Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships

by John Welwood

Author	: John Welwood
Publisher	: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages	: 219
Release	: 2005-12-27
Genre	: Family & Relationships
ISBN	: 083482275X

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A nationally known couples therapist reveals the single root cause of all relationship problems—and offers revolutionary advice on what to do about it While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most—in our intimate relationships. If love is so great and powerful, why are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the source of happiness and joy, why is it so hard to open to it fully and let it govern our lives? In this book, John Welwood addresses these questions and shows us how to overcome the most fundamental obstacle that keeps us from experiencing love's full flowering in our lives. Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships begins by showing how all our relational problems arise out of a universal ‘wound of the heart’ that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This core wound shows up as a pervasive mood of unlove—a deep sense that we are not intrinsically lovable just as we are. It shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it and letting it circulate freely through us. This book takes the reader on a powerful journey of healing and transformation that involves learning to embrace these imperfections—within ourselves and within our relationships—as trail-markers along the path to great love. It sets forth a process for releasing deep-seated grievances we hold against others for not loving us better and against ourselves for not being better loved. And it shows how our longing to be loved can magnetize the great love that will free us from looking to others to find ourselves. Written with penetrating realism and a fresh, lyrical style that honors the subtlety and richness of our relationship to love itself, this revolutionary book offers profound and practical guidance for healing our lives as well as our embattled world.

The Perfect Love Song

by Patti Callahan Henry

Author	: Patti Callahan Henry
Publisher	: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages	: 240
Release	: 2019-10-08
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 0785226257

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Just in time for Christmas, escape with a perfect love song, a perfect love story, and a perfect dose of holiday magic. "Patti Callahan Henry is quickly becoming one of my favorites." —Debbie Macomber, New York Times bestselling author Can one song change the course of a life? Brothers Jimmy and Jack Sullivan live a nomadic life doing what they love: touring with their band, The Unknown Souls. But Jack’s recent engagement to Kara has everyone looking forward to a Christmas destination wedding in Ireland. Unlike his brother, Jimmy never expected to fall in love. But he feels a sense of peace and happiness whenever he’s around Kara’s best friend, Charlotte—which has him wondering what he’s missing. Over Thanksgiving, Jimmy and Charlotte write a song while sitting together on the back porch. When the band sings it at a Christmas concert the next night, Jimmy insists it’s the perfect love song—but a manager for another famous duo is adamant that it’s the perfect Christmas song. Before Jimmy knows what’s happening, he’s on tour with the hottest country band around and suddenly everyone knows his name. But fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and Jimmy finds himself far away from those he loves—especially Charlotte. Only a Christmas miracle—or two—will be able to lead Jimmy back to Ireland, to his brother, and to love. “I fell in love with both Patti Callahan Henry and her work. The Perfect Love Song is a lyrical and heartwarming tale of love and forgiveness. Patti takes you to those places in the heart you didn’t even know you wanted to go.” —Pat Conroy, New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad “Patti Callahan Henry’s The Perfect Love Song is a wonderfully romantic and inspiring novel about love and redemption that sings with emotional truth. An essential read by a master storyteller.” —Cassandra King, New York Times bestselling author of Same Sweet Girls “Her characters are so real, you feel as if you’ve known them a very long time.” —Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed Beautiful, jacketed hardcover perfect for gift giving Sweet Christmas story of approximately 45,000 words Includes: Discussion questions for book clubs Patti’s family shortbread recipe Instructions for Charlotte’s Southern Garland The Legend of the Claddagh Ring

A Perfect Love

by Steven W. Manskar

Author	: Steven W. Manskar
Publisher	: Discipleship Resources
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2004
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 9780881774269

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A Perfect Love is the full text of Wesley's A Plain Account of Christian Perfection edited and updated for the contemporary reader. It also includes in-text definitions and notes that explain names and terms that may be unfamiliar to the reader, as well as hymns by Charles Wesley that describe the work of grace in human lives that leads to perfection in love. The term Christian perfection, as Wesley used and understood it, may be translated as Christian maturity; it is the outcome of a life lived with and for God in Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.

