If she is really attractive, mature and compassionate, there is no harm in making a relationship even if she is married… In this world, nobody knows which relationship is perfect and is going to stay till the end except your association with the God. You may be thinking of the consequences of making love or dating a married woman. Do never feel so, if you really feel to make a relationship with her - go and tell her straightforward.

I am telling the real story that happened with one of my closest friends only a few days ago. He had fallen in love with one of his neighbors. She was a real beauty and every young heart wished to meet her and dreamt of spending a few hours with her. My friend used to stare at her whenever he had an idle time. He tried many times to propose her, but could not do so due to hesitation. One fine afternoon, seeing his heartthrob roaming around the lake with young a boy surprised my friend. They were in an intimate position and my friend came straight back home feeling depressed. So, to avoid such an awkward situations, you should march forward and express your thoughts to your lover.

Dating with a married woman would be a fantastic idea for any man. It does not matter whether you are younger or senior to that woman. Just think a little bit and you would be able to get answers ready at hand. Since married women are experienced in every respect, you would not face any problem to quench your thirst for sex. You would have to play according to the directions of your lover and by doing so you may find infinite pleasure. You cannot expect so much fun from any inexperienced girl. If you want to enjoy sexual intercourse from an inexperienced girl you would have to take initiative for enjoying the pleasure. You cannot expect getting pleasure from her without toiling hard. On the other hand, experienced women can satisfy you and lessen your apprehensions at the time of having sex. She knows very well how to stimulate different organs quickly. Apart from that, she would tell you what is the exact way to arouse her sexually. Accurate position and technique is required for enhancing extended sexual action and that can be certainly expected from an experienced woman.

If you want to have relationship with a married woman, you can expect unconditional love, which you may not get from an unmarried one. Think of the situation – a married woman will only come close to you when she would feel unsatisfied with her legal husband. To gratify her thirst for sex, she would come to you and would do whatever is necessary. In such condition, she would expect nothing more than a happy sexual relationship. On the other hand, your aim would also be to satisfy your heart to the fullest by playing with her different parts. In addition to all these, you can satisfy your libido without wasting any material things. This relationship would be an unconditional one.

She needs nothing from you except love and sexual pleasure. As she is married, she is supposed to have all the material things that are required to live on the earth. The following story would surely make you understand a little bit: One day, feeling deeply depressed about her sexual life a married woman decided to commit suicide. She wrote a suicidal note and left it open at their study. Finding this note, her husband’s friend rescued her from danger. There was none in the flat and listening the entire story of her, that young handsome boy decided to satisfy her. Soon, they became friend, lover and partner to each other. In absence of her husband, they used to meet in their flat and get into the act until they both were fully satisfied. Within a few days, that married woman found out reasons to live for more days on the earth. They never exchanged any material gifts or any expensive items, but continued making love for a couple of years.

Thus, you can enjoy your life without really burning your pocket. Apart from this, it would be your safest relationships on the earth. Since the married woman would never try to reveal the relationship that exists between you and her, you are rest assured of playing safely. In this way, you can continue making love with your girlfriend and that married woman at the same time.

To get rid off from the monotony of life, you can sometime go for a long drive with that married woman and can get pleasure from her. Nobody would be aware of your relationship, but both of you can fulfill your desire. So, what are you waiting for? Just be ready to start dating a married woman and bring utmost satisfaction to your life.

Feeling the sun-warmed cement on my bare feet, I stand on the front steps of my father’s home. I watch as my husband drives the car carrying our children out of the drive and into the flow of cars. The longing to be going with them swells in my breast as they head to our home. But there are tasks at hand to be done. Part of me welcomes a time to be alone with my thoughts and churning emotions.

The warm July day flirts with my desire to lie in the sun beside the sparkling water of the backyard pool. My sense of responsibility wins out. I enter the house that I have had as a safe haven for all of my thirty eight years. There have been tears and sorrows here but also great joy.

The rooms that, just a few moments ago had echoed with the voices of my family are quiet and still. My thoughts slide back to the time when the voices and activity were of my childhood. Letting my mind wander the years, I recall my mother and the many months, hours, weeks and years she had stood within these very same walls, with the same stillness and silence. For her, it was a silence that eventually smothered her with loneliness.

With my mother on my mind and looking through eyes of myself as a mother, I walk through the comfortable rooms, looking at the aftermath of a busy family weekend. There is vacuuming and dusting to be done, dishes to wash, bathrooms to clean, and the refrigerator to wipe out and sort, so that not too many fur coatings of mould will be produced before my return. How many, many times had Mom done this very same thing on mornings after we had gathered around the pool, Christmas tree, or dining room table in noisy camaraderie.

Mom had thoroughly taught me good organization skills and, following her pattern, I tackle the bedrooms, stripping beds, remaking each one with “correctly” folded corners. Each chore is like a well rehearsed dance routine that my hands complete as my thoughts recreate my mother in my mind. I can hear her voice as she once said to me so long ago: “The piano is not properly dusted if you miss the legs” or “swishing the dust from the stairs over the edges and onto the phone and table below is not fair to your sister who has that job to do. ”

Finally order is regained. As the morning slides into afternoon I decide to not stop for lunch.

My thoughts go forward to the task yet to be done. I must call my sister to report the state of the groceries that I will be leaving. She will stay here when she takes over the daily hospital visits to Dad who is dying from prostrate cancer. Then I’ll take a shower and dress, spend a few hours at the hospital, drive home to relieve my sitter, start the mountains of laundry I have packed into my car and prepare the dinner for my own family. It would be so much easier if Dad had a full sized washer and dryer but it is too late for that now.

Dad’s sudden illness has struck us all hard. We thought he was getting over Mom’s death. He had started to travel, resumed friendships, created new ones, and was very much involved in all of our lives. We had continued to use his home for family gatherings and celebrations, creating pot-luck feasts and fun. Now, we use it as a base from which to visit him and plan his care. We agreed to keep it as Mom had done, clean, tidy and welcoming. There is comfort and security in this for all of us.

