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Be The 3rd

Be The 3rd

By: Jackie Melvin
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 And God said let us make humans in our image Hey friends, Welcome to be the third podcast where we talk openly and honestly about our interpersonal, intrapersonal, and Divine communication processes. I’m your host Jackie Melvin, a writer, and a teacher. I have been succeeding and failing at relationship my entire life. As we all have, but I have spent that same lifetime reading, writing, studying, and praying to understand God’s unique design for communication, and relationship. I know that the success and failure of all our relationships come down to how we are communicating right now, with ourselves and others How we should be communicating, with ourselves and others and how we communicate with God through, what I like to call Divine communication, our unique personal relationship with Him. We know that God is a God of relationship and being made in His image we then are also made for relationship. As his most precious creation He desire nothing more than to be in a relationship with us. We desire nothing more than to be in relationship with others. Our greatest commandment is to love Him and because all humans were made in His image, we are also called to love others. Here at be the third we emphasize God’s design for relationship. God first, other’s second, ourselves third. And once we begin communicating the way God intended and continue to follow his design for relationship, we will better understand relationship dynamics, and our unique communication capabilities, and loving God and loving others will become much easier. Relationships are not always easy, and many times we can’t maneuver through the murky waters on our own. But, we can rejoice to know that God has not let us down. He has given us unique capabilities and special gifts to help in our journey along with His promise to never leave us. Be The 3rd is a reminder that we will find peace in all our relationship struggles once we remember to put God first, others second, and ourselves third.Jackie Melvin Copyright 2023 Personal Development Personal Success Relationships Social Sciences
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  • A Closer Look at Jesus' Love Language

    A Closer Look at Jesus' Love Language
    Oct 26 2023
     

    We all have a preferred love language, certain acts of love that we desire more than others. This is true in all of our relationshps not just our romantic relationships. 

    Love languages are how we communicate love to each other, they are: 

    ·       Words of affirmation

    ·       Quality time

    ·       Physical touch

    ·       Acts of service

    ·       Receiving gifts

    Jesus has a preferred love language, not listed above but is the foundation of all the others and they way that He first communicated His love to us. 

    Sacrifice

    Romans 5:8 

    God demonstrated His love to us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    Matthew 16:24-25

    Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

    Micah 6:8  

    He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
        And what does the Lord require of you?
    To act justly and to love mercy
        and to walk humblya]">[a] with your God.

    Ephesians 4:22-27  

    You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds;24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

    Chapman, G. D. (1992). The 5 love languages: The secret to love that lasts. Northfield

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    13 mins
  • The Value of Storytelling

    The Value of Storytelling
    Sep 15 2023

    Today on Bethe3rd we’re going to be talking about storytelling and how important this simple act of communication is to our world and our wellbeing.

    Storytelling goes back to the very beginning of time.

    It is one of our best and most beneficial learning tools. It emphasizes the storyteller’s creativity and engages the listener in critical thinking. It helps the storyteller convey critical life skills and lessons without long drawn out technical or complicated words or phrases.

    Human beings love stories and God knew this because. He created us in His image, and this is how Jesus communicated with us.

    Storytelling is the preferred teaching method of Jesus. A parable is defined as a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.  

    Stories keep conversations moving along, and can help to build relationships. They are also fun and lighthearted.

    We all have stories to tell and they all have the ability to lead, inspire, encourage, and comfort, so tell your stories often.

     

    Duarte, N. (2010). Resonate: Present visual stories that transform audiences. Hoboken: John Wiley

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    Phillips, D. J. (2017, March 16). The magical science of storytelling | TEDxStockholm. Retrieved from

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj-hdQMa3uA.

