IJohn 4:7-9 (NIV) Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
Romans 8:37-39 (NLT) No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I have shared just a few scriptures that have spoken to me during this season of tribulations. I pray that our Father in heaven help us remember His faithfulness and love that He has provided and will always provide.
The love for each other exuded in the Texas State campus ministry did not happen on its own or without challenges. It took people sacrificing themselves, caring for others, and speaking the truth in love. Community takes time and perseverance when relationships and circumstances get difficult. Reflecting on growing healthy communities of faith, Colossians 3:12-15 gives a beautiful picture of how to love others that we can glean from and grow in.
Thank God my husband is quick to forgive because I am often slow to forgive. I want to show him that he hurt my feelings, dwell on the hurt, and make him feel bad for it. He has helped me grow in forgiveness, which oftentimes means taking my eyes off of myself. When I see and mourn my own sin, I can have compassion, understanding, and patience with the sins of others and forgive them as I would want them to forgive me.
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It is not easy to live life out of the mainstream and to find a partner who thrives on that. We are like co-hermits, contented in our small life with not much of an ambition or special desires except the freedom to creative in the ways we want to. I feel tremendously lucky to find someone who sees the beauty in the small.
There is a considerable loss of personal freedom in a relationship, it is an actual cost that has to be taken in consideration. Weighing the cost accurately allows the space for actual romance to take place, instead of letting the cost creep up unaware. However, in exchange for it, if we have the ridiculous luck to meet the right partner, there is another kind of freedom to be found.
I realised taking care of someone whom you love and who has been showering you with love is something that comes naturally and willingly, because all I wanted was to see her free of suffering and discomfort. The truth is I could only become someone who can properly love and tend to a person because she was there to love and nourish me in the first place. With her, I learnt that love can be a safe place.
I think so. Regular confession enables and enriches our reception of the Eucharist, for it befits the eternal self-offering of our Lord Jesus Christ re-presented in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. In order to think well about these sacraments, however, we must begin by contemplating the God of the sacraments.
The Catholic faith is fixated upon, captivated by, absolutely enamored of the eternal life of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity is the prime and principle article of Catholic faith. It asserts not merely that God is three Persons in one being, but, more specifically and wonderfully, that the being of God is perpetual, personal outpouring. Each divine Person is not an individual preoccupied with self-interest, only transacting with the others, but is eternally ecstatic, oriented to the others in love.
From all eternity, God is family. And this divine family is our destiny, should we accept it, a destiny we call the Beatific Vision, the happifying sight of perfection so sublime and true that it gives the soul perfect repose.
Through confession we offer ourselves wholly and unreservedly to the Lord. We turn away from curating a self apart from God, even the prideful desire to manage and remedy our sins on our own without the aid of divine grace.
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Love is the spirit of this church, and service is its law; this is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love, and to help one another. James Vila Blake, 1894
Seeing ourselves as bound in covenant is an old practice among us. In 1630, John Winthrop, soon to become the first governor of Massachusetts, spoke to a soggy, stalwart band of fellow Puritans, sailing with high and pious hopes aboard the Arabella toward a new life in New England:
What did Sheila do when she married Joshua? What will actually happen in the moment when Karen vows to live a celibate and simple life within a community dedicated to God? What does Ruth effect when she signs a business contract? What takes place when Dan speaks the Hippocratic Oath as he begins his career as a doctor? What happens when heads of state sign an international agreement regarding the law of the seas? What happens when Jill and Sharon pledge their love and friendship for their whole lives long?
To act in these ways is to give our word. We send it out and it carries our integrity, our fidelity, our faithfulness, our truth. Our word is still ours, but it calls back to us from the heart of another person, or a circle of people, within which it now dwells. Such a commitment does not predict the future or set it in stone. It makes a certain kind of future possible.
The Rev. Victoria Safford is minister of the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church in Mahtomedi, Minnesota. She is the author of Walking Toward Morning: Meditations (Skinner House, 2003) and a contributor to The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, 2004).
In Sadrith Mora you meet a lovestruck Llonas Givyn. He claims that he is in love with Tirwin, an Altmer slave owned by his mother. His mother refuses to allow him to free her so that he can marry her. He asks you talk to his mother to see what it will take for her to free Tirwin. Speak with Faras Givyn. After some convincing she tells you the price for her slave is three red star shells. Talk to Llonas by the water. He will call for Nixxie, the nixhound that he trained to help Tirwin look for star shells. Follow Nixxie and dig in the star shell mounds. After digging up your third star shell you will be confronted by Tirwin. Tirwin explains that she does not share llonas's feelings for her and that she wishes to be free. At this point you have two options: help free Tirwin or purchase her for Llonas.
Head back to Llonas and speak with him, then inform him you have the shells his mother requested in exchange for Tirwin. You'll need to meet him back in front of his mother's house. Faras Givyn will give you Tirwin's papers, and you can give them to Llonas. He will free Tirwin, who will elect to leave Vvardenfell, instead of marrying Llonas as he'd hoped.
Tirwin asks that you steal her servitude obligation papers so that she can escape. The papers are in Givyn Tower and you will need to break in to get them. The door has a simple lock and is guarded by Sentry Nulwrila. Wait for the sentry to move away from the door before picking the lock. Once inside you will be given a bounty if spotted. There is a basket hiding spot directly to the right as you enter. Wait for Steward Bahluk to walk up the stairs to the desk then exit the hiding spot and slip past the steward. Wait for Sentry Relenila to walk up to the torch then sneak past the small area with the bookcase and hide in the basket hiding spot to the right of the torch. Once the sentry is looking away exit the hiding spot and enter the trap door to the basement. In the basement use the hiding spots to sneak past Natalgreesh and Sentry Shelethys. Grab the documents and teleport out. Give the papers to Tirwin who will thank you far helping to free her. Llonas will then run over furious that you ruined his plans to marry Tirwin. Tirwin will tell him off before escaping to her freedom leaving Llonas to run off to tell his mother.
Relationships are the hardest part of life. Love relationships are especially tricky to navigate simply because of the level of intimacy involved. As a relationship evolves from dating to engagement to married life, you might be surprised at the amount of effort it takes to see eye to eye.
Today George and I are sharing a few principles that we take to heart. With them, we hope that you will be able to cultivate a relationship of security and joy. We believe that couples who live by these rules are bound for relationship success.
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In fact, friendship can survive nearly any superficial differences if hearts are bound together by high spiritual goods. The friendship may even benefit from such differences. But when the differences lie in the higher spiritual level, the unequal yoke becomes a burden on the relationship.
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