  a Bíblia diz que Deus criou homem e mulher &#8211; mas ela diz que ele era  o homem que deixou seu pai e sua mãe e se juntou à sua mulher. Assim  nasceu um macho &#8230; ele só ficou pronto para ser juntados uma vez que  ele era um homem. Agora, sendo um macho e uma fêmea é uma questão  de nascimento, mas sendo um homem e uma mulher &#8211; prontos para a relação  é uma questão de escolha, uma questão de maturidade. Não é apenas  o encanamento que nos torna diferentes. Sobre a sua maturidade. &#8211; Você  aceitou a sua masculinidade, sua condição de mulher? &#8220;[11]</p>
<p>Quando perdemos o pai de entrada &#8211; a  entrada masculina em nossas vidas &#8211; nós nos colocamos em risco preencher  o vazio do amor masculino em lugares errados.</p>
<p>Em &#8220;Coracao selvagem&#8221;, John  Eldridge escreve: &#8220;O que é fascinante notar é que os homossexuais  são realmente mais claro sobre este ponto. Eles sabem o que está faltando  em seus corações é o amor masculino. O problema é que eles é sexualizado.  &#8220;[12]</p>
<p>Perguntado em uma entrevista pela TV  Larry King porque as pessoas escolhem uma orientação homossexual,  Joyce Meyer respondeu:</p>
<p>&#8220;Eu acho que um monte de razões  diferentes. Eu acredito que um grande número de pessoas que são gays,  tinha ainda tinha problemas como eu tive no passado. Eu acho que eles  foram feridos por alguém do sexo oposto, e eles não sabem como agir  direito nesses relacionamentos.</p>
<p>Quando você está muito magoado na sua  infância, a área que tem o maior efeito é sobre relacionamentos.  Uma vez que você sente que não pode confiar nas pessoas, uma vez que  você sentir que eles não se preocupam com você, que não estão realmente  indo para cuidar de você, fica muito difícil nos relacionamentos.  E você sabe, eu fui tão maltratado pela autoridade masculina na minha  vida que eu tive um momento terrível no meu casamento tentando ser  uma mulher submissa, você sabe. Quer dizer, eu queria a mandar em tudo.  E não era mesmo verdade que eu era rebelde, eu estava com medo de ser  ferido. E eu acho que um grande número de pessoas que escolhem estes  estilos de vida alternativos, eu acho que é porque eles foram mal em  algum lugar ao longo da linha de muito mal. &#8221;</p>
<p>Wolfi Eckleben diz: &#8220;&#8230; &#8230; Resistir  a sua sexualidade, resistindo o seu sexo é uma forma de rebelião contra  Deus &#8230; seu fabricante. E eu quero incentivá-lo não há cura. Há  plenitude. Não há restauração. Estou plenamente confiante de que  Deus fez macho e fêmea, e nada entre eles. A qualquer coisa que vem  no meio, ou que Marrs ou alterações, ou seja &#8230; não o que o autor  fez, mas o que a sociedade tem colocado em você ou as escolhas que  você fez. E pode não ser culpa sua, mas é sua responsabilidade &#8230;  Esta é a minha vida para viver e eu tenho que fazer as escolhas para  mudar. Eu não poderia ter o controle do meu passado, mas eu tenho controle  do meu futuro em todas as áreas da minha vida. &#8220;[11]</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Aprendemos a comprometer e amor, praticando  com a nossa família</span></h2>
<p>Se você é um cara, sua mãe pode ter  dito: &#8220;Johnny, certifique-se de olhar para uma garota que se relaciona  bem com o pai dela, porque é assim que ela irá tratá-lo um dia se  casar com ela.&#8221;</p>
<p>Se você for uma menina, ela pode ter  dito: &#8220;Suzy, casar com um rapaz que trata sua mãe como o ouro.  Essa é a maneira como ele irá tratá-lo um dia. &#8221;</p>
<p>E outra vez, tenho visto exemplos de  pessoas que não valorizam um ou mais dos seus pais. Eles geralmente  têm dificuldade em dar valor à aqueles que têm relações com, &#8211;  pessoas que representam os pais. Por outro lado, há exemplos de pessoas  que apreciam seus pais &#8211; e que prezamos por sua vez, e ir ao mar para  aquelas pessoas (que representam seus pais) em relacionamentos futuros.</p>
<p>Por exemplo, se uma pessoa cuida de sua  mãe, quando ele conhece a alma gêmea especial, ele vai cuidar dela.  Se uma menina muito prêmios de seu pai, ela terá prêmio geralmente  o homem que Deus traz em sua vida.</p>
<p>Se ficou chateado rapidamente com nossos  pais, não devemos nos surpreender a todos quando ficamos aborrecidos  com que o homem ou a mulher que pedi a Deus para colocar em nossa vida.  Se não tivemos tempo para os nossos pais, os considerava um incômodo,  ou eram rebeldes a eles, não vamos nos enganar em pensar que vamos  agir diferente para a nossa alma gémea futuro.</p>
<p>Família o ninho é especial criado por  Deus. Ela existe para cuidar de nós, nos confortar e nos desafiar a  grandeza. Estou convencido de que, como regra, se um menino cresce como  &#8220;menino da mamae&#8221; ou uma menina cresce como &#8220;garota do  papai &#8216;, que é a maneira que eles vão tentar tratar seu futuro companheiro.  Como um backup, Deus muitas vezes coloca os irmãos e irmãs mais velhos  em nossas vidas que pode &#8211; em certa medida, tomar o lugar de um pai  ou mãe em nossas vidas se os pais estão ausentes.</p>
<p>Dr. David Stoop diz da adolescência:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;O pai vai afirmar-los em seu próprio  desenvolvimento de masculinidade e feminilidade e irá mostrar-lhes  como se relacionar com outras pessoas do sexo oposto.&#8221; [30]</p>
<p>SER SOLICITADA! Inspire-se! Se você  nunca foi &#8220;o menino da mamãe &#8216;, ou&#8217; garota do papai &#8216;, ser incentivada!  Cristo foi o melhor na loja para você, esperando por você ter de segurar  os melhores anos de sua vida. Amor, intimidade, companheirismo, compromisso  e romance são todos em chegar, se permitirmos que Jesus em jardins  murados da nossa vida.</p>
<p>Vamos enfrentá-lo &#8211; nenhuma família  é perfeita. Na verdade a maioria dos pais (e filhos) são bastante  disfuncional em uma forma ou de outra, mas essa é a maneira que Deus  nos dá a oportunidade de amar o não amável, o respeito da ONU respeitável,  para ser paciente com aqueles que testam a nossa paciência, a cultura  comum e desafiam a fazer o bem aos que nos ferem.</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Eles só não pode amar?!: O mito ea  realidade</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Eu tenho ouvido  dizer antes que algumas pessoas não sabem como amar a sua alma gêmea.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Eu também ouvi  dizer que algumas pessoas simplesmente ir muito mais profundo do que  outros.</li>
</ul>
<p>A primeira afirmação é verdadeira  &#8211; algumas pessoas não &#8216;saber&#8217; como amar profundamente. A segunda é  falsa &#8211; Deus fez a todos com as emoções ao amor que ir lá no fundo.  Deus quis que nós desinteressadamente amor, compromisso e se vendem  para fora para sua alma gêmea. Ele quer que as pessoas jogam tudo para  o vento e prosseguir um romance que Ele tem para eles.</p>
<p>A razão pela qual algumas pessoas não  sabem amar é porque existe um diabo neste mundo que tenta levar o amor  perfeito que Deus quis e deformar-lo através de nossa experiência  e nosso pensamento. Ele tem sido em torno de um lote e saiba como usar  os erros dos nossos pais, ou o nosso próprio egoísmo e rebeldia, &#8211;  para destruir a proximidade nos relacionamentos que Deus quis.</p>
<p><strong>Paredes Mentais que bloqueiam a nossa  alma gémea </strong></p>
<p>Quando temos sido feridos, egoísta ou  rebelde, podemos construir mentalidades, &#8211; paredes em nosso pensamento  que nós consideramos normal, as paredes que estão ocultos para nós,  &#8211; paredes que nos impedem de dar e receber amor na forma como Deus planejou.  Nós não permitimos que nossa alma gêmea para atravessar estas paredes,  &#8211; elas bloqueiam a perfeição do amor romântico abnegado que Deus  projetou para nós para apreciar.</p>
<p>Como pensamos hoje é um resultado da  maneira como treinamos nossas mentes para pensar durante muitos anos.  Se o diabo pode continuar a fazer-nos pensar de forma errada, ele vai  levar-nos a sabotar todas as relações significativas que Deus traz  em nosso caminho.</p>
<p>Não podemos deixar nossa rebelião passado,  o egoísmo, ou o pai e fere mãe em nossas vidas nos impede de experimentar  todas as bênçãos de amor e romance que Jesus morreu para nos dar.</p>
<p>Lembre-se que estamos orgulhosos das  posses de Deus &#8211; extra especial a ele. Satanás usará pais erros ou  nossas próprias ações rebeldes e egoístas para nos impedir de viver  na terra prometida que Deus tem para nós.</p>
<p><strong>Tome posse da promessa</strong></p>
<p>Se temos dado a nossa vida para Jesus,  assim como os israelitas na Bíblia que foram &#8220;trazidos do Egito,  mas Satanás tentará fazer-nos morrer no deserto &#8216;, &#8211; em vez de entrar  no e experimentar o&#8217; terra prometida &#8220;que Deus quis.</p>
<p>Que a terra prometida é realmente uma  terra de leite e mel &#8211; o melhor que a vida que Deus poderia sonhar para  nós &#8230; uma vida de romance coração de luz, alegria, &#8211; e produtividade  para o reino de Deus ao lado de nossa alma gémea &#8230;</p>
<p>A única coisa que nós &#8230; somos nós!</p>
<p>Você ou aqueles que estão próximos  podem pensar que você não sabe como amar. Eu conheço um Jesus que  veio para curar, restaurar e torná-lo totalmente novo e fresco. Deus  pode te ensinar a amar desinteressadamente e sem reservas. Você pode  ser totalmente generoso, louco, e vendido para fora para o seu futuro  companheiro, mas Deus exige algo de você trabalhar com &#8211; a sua fé,  determinação e ação.</p>
<p>As palavras ecoam em minha mente: Honra  (valor) do seu pai e sua mãe para que ela possa estar bem com você.</p>
<p>Nunca é demasiado tarde para começar  a honrar os nossos pais. Nós não podemos mudar nosso passado, mas  podemos mudar o futuro com algumas ações simples. E com o que Jesus  fez por nós, &#8211; que pode ser uma pessoa totalmente nova &#8211; e começar  a vida com uma ficha limpa, não prejudicada pelo passado. Vamos aproveitá-lo!</p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Volta para a escola: Aprendendo a amar.</span></h2>
<p>Lembro-me de meus dias de prova na escola  e na universidade &#8211; apenas alguns anos atrás. Eu nunca fui o garoto  o acadêmico da família &#8211; que era o meu foco irmãos. Para mim &#8211; exames  existia para ser aprovado, e geralmente eu fiz o que era necessário  para superá-los em breve e rapidamente. O objectivo não era tanto  na obtenção do conhecimento, mas sim para obter a qualificação no  final.</p>
