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Tag: deeper relationships

50 Shades of Love :: Marriages

Posted on July 17, 2012November 30, 2017 by Michael Rose
The statistics have been reported in many places, and for many, about half of all marriages will fail. This is not another heavy for those who have been kicked around the Church because they’re divorced.  The reality is life happens, and I don’t believe for a moment anyone decides to get married intending they will...
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Prelude to Deeper Life: Vulnerability

Posted on June 25, 2011January 18, 2015 by Michael Rose
From my personal blog: LivingLoved-blog.com I find myself continuing to reflect on vulnerability.  Earlier this week I asked some friends for their thoughts about what vulnerability is and these are a few of their responses: leaving your emotional/physical/mental well being open to growth as well as pain Dropping your protective walls… leaving oneself open to...
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Deeper Life: Vulnerability

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Michael Rose
It is true of most human beings - to be loved, to be accepted as they are, and yet nothing is as elusive.   To be loved and accepted to the degree requires vulnerability and any one who has risked beyond the superficiality of the masks we use to conceal our true selves knows it can...
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  • Compassion Fatigue – Caring without Losing your Mind
    May 23, 2013

    Compassion Fatigue – Caring without Losing your Mind

    Every job has its hazards.  Some are pretty obvious; the danger of being a firefighter or working the high steel but for vocations in the helping industries the risks can often be less apparent.  There is a real danger of Compassion Fatigue for those who spend time caring for people.  These include physicians, nurses, counselors,...
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  • Be-A-ware
    August 14, 2018

    Be-A-ware

    Be-A-ware is a short piece I wrote because I find many well meaning people of faith are not necessarily malicious as much as they may not be aware, or awake.
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  • Importance of Worldview
    February 14, 2011

    Importance of Worldview

    For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now, we...
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