A HUNGER FOR RELATIONSHIP

Feeding The Hunger To Know Jesus More

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Adra has been using TA in counseling, theraoy, and workshops for over 40 years. He has conducted workshops for public organizations, including drug education programs and teachers, as well as for pastoral care organizations and churches. For additional reading and understanding of TA, Adra recommends reading “TA Today, A New Introduction To Transactional Analysis”, by Ian Stewart and Vann Joines, Lifespace Publishing, Nottingham, England, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1987. While working as a church pastor, he received extensive clinical training in TA Redecision Therapy at Western Institute For Group and Family Therapy, Carmel, California under Bob and Mary Goulding. He also received continued extensive clinical training at Eastern Institute For Group and Family Therapy in Boston, Massachusetts, under Schulamet Peck. In recent years he received continued training through TA Webinar’s occasionally offered by Southeast Institute For Group and Family Therapy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He lives in Owls Head, Maine with his wife of 58 years, Nancy. Nancy is an artist, has a studio in their home and sells her stilllife, portraits, and landscapes on her website “https:nancylovleyfineart.com”. They share a yellow lab, Molly, and have two older sons. They live near the ocean and share many walks on the long sandy beach only a five minute walk from their home. Jesus is the center of their relationship, work, and daily walks.

Hunger For Experiencing Him As Harmony And Symphony

When I walked with the Lord this morning I shared with Him how much I hunger to grow in experiencing the harmony and symphony between Himself as God the Father, His Son Jesus, and The Holy Spirit.  I was reminded of the special times when my wife and I had attended full orchestra concerts and experienced the excellent harmony and symphony of the different instruments as they all performed a musical masterpiece.

God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit move in their relationship as a parallel to a professional and magnificent symphony orchestra. Jesus said that He does what He sees the Father doing and speaks what He hears the Father speaking.(John 8:28-29). He also said the Holy Spirit is sent by the Father and will bring to remembrance all the things that Jesus taught us. (John 14:26). The Three work as One consistently.

Even so, I am made aware, with every new day, that my relationship with my wife and others can only move as a symphony when I am seeking to follow the Lord’s heart for them in each situation. My challenge is to not be satisfied with following my own heart of impatience and being defensive in each situation, but to seek and follow His heart. Whenever I succeed, in choosing not to follow my own heart, I find His guidance is consistently His love, His patience, and His desire to overcome barriers and build relationship.

He is my Harmony and my Symphony for each situation. I love experiencing Him in this way with each new day.

May all of us, dear reader, learn to experience Him as Harmony and Symphony in each new daily challenge that we face.

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