My car is loaded with laundry and forgotten toys. I walk again through the now orderly house, checking every detail. As if called by some silent beckoning, I am seductively drawn to the back yard. In the midst of all the demands on my time and energy, I slide easily down onto a chaise lounge on the back porch. I indulged myself by lifting my legs and stretching into a comfortable position telling myself it is just for a moment. I let my mind wander open to the moment. The warmth of the sun, coupled with my tiredness, lulls me into a state of relaxation. My thoughts again returned to Mom. She would have sat in the warm July sun like this, perhaps with a book. Would she have found this solitude difficult? She wouldn’t have so many other pulls to make the quiet moments like this a special capsule of peace. She wouldn’t have the loved ones clamouring for attention. Would she have been so efficient in her cleaning, or would she have stretched the tasks out, to give meaning to her week.

My heart fills with sadness for my mother. Tears slide slowly down my face. I long to tell her I finally understand some of her behaviour, her repeated phone calls when I was so busy with my family, her complaints, demand, tears and her drinking.

Mindlessly, I watched a bright orange and black Monarch butterfly flit from flower to flower in the garden that is a somewhat overgrown version of the one she originally planted, loved and tended. I yearn to express my long-suppressed feelings of love and understanding that I feel at this moment for my mother.

“Oh Mom! How I wish I could tell you how much I love you. I want so much to tell you I understand. You died too young!”

My mind forms a plea to the flitting butterfly.

“Please fly to the porch and sit for a moment with me as a manifestation of my mother’s presence. ”

I know she is capable of requesting help from the butterfly to show me that she is with me. I believe. Within seconds, the butterfly changes its course and turns from the flowers and comes to rest on the porch railing. My entire being is filled with love and joy. The essence of my mother is potently present.

That feeling of peace stayed with me through the very difficult time that followed, as my father died and my life took on new directions. I have a deep belief that, when we outgrow our need for our bodies, we transform and exist in a different form. We are not gone; we are changed.

Ladies!! Stop sending your men to other women

Not too long ago some friends and I were out on our usual…. once a month…. excursion at a near-by jazz club. It was ladies night out and we were dressed to impress. We were checking out the latest men’s fashions, physiques and attitudes; but that is not all that we were checking out. We were also checking out the other women around us.

On this particular night…. I said nothing while I listened to my girl friends tare apart the outfits of the women that walked by. With painstaking blows…. one by one…they used their natural resources at their disposals which included an ability of wit and sharpness of mind, making comments that were both right on point and over the top. I also saw other women displaying attitudes of anger, resentment and unkind gestures to one another. If looks could kill…. there would be dead female bodies all over the place!

Suddenly, I thought to myself: Why are we so cruel to one another? What is there…. deep within us…. that makes us want to put one another down and find fault in one another? Why are we so hard on one another? Why don’t we speak and view each other with kindness…. tenderness…. love, and concern? Secretly I was hoping that we hadn’t let these attitudes that we showed to each other…. spill over towards our men folk.

I must admit to you that…. often times…. I am compelled to say nothing…. but I do sometimes. In more than one occasion I have allowed myself to smile in agreement…. in hopes of not isolating myself from my dear, girls friends…. while they are…. no doubt, voicing their opinions. I know that they mean no real harm towards these strange women…. and I certainly can’t say …. that I haven’t been guilty of female bashing myself…. using it as a means of entertaining myself at will.

Although lately, I am more careful than I have been, in the past…not to say or think an unkind word or thought, because…. I know that words and thoughts can come to life. I wish to reprieve any thoughts or deeds that may come back to haunt me. I am working very hard to keep my spirit positive and uplifting. I smile often when passing my female sisters…only to have rolled eyes or looks of displacement and unconcerned forged back at me.

That said: I still think and feel that the way we choose to treat each other is sickening. We ladies…. simply don’t have love or respect for one another and it is often times outwardly displayed to the men we choose to date or hang around. It is no wonder that some of our men choose to disrespect us the way they do and some women don’t mind dating other women’s husbands or boyfriends.

We simply have terrible attitudes and views of one another and because of those attitudes, ways and thoughts we are giving our men away to other women…. at will. We need to stop viewing each other as the enemy and therefore, blaming other women and blaming our men for most of the things that we’ve done and created in our relationships. In saying so: I must note…. that there are always exceptions to the rule. For surely there are some real dogs and cats out there…. and it would deem to make no difference what you say or do…they simply won’t change for the betterment.

However, in all honestly…. there are things that we do that hurt ourselves and our relationships. Often times we simply act as though we can’t keep it real. We have all these fake personalities that are as false as our hair and make-up. We act as though we love to have sex…. that is …. until we hook the man. We act as though we genially love to do the things that interest him…. that is…. until we hook the man. We have no problems with him hanging out with his boys or even inviting them over so that we can show our man and his friends how well we can cook…that is …. until we hook the man. We will often tolerate mama…daddy…. sister…brother…cousin, baby, baby mama drama or whomever and whatever else…. that is …. until we hook the man. We wouldn’t dare wrap our hair in a dirty rag to sleep in all night or sleep all day until 12:00 in the afternoon…. until we hook the man. Ladies…. buy a nice wig and put it on your head over that rag…. if you must…. at least your man will see what he got when he first starting dating you. We wouldn’t dare keep dishes in the sink or choose to not clean the house…. that is …. until we hook the man. The fact is…. most of us …. simply change for the worst …. after we hook the man.

Let’s face it…. most men are predators and simply like a good chase. We need to keep our man chasing us! We should never get used to him…. always want to please him so that he keeps his mind on us. That’s what a woman does when she loves and desires to keep her man. If we keep ourselves looking nice and create a life with him instead of all around him…. it will keep him wanting to chase us. Most men are visual creatures and they want us to look pretty…. be soft…. be confidant and please…. be nice. We have no idea what his day has been like and although we may have had an equally tough one…. just as we are looking forward to greeting our strong and confidant man who we want to feel, always has our back…. he is looking forward to greeting his soft, famine…confidant woman.

Ladies, there is simply nothing wrong with fixing our man something to eat and waiting on him. Lets go back to some of the old school stuff…believe me it works and it doesn’t take much. If they can do what it takes to please us…. then we can certainly do what it takes to please them…. because Ladies…if we don’t…. . there are plenty of other women out there…. that will.