<p>Muitas vezes eu ia trabalhar para fora  quando o exame foi intenso e deixava para estudar o mais próximo dessa  data possível. Ainda faltando poucos minutos antes do exame na verdade  era uma ocorrência regular. A maioria dos estudos estava lá para ser  suportado, antes de avançar para os aspectos mais agradáveis da vida.</p>
<p>Demasiadas vezes, é assim que tratamos  nossos relacionamentos com nossos pais &#8211; algo a ser suportado, durante  o menor tempo possível, antes de sair de casa. Mas independentemente  de nossos pais eram bons pais ou não, Deus colocou a nossa ambas as  nossas deles em nossas vidas para o longo curso &#8211; pessoas que Deus quer  nos ensinar a amar. Eles podem não ter sido grande de modelos, mas  essa é a beleza da coisa. Aprendemos a valorizar os nossos pais, mesmo  se eles fracassarem.</p>
<p>Quando valorizamos os nossos pais, não  só para o seu benefício próprio, mas nossa! Nossos personagens se  formam. Aprendemos lições inestimáveis sobre como tratar os nossos  amigos, a pessoa que estamos namorando, e seu futuro marido ou esposa.  Aprendemos a ter paciência com os nossos pais quando asneira. Aprendemos  a dar quando não sentimos que merecemos. Nós escolhemos amar uma pessoa  que pode às vezes ser antipático.</p>
<p>Temos de aprender a perdoar rapidamente  quando asneira. Aprendemos que os seres humanos são imperfeitos, por  isso não ficam chocados quando Deus traz um ser humano do companheiro  (a nossa alma gémea) para construir a nossa vida com quem não é perfeito.  Em honrar os nossos pais, aprendemos lições valiosas e construir as  características que serão úteis na nossa futura relação romântica  com o nosso marido ou esposa. As maiores lições que aprendemos são:</p>
<ul>
<li> Morrer para si</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Para o amor, ser  paciente com o valor e as pessoas imperfeitas</li>
</ul>
<p>Nestes dias as pessoas viajam para o  outro lado do mundo para se educar, &#8211; para construir um futuro. Não  é triste que não se apercebem de que o melhor futuro que podemos construir  a nossa cidade está em casa. É que em 20-ou-assim metros de confinamento  que nos rodeia e que nos mantém quentes à noite, &#8211; a nossa própria  casa.</p>
<p>Conheço um monte de pessoas que vieram  para o país que eu vivo para aprender Inglês, estudar uma vocação  ou encontrar uma vida melhor. Eles descendem de todos os cantos do mundo  &#8211; Índia, Polônia, Austrália, Nova Zelândia, Malásia, Brasil &#8230;  e a lista continua. É incrível e impressionante poder conhecer e ter  amigos de todas as áreas do globo.</p>
<p>Na busca da vida surpreendente Deus nos  prometeu, às vezes parece mais fácil para ir encontrar uma resposta  do outro lado do mundo, mas não conseguimos perceber que a resposta  pode estar nos esperando lá em casa, onde a deixou. Pais e casa são  muitas vezes desejados do &#8216;pacotes que Deus coloca nas nossas vidas  para aprender. Demasiadas vezes temos alguma dificuldade para receber  a partir deles, dar a eles e amá-los, &#8211; portanto, descartá-las.</p>
<p>Estas qualificações importantes, não  são encontrados em Harvard, Princeton, Universidade de Oxford ou Cambridge.  Em vez sua encontrado em uma escola muito maior calibre &#8211; chamados &#8220;pais  da universidade&#8221;. Esta universidade às vezes pode ser muito mais  exigente do que qualquer outro estabelecimento de ensino, mas os benefícios  são inestimáveis em comparação.</p>
<p>&#8220;Se você honra teu pai e tua mãe,  as coisas vão bem para você &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Pode ser que ainda vivem em casa e ainda  têm tempo deixou de valor a seus pais. Agora é a hora de aproveitar  e fazer esse tempo de qualidade, honrando os seus pais.</p>
<p>Você pode dizer para mim: &#8220;Eu me  dou bem com um pai, &#8211; mas por causa de alguma razão o meu relacionamento  com meu pai não é um outro grande &#8230; é bom, mas não muito &#8230;&#8221;  Agora é o tempo &#8211; com a ajuda de Deus &#8211; para construir esse relacionamento!</p>
<p>O que acontece se você tiver saído  de casa? É simples senso comum: Quando você se perde, refazer seus  passos e voltar para onde você saiu errado. Em seguida, continuar.</p>
<p>Na história do filho pródigo, Jesus  nos fala de um filho rebelde voltando para casa, dizendo: &#8220;Pai,  pequei contra o céu e você, e eu já não sou digno de ser chamado  teu filho.&#8221; Enquanto houver há risco de abuso físico, &#8211; talvez  o seu tempo para retornar para casa para servir, amar e honrar seus  pais (mesmo que esteja a milhares de quilômetros de distância).</p>
<p>O tempo gasto aprendendo agora, &#8211; desprendimento  que praticam com o nosso pais pode salvar anos de sofrimento no futuro  relacionamento de namoro e casamento.</p>
<p>Se seus pais não estão mais vivos,  orar para Deus enviar substitutos dos pais em sua vida que você pode  aprender a amar e honrar &#8211; como se fossem seus pais. Talvez eles são  uma mais velhos, Casal maduro na igreja, ou o seu namorado, pais, namoradas.</p>
<p><strong>Nunca é tarde demais para começar a  avaliar os nossos pais!</strong></p>
<p>Não importa quantos anos nós somos.  Independentemente de saber se são 5, 16, 28 ou 50 anos nós podemos  aprender a valorizar os nossos pais e ela pode fazer-nos o mundo de  bom.</p>
<p>«Desenvolvimento Neurologico &#8216;diz que  os movimentos de um bebê ajudam a desenvolver o tecido neuronal do  cérebro &#8211; a partir do momento que o bebê está dentro do útero, &#8211;  para exercícios como engatinhar e andar fora do útero.</p>
<p>Uma pessoa pode ser sub-desenvolvido,  em coordenação ou de outras formas que se perca estas &#8216;execicios de  bebe&#8221;. A observação verdadeiramente fenomenal é que uma pessoa  pode realmente continuar a desenvolver o seu cérebro se realizar os  mesmos exercícios quando ficam mais velhos.</p>
<p>Lembre-se: nunca é, sempre demasiado  tarde para começar a honrar os nossos pais. Deus disse em Joel 2:25:</p>
<p>&#8220;E eu vou restaurar ou substituir  por você o ano que o gafanhoto comeu &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>O amor é uma escolha. Assim como com  o estudo, nós sabemos o que precisamos fazer, mas precisamos agir &#8211;  para sair de nossos livros e começar a cursinhos. Neste caso, só precisamos  tomar medidas em honrar e valorizar os nossos pais. Se, no passado,  ter desvalorizado o nosso pai ou a mãe &#8211; por qualquer razão -, temos  de aprender a amá-los. Assim como qualquer outra disciplina na vida,  &#8211; temos de &#8220;trabalhar para isso&#8221;, &#8211; não em nossa própria  força, mas através do poder do Espírito Santo de Deus que vive em  nós.</p>
<p>Dessa forma, &#8211; quando Deus traz que o  príncipe perfeito ou princesa em nossa vida, &#8211; que vai escolher a estimá-los  como deveríamos.</p>
<p>A Bíblia promete que, se permitir que  Deus renove as nossas mentes, podemos experimentar a perfeita vontade  de Deus para nossas vidas &#8211; WOW!:</p>
<p>&#8220;E assim, queridos irmãos e irmãs,  peço que você dê seus corpos a Deus por causa de tudo o que ele fez  por você. Deixem-nos ser um sacrifício vivo, santo-do tipo que ele  vai achar aceitável. Este é realmente o caminho para adorá-lo. Não  copie o comportamento e os costumes deste mundo, mas deixar Deus transformá-lo  em uma nova pessoa, mudando a maneira que você pensa. Então você  vai aprender a conhecer a vontade de Deus para você, o que é bom e  agradável e perfeita. &#8220;Romanos 12:1-2 (NLV)</p>
<p>Por causa do que Jesus fez por nós,  temos tanto o benefício de ter de realizar. A escolha é nossa, agora.  Aproveite ao máximo agora!</p>
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<p>[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soul Mate' series. View other parts of this series and references <a href="http://www.sloppynoodle.com/honor_parents_value_soulmate.shtml">here</a>.]</p>
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<p>[1] &#8211; http://www.family.org/parenting/A000001230.cfm<br />
[2] &#8211; http://www.joycemeyer.org/NR/rdonlyres/7F8EC7E7-B280-492E-BACD-7780FC0374A/0/BalancelookatSub.pdf<br />
[3] &#8211; http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/Devotions/Irvin_father_eyes.aspx<br />
[4] &#8211; http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/EverydayAnswers/Articles/art51.htm<br />
[5] &#8211; http://www.rickross.com/reference/meyer/meyer9.html<br />
[6] &#8211; http://www.enotalone.com/article/3701.html<br />
[7] &#8211; http://www.rickross.com/reference/meyer/meyer23.html<br />
[8] &#8211; Love Means Sacrifice, Not Selfishness: http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/EverydayAnswers/Articles/art19.htm<br />
[9] &#8211; &#8216;Always Daddy&#8217;s Girl&#8217; H. Norman Wright (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1989) p. 208<br />
[10] &#8211; Two Are Better than One: http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/EverydayAnswers/Articles/art6.htm<br />
[11] &#8211; The Datetalk Audio Series with Wolfi Eckleben: http://sloppynoodle.com/datetalk.shtml<br />
[12] &#8211; Wild at Heart by John Eldridge P95,P95<br />
[13] &#8211; &#8216;Captivating&#8217; by Staci and John Eldridge pg 52<br />
[14] &#8211; Derek Prince &#8211; Husbands and Fathers audio<br />
[15] &#8211; http://www.aboutdivorce.org/us_divorce_rates.html<br />
[16] &#8211; http://www.cbs.nl/en-GB/menu/themas/bevolking/publicaties/artikelen/archief/2005/2005-1818-wm.htm<br />
[17] &#8211; http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G1135&amp;t=kjv<br />
[18] &#8211; http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G435&amp;t=kjv<br />
[19] &#8211; <span id="phArticleTitle">Eight Specific Reasons Why Christians Suffer: </span>http://www.joycemeyer.org/OurMinistries/EverydayAnswers/Articles/art37.htm<br />
[20] &#8211; God uses nobodies: http://www.sloppynoodle.com/God_uses_nobodies.shtml<br />
[21] &#8211; 1 Kings 12<br />
[22] &#8211; http://www.ccel.org/contrib/exec_outlines/he/he_07.htm<br />
[23] &#8211; Longing for daddy by Monique Robinson p.37<br />
[24] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.15<br />
[25] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.27<br />
[26] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.35<br />
[27] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.39<br />
[28] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.46<br />
[29] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.33<br />
[30] &#8211; &#8216;Making peace with your father&#8217; by Dr David Stoop p.41<br />
