If you have difficulty with human love, which you have experienced in some manner, you likely have real difficulty with the notion of God loving you. And what kind of love should you be imagining? The conditional love of a legalistic judge, or the unconditional love of an adoring parent? How we image God determines […]

To trust or not to trust, just may be our most essential decision during our first year of life. That initial verdict of whether and to what extent to trust would include persons, places and life itself. As it goes with trust, so it goes with openness. Our very openness to receive love is built […]

Love is an unbroken circle of three interwoven dimensions: receiving, sharing and giving. These three dimensions are as cyclical stages which we go through repeatedly in loving. The analogy of a baseball diamond is useful here: in baseball there are three bases which must be tagged, and in the proper sequence in order to safely […]

There is more than one kind of love. There are four words, for example, in the Greek language of Jesus’ day, representing four kinds of love. They were: eros, or passionate, physical love; storge, or family love and cherishing; philia, or friendship love; and agape, used only in the New Testament, to refer to God’s […]