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Love – desiring a capacity for closeness
Your capacity for closeness can be a slippery slope You cannot always avoid conflict, and once in it, Ken Sande’s, The Peacemaker, offers solutions diagrammed as the slippery slope below teaching responsive, resolving, reactive love. Your capacity for closeness can be an upward climb But oftentimes you can make peace by planning peace well enough to bypass serious conflict and go straight to joy (Proverbs 12:20b). A capacity for closeness is a gift that looks like initiating,


Jesus, the good shepherd.
Having Jesus, you need nothing else


Come to him.
Jesus satisfies like nothing else


Watch and pray.
Jesus is worthy to watch and wait for


Ask. Seek. Knock.
Jesus takes you in


Break free
Jesus rescues you and sets you free


People-avoider
Jesus secures you


People-addict
Jesus secures you


People-annoyer
Jesus secures you


People-pleaser
Jesus secures you


Hate to focus on what is wrong, but…
I hate to focus on what’s wrong, but sometimes it does us good...
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