{"id":5595,"date":"2021-08-06T20:54:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/?page_id=5595"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:54:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:54:59","slug":"cultivating-relationships","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/cultivating-relationships","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--link_hover_color: #86c3e3;--link_color: #2a3c8e;--awb-border-sizes-top:0;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0;--awb-border-sizes-left:0;--awb-border-sizes-right:0;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:0px;--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-background-image:radial-gradient(circle at center center, rgba(227,166,48,0.25) 50%,#ffffff 100%);;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-center\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1100px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:0;--awb-spacing-left-small:0;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:25px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-center fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#1f3657;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;--awb-sep-color:#e3a630;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e3a630;\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><h2 class=\"title-heading-center fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:50;line-height:1.29;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cultivating Relationships<\/p><\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e3a630;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Kathy Becker<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Always remember the reason your daughter was given to you: that you might raise her to glorify God.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for wisdom to be the strong yet sensitive mother God wants you to be.\u00a0 Godly mothering is not for weaklings.<\/li>\n<li>Accept the fact that cultivating a good mother\/daughter relationship will take sacrifices and difficult decisions.<\/li>\n<li>From \u201cbabyhood,\u201d constantly surround your daughter with the knowledge of God: God made you; God loves you; God has a plan for you;\u00a0you are only free to do what God wants you to do.<\/li>\n<li>Resist the temptation to put too much focus on the physical.\u00a0 While it is important to look nice, it is more important to<em> be <\/em>nice.<\/li>\n<li>Teach your daughter by example.\u00a0 This is going to happen whether you want it to or not.\u00a0 The way you respond to life\u2019s issues is the way she will learn to respond to them.<\/li>\n<li>Reject the attitude of the world that says life is all about me.\u00a0 Life is not all about me; it\u2019s all about God. When your daughter fully grasps this principle, she can focus on the needs of others more easily.<\/li>\n<li>Be willing to set aside time for reading books that promote special mother\/daughter relationships.\u00a0 I can\u2019t count the hours I read the <em>Little House <\/em>book series and <em>Little Women <\/em>to my girls.\u00a0 Precious memories are created and honorable values are instilled during these times.<\/li>\n<li>Continually encourage your daughter, even as a little girl, to be sensitive to what God would have her to do.\u00a0 When she knows God\u2019s will and does it, she has found the path of\u00a0fulfillment.<\/li>\n<li>Never ignore the need for appropriate discipline. A real help in encouraging us to have rules and standards for our daughters is that we are training them to be sensitive to God\u2019s directives.\u00a0 We make it so much easier for them to obey God when we teach them to obey us.<\/li>\n<li>Cook with her! Clean with her! Sew with her! Teach her to be a worker and find joy in that work.<\/li>\n<li>Talk, talk, talk!\u00a0 We cannot afford to be non-communicative with our daughters.\u00a0 I think the thing I miss most about my older girls being grown is the ongoing chatter we had as we worked around the house. That is truly blessed fellowship!<\/li>\n<li>Instill the Scriptures in your daughter\u2019s heart and mind from a young age.\u00a0 God\u2019s Word is powerful.\u00a0 Those Scriptures that you require your daughter to learn will encourage her to follow Him and bind her heart to yours in a special way.<\/li>\n<li>When your daughter is grown, realize she is her own person now.\u00a0 Respect her spouse.\u00a0 Never stop praying for her. Change your view of your daughter.\u00a0 She was your little girl, but now she is grownup with all that that entails.\u00a0 The memories of the growing-up years are great, but the memories still to be created will be great also.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy this wonderful friend!\u00a0 You loved her as a baby, a little girl, a young lady; and now you get to enjoy her as a friend.\u00a0 The miles may separate you, but nothing can break that special bond that you share.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:25px;width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5595\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}