Lastly…. Please stop denying him sex. For some strange reason …. we… seem to somehow think that denying him sex solves everything or is a sure way to punish him. Believe me…. in the end…you will be the one who is punished. Denying the most devoted man the simple act of sex…is a sure way to start him looking…. even if he doesn’t want to? One of the reasons why most men get married or choose to live with us, is so that sex, is not something they have to worry about amongst the list of other important things that he may have going on in his life. …. especially with all the sexually transmitted diseases out there.

There is an old saying: Another woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure. Don’t let some other woman have your treasure because you couldn’t see past your self to appreciate him, thereby bringing out the best in your man because you weren’t woman enough or cared enough about him to do so. Don’t be a woman who is a master of the macabre who subconsciously wants another to take her man, because she can not see his value or worth. Let’s be kinder, friendlier, gentler and more concerned towards one another…. as women and hopefully those feelings will spill over towards our men. We are much better able to help each other through these difficult times in our relationships if we are supportive of one another. Be a vessel that is far more than your man can ever image. For if we start respecting, caring and looking out for one another more…. we are sure to forward that attitude towards our men folk thereby…. allowing ourselves to be the intelligent, confidant, kind, gentle and beautiful women that we truly are and thereby keeping what belongs to us…with us and for us.

Ladies!! Stop sending your men to other women

Let us suppose that you want to take your partner on a romantic date.

Whether you are just starting to date and really want to make a good impression, or you have been dating for a long time, are engaged OR married, a romantic date is a great way to let your partner know just how special they are to you.

I think you’ll find it easy to come up with your own, once your mind gets on the track and your creative juices start flowing.

As with the other ideas I’ve given you, some are more elaborate and some cost just a little money to execute, while others are totally free except for your effort!

So, feel free to pick one or more of these ideas, or change them a little to make them more personal for you and your partner.

Remember you have the answers to your questions about your partner to give you clues so you can decide which idea(s) will work best for your.

Once you get started, you will come up with all kinds of ideas of your own!

Rent a limousine and show up at your partner’s door, dressed in your finest to take her/him out for a surprise evening. If you can’t afford the limousine, ask a friend to drive you in a rental car OR pay for them to have their car washed and have them drive you around throughout the evening date.

Bring a camera and take pictures of the places you go and of the two of you in the limousine or ‘rented car’. Bring a bottle of wine or champagne along as well.

If you live in a city that has commuter trains, you can buy two tickets on the train during off peak hours when it isn’t crowded and bring along a picnic lunch.

Plan to stop at one or two interesting towns to go shopping, or share a cup of coffee in a nice coffee shop.

Engage some of your friends (preferably those your partner likes) and have them meet you in a street side deli or a public table in the mall to serve your food and drinks and act like waiters.

OR, have them come along to serenade your partner in the evening when you know he/she will be home.

You can print up booklets with love songs and everyone can sing them. If you want to get elaborate, you can assign parts for each person to sing. Just be sure your friends have good voices.

Create an entire evening of charades using sayings or statements you’ve written, or chosen from love poems or movies. As each charade is solved, your partner will get to hear the statement or line of love you created for him/her.

Take your partner on an old-fashioned date, ice skating, roller skating or going to a county fair.

You can really do it up right by bringing an old-fashioned box lunch or picnic basket for a local restaurant or caterer and buying flowers from a street side vendor.

Take your partner on a hot air balloon ride OR a helicopter tour of a lovely area. Pick him/her up in a car and insist that they wear a blindfold.

Bring a bottle of wine for the journey and don’t reveal the special surprise until they are on board or as close to the craft as possible.

If you are in a city with horse drawn carriages or hansom cabs, plan to take a leisurely walk one evening after dinner, and grab a carriage to take you around the beautifully lit city or countryside.

Hayrides are also very romantic. Bring a blanket to lie on and one to cover you and a little bottle of cognac or schnapps to keep you warm!

Schedule a secret evening – don’t tell your partner what you have in mind, and give her/him a ‘spa night’ to remember. From the moment they walk in the door, don’t let them lift a finger.

Draw a bath with lovely scented oils and candles in the bathroom, wash their back gently, play soft music, serve a glass of wine or hot mulled cider.

After the bath, serve a home cooked or take out meal as you choose, complete with candles on the table and special music in the background.

Push the furniture back against the walls and create your own dance floor, perhaps even decorating the living room like a romantic ‘dance club’.

Dance the night away and see where the mood takes you.

Involve your partner’s co-workers in your scheme and have them plan a working dinner either at a restaurant or calling for takeout to work on a project.

Then arrive with flowers, music playing on a portable CD and an outstretched hand to whisk your partner away from what they expected to be a hard evening of work.

Go to a little, out of the way restaurant – if you can find a new one that everyone thinks is great, so much the better.

Have the dinner ordered and ready to serve, so that your wine is poured and your dinner is served as if by magic with no orders placed and no waiting.

Fill your living room with dozens of candles and spread a blanket on the floor in front of the fireplace or the TV.

Light the candles and, when your partner arrives home, have a favorite romantic movie starting, the room lit with only candles and a fire burning, if you have a fireplace.

A bottle of wine or champagne and a small basket of flowers in the middle of the picnic blanket can add the finishing touches.

Many hotels have great weekend ‘romantic getaway’ rates. Rent a hotel room in a nice area of town where you can walk around and shop, go to the theater or browse in museums or just walk through the park.

Don’t tell your partner where you are going, just tell them to meet you in the hotel lobby at a certain time (make it after check-in, so you can get checked in and bring all of your ‘tools’ up to dress up the hotel room).

Go to the hotel early, check in and place candles in the bathroom, and run a hot bath with bubble bath or bath oil. Bring a CD player and play some romantic music.

Light candles and place them around the bedroom as well. Now turn down the bed in the hotel bedroom and spread rose petals or other flower petals across the sheets.

Bring some massage oil and do it up right. After a relaxing afternoon in the hotel room, you can go out for dinner, walk in the park or go to a museum or play, as you wish.

Plan a day to pretend you are millionaires. Visit and tour homes you could never afford, test drive a Mercedes or Masserati and go to shops to try on clothes or jewelry you would never buy.

