Hey Girls
Sorry about last week, you will understand when you get maried how crazy life can get.
1. What can we do to ensure that we put our hope and confidence in a relationship with Christ instead of the false security of a relationship here on earth? (pg 60)
2. What is the "ugly" side of the temporary dating cycle? (pg 61)
3. What is the consequence of our future marriage if we lower our standards physically in casual relationships now? (pg 61)
4. Reflect and respond on this statement: "Leslie, don't try to build me into your life anymore. Instead build your life around me." (pg 65)
5. Why wouldn't a book titled "10 steps for achieving a perfect love story" help us in our endeavor to find true love? (pg 69)
6. What was one thing that caught your attention in Chapter 3?
Let's hear your responses. Remember to sign your name so we know who is writing us.
3 comments:
1. We can continue to go to church, read the Bible, and talk to Him. He loves to hear from us.
2.The ugly side is the huge holes it leaves in us. In our hearts and our minds. Sometimes *i wouldn't kno just from friends who've told me about it* when they break up then us girls have this huge new look about our body, like i'm to fat now. my hair is the wrong color. that's ugly.
3.We would then have to say I'M SORRY! over and over. it still wouldn't be good enough because we should never have let our guard down, and gave everything away.
4. As humans we try to FIT God in where most of the time He really doesn't want to be. we hurry through our time with Him and thing that it's a huge chore to talk to the God of the universe! Intead of me building Him into a time that I like I need to look to Him all the time. not just some of the time.
5.Because every person is different every life plan is different. HA God may not even WANT us to have a husband! it wouldn't really work AT ALL. we need to ask God to help us. not a book.
6.hm. there was alot, mainly how we need to hand over EVERYTHING to Christ and not just let him have parts we don't really use alot. I continued reading now i'm in part two. i want to grasp everything. and i think that God wanted me to because he kept showing me things that i really needed to change and let go of.
Holly V.
1. We need to give this area of our life completely to Him. He wants complete control. We need to trust God solely to work out every aspect in our love life.
2. After many relationships, we are left with little hope of finding anything better. We tend to cling to these "relationships" as if our life depended on them. I also wouldn't know because I have never experienced it. However, I have friends who have and know that I don't even want to get started in them. I know a girl who had been dating a guy for almost a year when he broke up with her. She wanted to stop going to school and church just because he broke up with her. It makes me sad to think that one would give up everything for a temporary relationship.
3. As we lower our standards, we give more and more of our heart away. When we do find the right guy, we already would have given our heart out to so many that there is hardly anything left.
4. Instead of trying to give God a little bit here and there as long as it suits us, we should give everything completely to God as He wants us to. When we do this, we can be sure that He will help us through every detail.
5. If we had such a book, we wouldn't really be leaning on God to lead us every step of the way. If we don't lean on Him, we won't really ever know for sure who the right guy is. Sure, we could guess and make sure that he follows all the guidelines, but without giving our trust to God we won't have the assurances that only He can give us as to who the right one is.
6. The fact that supreme happiness can be found when it looks like we have lost everything that is precious to us, because that is when we can be embraced by God and know of his supreme love.
Kristin
1. I think we need to make sure and spend time with God. If we put a relationship first, then we can easily fall into the trap of making it more important than God.
2. I think the ugly side to the temporary dating cycle is how much we can get hurt by it. When we know the relationship will not probably be permanent, we have to realize that we can get hurt. We also have to realize that no matter how much we say we won’t get too emotionally involved, we usually do.
3. When we get too involved physically, we hurt our future marriage because we have given ourselves away so many times that there is nothing special about having that kind of relationship anymore. I’m not just talking about physically as going too far, but there a lot of not so bad (as we call them) things that we can let ourselves get away with sometimes.
4. This quote really stuck out to me in this chapter. The sad thing that I found was that this statement was all to true in my own life. I mean I would have a quiet time sometimes, but I didn’t make that time, or any time with God for that matter, the most important thing. I realized that if I really want to follow God then I have to spend more time with him. You can’t make friends by talking to someone every other day for the minimum five or ten minutes or even completely not talking for a whole week. That relationship will never grow.
5. I think one big problem with a book like that would be that every love story is completely different. I don’t ever remember hearing a story of how a couple met that was exactly the same. Also it would not be able to tell you exactly what kind of person to become because we are all different people and our future spouses are not all the same either.
6. I one thing that caught my attention in chapter 3 was how God has to become part of every part of your life, and until you let him come into every part of your life, he cannot do what he wants to with you.
Melissa
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