Relationships Bring us Toward God

Love never dies and no relationship is a mistake.

Love changes form and all relationships serve us on our journey to learn to love. Before we mature in love, and learn to love without expectations, conditions, and demands on another human being we can come into severe conflicts in relationship. When we learn to have our own needs met in ways that go with the flow instead of against it, we can let other people be who they are and appreciate them for who they are. We take responsibility for our own emotions and perceptions and give others room to be themselves. If we need to remove

ourselves from a situation, we do that calmly without blaming the other person for our discomfort. Relationships help us get closer to God. 

We encounter over and over again that nobody can meet all of our needs. No one can be exactly who we want them to be. God helps us to come into our wholeness. God helps us feel loved and not alone when we are needing to be held in unconditional love. Over time relationships teach us, through rubbing us and scrubbing us clean of our childish demands. We become peaceful and appreciative of all of our relationships once we can see how each relationship has helped us grow, feel and experience what it like to be truly human. 

We love the people in our lives for all of who they are...their quirks and their wondrous qualities. We accept ourselves with our quirks and our wondrous qualities. We are comfortable inside our own skin and our love never dies and we are grateful for each of our unique relationships and how they have made us who we are.

--Reverend Supriya Hermenze