End the day with appetizers and drinks or just Tiramisu and coffee with Grand Marnier and stay in that millionaire frame of mind as you try to imagine just how the rich people treat their lovers and partners.

Stop at your favorite romantic restaurant or a new one you’d like to try and pick up a matchbook with their name on the front.

In a brightly colored ink, write a romantic message, asking your partner to meet you at the restaurant at a certain date and time and then leave it where you know they will find it.

Be sure to leave the cover of the matchbook open so your partner will notice the brightly colored message peeking out at them.

Then get to the restaurant early and bring a flower, order a bottle of wine and get ready for some romance!

Now that you have some ideas for dates, you can continue with more of your own, using these ideas every week, or every few weeks, to surprise your partner.

Vacation places for you and your dog.

Has summer’s furnace breath turned your formerly fun-loving dog into a lazy, tongue-lolling couch potato who refuses to venture outdoors? Of course you know the best antidote, at least for any water-crazy canine: an emergency trip to a place where your pet can plunge into cool, crystalline waters after a stick or ball. In fact, you’d like to do the same, sans stick. Unfortunately, it’s getting harder to find waterside havens that allow dogs during summer or outside of limited early morning and late afternoon hours. Many ban pooches entirely. But don’t despair or wilt: Here are four refreshing destinations that welcome dogs to their shores.

First Landing State Park

Virginia Beach, Va.

Lucky canines can cavort year round along the sandy shore of this popular East Coast jewel set on the Chesapeake Bay. Here, where our country’s first colonists landed 400 years ago, leashed dogs and their people have the opportunity to swim together. The nearly 3,000-acre park features 19 miles of dog-friendly hikes, including a boardwalk swamp trail beneath trees dripping Spanish moss. Visitors can fish, crab, and launch canoes and other small craft at the Narrows boat ramp.

“Almost everyone who works here has dogs, so it’s very pet-friendly,” says employee Brenda Mueller, who swims at the park with her water-loving Labrador Retriever mix, Daisy.

Take proof of your pet’s rabies shot, be aware that no lifeguards patrol the beach, and watch for jellyfish.

Parking and swimming fees: $2 to $4. Reserve two-bedroom cabins with decks, grills, air conditioning, and more for $678 a week during summer, Virginia residents; $753, non-residents.

Info: (757) 412-2300; www. dcr. state. va. us/parks/1stland

Guadalupe River State Park

Spring Branch, Texas

Thirty miles north of San Antonio, dogs find cool sanctuary from the fierce Texas heat along the Guadalupe River’s cypress-shaded banks. At this almost 2,000-acre park situated amidst the ruggedly beautiful Hill Country, leashed dogs accompanied by their bipedal companions can swim in the river’s clear waters, hike five miles of trails, and camp. You can enjoy fishing, canoeing, tubing, and outdoor nature programs on Saturday nights, and your dogs are welcome, too.

“We love having dogs here as long as their owners obey the rules,” says Bill Beach, assistant office manager. That includes keeping your dog on the appropriate length leash, cleaning up after him, and preventing Blue from lifting a leg on someone’s beach towel. Be sure to carry proof of your pet’s rabies vaccination and look out for rattlesnakes. Entrance fee, $6 per person. RV camping with hook-ups, $18; regular tent sites, $14; $12 for walk-in tent sites. Make advance reservations at (512) 389-8900.

Info: (830) 438-2656; www. tpwd. state. tx. us/spdest/findadest/parks/guadalupe_river/

Kohler-Andrae State Park

Sheboygan, Wis.

On the southern edge of Sheboygan, this busy, 1,000-acre state park lets leashed dogs play in Lake Michigan’s brisk waters along a lovely segment of white-sand beach that stretches about half a mile from the nature center north to the park boundary. Canines can also join their humans on several hikes through sand dunes and wetland areas rich with bird life.

“It’s amazing how many pet owners come here,” says Mary Kultgen, a visitor services associate who has three Shetland Sheepdogs, including one ambitious dog who enjoys “herding” waves. “We see a lot of Labs and [other] retrievers. ” Be aware that the lake can get rough on windy days. Entrance fees: $7 for residents; $10 for non-residents. The park’s campground ($13/state residents; $15/non-residents) and several Sheboygan hotels offer dog-friendly lodging.

Info: (920) 451-4080; www. dnr. state. wi. us/org/land/parks/specific/ka

Long Beach Peninsula

Long Beach, Wash.

Chasing seagulls and Frisbees, digging in sparkly sand, sniffing out crab shells: what more could a dog ask for? For humans, too, breezy beach fun abounds along this finger of land jutting nearly 30 miles north between the Pacific Ocean and Willapa Bay, from kite-flying and lighthouse-gazing to festivals like July’s SandSations, featuring a sandcastle contest and pet parade. Dogs can even enjoy supervised, leash-free play on beaches outside the five state parks and city of Long Beach — where they can also visit, but must be on an 8-foot leash.

Rip tides, sneaker waves, and floating logs pose dangers here: Don’t swim or wade deeply — ditto for your dog — and stay alert at the water’s edge. Watch out for cars; people are allowed to drive on most of the beaches in this area.

Many peninsula hotels allow pets; my family — including Treeing Walker Coonhound mix Pippin — loved our relaxing, spacious accommodations. A short dune trail led us to a doggie paradise where Pippin sent sand and water flying as he raced across an uncrowded expanse of silvery beach.

Info: (800) 451-2542; www. funbeach. com

What’s left for your re-energized dog to do after cooling his paws in a river, lake, or ocean? Well, there’s always that most popular and attention-grabbing canine waterside activity: a good, vigorous roll on a decomposing fish. So remember to pack a towel and some fragrant shampoo in your beach bag, just in case!

