Status Updates From The DNA of Relationships

The whole chapter 8 - adopt a no-losers policy - is a brilliant way to make sure your relationships are full of mercy and justice. And it works for any relationship from parent child to friend to spouse to business.

I love that he give the #1 way to practice self-care as receiving God’s love. “To practice good self-care, you must learn to let the love of God and others penetrate. You must allow God’s love to sink into your soul. You must receive.”

Judgement results in defensiveness and closes down relationships, while curiosity results in openness and safety, giving life to relationships.
- that sounds like Jesus’ mode of operation when dealing with hurting people. The woman caught in adultery, the demonized, the paralyzed, all the people who came to him with messy lives received his interest rather than judgment.

uh oh….he actually uses an example where the husband had an affair and blamed it on the wife and Smalley says it was her fault….🤦🏼‍♀️

He has already quoted from Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life, and has directed the reader who desires a relationship with God to go to Appendix A where we find the Sinner’s Prayer along with a list of books for further reading, except the Bible isn’t listed. 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️