[31] &#8211; Teaching True Love to a Sex-at-13 Generation by Eric and Leslie Ludy p.145, 146</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Eu li hoje nos jornais como Paris Hilton e seu namorado Benji Madden terminaram seu relacionamento. Hilton disse que ama ele, e mais &#8220;ele e um homem maravilhoso e ele e meu melhor amigo ele tem sido muito bom e leal. Nos sempre seremos muito proximos. Vamos ver o que  acontece no futuro.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ela culpou o fato de ambos terem agendas cheias: &#8220;Nos tomamos essa decisao juntos como dois adultos,&#8221; ela disse. &#8221; nos estamos agora somente dando um tempo.&#8221; Tao triste, eu pensei! Como e desvalorizado e conveniente e o ideal de amor e romance nos dias de hoje.</p>
<p>O que vem a sua mente quando eu digo as palavras:&#8221; Verdadeiro amor&#8221;?</p>
<p>E muito bom passar o tempo com outra pessoa? O ritmo acelerado do seu coracao quando voce olha dentro dos lindos olhos da pessoa amada? O sentimento que alguem tem um valor importante para voce?</p>
<p>A verdade nao e nada disso sobre o verdadeiro amor. Deixe levar voce a uma jornada de descoberta, aprofundando em um sagrado romance, e descobrindo o que o verdadeiro amor realmente e. Respire fundo e reflita nas palavras desse artigo, porque nisso se encontra o poder de salvar o seu futuro casamento, &#8211; mesmo antes de começar o namoro!</p>
<p><strong>Meus Pais</strong></p>
<p>Eu gosto de passar tempo construtivo com meus pais. Para estar com eles e poder respirar um ar fresco em um ensipido mundo. Eles gostam um do outro, &#8211; nao como Romeo e Julieta, mas eu algo maior, em uma forma mais significativa&#8230; Eles mostram e demostram o que e o verdadeiro amor.</p>
<p>Ainda vivendo em casa, a maioria dos sabados a noite eu fico com meus pais em casa para um dos destaques da semana, &#8211; o que e um passeio para um refeicao noturna no Nandos, -  peri peri restaurante de frangos ( restaurante muito famoso na Englaterra )&#8230; tao distante eu sei, -  E o melhor restaurante de frangos do planeta.</p>
<p>O tempero peri peri pode ser dosado em no frango em em tres variacoes: &#8220;medio&#8221;, &#8220;apimentado&#8221; e &#8220;muito apimentado&#8221; , &#8211; mas nada disso pode ser comparado ao amor dos meus pais.</p>
<p>Talvez voce esteja pensado, Oh! isso e tao romantico&#8230; semi fast food restaurante que vende saboroso frango. Nao tem velas nas mesas, o ambiente e de muito barulho e o ceu azul estrelado tem uma larga espessura de gesso entristecido entre nos e ele.</p>
<p>A verdade e: o verdadeiro amor nao e relativo a uma ambiente que nos estamos, mas estabelecido o ambiente que nos escolhemos fazer.</p>
<p><strong>Um coracao de entrega</strong></p>
<p>Minha mae ama suco de cenoura e desde de que Nandos nao vende suco de cenoura, meu pai cria um ambiente de &#8220;amor&#8221;  e por muitas vezes ele sai do restaurante para ir a um mercado proximo para comprar suco de cenoura e trazer para o restaurante onde estamos. Minha mae embeleza esse ambiente de &#8220;amor&#8221; segurando as maos dele, conversando amavelmente e desmostrando que ele tem valor.</p>
<p>E triste e inadequado como pessoas assume o verdadeiro amor como algo que eles desejam encontrar um dia. O verdadeiro amor nao e algo para sair pelo mundo procurando encontrar. Nao e encontrado nos encontramos a &#8220;perfeita&#8221; e compativel alma gemea. Essa pessoa nao existe!</p>
<p>Na verdade o verdadeiro amor e algo significa a sua auto entrega a uma outra imperfeita pessoa e isso faz com que haja crescimento.</p>
<p><strong>Estabelecendo a nossa vida para criar o verdadeiro amor</strong></p>
<p>Verdadeiro amor é o que estabelece a nossa própria vida o &#8216;eu&#8217;, &#8216;único&#8217; e &#8216;independênte&#8217;. Podemos, então, prender-se a outra pessoa a quem nós escolhemos para amar.</p>
<p>Jesus demostrou o verdadeiro amor entregando sua vida em favor de nos.</p>
<p>&#8220;Por tudo isto os homens saberão que sois meus discípulos, se você ama um outro.&#8221; (Joao 13:35)</p>
<p>&#8220;Este é o meu mandamento:  Amai uns aos outros na mesma maneira que eu vos amei. Não há maior amor do que para entregar sua vida em favor dos outros. &#8220;(João 15:12-13)</p>
<p>Meu pai ama verdadeiramente minha mae e ele vao para o ultimo nivel, apenas comprar os presentes que ele sabe que ela ama &#8211; como suco de cenoura ou roma. Ela respeita e valoriza ele. muitas vezes entregando de sua propria vida para estar la com ele quando ele precisar, para lhe preparar um jantar, passar as camisas dele. Ela levantara bem cedo para preparar um suco fresco para toda a familia.</p>
<p>Essa acoes sao tipicas do verdadeiro amor: colocar voce mesmo em favor de outro, para sacrificar os seus desejos e conforto pelo o outro, e construir uma &#8220;vida&#8221; juntos.</p>
<p>Eu perdi a conta de quantos namoros e casamentos eu vi passando por problemas, &#8211; e muitas vezes fracassando. Tristemente a razao e porque pessoas preciosas nao entendem o que e necessario para que o relacionamento funcione bem, isso requer que duas pessoas entrenguem individualmente suas proprias vidas e trabalhem como um time &#8211; por uma razao: A gloria de Deus!</p>
<p>Ficamos tao abituados aos previlegios de uma vida de solteiro, quando Deus quer que movemos para uma proximo estagio em nossas vidas com nossa alma gemea, talvez nos podemos chutar ou gritar sobre isso. Talvez nos podemos apreciar a neve no inverno tanto como uma linda primavera esta vindo, se sentindo quente e claustrofobico.</p>
<p>Meu pai e minha mae sao meus heroes. Juntos ele tem uma vida &#8211; para servir a Deus junto e ver as pessoas serem transformadas atraves do poder de Jesus. Eles trabalham como uma equipe por um ideal. Alguma coisa ou alguem que tira eles dessa visao de equipe e deixado para traz para que esse segrado romance continue.</p>
<p>Eles sao perfeitos? Nao! Eles cometem erros como todos nos&#8230; mas eles sabem que eles precisam manter o foco e construindo em Cristo, o relacionamento deles e a familia atravez do poder de Jesus.</p>
<p>Eles tiveram que tomar grandes decisoes para manter esse sagrado romance vivo. As vezes viajando para outro lugar, fujindo de amizades perigosas, ou deixando de lado grandes oportunidades pessoais, &#8211; qualquer coisa que levasse ao limite dentro desse sagrado romance precisou ser minimizado.</p>
<p><strong>Tempos dificeis promovem grandes oportunidades do verdadeiro amor prosperar</strong></p>
<p>O verdadeiro amor nao faz com que a vida seja facil e bela como um botao de rosa, De fato isso vai ser visto nas mais dificies circunstancias. Meus pais tem dez filhos sem a propria consederacao de gastos. A vida foi dificil algum tempo na pequena propriedade de cinco acres onde tinhamos animais domesticos, vacas e galinhas, e algumas vezes muito pouco dinheiro.</p>
<p>Quando meus pais se conheceram, minha mae sacrificou ela propria para vir a ser uma enfermeira para o meu pai. E depois ela se tornou professora. Depois meu pai  deixou um dos grandes sonhos de sua vida por ela.</p>
<p>Eles viveram em muitos paises e se eu contasse algumas das experiencias que eles tiveram, voce iria se maravilhar como eles ainda estao juntos, em amor, envolvindos um ao outro, e Deus.</p>
<p>Em tempos dificeis, muitas vezes pessoas nao concondam. Sempre permitem que seus proprios desejos dominem e o amor verdadeiro desaparece.    Quando eles são críticos em relação uns aos outros, o relacionamento começa a murchar.    Somente quando sacrificar seus próprios desejos e falar o melhor de cada, que este romance sagrado pode realmente prosperar.</p>
<p><strong>Sacrificando nossa propria vida para encontrar a &#8220;alma&#8221; na alma gemea</strong></p>
<p>Quantos namoros/ relacionamentos que voce conhece que e totalmente egoista?</p>
<p>E comum para nos procuramos pela pessoa de nossos sonhos e ira varrer nossos pes.</p>
<p>Em vez disso, quando nos mesmo varremos os pes de outra pessoa o que poderia ser nos mesmos experienciamos o verdadeiro amor. Quando uma pessoa faz tudo para varrer os peus dos outros, eles ficam exaustos, quando duas pessoas trabalham como uma equipe escolhendo varrer os pes um do outro o esforco e a pura felicidade!</p>
<p>Quantos casamentos voce conhece os dois decidem abandonar os proprios desejos em favor do outro? E penso se nos verdadeiramente conhecessemos e vivessemos o amor de Deus, nos nao veriamos tantos divorcios e rompimentos.</p>
<p>O verdadeiro amor e somente encontrado somente quando aprendemos verdadeiramente entregar. Deixando nossas vidas de lado em favor daqueles que dizemos que amamos. Para aquele que ainda nao se casaram, &#8211; cabe a nos aprender como o verdadeiro amor com nossos amigos, familia e alma gemea, &#8211; e isso vai salvar o seu futuro casamento &#8211; antes mesmo de comecar o namoro.</p>
<p><strong>Jesus nos mostrou como fazer isso</strong></p>
<p>Se nos somos verdadeiros cristaos, nos vamos entregar nossas velhas vidas totalmente rendidos por Cristo em seu poder. Somente quande sermos nada&#8230; e ele ser todas as coisas, o poder de uma vida crista pode ser experienciada.</p>
<p>Paulo compara o relacionamente de Cristo e cristaos ao esposo e a esposa. um esposo deve sacrificar, dando toda a sua vida por sua esposa &#8211; como fez Jesus, diz Paulo.</p>
<p>Eu sinto muito triste por muitos rapazes e mocas que ve esse verdadeiro amor como um &#8220;controle&#8221;. Ao inves disso Deus direciona para o sagrado romance, completando o relacionamento que Jesus mesmo demostrou para nos.</p>
<p>Deus quer dar para nos o melhor dos relacionamentos com nossa alma gemea que sera um  grande casamento&#8230; mas cabe a nos fazer com que isso aconteca!</p>
<p>E idiota dizer que estaremos deixando a independecia e a vida de solteiro depois que casarmos!</p>
<p>A verdade e: casar nao muda muito o relacionamento, &#8211; apenas a liberdade para ter intima relacao fisica.</p>
<p>Se nos estamos em um serio namoro, nos deveriamos estar treinando nos mesmo a estar vivendo como &#8220;um&#8221; para a gloria de Deus &#8211; a frente do tempo.</p>
<p><strong>Entregando nossa vida a Jesus permitindo nos a sacrificar nossa propria vida para a alma gemea que ele da a nos</strong></p>
<p>Nos nao podemos entregar nossas propria vidas para nossa alma gemea ate que nos venhamos para o fim de nos mesmos. E comecar a jornada e tomar a decisao de deixar nossa propria vida e encontrar em Cristo.</p>
<p>Seja inspirado hoje a entregar a sua propria vida, e independencia a Deus&#8230; &#8211; e somente entao poderemos deixar nossas vidas em favor daqueles que ele colocou em nossas vidas!</p>
<p>Pare de tentar encontrar a pessoa certa e ao invez disso seja pessoa certa. Se duas pessoas tentam encontrar a pessoa certa, &#8211; eles podem passar toda a vida procurando por uma pessoa que nao existe.</p>
