God and Attachment

By Christina Reese

A relationship with God can feel confusing. Is He a firm authority figure? Or a loving Father? Does loving justice and mercy at the same time make Him contradictory? How can we attach to God? This can feel complicated because when we think of relationship, we are all using the template, or internal framework, that our parents modeled for us. Parents are our first experience of a relationship, and we use that framework to understand and have relationships with those around us, including God. When we transfer the relationship our parents modeled onto our relationship with God, the frame often does not fit. We are applying a dysfunctional or imperfect framework to a perfect God. Our parents weren't perfect people, so they didn't model perfect relationship. What if we broke the frame and made a new one? What if we looked at what God modeled in his relationship with us and created a new understanding of what love and relationships should look like? What if we used His model to have relationships with Jesus, others and even our parents? This journey through the Bible with a lens of relationship and attachment may change the way you love others and most importantly, the way you attach to God based in how He is attaching to you. Applications at the end of each chapter with space to jot your thoughts will help to make this journey more personal as you grow in your relationship with Jesus. Dr. Christina Reese is an internationally recognized author, speaker and therapist. Specializing in trauma and attachment, this new book is a natural progression as she applies this lens to her other passion, her relationship with God.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D9QX3G9P
• ISBN13: 9798333531759
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 146 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"