Jesus the pattern Son

Author: admin

Jesus the pattern Son  Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin. He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper His hand (Isaiah 53:10, emphasis added).  In the beginning God purposed to bring many sons to glory and through sufferings perfect the Captain of their salvation. The vision of Christ was to see His seed. This was fulfilled on the cross. Without the cross there is no covenant and thus no fulfillment. For the joy that was set before Christ, He endured the cross, despised the shame, and purchased us for His own possession. By one offering He has perfected those who are being sanctified. We who were separated from Him in Adam were brought back. Now He will again be in us and we in Him as it was in the beginning. He in us refers to Christ being one Spirit with us and we in Him means that we are placed as members in His body. The vision of God and of Christ is our vision, which is to know Him as Father and to mature in Christ as His sons. It is to receive the testimony of sonship in which the Father is well pleased in us and we find our joy and fulfillment in Him.  Therefore the Lord Jesus is not ashamed to call us who are in Him, brethren. Through suffering on the cross the Lord Jesus Christ completed the work necessary for our salvation and sonship. He needs to do nothing more because everything is completed and finished in Him. We only need to rest in His salvation and to grow up like newborn babes, in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ in maturity into the full measure of the stature of the Son of God. Our cry is to know God, as Father and God’s cry is to know us as His sons.  God has not subjected the inhabited world to come to angels but to the sons of man. For a while He made man little lower than the angels. He has crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of His hands and brought all things in subjection to him. He has left nothing that is not brought into subjection to man. Presently we do not see all things put under man (Hebrews 2:5-8). This was said about Jesus whose life is the prophecy of those who are in Christ. Although Christ has made this provision on the cross we know that since the transgression mankind has never moved in this level of authority.  Man has achieved much but has not come close to what God has in mind for him. Man can move down into the depth of the ocean with a submarine but outside the protection of that vehicle he will die. He can move into outer space to a planet but outside the sealed capsule around his body, he will die. These are achievements that belong to the natural realm that is far lower than the realm of Spirit, which belongs to the kingdom of heaven.  God never had a limited plan for us in mind but He saved us and placed us in His Son to be bodily filled with the fullness of the Godhead. Christ is the fullness of the Godhead bodily and we are to grow up in all aspects into Him. It means if Christ is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent we will be transformed into the same likeness. God who determined that all creatures would bring forth after its own kind call us His offspring. Therefore, as God is, so we will also be. It is also written, “I said, ‘You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High’” (Psalm 82:6). Jesus quoted this scripture, in John 10:34, to the Jews who accused Him being a man, making Himself God. So God is bringing forth after His own kind, He produces gods. It is not a picture of how important we are but of how much He loves us. For all eternity we will be in Christ and Christ will be in us so that the excellence of His power may always be made manifested in us who have believed. For all eternity the power and the glory and the wisdom will only belong to God and the Lamb so that no creature will glory in His sight. Although God has blessed us with His immeasurable glory in Christ Jesus all worship for all eternity will only belong to God and the Lamb (Revelation 19:10).  As God dwells in the supernatural realm of the Spirit He desires for us to live now in heaven where He is. He wants us to be with our bodies on earth but with our spirits in heaven. We need to be more at home in the Spirit (heaven) than in the flesh (earth). When we move in the revelatory gifts of the Holy Spirit, God shares with us some of His omniscience. The revelatory gifts of the Holy Spirit are prophecy, word of wisdom, word of knowledge, discernment of spirits and the interpretation of tongues, dreams and visions. It is knowledge obtained through the Holy Spirit. So, it is knowledge received supernaturally that belongs to the realm of Spirit. It is a wonderful privilege to learn from books but to be taught by the Holy Spirit surpasses all instruction. To share some of God’s omniscience is just a foretaste of the fullness of what God has prepared for us. We have received the Holy Spirit in a measure, which is just a small deposit of what God has in mind for us. The end of it will be to be partakers of the fullness of His omniscience. Omniscience is to possess a complete knowledge, understanding and insight of all things and to have an infinite and eternal awareness of all things, in all realms and dimensions of eternity at the same time.  When we are dreaming spiritual dreams or seeing visions the Holy Spirit shares with us some of His omnipresence. Omnipresent is to be present at all places, in all time zones of eternity, in all realms and dimensions of the universe at the same time. So God is the One that fills all things and all places of all times of eternity with His presence at the same time. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold you are there (Psalm 138:7-8). When you see a prophetic vision concerning the future God is there to reveal His glory in the days of its fulfillment. God, through His Holy Spirit, enables you to witness future events, phenomena and marvels because He is there. In the natural some marvelous achievements were accomplished with life television broadcasting. For example millions of people over the Globe can simultaneously witness the Olympic games or the inauguration of a new president of the United States of America. They can even witness rebroadcasts of such an events and other historical events. The natural man can record the past and forecast the outcome of a future event but cannot guarantee the accuracy of its prediction. Neither can a person know the future by reasoning it out with his or her mind. This is also valid for all past events for which there are no recorded account or hard evidence. Man lives in the uncertainty of his own mind. Charles Darwin tried to understand the origin of creation with His fleshly mind. As he did not like to retain God in his knowledge, God gave him over to a debased mind being filled with deceit and being deceived he invented the evolution theory in his evil-mindedness. His theory asserts that widely divergent groups of plants and animals have arisen from common ancestors as a result of natural selection of offspring which develop slight variations that make them better adapt to their environment. Through that ridiculous explanation he led many people, open to his deception, astray. The Scriptures do not refer to plants and animals having common ancestors but stated emphatically that God created every living thing after its own kind. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good… And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (Genesis 1:12,25).  When we experience prophetic dreams and visions God share with us only a glimpse of His omnipresence. We have received the Spirit of God only in measure. Imagine what it will be when the fullness of God is poured out in us bodily. God’s desire for us is to have the fullness of Christ’s omnipresence.  When the power gifts of the Holy Spirit are manifested, God shares with us just a foretaste of His omnipotence. The power gifts of the Holy Spirit include the gift of faith, gifts of healing and the working of miracles. The omnipotence of God is a display of His infinite power and authority and excludes the workings of men. Marvelous achievements were obtained through science. Some monumental achievements include organ transplants in the medical field, space technology and electronic technology. These are nothing in comparison with the workings of the Spirit. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are just shadows of what God has prepared for us. To share some of God’s omnipotence in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, gives us an indication of what the fullness of God’s omnipotence would be. We have received the Holy Spirit only in measure. Imagine what it will be when we are immersed in the fullness of God. God has in mind for us to be partakers of the fullness of His omnipotence. Omnipotence is to possess unlimited power and authority over all realms and dimensions of the universe. We learned that God through His Son made the worlds and uphold all things by the word of His power. What a display of His power and authority. If He turns His face away from creation it will disintegrates.  The greatest ever display of His power and authority was made manifest in love. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that the earth through Him may be saved. About three o’clock the afternoon of the crucifixion the Lord Jesus Christ yielded up His Spirit and the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Immense pain flooded the being of the Holy Trinity as the Father and the Spirit for a moment in time forsook the Son. The Father was devastated and the Holy Spirit heartbroken, yet victorious. For a moment in time the Holy Trinity was not a trinity as the Son was forsaken. It happened when Jesus uttered in torment, “My Father, my Father why hast thou forsaken Me. ” To ease the pain, They thought about us, the heirs of salvation. Forever the veil of partitioning was removed between God and His people. God through the Lord Jesus Christ has reconciled all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. From that time forward the heirs of salvation obtained the right, in Christ, to boldly draw near to the throne of grace through the blood of the Lamb into the presence of Almighty God. One song of worship expressing our love and gratitude to the Holy Trinity for what They have suffered on our behalf will be a greater work than the creation of another universe.  