How to Build More Resilient Relationships

Description

How can we build more resilient relationships? Resilient relationships grow beyond initial attraction into a shared way of living through life’s inevitable ups and downs. We are all a mixed bag, carrying ego, or the proprium, alongside the deeper life of the soul. So when strain comes, I invite us to say, “Let it begin with me,” taking an honest look at what we bring while walking shoulder to shoulder toward God. Swedenborg’s pattern of love, wisdom, and use gives us a beautiful framework: love one another genuinely, become curious and kind in how we speak, and ask how we can serve. This reaches through the degrees of the neighbor, from our partner and family to our community, the world, and God. Our relationships can become outward-facing, humble, and full of purpose, because God wants to bless them with eternity.