<p>Se duas pessoas trabalham para ser a pessoa certa, que e a auto entrega, e vai durar para toda a vida quando entao encontra sua &#8220;imperfeita&#8221; alma gemea</p>
<p><em>O amor não é amor<br />
O que altera quando se ve alteração,<br />
Ou curvas com o removedor para eliminar:<br />
Ó não! é uma marca cada vez fixo<br />
Isso parece tempestades e nunca é abalado;<br />
É a estrela de cada maravilhoso latido,<br />
Cujo valor é desconhecido, embora sua altura ser tomadas.<br />
Amor nao e perda de tempo, embora corderosa lábios e bochechas<br />
Dentro de sua flexão foice da bússola vir:<br />
Amor não modifica com sua breve horas e semanas,<br />
Mas assume que, mesmo à beira da desgraça.<br />
Se este erro e ser baseada em me provou,<br />
Eu nunca escrevi, nem nenhum homem jamais amou.</em><br />
- William Shakespeare</p>
<p><em>Love is not love<br />
Which alters when it alteration finds,<br />
Or bends with the remover to remove:<br />
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark<br />
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;<br />
It is the star to every wandering bark,<br />
Whose worth&#8217;s unknown, although his height be taken.<br />
Love&#8217;s not Time&#8217;s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br />
Within his bending sickle&#8217;s compass come:<br />
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br />
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.<br />
If this be error and upon me proved,<br />
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.</em><br />
- William Shakespeare</p>
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<p>I read today on the news how Paris Hilton and her boyfriend Benji Madden had separated. Hilton said that she loves him, and added, &#8220;He&#8217;s such an amazing man and he&#8217;s my best friend and he&#8217;s been so great to me and so loyal. We&#8217;ll always be very close. We&#8217;ll see what happens in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>She blamed their busy schedules: &#8220;This was a decision we made together as two adults,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Right now we are just taking a break.&#8221; How sad, I thought! How cheap and convenient the ideal of love and romance is in this day and age.</p>
<p>What comes to your mind when I say the words: &#8220;True Love&#8221;?</p>
<p>Is it enjoying spending time with another person? The flutter of the heart when you gaze into your sweethearts beautiful eyes? A feeling that somebody is valuable or important to you?</p>
<p>The truth is that none of the above are true love. Let me take you on a journey of discovery, delving into a Sacred Romance, and discovering what true love really is. Breathe deeply the words of this article, because within them lie the power to save your future marriage, &#8211; even before you begin dating!</p>
<p><strong>My Parents</strong></p>
<p>I love spending quality time with my parents. To be with them with them is often like a breath of fresh air in a stale world. They love each other, &#8211; not as Romeo and Juliet, but in a much greater, more meaningful way&#8230; They show and demonstrate what love truly is.</p>
<p>Still living at home, most Saturday nights I join my parents for one of the highlights of our weekend, &#8211; that trip for an evening meal to Nandos, &#8211; a Peri-Peri chicken restaurant&#8230; and as far as I know, &#8211; the best chicken restaurant on the planet.</p>
<p>The Peri-Peri sauce can be doused on your chicken in three spicy variations: &#8216;medium&#8217;, &#8216;hot&#8217; and &#8216;extra hot&#8217;, &#8211; yet none of these flavours can compare to the love of my parents.</p>
<p>You are probably thinking, oh, how romantic&#8230; an evening with candlelight&#8230; soft music playing in the background&#8230; star-lit sky&#8230;</p>
<p>None of the above&#8230; Nandos is a busy, semi-fast food restaurant that sells tasty chicken. There are no candle lit tables, the atmosphere is loud, and the starlit sky usually has a thick bandage of &#8216;overcast&#8217; between us and it!</p>
<p>The truth is: love and romance is not reliant on the atmosphere that we are in, but instead the atmosphere we choose to make.</p>
<p><strong>A Giving Heart</strong></p>
<p>My mom loves carrot juice and since Nandos doesn&#8217;t sell carrot juice, my dad creates the &#8216;love&#8217; atmosphere by occasionally disappearing to a nearby restaurant to buy some carrot juice and bringing it back to the restaurant we were in. My mom embellishes this &#8216;love&#8217; atmosphere by holding his hand, conversing lovingly and showing him value.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a sad misnomer that people assume true love is something they will one day find. True love is not something to go out into the world and search for. It is not found we meet our &#8216;perfectly&#8217; compatible soul mate. That person does not exist!</p>
<p>Instead true love is something we give of our self and plant into another imperfect persons life to grow.</p>
<p><strong>Laying Down our Life for One Another Creates True Love</strong></p>
<p>True love is laying down our own life of &#8216;self&#8217;, &#8216;singleness&#8217; and &#8216;independance&#8217;. We can then gift it to another person whom we &#8216;choose&#8217; to love.</p>
<p>Jesus showed us what true love was by laying down His life for us.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.&#8221; (John 13:35)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. <strong>There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.</strong>&#8221; (John 15:12-13)</p>
<p>My dad truly loves my mom and will go to the endth degree, just to buy her a gift he knows she loves &#8211; like carrot or pomegranate juice. She respects and values him, often giving up her own single life and wants to be there for him, to cook Him dinner, to iron His shirts. She will wake up early in the morning to make a smoothie for him and the family.</p>
<p>These are the actions of true love: To put one&#8217;s self out for another, to sacrifice our own wants and comforts for another, and to build &#8216;one&#8217; life together.</p>
<p>I have lost count of the many dating and marriage relationships I have seen suffer, &#8211; and even fall apart. Sadly the main reason is because precious people do not realise that in order for a relationship to work, it requires two people selflessly giving up their previously single lives to become one team &#8211; for one reason: The glory of God!</p>
<p>We get so used to our single &#8216;fringe benefits&#8217; life, that when God wants to move us on to another season of our lives with our one soul mate, we may kick and scream about it. We may enjoy the snow of winter so much that when beautiful spring comes along, it feels hot and claustrophobic.</p>
<p>My mom and dad are my heroes. Together they have one aim in life &#8211; to serve God together and see people transformed through the power of Jesus. They work as a team toward this goal. Anything or any person that drives them away from this team vision must be left behind for this sacred romance to continue.</p>
<p>Are they perfect? No! They mess up like all of us&#8230; but they know they need to focus on building up others in Christ, their own relationship, and their family through the power of Jesus.</p>
<p>They have had to make enormous decisions to keep this sacred romance alive. Whether it be travelling to another country, withdrawing from dangerous friends, or turning down amazing personal opportunities, &#8211; anything that drove a wedge into their sacred romance needed to be minimized.</p>
<p><strong>Hard times provide an opportunities for true love to thrive!</strong></p>
<p>True love does not require life to be easy-going in order to blossom. In fact, it will blossom in the most difficult circumstances. My parents had ten kids without fully considering the cost. Life was difficult at times on the small five acre plot of land where we had pet cows, chickens, and at times, very little money.</p>
<p>When my parents met, my mom sacrificed her aim of becoming a nurse for my father. She became a teacher instead. Later in life my dad gave up one of his life-long dreams for her.</p>
<p>They have lived in multiple countries and if I told you some of the harrowing experiences they have endured, you might wonder how on earth they are still together, in love, committed to each other, and God.</p>
<p>In difficult times, people don&#8217;t always agree. Whenever they allow their own wants or desires to dominate, true love disapears. When they are critical of each other, the relationship starts to wither. It is only when they sacrifice their own wants and speak the best of each other that this sacred romance can really thrive.</p>
<p><strong>Sacrificing our own life to find the &#8216;Soul&#8217; in Soul mate</strong></p>
<p>How many dating/courting relationships do you know that are totally selfless?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s common for us to search for that person of our dreams who will sweep us off our feet.</p>
<p>Instead it is when &#8216;we&#8217; selflessly sweep that &#8216;other&#8217; person off their feet that we can &#8216;ourselves&#8217; experience true love. When one person does all the sweeping off their feet, they get exhausted. When two people work as one team choosing to sweep each other off their feet, it is effortless and sheer bliss!</p>
<p>How many marriages do you know where both people choose to lay down their own wants for their mate? I think if we truly knew and acted out God&#8217;s selfless love, we wouldn&#8217;t have so many divorces and breakups.</p>
<p>True love is only to be found when we learn to truly give, to lay our lives down for those we say we love. For those of us that are unmarried, &#8211; it is up to us now to learn how to truly love selflessly with our friends, family and soul mate, &#8211; and in turn save our future marriage &#8211; before we even start courting!</p>
<p><strong>Jesus showed us how to do it!</strong></p>
<p>If we are truly Christian&#8217;s, we will give up our old lives and totally surrender them to live for Christ in His power. Only when we become nothing&#8230; and He becomes everything, can the power of the Christian life be experienced.</p>
<p>Paul likens the relationship of Christ and Christians to a husband and wife. A husband should sacrifice, give his all for his wife &#8211; just like Jesus, Paul says.</p>
