Agape Love, God's Love

What I found interesting reading throughout the semester, was one of the concepts discussed in chapter 9, agape love, which is an unconditional love. Many a times, we tend to label love on the things we receive from people, especially in a relationship. Love itself, has to be sacrificial, it involves giving out one self not expecting the same measure back.  Agape love is the greatest among all other kind of love, but sad to say not everyone is walking in the reality of it. To have a fruitful, healthy and lasting relationship, both individuals must embrace agape love which is the love God has set for us as human beings to emulate. God is the founder of agape love, because He loved us so much that he gave everything to us, even His son Jesus Christ, what else he can’t give to us. That is love in action. When we love this way, the earth is going to be like heaven to live forever. this is a concept, in the book, i think i would like to discuss further on in life, because it brings about every solution in human relationship. if we embrace this kind of love, in our sick world, it will bring healing to every thing that has gone wrong.

fun class

My favorite things about this class, was being able to blog with different people taking this class and share their philosophy about what was in the book. The commentary I got on my blog as well made me feel good, that people also do appreciate what I had to say. One of the interesting things about this class was the textbook used. It is book, I would like to keep on my book shelve and make reference to at all times. This book brought a lot of insight to me about interpersonal communication. I thought communication was all about just talking about you and listening to the other, but the book made me understand that, it is ok to do just that, but there are other dimensions to communication. The only thing, I felt, I wasn’t satisfied with the class, was the fact that, there was no medium to check out the correction on the quizzes and exams. That I think should be a thing to improve on, in the future, but overall, the class was fun and insightful.

mindful listening, the key

One of the concepts I learnt in this book was mindful listening. Even though I thought I pay close attention to every conversation I engage in, the book explained it beyond my own understanding. Mindful listening is very important in all works of life, especially to maintain a healthy relationship. Men always fall short in this aspect, because they like to get straight to the issue, while women wants to tell about every detail in their conversation. I ran into a lot of problem, at work, with my family members and even my relationship, because I wasn’t a good mindful listener. There is a saying, that experience is the best teacher, and knowledge is never enough. As I read through this concept in the book, I had to evaluate myself and did a check and balance on aspect I need to be take into consideration when engaging in a conversation.