Life Works #9

Now where did we leave off? Relationships. What "the Source" has to teach about relationships to those who are willing to listen. Now, we have already discovered from the source that the root of all relationship struggles are born from the desires that rage within us.

Not that all desires are bad, but obviously some desires can be bad, or at least can cause great trouble and stress in relationships. So based on what "the Source" is telling us we need to give some serious attention to recognizing, confronting, and reconfiguring the desires that are working within us. If we don't do so, we can be assured of a life of relational conflict.

I will say this with absolute positivity having been in relationship with the same amazing woman for over 30 years. The majority of the battles or conflicts we have had during this time have been rooted in her desiring one thing and me desiring another. So it became her desire and her will over and against my desire and my will.

That's a great thing if you both desire and will the same thing. In fact, I believe that's where "the Source" would like to teach you to live if your willing. However, if you are both desiring and willing something different get ready for a lifetime of relational misery or what some might dare to say as "Hell on Earth."

I know that many people in relationships feel as though this is where they are living. It's also often those same people who are unwilling to listen to what "the Source" has to say about them and their relationships. They want help, they just want it on their terms. Which is precisely the problem. Their terms, their desires, their wishes, their wants, their needs.

There is a place for all the things they want and desire, in fact when you learn to do it the way "the Source" desires, your desires are met and fulfilled more than you ever imagined. At least that's how it has worked in my experience. The reason it works is like I said before, "the Source" knows better than I do what will work.

In one of His early writings, "the Source" warned a young man about the desires that were battling within him, that they were unchecked, ready to pounce, and take control of his life, but that he must control the desire, that he must become the desires master rather than the desire becoming his.

Now we are getting somewhere. Because all of us who are honest with ourselves know that we have some desires that are not good or beneficial to us outside of maybe a very short lived pleasure. Those desires seem to have a mind of their own and want to own us.

I won't go into where those desires are coming from according to "the Source," but I will instead stay focused on the fact that those desires want mastery over our lives and "the Source" says we must master them instead. Master those desires and you are on your way to mastering every relationship you have.

Here's the good news! Not only does "the Source" want you to master those desires that can hurt or harm you or others. He wants to help you do so. All he needs for you to do is recognize when those desires are wrong, find and agree with the right desires, and then ask for some help in living out the right desire. He then will assist you in mastering the wrong and living the right.

Someone might be thinking, how come you never say who "the Source" is? I know 'the Source" and I know "the Source's" name. But right now that really doesn't matter and some of you have already figured it out. What matters is that you know "the Source" is trying to help you and that you are loved very much. Your relationships are about to change for the good. Keep reading!