<p>A wife in turn should submit to the Godly leadership of her husband, being cared for, giving up her own independence &#8211; just like Christian&#8217;s should give their all for Jesus.</p>
<p>I feel so sorry for the many guys and girls who see this true love as &#8216;control&#8217;. Instead its Gods way to a sacred romance, a fulfilling relationship that Jesus himself demonstrated to us.</p>
<p>God wants to give us the most amazing relationships with our soul mate that lead to a great marriage&#8230; but it is up to us to be willing to make it happen!</p>
<p>It is foolish to say we will only give up our independence and single life after we get married!</p>
<p>The truth is: Getting married doesn&#8217;t change much in a relationship, &#8211; other than the ability to have physical intimacy.</p>
<p>If we are in a serious dating relationship, we should be training ourselves to live as &#8216;one&#8217; team for God&#8217;s glory &#8211; ahead of time.</p>
<p><strong>Surrendering our Life to Jesus allows us to Sacrifice our Life for the Soul Mate He gives to us</strong></p>
<p>We cannot give up our own selfish single lives for a soul mate until we truly come to the end of ourselves. The start of the journey is to make the decision to lose our life and find it in Christ.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s be inspired today to selflessly surrender our own single, independent lives to God&#8230; &#8211; and only <em>then</em> we can selflessly lay our lives down for those that he puts in our life!</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s stop trying to <em>find</em> the right match and instead <em>be</em> the right match. If two people try to find the right match, &#8211; they can go through their whole lifetime searching for the perfect person who doesn&#8217;t exist.</p>
<p>If two people work to be the right match, that&#8217;s selfless, giving, &#8211; and it will last a lifetime when they find their &#8216;imperfect&#8217; soul mate.</p>
<p><em>Love is not love<br />
Which alters when it alteration finds,<br />
Or bends with the remover to remove:<br />
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark<br />
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;<br />
It is the star to every wandering bark,<br />
Whose worth&#8217;s unknown, although his height be taken.<br />
Love&#8217;s not Time&#8217;s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br />
Within his bending sickle&#8217;s compass come:<br />
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br />
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.<br />
If this be error and upon me proved,<br />
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.</em><br />
- William Shakespeare</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soulmate' series. View other parts of this series here.] &#8220;Because of a mistake her father made, a friend of mine has a distorted view of men. She&#8217;s constantly complaining about them and is annoyed by them. She mistrusts most men. They better not make a mistake, for every mistake is magnified. [...]]]></description>
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<p>[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soulmate' series. View other parts of this series <a href="http://www.sloppynoodle.com/honor_parents_value_soulmate.shtml">here</a>.]</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;Because of a mistake her father made, a friend of mine has a distorted view of men. She&#8217;s constantly complaining about them and is annoyed by them. She mistrusts most men. They better not make a mistake, for every mistake is magnified. She meets them with a furrowed or raised brow or a pinched lip. Despite her desire for marriage, she truly believes there are no good men. My heart hurts for her.&#8221;   -Longing for Daddy by Monique Robinson [23]</p>
<p>You have probably heard it said by your single friends: &#8220;Now that I have left home, my parents and I get along much better&#8221;</p>
<p>These days so many kids don&#8217;t get along with their parents and move out of home, thinking it will solve everything. Unfortunately whether we realise it or not, the issues with our parents follow us wherever we try to escape to &#8211; like elastic bands drawing us back to the same problems. We think we are leaving our problems at home, but are carrying them along with us&#8230;in our heads&#8230; in the mindsets we have developed over the years. We need to un-attach from our problems properly, &#8211; not just try to walk away from them. With the help of the holy spirit and determination, we can!</p>
<p>Genesis 2:24 &#8220;For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.&#8221;</p>
<p>In The Datetalk Audio Series, Wolfi Eckleben says that moving out of home is not enough, we need to leave/unattach ourselves properly. How? &#8211; By honoring our parents.</p>
<p>He says: &#8220;&#8230;we &#8230; are radically influenced by our mothers and fathers and our parent relationship. We are radically influenced, potentially positive and potentially negative. &#8230; we have to unattach ourselves from the negative stuff that has come down the blood line from our mothers and from our fathers.&#8221; [11]</p>
<p>&#8220;You gotta deal with the father wounds in your life. You gotta deal with the mother wounds in yours life. The disappointments, the hurts, the abandonment, the whatever came down there. You need to deal with the generational curses that come down. These things are real.&#8221; [11]</p>
<p>&#8220;You see, anyone can just walk away from their mother and father. You can say, well, cheers I&#8217;m outta here. I&#8217;m getting married or I&#8217;m going to start my own life.&#8221; [11]</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a big difference between walking away and leaving that the scripture talks about. &#8211; See, walking away doesn&#8217;t unattach you. It&#8217;s always there &#8230; these are elastics &#8230; the cords are still there. &#8211; Leaving means to unattach. And the only way to leave is to leave as the bible says is in honor &#8211; honor your father and mother. You see you can try and walk away in judgment, but you&#8217;ll never be free &#8230;. when you leave in honor, you will enter freedom.&#8221; [11]</p>
<p>&#8220;Consider these truths &#8230; about that promise &#8230; that when you honor your father and mother &#8230; you will live long in the land and it will be well with you, &#8211; including in your relationships. I know its tough but its true.&#8221; [11]</p>
<p>&#8220;When it comes to parents we can carry a lot of hurt, disappointments &#8230;.  no use blaming your parents for that. &#8230; it may not have been your fault, but it is your responsibility&#8230; its your and my life to live. We can&#8217;t do anything about where we came from and who we came from, but we certainly can do something about where we&#8217;re going and what we gonna reproduce in our lives. I know this is hard, but look at the patterns in your life, look at the things&#8230;and figure out where they come from and find help to get free from them.&#8221; [11]</p>
<p>Even through marriage it is interesting to note that &#8211; how we leave one relationship, we take that mindset with us to the next relationship. In the USA people are twice as likely to get divorced if their parents were divorced. Divorce rate for the first marriage is 41%-50%. After getting married for the second time, divorces probability shoots up to 60%-70%. After yet another marriage the probability of divorce goes up to 73%-74%. [15], [16]</p>
<p>God created special covenant (blood tied) relationships. When we are in God given covenant relationship with somebody, whether that be in a parent-child relationship, or a marriage relationship, we are unable to just walk away from the situation without it affecting us. In the case of parents, we need truly unattach ourselves. When we just &#8216;up and off&#8217;, whatever happened there will follow us &#8211; unless we leave in honor.</p>
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<p>[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soul Mate' series. View other parts of this series and references <a href="http://www.sloppynoodle.com/honor_parents_value_soulmate.shtml">here</a>.]</p>
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		<title>Be the Man: Listen to your Princess &#8211; with Stephen Ernst</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guys, lets have a heart to heart chat about a topic that makes our chiseled hearts melt like butter: Women! Just that &#8216;one&#8217; word can make young men like us woozy as a mental image of a Princess we know, &#8211; or dream of,  fills our minds. Maybe she&#8217;s the blond that sits across the room in History class. Perhaps [...]]]></description>
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<p>Guys, lets have a heart to heart chat about a topic that makes our chiseled hearts melt like butter: Women!</p>
<p>Just that &#8216;one&#8217; word can make young men like us woozy as a mental image of a Princess we know, &#8211; or dream of,  fills our minds.</p>
<p>Maybe she&#8217;s the blond that sits across the room in History class. Perhaps she&#8217;s a beauty we know at church. Perhaps she&#8217;s that one we lie awake at night dreaming of, &#8211; praying that she&#8217;ll be draw closer to God, know Him more and avoid the pitfalls in her life.</p>
<p>Maybe we are courting her, hoping to court her, &#8211; or even lost her&#8230;</p>
<p>I used to think I was a crazy, sensitive guy &#8211; longing to spend a lifetime with my soul mate, in her arms and she in mine, &#8211; serving God together as one team, and experiencing His power.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve realised I am not alone <img src='http://www.sloppynoodle.com/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>In the past few months I have met Godly guys like myself. Some may call us immature little boys, &#8211; idealists. I know differently!</p>
<p>We are a Sacred band brothers &#8211; &#8216;Romantics&#8217; in the truest sense of the word.</p>
<p>We dream of rescuing our Princess from the tall, spiraling tower, full of dragons and every other kind of terror. We would selflessly travel a million miles just to rescue our willing Princess and take her to live with us in our kingdom.</p>
<p>Recently I&#8217;ve also realised that guys aren&#8217;t as macho as I once was taught. Most guys put on a rough front because of their insecurities, &#8211; but deep inside there is a gentlemen, &#8211; a Prince just waiting for an opportunity to save, rescue and care for his Princess.</p>
