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Relational Thoughts
Over the years of adulthood and being a believer I have encountered many different perceptions about friends, relationships and what they should look like. I have heard sermons preached that cover the spectrum to men should have only one female friend, their spouse to their should be no relational boundries in our lives. I mean really, I have heard some serious wacked out stuff.
Alot of times it is easy to filter these things because they just end up so stupid, others, are more narrow and require close scrutiny and often lead to debate over interpretation and intent. Having been married most of my adult life, I found it easy to not even worry through those issues because, well frankly, I was content and happy with the relationship I had. That is not to say I did not struggle with relational issues, we all do.
However, now that I am no longer married I find myself often in a quandry over relational issues. How close should I allow my relationships with members of the opposite sex to become? And knowing how my marriage ended, I think that is a realistic question, whether you are single or married.
As a result, I thought I would take the next few blogs and explore relational issues, and focus alot on opposite sex relationships as this is something I really want to hone in on and tweak my life focus a bit. So I am also going to open up comments and would encourage you to give your thoughts, experiences and lessons learned along the way.
Buck.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Gen 1:26-28 NIV
