Are you familiar with the Five Love Languages, a concept popularized by author Dr. Gary Chapman? Today, let’s look at the love languages in terms of our relationship with Jesus. Jesus is fully God and fully human. We sometimes forget that Jesus is truly human, though. It can be helpful sometimes to reflect on the very human ways that he loves us and wants to connect with us. Let’s do that today with the idea of the five love languages. How does Jesus want you to love him in each of these ways?
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Do we ever stop to realize that Jesus delights in being loved back? Jesus is fully God and fully human, our love consoles his heart.
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My new book, Whisper: Finding God in the Everyday, is still available for pre-order! We will be hosting a mini book club, right here in the podcast, beginning in June. I hope you will join us!
Five Love Languages:
- Words of Affirmation
We can love Jesus and thank him in our prayers, but also in our conversations with others.
- Quality Time
We can make daily prayer time a priority and not allow other things to take up that space in our daily routines.
- Physical Touch
We can connect with Jesus’ physical presence through the sacraments — especially the Eucharist and Confession.
- Acts of Service
We can look for ways to offer up small sacrifices for the love of God.
- Receiving Gifts
The gift Jesus wants most from us is the gift of ourselves. We can consecrate our lives to him and give him our life, our work, and our will.
At the end of today’s show, I share with you how you can get access to the free playlist I put together for Whisper: Finding God in the Everyday. It’s a collection of songs that I find inspiring on the themes I cover in the book, and I hope you will enjoy listening and praying along with it too. You can get the playlist when you text the word WHISPER to 33-777
I have received so much feedback from all of you about my book and the first chapter that I shared with you at the end of episode 210. Giving Thanks and Letting Go: Reflections on the Gift of Motherhood is a book in which I share from my heart about the very real changes, challenges, triumphs, and joys of being a mom in an “emptying nest.” You can read that sample chapter at Ave Maria Press.
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Danielle Bean is the author of many books on Catholic marriage, motherhood, and women’s spirituality, and a well-known Catholic podcaster and media figure. In all of her efforts, Danielle encourages and celebrates all women on their unique vocational paths. She is the host of the Girlfriends podcast as well as the author of Momnipotent: The Not-So-Perfect Woman’s Guide to Catholic Motherhood, Whisper: Finding God in the Everyday, and You Are Enough.
Danielle is a dynamic retreat leader and an engaging speaker on a variety of subjects related to Catholic family life, education, marriage, and motherhood. She has been married to her husband, Dan, for 26 years and together they have 8 children.