<p>He literally dreams of the day when he can carry her off into the sunset!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the way God made us guys!&#8230; and we should not back down to the lousy role that the world defines &#8216;men&#8217; to be.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s a good thing God made us that way &#8211; because He made Princesses to be cared for and rescued by us!</p>
<p>He didn&#8217;t make them to have the &#8216;super feminist&#8217;, &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;ll do my own thing&#8221; mentality the world wants to brainwash into them.</p>
<p>God made Princes and Princesses: That&#8217;s the good news!</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the bad news you may wonder?!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll break it to you gently <img src='http://www.sloppynoodle.com/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>If you didn&#8217;t realise it yet: Guys just don&#8217;t &#8216;get&#8217; women. Neither do woman &#8216;get&#8217; guys.</p>
<p>Finito!<br />
Fullstopio!<br />
Grandio!</p>
<p>The different sexes just don&#8217;t understand each other. We may be both human and guys are &#8216;oh-so-attracted to the beautiful female sex&#8217;. (&#8230;women generally don&#8217;t think guys are as attractive &#8211; but that&#8217;s a different topic).</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think that most men truly grasp the fact: Although the beautiful female sex may be the same species &#8211; WOW &#8211; they sure do speak a VERY different language!</p>
<p>You have heard it said &#8220;Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>We think of that saying in the same way as we think of the saying: &#8220;Can&#8217;t cry over spilt milk&#8221;.</p>
<p>Yet when the milk does spill&#8230; Oh!  &#8211; what a cry of dismay we often let out!</p>
<p>How do guys and gals differ you may ask&#8230;!?</p>
<p>A number of ways, but to name one: LISTENING</p>
<p>Ah&#8230; listening&#8230;? of course guys listen! God gave us ears&#8230;</p>
<p>Guys aren&#8217;t daft and deaf! &#8211; of course we are listening we may think.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s first explain listening in a way guys can understand:</p>
<p>In a very scientific way, &#8211; the sound waves travel from the source (our Princess&#8217;s oh-so beautiful mouth) all the way to the destination (through our ears and hits our ear drums).</p>
<p>We, &#8211; in a very logical way, &#8211; are in fact listening.</p>
<p>We continue our logical thinking when our mind chugs in a very logical way. (sometimes rather slowly)</p>
<p>If she tells us about a problem, our male minds naturally think: &#8220;she needs a solution to her problem&#8221;.</p>
<p>When a solution comes to mind, (being the provider that God made us to be) we tell her the answer to her problem and expect her to listen in the same way as we did: logically and scientifically!</p>
<p>While we are trying to be helpful,  &#8211; suddenly out of nowhere some more words may pound against our eardrums:</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re not listening to me, &#8211; you never listen to me&#8221; she complains.</p>
<p>&#8220;Whoa&#8230; where did that come from?&#8221; we may think.</p>
<p>&#8220;Here I was trying to helpful and provide a solution to her problem and she tells me I&#8217;m not listening?!?!&#8221;</p>
<p>We all know woman and men live on different wavelengths. My sister (a happily married young lady) echoed the dilemma between the sexes when she recently said to my mom: &#8220;Men are freaks sometimes, aren&#8217;t they mommy!&#8221;<br />
<strong><br />
The Solution:</strong></p>
<p>Okay guys&#8230; here is a bit of advice that may save your dating relationship&#8230; &#8211; and one day may save your marriage!:</p>
<p>Often when women ask us to listen, they don&#8217;t really mean what they say! They are instead asking us to &#8216;feel their emotions&#8217;.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what they mean by &#8216;listening&#8217;!</p>
<p>A great book, &#8220;For Men Only&#8221;, puts it very well:</p>
<p>&#8220;When she is sharing an emotional problem, her feelings and her desire to be heard are much more important than the problem itself&#8221; [1]</p>
<p>Read that quote again and let it sink in&#8230;</p>
<p>God made guys to be providers. He put it in our very DNA, but that doesn&#8217;t mean we need to provide a solution all the time. Sometimes we need to hold back a bit and &#8216;listen&#8217;&#8230; or ahem&#8230; &#8216;feel her emotions&#8217;.</p>
<p>In a one survey, 60%! of women felt that the solution offered by a man &#8211; no matter how reasonable, &#8211; was a negative! WOW! [2]</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at the &#8216;top three&#8217; choices chosen in the survey by the Princesses!</p>
<ol>
<li>&#8220;I appreciate his suggestion, but at the moment what I really need is for him to show emotional support by listening more&#8221;</li>
<li> &#8220;I&#8217;m interested in his suggestion and want to discuss it more&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Actually I don&#8217;t really need or want his suggestion; at the moment what I really need is for him to show emotional support by listening more.&#8221;</li>
</ol>
<p>Women don&#8217;t want us to just &#8216;give them a solution&#8217;. They want us to discuss and affirm their feelings.</p>
<p>We need to remember that even though our ears may be incredibly handsome, they are incapable of feeling all of a woman&#8217;s emotion.</p>
<p>So the next time the woman in our life talks to us, lets not only listen with our ears, but also our emotions&#8230;. and when we are tempted to do what God made us to do (provide a solution), &#8211; lets think about what she really wants from us:</p>
<p>1) The solution or</p>
<p>2) listening and understanding!</p>
<p><strong>What did God make us so different! Aaaaah!</strong></p>
<p>I honestly think that God may have made men and woman different for a special purpose. He didn&#8217;t intend us go crazy. In His wisdom, He saw that we would naturally have a few rough corners that needed to be sanded down.</p>
<p>These rough edges &#8211; selfishness, impatience and egos don&#8217;t disappear overnight. They are naturally ingrained in us. The way that these &#8216;rough edges&#8217; disappear is through the giving of selfless love.</p>
<p>So God in His eternal wisdom gave us someone to love &#8211; a beautiful Princess&#8230;</p>
<p>Through true selfless love &#8211; giving up our wants and selfishness, we change our own wrong mindsets. Our rough edges get a bit of a sandblasting!</p>
<p><strong>Our common language: God</strong></p>
<p>Guys and gals do indeed speak two entirely different languages, but a few words in these languages are common.</p>
<p>The words which both sexes can understand (if we know God) are: &#8220;love&#8221;, &#8220;giving&#8221;, &#8220;sacrifice&#8221; and &#8220;selflessness&#8221;.</p>
<p>All of these words originate from the same root word: &#8220;God&#8221;.</p>
<p>When we truly grasp and experience how Jesus gave and sacrificed His life for us, &#8211; we too can start speaking that same language of sacrifice.</p>
<p>This way, &#8211; and only in this way, can we truly experience the Sacred Romance that the God of the universe intended for us and our Soul Mate Princess to experience.</p>
<p>Lets start the adventure of truly &#8216;listening&#8217; and &#8216;giving&#8217; to the women in our lives now &#8211; mothers, sisters and friends.</p>
<p>That way, &#8211; when God brings along THE Princess into our life &#8211; we can truly say more than &#8220;gaa&#8221;, &#8220;goo&#8221;, or &#8220;mama&#8221; <img src='http://www.sloppynoodle.com/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p><strong>References:</strong></p>
<p>[1] &#8211; &#8220;For Men Only&#8221; by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn p.97<br />
[2] &#8211; &#8220;For Men Only&#8221; by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn p.102 p.103</p>
<p><strong>Highly Recommended:</strong></p>
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		<title>Back to school: Learning to love</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soulmate' series. View other parts of this series here.] I can remember my exam days in school and university &#8211; just a few years back. I was never the academic kid of the family &#8211; that was my brothers spotlight. For me &#8211; exams existed to be passed, and I generally [...]]]></description>
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<p>[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soulmate' series. View other parts of this series <a href="http://www.sloppynoodle.com/honor_parents_value_soulmate.shtml">here</a>.]</p>
<p>I can remember my exam days in school and university &#8211; just a few years back. I was never the academic kid of the family &#8211; that was my brothers spotlight. For me &#8211; exams existed to be passed, and I generally did what was necessary to get over them shortly and quickly. The aim was not so much in gaining the knowledge, but rather to get the qualification at the end.</p>
<p>Often I would work out when the exam was and leave the intense studying as close to that date as possible. Still cramming a few minutes before the exam actually was a regular occurrence. Most study was there to be endured, before moving on to the more enjoyable aspects of life.</p>
<p>Too often, that&#8217;s how we treat our relationships with our parents &#8211; something to be endured, for as little time as possible before we move out of home. But regardless of whether our parents were good parents or not, God put our both our of them in our lives for the long haul &#8211; people who God would teach us to love. They may not have been great role models, but that&#8217;s the beauty of it. We learn to value our parents even if they mess up.</p>
<p>When we value our parents, its not only for their benefit, but ours! Our characters are formed. We learn priceless lessons about treating our friends, the person we are courting, and future husband or wife. We learn to be patient with our parents when they mess up. We learn to give when we don&#8217;t feel they deserve it. We choose to love a person who can sometimes be unlovable.</p>