Jesus is the way to the Father. He said in His Father’s house is many spiritual places of existence. If it were not so He would have told us. He told us that He went away to prepare us a place of glory, power and authority that He might receive us unto Himself so that where He is we may be also. Where is Jesus? He is at the right hand of the Father. He is in our hearts, we are in Him and He is in the Father that we may be one. The universe is in Him for He is exalted above all things. He fills the universe; He fills eternity with all its realms and dimensions with all of His glory. This is the place where He is and where we already dwell by faith. Our spirits are alive to God because of righteousness but our bodies are still dead because of sin. You can perceive God and the rest of the spirit world through the Spirit. Because your body is dead to God you cannot enter the realm of Spirit with your body. You cannot hear God or see Him or touch Him with the body of flesh. For this reasons no flesh and blood shall enter into the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. But at the last trumpet, those who went before us, the dead in Christ, who were sowed in corruption, will be raised with an incorruptible body, and those who will be alive with their mortal bodies will be clothed with immortality. I believe this is the time when we will move into the full manifestation of the image of God where we will put on all the divine attributes of the Son, which include His omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience. All the hero’s of faith and the rest of the family of God that is captured in the cloud of witnesses has not received the fullness of this glory yet because it is written that they should not be made perfect apart from us. For if those in heaven has found this glory, the book of Hebrews would not have spoken of this perfection to be inherited. We who believe will enter into this glory at the last trumpet.  Many things must take place before this glorious day. Jesus is our vision and the pattern Son that have paved the way toward our sonship. To study the life of the pattern Son is to interpret the prophecy concerning our lives. Why? He is the first among many brethren and those to follow will follow along the same way. There are three major events in Jesus’ live that needs to be mentioned to follow the course of events that will follow our lives. These are His birth and maturing process, His baptism when the Father declared Him Son and His glorification on the cross.  Jesus’ natural birth placed Him in the kingdom of God for His own Spirit is the Spirit of Christ (Romans 8:9). Though Jesus is God He came into this world, as one of us, a mortal being yet without sin. Coming as a perfect man into the world He said He could do nothing of Himself but confessed His utter dependence on His Father. The Father who sent Him was in Him and He in the Father so that the excellence of the glory and power was from God in Him. Though Herod sought to destroy Him, He survived the onslaught on His life and then kept Himself busy with the things of God, His Father’s business. In this He grew up and become strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him. He increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.  The parallel to the birth of Jesus is to be born again. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His (Romans 8:9). If you are not born again you cannot see the kingdom of God. If you believe in God and in His Son, Jesus Christ, God will place you in the body of His Son and you will be delivered from your transgression and you will be justified in His sight. You will be joined to the Lord Jesus Christ and become one Spirit with Him. It is not a mixture of your spirit with His but you become one spirit with the Spirit of Christ, which means He is in you, one with you, and you are in Him, one with Christ in His body. A mixture of spirits would indicate a mixture of your glory (earthly glory of the flesh) with the glory of Jesus Christ (glory of the Spirit of God). God will not share His glory with anyone. One spirit with Him means there is only one glory, the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. God gave us only one glory, Christ in us the hope of glory. This glory is the image of His Son, the only image He gave us to grow into by faith.  Over a 30-year period Jesus was maturing into sonship by occupying Himself with His Father’s business according to the anointing that was working in Him. Then John baptized Him, the heavens were opened to Him, the Spirit of God descended like a dove and remained upon Him and the Father declared Him, His beloved Son. The Father also gave testimony that He was well pleased with His Son. Enoch received the same testimony of sonship that Jesus received. Before He was taken he had this testimony that he pleased God. The first 30 years of Jesus’ life show you the road to follow from being birthed by the Holy Spirit until you mature into sonship. One of the characteristics of sonship is the testimony from the Father that He is well pleased with His son. This means to walk with endurance with God.  Christ is the first born of many brethren to follow. Before the foundation of the world God predestined those whom He foreknew to be conformed to the image of His Son. Thus, God made Christ’s life the prophecy, pattern or blue print of the lives of the other brothers to follow. Like Him we are to be concerned about our Father’s business. Our Father’s business is the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God consists of our relationships toward God, our neighbors and toward all of the earth. Since born again believers are one Spirit with Christ they share His life and relationships with Him. Any ability other than Christ’s, which is the fountain of life and the source of light, is independence from Him and of necessity death and darkness. The ability of the flesh is of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and is death no matter how good or attractive its appearance. Sonship is the manifestation of the Son in the sons.  When the fullness of time came Jesus bought our perfection in Him with His own blood. When Jesus ascended on high He gave men gifts to equip them to grow up into a perfect man, the full image of Christ. Through the work of the cross Christ provided everything for us that pertain to life and godliness. We need not to revert to some formulae of legalism to attain to our own perfection. He has done it all for us. We only need to appropriate His provision through faith and rest in His victory to the glory of the Father. But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons (Galatians 4-5). Spiritual growth is a natural process through faith by being obedient to the knowledge of the truth.  In the Near East, during biblical times, the word adoption had an entire different meaning than in our present Western civilization. The Western civilization perceives adoption as an orphan or a homeless child being adopted by foster parents. This is not the biblical meaning or the way the people in the Near East understood it. In Israel and in the Near East, adoption was a public ceremony where a young man who had proved his responsibility and faithfulness over time serving his father was proclaimed a son. The ceremony is called adoption.  At the ceremony of adoption, with friends, neighbors and relatives present, the father publicly proclaimed his matured boy his son. This proclamation gave the son certain privileges not enjoyed by him before this time. Firstly, the son was given power of attorney. He could buy or sell or do business in his father’s name. Secondly, he received his inheritance, and thus was able to use the wealth that his father had provided for him. It was his from then on and he did not need to ask any question about its distribution. Thirdly, the son was given equality with the father.  The adoption ceremony of the Lord Jesus took place when John baptized Him and the Father declared Him, His Son. Since the foundation of the earth God predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself. Because of Adam’s transgression all creation was subjected to futility, not willing, but by Him who subjects it in hope of being delivered from bondage of corruption into the same liberty of the sons of God. Presently our bodies are dead to God because of sin. Because of hope all creation groans and labors eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God together with us who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, which is the redemption of our bodies. If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us He who raised Christ from the dead will quickens our mortal bodies to God through His Spirit who dwells in us. Thus, the Spirit of God (the Father) brings redemption to our bodies, even the manifestation of our sonship. We are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God (the Father) dwells in us. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (Romans 8:14, KJV).  When Jesus was born he was a mortal. When the Father declared Him, Son, He received the Spirit of God without measure and His mortal body put on immortality through the Spirit of His Father. He became the Christ or Messiah or Anointed One of God. Nobody took His life from Him. He had the power to lay it down and to take it up again because He was Son. Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father (John 10:17-18).  The Son of Man was glorified on the cross, which means He underwent death to the honor of God and in His resurrection He was adorn with luster, clothe with splendor and glory was poured into Him. He was full of majesty, made renowned, rendered illustrious and exalted to the highest rank, even the right hand of God. The Father has glorified Jesus with Himself, with the glory, which Jesus had with Him before the world was. The redeemed body and glorified body is not the same. Jesus the pattern Son is our prophecy. When Jesus was declared Son people recognized His appearance. When He was glorified Mary stood outside the tomb weeping did not recognize Jesus when He asked her why she was weeping and whom she was seeking because His glorified body took on a different shape. Once again He was omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. So shall we also be at the last trumpet.  To sum up, Jesus emptied Himself from the glory He had with the Father before the world was made and become one of us yet without sin. He matured in the grace of God. He was declared Son and did the will of God and accomplished His works. He was glorified on the cross and returned to the glory He had with the Father before the world was made. So there are three phases in the plan of God for us, namely our conversion and spiritual growth, sonship and final glorification at the last trumpet.  Those who wait for the rapture cannot ignore sonship, neither can those who believe in sonship ignore our final glorification with the glory the Lord Jesus had before the world was formed. The manifestation of the Lord Jesus in the flesh as the firstborn of many sons is the pattern of God’s plan or prophecy for our lives. To explain the vision of God’s plan for us in detail will necessitate an entire book on the subject, which I hope I will write shortly.