A Perfect Love

by Lori Copeland

Author	: Lori Copeland
Publisher	: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages	: 304
Release	: 2002-06-10
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 141851294X

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Despite the blustery winter chill, love is in the air in Heavenly Daze. Buddy Franklin is searching for someone to change his lonely life, Dana and Mike Klackenbush are trying to reestablish the friendship that led them to marriage three years before, Barbara and Russell Higgs are contemplating babies, and Cleta Lansdown is determined to keep Barbara, her married daughter, close to home. The angels who inhabit the island are surprised and overwhelmed when Buddy gets a pet, Dana toys with harmless flirtation, Barbara discovers she can't have a baby, and Cleta gives her son-in-law a pink, ruffled bedroom ensemble for his birthday! As always, the folks of Heavenly Daze triumph, learn, laugh, and love - and readers will do much of the same!

Toward a Perfect Love

by Walter Hilton

Author	: Walter Hilton
Publisher	: Regent College Publishing
Total Pages	: 216
Release	: 2001-03-20
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 9781573831918

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Surprisingly warm and practical, this 600-year-old insight into daily work and devotion is from a man described as "one of those hidden figures, those quiet and secret friends of God who have never failed the church."

A Certain Hope and A Perfect Love

by Lenora Worth

Author	: Lenora Worth
Publisher	: Harlequin
Total Pages	: 3
Release	: 2011-08-02
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 0373651473

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A Certain Hope Small-town Texas gal April Maxwell tried to escape her painful past in the big city?then tragedy calls her home. Her faith all but shattered, she isn't sure she can risk falling for rancher Reed Garrison. Could his love heal her wounded heart? A Perfect Love Bitter and world-weary, Summer Maxwell returns to Texas, looking for something that surely doesn't include losing her heart to sweet, handsome Mack Riley. Especially when Mack's past brings her greatest test of faith?offering her the chance to prove that love and trust really can conquer all.

Perfect Love

by Andrew Murray

Author	: Andrew Murray
Publisher	: Gideon House Books
Total Pages	: 31
Release	: 2016-11-12
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1943133425

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How we Christians struggle and strive to love well! And how often we fail. Andrew Murray beckons us toward a gentler way. “If we loved others with the love of God, how much more power there would be in our work, how much more sacrifice of time and of ease in praying to God for souls; how much more intercession! Oh! if we loved aright, how much more sacrifice of comfort!" In the beautifully written addresses contained in this book, Murray invites us to feast on God’s perfect love for us. He petitions us to allow God’s perfect love so fill and consume and delight us that it comes flowing naturally out of us back toward God and also to other people.

A Path to Perfect Love

by Donna Malchuk

Author	: Donna Malchuk
Publisher	: FriesenPress
Total Pages	: 120
Release	: 2012-04
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 1770677240

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Have you ever wondered what a professional cheerleader, a Waldorf mom or a computer geek could teach maturing women? Or perhaps you have longed to know how to perform a self-loving ritual? Search no more! Donna Malchuk gives you all the answers and much more in her luscious and thoughtful book, A Path to Perfect Love. Drawing from her own experience, Donna Malchuk shares in a clear, no-nonsense, intimate and often humorous way, the lessons she learned from significant events in her life. The result is a kaleidoscope of feel-good advice that, if applied, can easily change and improve every woman's life. With such diverse chapter headings as, "WE Are Living in Magnificient Times" and "Thoughts - Controlling 'Stinking Thinking' ", Donna retells her stories with an honesty that is both brutal and tender. Many women will identify and relate to Donna and cheer with her when she triumphs over the challenges in her life, and thank her, as well, as she guides us gently but firmly to LOVE after love....

The Perfect Love

by Ruth Myers

Author	: Ruth Myers
Publisher	: WaterBrook
Total Pages	: 321
Release	: 1999-04-20
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1578562554

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WHERE CAN YOU FIND THE KIND OF LOVE YOU TRULY NEED? “If we want real love, ideal love, limitless love, God’s heart is where to find it. It’s the only love big enough to meet the God-sized needs of your life.” --Ruth Myers Most people–even those with a deep faith–fail to really grasp the incredibly deep and passionate love God has for them. Yet, while God’s love for us is beyond description, it doesn’t have to be beyond our experience. In The Perfect Love, Ruth Myers helps uncover the surprising, quiet clues and expressions in Scripture of just how much God loves you. With the expressions of prayer and praise at the end of each chapter, you’ll learn to experience God’s love more deeply and return it more fully in worship. And you’ll welcome a new sense of security, honor, and significance that comes from experiencing how God’s love — The Perfect Love–truly meets your deepest needs.