<p>We learn to quickly forgive when they mess up. We learn that they are imperfect humans, so we are not shocked when God brings a fellow human (our soul mate) to build our life with who is not perfect. In honoring our parents, we learn invaluable lessons and build characteristics that will be useful in our future romantic relationship with our husband or wife. The greatest lessons we learn are:</p>
<ul>
<li>to die to self</li>
<li>to love, be patient with and value imperfect people</li>
</ul>
<p>These days people travel to the other side of the world to educate themselves, &#8211; to build a future. Isn&#8217;t it sad that we don&#8217;t realise that the best future we can build is in our home town. It&#8217;s in that 20-or-so meters of confinement that surrounds us and keeps us warm at night, &#8211; our very home.</p>
<p>I know a lot of people who have come to the country I live in to learn English, study a vocation or find a better life. They descend from every corner of the globe &#8211; India, Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brazil&#8230; the list goes on. It&#8217;s amazing and awesome to meet and have friends from every area of the globe.</p>
<p>In searching for the amazing life God has promised us, sometimes it seems easier to go find an answer on the other side of the world, but we fail to realise that answer may be waiting for us back at home where we left it. Parents and home are often the &#8216;unwelcome&#8217; packages that God places in our lives to learn from. Too often we find it hard to receive from them, give to them and love them, &#8211; so we discard them.</p>
<p>These important qualifications are not found at Harvard, Princeton, Oxford or Cambridge University. Instead its found at a much higher calibre school &#8211; called &#8216;Parents University&#8217;. This university can sometimes be a lot more challenging than any other educational establishment, but the benefits are priceless in comparison.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you honor your father and mother, things will go well for you&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>You may be still living at home and still have time left to value your parents. Now is that time to take advantage and make this quality time, honoring both your parents.</p>
<p>You may say to me: &#8220;I get along well with one parent, &#8211; but because of some reason my relationship with my other parent isn&#8217;t a great&#8230; its good but not great&#8230;&#8221; Now is the time &#8211; with God&#8217;s help &#8211; to build that relationship!</p>
<p>What happens if you have left home? It&#8217;s simple common sense: When you get lost, retrace your steps and go back to where you went wrong. Then carry on.</p>
<p>In the story of the Prodigal son, Jesus tells us of a rebellious son returning back home, saying &#8220;Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.&#8221; As long as there is no risk of physical abuse, &#8211; maybe its about time to return home to serve, love and honor your parents (even if it is thousands of miles away).</p>
<p>The time spent learning now, &#8211; practising selflessness with our parents can save years of heartache in future courting and marriage relationships.</p>
<p>If your parents aren&#8217;t alive anymore, pray for God to send parental replacements into your life that you can learn to love and honour &#8211; as if they were your parents. Maybe they are an older, mature couple at church, or your boyfriend/girlfriends parents.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s never too late to start valuing our parents!</strong></p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how old we are. Regardless of whether we are 5, 16, 28 or 50 years old we can learn to value our parents and it can do us the world of good.</p>
<p>&#8216;Neuro development&#8217; says that movements of a baby help develop the neural pathways of the brain &#8211; from the time that the baby is inside the womb, &#8211; to exercises like crawling and walking outside the womb.</p>
<p>A person may be under-developed in coordination or other ways if that miss out on these &#8216;baby excercises&#8217;. The truly phenomenal observation is that a person can actually still develop their brain if they carry out the same exercises when they get older.</p>
<p>Remember: It is never, ever too late to start honoring our parents. God said in Joel 2:25:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Love is a choice. Just like with studying, we know what we need to do, but we need to take action &#8211; to get out our books and start cramming. In this case we just need to take action in honoring and valuing our parents. If we have in the past have devalued our father or mother &#8211; for whatever reason &#8211; we need to learn to love them. Just like any other discipline in life, &#8211; we have to &#8216;work at it&#8217;, &#8211; not in our own strength, but through the power of God&#8217;s Holy Spirit living in us.</p>
<p>That way, &#8211; when God brings that perfect Prince or Princess into our life, &#8211; we will choose to prize them like we should.</p>
<p>The bible promises that if we allow God to renew our minds we can experience God&#8217;s perfect will for our lives &#8211; WOW!:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but <strong>let God transform you</strong> into a new person by <strong>changing the way you think</strong>. Then you will learn to<strong> know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect</strong>.&#8221; Romans 12:1-2 (NLV)</p>
<p>Because of what Jesus did for us, we have so much benefit to take hold of. The choice is ours, now. Make the most of now!</p>
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<p>[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soul Mate' series. View other parts of this series and references <a href="http://www.sloppynoodle.com/honor_parents_value_soulmate.shtml">here</a>.]</p>
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		<title>They just can&#8217;t love?!: The myth and the reality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soulmate' series. View other parts of this series here.] I have heard it said before that some people don&#8217;t know how to love their soul mate. I have also heard it said that some people just go a lot deeper than others. The first statement is true &#8211; some people do [...]]]></description>
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<ul>
<li>I have heard it said before that some people don&#8217;t know how to love their soul mate.</li>
<li>I have also heard it said that some people just go a lot deeper than others.</li>
</ul>
<p>The first statement is true &#8211; some people do not &#8216;know&#8217; how to love deeply. The second is false &#8211; God made everyone with emotions to love that go deep down. God intended us to selflessly love, commit and sell themselves out for their soul mate. He wants people to throw everything to the wind and pursue a whirlwind romance that He has for them.</p>
<p>The reason why some people do not know how to love is because there is a devil in this world that tries to take that perfect love that God intended and warp it through our background and our thinking. He has been around a lot time and knows how to use mistakes of our parents, or our own selfishness and rebellion, &#8211; to wreck closeness in relationships that God intended.</p>
<p><strong>Mental walls that block our soul mate out</strong></p>
<p>When we have been wounded, selfish or rebellious, we can build mindsets, &#8211; walls in our thinking that we consider normal, walls that are hidden to us, &#8211; walls that block us from receiving and giving love in the way God designed. We don&#8217;t allow our soul mate to cross these walls, &#8211; they block out the perfection of romantic, selfless love that God designed for us to enjoy.</p>
<p>How we think today is a result of the way we have trained our minds to think over many years. If the devil can continue to make us think wrongly, he will cause us to sabotage every meaningful relationship that God brings across our path.</p>
<p>We cannot let our past rebellion, selfishness, or the father and mother wounds in our lives stop us from experiencing all the blessing of love and romance that Jesus died to give us.</p>
<p>Remember that we are God&#8217;s prized possessions &#8211; extra special to Him. Satan will use parents mistakes or our own rebellious and selfish actions to block us from experiencing the promised land that God has for us.<br />
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Take hold of the promise</strong></p>
<p>If we have given our life over to Jesus, just like the Israelites in the bible we have been &#8216;brought out of Egypt&#8217;, but Satan will try to make us &#8216;die in the wilderness&#8217;, &#8211; instead of entering in and experiencing the &#8216;promised land&#8217; that God intended.</p>
<p>That promised land is truly a land of milk and honey &#8211; the very best that God life could dream up for us&#8230; a life of light hearted romance, joy, &#8211; and productivity for God&#8217;s kingdom alongside our soul mate&#8230;</p>
<p>The only thing stopping us&#8230; is us!</p>
<p>You or those you are close to may think that you don&#8217;t know how to love. I know a Jesus that came to heal, restore and make you totally new and fresh. God can teach you to love selflessly and without reservation. You can be totally generous, crazy, and sold out for your future mate, but God requires something from you to work with &#8211; your faith, resolve and action.</p>
<p>The words resound in my mind: Honour (value) your father and mother so that it may be well with you.</p>
<p>It is never too late to start honoring our parents. We can&#8217;t change our past, but we can change the future with some simple actions. And with what Jesus did for us, &#8211; we can be a totally new person &#8211; and start life with a clean slate, not hindered by the past. Let&#8217;s take advantage of it!</p>