Call Me Crazy, But She Still Makes My Heart Go Pumpity-PumpAfter ten years of marriage, I’m still crazy for this woman. Being with her is my little piece of heaven on earth. Here’s my proof: So far, I’ve had 508 romantic dates with my wife. (Yes, my wife. What were you thinking? She’s my ex-girlfriend, right?) That’s once per week for almost 10 beautiful years. And I’ve loved every single one of them. Our date night is sacred. Unless it’s an invitation from the President of the Republic, I say no to all invitations and meetings. Our marriage is what it is today because of those precious 508 dates. Call me corny. Call me deluded. Call me in denial. But I really love being with her. By the way, did you know my wife has magical powers?When I’m with her, she drains my stress away. When I’m going through a rough time, all I have to do is share my problems to her, and instantly, I feel so much better. With her, I’m at home. And I rest. I believe couples need to connect with each other in a deep way, or they will drift apart and look for attachments elsewhere. Aside from our weekly dates, I grab special times I call “spontaneous moments of connection”. Spontaneous Moments Of ConnectionYesterday afternoon, I came home ready to dive into my work. The usual stuff I do: articles to write, talks to prepare, meetings to plan…But when I came home, I saw this lovely woman sitting on the couch all by herself. I thought to myself, “Work can wait,” and I grabbed this opportunity to sit beside the greatest girl on the galaxy. It wasn’t planned. But we were able to talk and connect our hearts. Even just for a few minutes. Life offers us these fantastic times of bonding. I’ve learned not to miss them: Being stuck in traffic with her. Or waiting for the dentist. Or lining up in the grocery. These times don’t have to be boring if you hold hands and talk. How To Have A Great MarriageOne day, a young husband came up to me and said, “Bo, I wish my marriage will be as great as yours ten years from now…”I only had one word for him: “Don’t wish. Decide. ”In that one line, I gave my secret to success. That’s what separates great marriages and not-so-great marriages. That’s what separates successful people from unsuccessful people. Unsuccessful people wish, want, hope, desire for their dreams. That’s not enough. Successful people decide to make their dreams happen. Period. That means they’ll do whatever it takes. Nothing will stop them. Failure is not an option. Let me ask you: Will you do whatever it takes?For me as a husband, it means…o practicing “mental” monogamyo overlooking her faultso going out of my way to express my loveo prioritizing our dateso leading my family to GodNote: Just in case you’re in the delusion that I’m a perfect husband, let me make this record straight. I’m far from it. Just ask my wife!But the important thing is that I’ve decided to become a great husband. And I make that decision everyday. (I struggle towards this dream everyday!)I’ve realized that this power of decision works in every other area in life…How To Be A Success In AnythingI’ve also decided to be a financial success. No ifs, no buts, no excuses. I’ll do everything it takes. For me, that means sticking to my core gifts, getting wise mentors, reinventing myself, creating a dream team around me, and focusing on loving my customers. I’ve also decided to be a spiritual person. That means opening myself to God’s love, walking with integrity, and pursuing my ultimate mission of loving others. I’ve also decided to be a healthy person. That means going to the gym daily, eating veggies and fruits, taking supplements, and living with balance. Don’t Wish. Decide. “But Bo, I’ve already decided to be a success! But I guess my decision wasn’t strong enough…”Then that means you haven’t really decided yet. You’ve just wished. If you remain in the level of wish, nothing happens. You must go to the level of decision. I’m reminded of this Chinese General who invaded an island. Upon landing on the shore, he asked his soldiers to burn their own boats. Obviously, they were shocked. When asked why would they do this insane act of burning their own boats, he said, “We’ll leave this island either as Victors or as dead men. Escape is not an option. ”That’s a decision. And that’s the kind of decision that will make you succeed in anything. May your dreams come true,Bo SanchezPS. KerygmaFamily. com Members: Get ready for my FREE book! I’ll be shipping out my latest book, 40 Stories of Passion, to all my wonderful KerygmaFamily. com partners who faithfully support our ministry with at least P300 (local) or $20 (international) a month this 2008—as my big “Thank You” gift for supporting God’s work! 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The Perfect Match

