The extent to which we succeed in life depends on our ability to cultivate healthy and beneficial relationships.
This varies from our relationship with our spouse, children,parents,friends,colleagues and even our neighbors.No man is an island,therefore we must have one form of relationship or another which are often beseiged with diverse problems.
Here, let me share with you three time-proven ingredients for successful relationships:
PATIENCE-This is one word that people often use but fail to apply propally.Every human being has good qualities,but also have inbuilt weakness that are detrimental to relationships.For instance your spouse could kind,generous but ill-tempered; your child could be brilliant,loving but very stubborn etc.Therefore we must live and associate with one another with love and patience.You cannot change the other person overnight,and remember that as you are hoping for positive changes in the attitude of those close to you,they too are expecting the same from you.Patience is a virtue!
PERSISTENCE-We know that it is not easy to relate with so many people particularly in the family,but we must persist in doing and saying the right things no matter the level of provocation.We must persist in showing love even when it seems not to be reciprocated.We must persist in correcting our loved ones no matter how difficult they may seem.We must persist in doing good in other to reap at the right time,for the bible says: "And let us not be weary in well doing;for in due season we shall reap if we faint not"(Gal 6;9)
PRAYER-Prayer is the key to success in every aspect of life.God can change anybody.He can change that stone-heart person to become a loving, gentle person.Learn to pray for everyone you are involve with; your spouse.children,family,friends,colleagues,friends etc and you with time you will notice a great transformation in your relationships.
2 comments:
Yes! Making marriage to is not a day's job. It always give and take in marriage. No perfect couple in the whole world, but two human being that have decided to compromise and fuse together in a relationship to be friends for life and raise family in marital union.Peter Oladiran's comment.
Like an adage which says marriage is an institution we need to tolerate one another.I want to agree that patience has to be encourage in ones marriage I have seen some marriages that has collapse becourse of in-patience,but above all we need to be prayerful.From Ajayi
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