{"id":3836,"date":"2012-06-13T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/haveamagnificentday\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2012-06-12T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T01:04:20","slug":"empowered-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2012\/06\/empowered-relationships.html","title":{"rendered":"Empowered Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/haveamagnificentday\/files\/2012\/06\/Tao-of-Giraffe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3837\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/85\/2012\/06\/Tao-of-Giraffe-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Catherine Ponder, &#8220;The Prospering Power of Love&#8221; Part III.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080\">The Healing Power of Release:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">In <em>The Prophet<\/em>, Kahlil Gilbran described the loving attitude of release in marriage: &#8220;Love one another, but make not a bond of love&#8230;.let there be spaces in your togetherness&#8230;sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone&#8230;stand together yet not too near together.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">He described the loving attitude of release toward children in these words: &#8220;Your children are not your children,\u00a0 They are the sons and daughters of Life&#8217;s longing for itself.\u00a0 They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you&#8230;.You may house their bodies but not their souls&#8230;.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Nowhere is there more need for the expression of love as release than between husbands and wives, between parents and children.\u00a0 We often try to bend others to our will, calling it love when it is really selfish possessiveness that binds instead of frees.\u00a0 Then we wonder why others resist instead of accepting our &#8220;help.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>If you want to free yourself from all types of problems in mind, body and affairs, you must release others to find their good in their own way.\u00a0 <\/em>A clear channel is then opened for a great good to come to all involved.\u00a0 Your own freedom and well-being depend upon such release, as do the freedom and well-being of your loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>&#8220;I FULLY AND FREELY RELEASE YOU.\u00a0 I LET YOU GO TO YOUR GOOD.\u00a0 THE GOOD OF ONE IS THE GOOD OF ALL.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>&#8220;I FULLY AND FREELY FORGIVE.\u00a0 I CAST AWAY ALL JUDGEMENTS, RESENTMENTS &amp; CRITICISMS TO BE DISSOLVED AND HEALED.\u00a0 THE PROSPERING TRUTH SETS ME FREE TO MEET MY RICH GOOD AND TO SHARE MY GOOD WITH OTHERS.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">blessings,<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42 Lee<br \/>\n<em>The Mega Coach<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/haveamagnificentday\/files\/2012\/06\/giraffe-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3838\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/85\/2012\/06\/giraffe-12-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Ponder, &#8220;The Prospering Power of Love&#8221; Part III. 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