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You cannot always avoid conflict, and once in it, Ken Sande’s, The Peacemaker, offers solutions diagrammed as the slippery slope below teaching responsive, resolving, reactive love.
But oftentimes you can make peace by planning peace well enough to bypass serious conflict and go straight to joy (Proverbs 12:20b). A capacity for closeness is a gift that looks like initiating, anticipating, proactive, deliberate, intentional love. It is a gift from the triune God that takes effort, grace, prayer, and sacrifice. It is walking with Jesus as he walked and is diagrammed as the upward climb below. By denying ‘me first’ thinking, you can grow your desire for a capacity for closeness with a sense of purpose and joy.
You feed on tears of sorrow when you are in despair over being forgotten, neglected,…
You build a winning team by deeply remembering that Jesus promises he is and will…
God makes his people clean within and then, as the director of relationships, teaches them…
Jesus uses his beautiful strength to make genuine and whole those that were chameleon-like and…
You get to be a member of God’s royal priesthood, a promise fulfilled, looking to…
His love spills out into all that you do yielding one joyous surprise after another…
