Hugged
I was in Amman working on adapting materials on domestic abuse from the US to the Middle East.
“This won’t fly in the Middle East”, the Jordanian counselor in the group said. “You can’t tell women to leave their abusers. Our culture doesn’t allow it.”
We made adjustments. Then she suggested, “We need to say what a good marriage looks like.”
After bantering ideas about, she boiled it down to this: “A good marriage is one in which each person can say what they think or feel without fear.”
Love without fear—where you are seen, safe, accepted, and free to be fully known. Embraced, enfolded.
Speaking the truth in love is always risky business. It takes courage to share your wild ideas, your hurts, your deepest longings—even with those closest to you. Maybe especially then.
Perfect love casts out fear. And that’s a vision worth striving for.
I was in Amman working on adapting materials on domestic abuse from the US to the Middle East.
“This won’t fly in the Middle East”, the Jordanian counselor in the group said. “You can’t tell women to leave their abusers. Our culture doesn’t allow it.”
We made adjustments. Then she suggested, “We need to say what a good marriage looks like.”
After bantering ideas about, she boiled it down to this: “A good marriage is one in which each person can say what they think or feel without fear.”
Love without fear—where you are seen, safe, accepted, and free to be fully known. Embraced, enfolded.
Speaking the truth in love is always risky business. It takes courage to share your wild ideas, your hurts, your deepest longings—even with those closest to you. Maybe especially then.
Perfect love casts out fear. And that’s a vision worth striving for.
I was in Amman working on adapting materials on domestic abuse from the US to the Middle East.
“This won’t fly in the Middle East”, the Jordanian counselor in the group said. “You can’t tell women to leave their abusers. Our culture doesn’t allow it.”
We made adjustments. Then she suggested, “We need to say what a good marriage looks like.”
After bantering ideas about, she boiled it down to this: “A good marriage is one in which each person can say what they think or feel without fear.”
Love without fear—where you are seen, safe, accepted, and free to be fully known. Embraced, enfolded.
Speaking the truth in love is always risky business. It takes courage to share your wild ideas, your hurts, your deepest longings—even with those closest to you. Maybe especially then.
Perfect love casts out fear. And that’s a vision worth striving for.