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One scene of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall I enjoy most is when crazy Woody, upset and confused about his troubled relationship with Annie (Diane Keaton), stops a couple in the street and asks them how they keep a relationship working. The guy basically answers: “Well, she’s superficial and so am I, I have no ideas about anything and it’s the same for her and we don’t ask ourselves questions because we both know we’re too stupid fo find answers. ” The girl nods her head in sign of approval and they walk away hand in hand. Looking at the whole spectrum of boys & girls business, we may think that the perfect match is the complete opposite of true love, leaving all the shakespearian romantic crap behind and focusing on more solid ground : socio-economic profile, sexual affinities, intellectual symmetries and complementary outdoor activities (like he loves gardening and she likes to read and take a sunbath). But we may also consider that the perfect match is the modern version of true love. A mere change in designation covering a same reality. And which reality is that? Well, not an easy one to describe, that’s for sure. . . How many times have we heard people say “She’s the woman of my life” or “I’ll never find someone like him” with the same intensity as the alchemist who’s just found how to turn stone into gold? But in many cases, the morning truth swiftly changes itself into afternoon doubts and evening pleas of reassessment: “Is she really the one?”, “Does he fit to my life?”, “Will he ever get along with my friends from the gym?”The doctrine of true love teaches here to send it all to hell, and to comply by one’s feelings, no matter the consequences. But in a world of statistics and self-fulfilling prediction, where happiness has been theorized down to the bare bone, consequences do matter. That’s where the perfect match doctrine takes over. Love is still part of the process, but no longer operates as the almighty engine flying the plane through the clouds. It can be there at the take-off - or not, if one can find a substitute. It can be whipped up in air pockets by jealousy and sexual needs. It can be switched off at will when jobs and mortgages repayments require full attention. The story of humanity shows than men kept trying domesticating the wild to replace it by flower beds. Love is a wild animal, and it needs to be tamed. It has the power to make our lives run out of control, and we don’t want that to happen. It has the power to make us question ourselves and the choices we made, and that’s too hard to take. The perfect match doctrine is here to comfort you, by enslaving love to happiness instead of the other way round. It’s a useful tool for everyone, especially for those who feel like crying on saturday night watching the English Patient on TV and still want to get up on monday morning with a smile on their face and with plans in their head.

You and the love of your life are finding it a bit difficult keeping your relationship on an even keel. Arguments are frequent and there are days you refuse to see each other. So you decide to spend one of your lonely evenings looking for solutions on the internet. Open up that browser and type in “relationship”. On a slow day you will find well over 221 million (221,000,000…that is a LOT of zeroes!) returns! When you narrow this down to a few dozen that may actually be of some help you will find they all say just about the same thing. You find “Four Tips To A Successful Marriage” or “Seven Ways To Keep Your Boyfriend Interested”, possibly you will come up with one about “Five Tips To Get Your Ex-Back…INSTANTLY”. Dig deeper into these tips and methods and you find most of them are repetitive. You find: (1) Be Creative; (2) Act Swiftly; (3) Provide Space or Soften Your Heart. While all of these are excellent you rarely find anything in depth. You can read two or three sentences, or possibly a complete paragraph on each and then on to the next. Maybe it is time to take one and get a little more information? Let’s look at one that is definitely important: COMMUNICATION. Pop open your dictionary and you will find that communication is the ability “to succeed in conveying ones meaning to others”. While this easily describes your conversation with the mechanic regarding a new transmission in your vehicle it gets a bit cloudy with a couples problem. How do you frame a sentence? Do you use the right words? Maybe if we look at a few examples (yes…almost like “tips”) we can get better insight. Here is a short list: I worry that exposing myself to my partner will result in rejection. Come on guys, aren’t you in this “breakup situation because you didn’t expose yourself? If nothing else you and your partner are supposed to be best friends. The problem is not your love knowing about you…it is when you have to second guess each other that the problems begin. Opening up in a truthful and forthright manner should in no way make you vulnerable in your relationship. Learn to share things more important than the toppings on your pizza and you are on your way to a strong and loving relationship. I hate it when my partner brings up a problem. Well, DUH!. You are supposed to have a relationship here. That signifies that you should have the ability to share problems as well as joys. If you can talk about that wonderful afternoon of water skiing don’t you think an intimate issue should also be discussable? Back to exposing yourself to your partner…get the problem out into the open, find out each other’s view points and then come to a reasonable and acceptable solution! If you truly have love for this person then you want “good” for them. That good comes about through problem solving which leaves much more room for the fun events of life. Speaking up will only make things worse. Well, back to the first two on our list, by now we should have found that by NOT talking through difficult spots in your relationship is nothing less than pulling the foundation out from under it. You would not build a house without a proper foundation so why jeopardize your life with this attitude. The purpose of effective communication is to open the discussion channels in order to SOLVE before they become dangerous. The atmosphere in your relationship will be more relaxed, more loving, more FUN when you are able to work out the worst problems as easily as agreeing on that pizza topping. The reasons behind poor communication vary from couple to couple, but the secret is to not let those reasons get in the way of your love life. Work up the courage to open this conversation with your partner and you will discover many ways to strengthen your relationship. Failure to do this eventually can weaken the foundation of your partnership and lead to total disintegration.