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  • The Beauty of the Face

    The Beauty of the Face
    Sep 4 2023
      If we are to love others as ourselves and have been made for relationship and to be in community with others than I can only believe that its true that…. “Our survival depends on understanding the actions, intentions and emotions of others.” (Dr. Giacomo Rizzolatti) We have heard that the eyes are the window to the soul.  Although very poetic this just isn’t so. According to most experts in order to know the human soul we must see the face.  Today on Be the 3rd we will be discussing how important the face is. Weather the world judges your face as beautiful or homely it just doesn’t matter. All of our faces are beautiful in the fact that they allow others to know us, and understand us, to feel what we feel and to share in our experiences with us. In conjunction with our mirror neuron system our faces are indeed the window into our souls and the very tool that God gave us to truly know others so that loving them like ourselves becomes the easy, selfless act it was always meant to be. God has given us this gift of the face. Regardless of how the world judges it, God has made a beautiful window that allows us to see into the souls of others. With the help of our mirror neurons, we get past our selfishness. Once we feel what others feel naturally, subconsciously it becomes easy to put them just below God yet above us and love them as ourselves.                                                                                   Scripture 1 Pet 3:8 - Finally, all of you, be like minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.  Rom 12:15 - Rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn. 1 John 3:17 - If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in the person?  Matt 22:39 - And the second is like it: Love you neighbor as yourself. Matt 9:36 - When he saw the crowds, he had compasisonn on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.  Luke 7:13 - When the Lord saw her, his heat went out to her and he said, "Don't cry." Psalm 103:13-14 - As a father has compassionn on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.  1 Pet 5:7 - Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.  John 11:35 - Jesus wept.  References  The CW, VH1, Bravo, UPN. (2003, May 20). America's Next Top Model. whole. Blakeslee, S. (2006, January 10). Cells That Read Minds. New York Times. Crampton, L. (2016, July 28). The brain: Broca's and Wernicke's areas and the circle of willis. Owlcation. Retrieved February 24, 2022, from https://owlcation.com/stem/Exploring-the-Brain-Three-Regions-Named-after-Scientists Darwin, C., Prodger, P., & Ekman, P. (1998). The expression of the emotions in man and animals essay on the history of the illustration / by Philip Prodger (Anniversary Edition). Oxford University Press. Dimberg, U. (1982). Facial reactions to facial expressions. Psychophysiology, 19(6), 643–647. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1982.tb02516.x Duchenne, G.-B., & Cuthbertson, R. A. (2006). The mechanism of human facial expression. Cambridge University Press. Ekman, P. (2003). Emotions revealed: Recognizing faces and feelings to improve communication and emotional life. Henry Holt and Co. Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (2003). Unmasking the face: A guide to recognizing emotions from facial expressions. Malor Books. Glenberg, A. M. (2006). Naturalizing Cognition: The Integration of Cognitive Science and Biology. Current Biology, 16(18). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.08.044 Goleman, D. (2006). Social Intelligence: The revolutionary new science of human relationships. Bantam Books. Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, J. T., & Rapson, R. L. (1994). Emotional contagion. Cambridge Univ. Press. Iacoboni, M. (2009). Mirroring people: The science of empathy and how we connect with others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Keysers, C., & Fadiga, L. (2015). The Mirror Neuron System. Psychology Press. Ramachandran, V. S. (2012). The tell-tale brain: A Neuroscientist's quest for what makes Us human. W.W. Norton. Rifkin, J. (2016). The Sentient Interpretation of Biologica Evolution. In The empathic civilization: The race to global consciousness in a world in crisis (pp. 82–104). essay, Polity. Rizzolatti, G. (n.d.). An Emotional Mirror Mechanism. www.gocognitive.net. Retrieved February 24, 2022, from https://youtu.be/y_KlrOPih9s Rizzolatti, G., Fadiga, L., Gallese, V., & Fogassi, L. (1996). Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions. Cognitive Brain Research, 3(2), 131–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/0926-6410(95)00038-0 Siegel, D. J. (2007). The Mindful Brain: Reflection and attunement in the cultivation of well-being. W.W. Norton & Co. WhiteSmoke, W.-L. L. S. by. (n.d.). 11 insane (but true) things about smiling: WhiteSmoke. Retrieved February 24, 2022, from http://...
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