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<p>[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soul Mate' series. View other parts of this series and references <a href="http://www.sloppynoodle.com/honor_parents_value_soulmate.shtml">here</a>.]</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soulmate' series. View other parts of this series here.] If you are a guy, your mother may have said: &#8220;Johnny, be sure to look out for a girl that relates well to her dad, because that’s how she will treat you one day if you marry her.&#8221; If you are a [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you are a guy, your mother may have said: &#8220;Johnny, be sure to look out for a girl that relates well to her dad, because that’s how she will treat you one day if you marry her.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you are a girl, she may have said: &#8220;Suzy, marry a boy who treats his mom like gold. That is the way he will treat you one day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Time and time again, I have seen examples of people who do not place value one or more of their parents. They will generally find it difficult to place value on those that they have relationships with, &#8211; people who represent those parents. On the other hand there are examples of people who cherish their parents, &#8211; and they in turn cherish and go overboard for those people (who represent their parents) in future relationships.</p>
<p>For example if a guy takes care of his mom, when he meets that special soul mate, he will take care of her. If a girl highly prizes her father, she will generally prize the man that God brings into her life.</p>
<p>If we got annoyed quickly with our parents we should not be surprised at all when we get annoyed with that man or woman that we asked God to put into our life. If we had no time for our parents, considered them a nuisance, or were rebellious to them, lets not fool ourselves in thinking we will act any different to our future soul mate.</p>
<p>Family is special nest created by God. It exists to nurture us, comfort us and to challenge us to greatness. I am convinced that as a rule, if a boy grows up as &#8216;mommies boy&#8217; or a girl grows up as &#8216;daddies girl&#8217;, that is the way they will try to treat their future mate. As a backup, God often places older brothers and sisters in our lives who can, &#8211; to an extent, take the place of a mother or father in our lives if our parents are absent.</p>
<p>Dr David Stoop says of the teen years:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;The parent will affirm them in their own developing manliness and womanliness and will show them how to relate to other people of the opposite sex.&#8221; [30]</p>
<p>BE ENCOURAGED! BE INSPIRED! If you were never &#8216;mommies boy&#8217;, or &#8216;daddies girl&#8217;, be encouraged! Christ has the best in store for you, waiting for you to take hold of the best years of your life. Love, intimacy, companionship, commitment and romance are all in reach if we will allow Jesus into those walled gardens of our life.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; no family is perfect. In fact most parents (and kids) are pretty dysfunctional in one way or another, but that is the way God gives us the opportunities to love the unlovable, to respect the un-respectable, to be patient with those who test our patience, to defy common culture and to do good to those that wound us.</p>
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<p>[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soul Mate' series. View other parts of this series and references <a href="http://www.sloppynoodle.com/honor_parents_value_soulmate.shtml">here</a>.]</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soulmate' series. View other parts of this series here.] Ray and Elena&#8217;s story Let me relay a true story to you about Ray and Elena, &#8211; a middle aged couple with two kids, &#8211; Kim and Susan: Ray and Elena met at a youth group many years ago. Ray was &#8216;the [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Ray and Elena&#8217;s story</strong></p>
<p>Let me relay a true story to you about Ray and Elena, &#8211; a middle aged couple with two kids, &#8211; Kim and Susan:</p>
<p>Ray and Elena met at a youth group many years ago. Ray was &#8216;the bomb&#8217;, &#8211; handsome, outgoing and charismatic. He was the all round &#8216;nice guy&#8217; and the girls were lined up for him. He had the choice of almost any girl because of his good looks and hearty character.</p>
<p>Elena&#8217;s childhood was not easy&#8230; She clashed a great deal with her father. Her dad was an alcoholic and she resented it and rebelled.</p>
<p>Perhaps when Elena left home she said what I have heard before: &#8220;Now that I have left home my dad and I get along much better.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ray and Elena decided to get married. They both loved God and wanted to serve Him with their life.</p>
<p>Even though Ray and Elena wanted to serve God with their lives, Elena did not deal with the deep issues of the heart she thought she had left back home. The issues began to bubble up… Once the romance had faded, Elena started to treat Ray badly. She had trained her mind to think badly about her father all those years. Ray now became ‘that’ man in her life. He wasn’t an alcoholic, but the pattern of thinking she had developed through her rebellious years about her father started to emerge… All this because she had not dealt with the deep issues of the heart. She had allowed the past to stunt the growth of her Godly womanhood, &#8211; her true femininity that God intended for her.</p>
<p>Current situation &#8211; Elena and Ray are still married&#8230; but only just… Elena gets annoyed with Ray and constantly wishes she could leave him. Her sour attitude towards her husband has now been ingrained into her kids, Kim and Susan &#8211; they despise him too. Instead of dealing with the hurts of the heart… Instead of disciplining herself to selflessly love her father, Elena has influenced another generation to dishonour and despise the men in their lives.</p>
<p>Dr James Dobson of Focus on the Family:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;I have also observed that a woman’s respect for her husband is significantly influenced by the way she perceived her father. If he was overbearing, uncaring or capricious during her developmental years, she may disrespect her husband and question his judgment. But if Dad blended love and leadership in a way that conveyed strength, she will be more likely to live harmoniously with him.&#8221; [1]</p>
<p>Leslie Ludy tells a story of her husband in their book, &#8216;Teaching True Love to a Sex-at-13 Generation&#8217;:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;When Eric was growing up, his mom used to tell him, &#8220;Son, the way you treat me is the way you are going to treat your wife someday.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m going to treat her better than that Eric countered confidently. Like many in the younger generation today, Eric didn&#8217;t see the correlation between the way he was treating his current family and the way he would treat his future family. He knew he was often insensitive and disrespectful toward his mom. But he reasoned that once he got married, those flaws would somehow melt away, and the tenderness and respect for his wife would come naturally. Anyone who is married knows that logic doesn&#8217;t stand! Marriage doesn&#8217;t naturally bring out our selfless servant hearted side. In fact it brings out our very worst! Today&#8217;s Christian marriages are often full of selfishness and pride rather than serving and giving.&#8221;  [31]</p>
<p>Lets deal harshly with our attitudes. We cannot let our difficult past with parents, our rebellion, or invisible wounds to determine our future. Lets allow God teach us to love and cherish our parents, to revolutionize our mindsets, so that we can experience the fullness of relationships that God placed in our lives.</p>
<p>God wants to heal us now &#8211; before we get married, so that our children one day will love and cherish those soul mates that God will one day bring into their lives.</p>
<p><strong>It was their fault&#8230; It was my fault&#8230; It hurt&#8230; I don’t know whose fault, but something was wrong&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>In relaying our own experience with your past we may say:</p>
<p>&#8220;My mom or dad treated me really badly and I was a rebellious child.&#8221; &#8230;or perhaps I didn&#8217;t act rebellious, &#8211; I was just wounded deeply by somebody close to me and it affected me&#8230;</p>
<p>Maybe we grew up in a wonderful, loving and accepting family but just went through a rebellious, selfish stage in our lives which formed our mindsets.</p>
<p>&#8230; or maybe we didn&#8217;t even go through a rebellious stage but just grew distant from our parents&#8230; Perhaps we lost our parents at an early age and missed their love and direction in our life.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter what exactly happened, only two things matter:</p>
<p>- Did you miss out on the parental input in your life that is critical to your development as a &#8216;whole&#8217; man or woman?<br />
- Were you a hurt, rebellious or selfish child &#8211; allowing you to develop wrong thinking and mindsets about those in authority and those that you were close to?</p>
<p>Satan will use whatever he can to ruin you – the beautiful, loving person God created. He will try to build up wrong thinking about love and life in your mind with every intention of destroying your future.</p>
<p><strong>Remember this&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Whatever those people close to you did&#8230; you have a decision to make!</strong></p>
<p>You can&#8217;t change the past&#8230; you can&#8217;t change them as a person&#8230; you can&#8217;t make them feel sorry for what they did&#8230; but you can change your thinking about them.</p>
<p>With God’s help you can choose to love them. You can choose to forgive. You can choose to selflessly give to them. This is one way you change your thinking, your mindsets, and attitudes. Making a choice to love and allowing the Holy Spirit work in you, &#8211; growing your ability to love, your patience and commitment.<br />
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What you did…</strong></p>
<p>You can&#8217;t change your rebellious and selfish past if you had one, you cannot change yourself&#8230; but you can admit where you were wrong, and allow God to make the change in you, making some practical actions which we will go through later in this series.</p>
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<p>[This article is part of the 'Honor Parents, Value Soul Mate' series. View other parts of this series and references <a href="http://www.sloppynoodle.com/honor_parents_value_soulmate.shtml">here</a>.]</p>
<p>[Most names used in stories have been changed to protect identities]</p>
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