Zeal

Life in Relationship

Listener question: How do I have a conversation with someone I disagree with when I feel passionately about something?

Annoyed, accosted, attacked, or acknowledgment – honoring people’s passions while setting our own boundaries

Tip 1 – root around your belief systems and consider how it impacts people

Tip 2 – use words to state our emotions as well as our thoughts

Define Zeal

- great energy or enthusiasm for a cause of goal (google)

- eagerness and ardent interest in something (webster)

- fervor, determination, combined with kindness equalling great devotion (urban dictionary)

- related to passion that is hard to govern

Tip 3 - What is the love within this? What is the fear within this?

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Tip 4 – reserve zeal for injustice to give power to the marginalized

Tip 5 – hate doesn’t help

- Ted Lasso – Be curious, not judgmental

Tip 6 – You can have boundaries

Opt out of conversations – place for avoidance and distraction, change of focus

Opt of relationships – what relationships in our life hold zeal in health and which are overwhelming

Boundaries with your own emotions

Resources:

Atlas of the Heart - https://amzn.to/46uBrRD

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