Preserving Love

Time for a little more from, "Boundaries Face to Face"

So you ask why in the world would I want to confront someone on something? Maybe from your perspective things are working fairly well in the relationship and you have decided that you can just live with things the way they are. I have been there and had those exact same thoughts, but then through either my confrontation or through someone else confronting me- I have been greatly blessed as has the other person.

Let me introduce you to a concept: PRESERVING LOVE. When we confront someone we are actually doing what the term confrontation means in Latin which is to, "turn your face toward, to look at frontally." In other words in a confrontation you are turing to the the person and dealing with a part of the relationship that needs to be addressed because you are for the relationship and for the person. A confrontation works best when it serves and is driven by LOVE?

"Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but and enemy multiplies kisses." proverbs 26:7

Taken from Chapter 2 of Cloud and Townsend's, "Boundaries Face to Face"