Where Do We Start and Why?

Although we have been relating all our life, we haven't been thoughtful about the contents. Only the results.  It's not that we can become relational experts instantly. But rather, it's the awareness that the fundamental human need and requirement is for relationship. But far more than that, it is the ingredients of relationship that we call relating. Although we cannot do many of these relating skills or qualities, we can learn them or be aware of them and put them into practice as best we can. Without awareness life is like a road that we're traveling along and we do not know how to operate the vehicle, or our means of propulsion. Perhaps more painful is we cannot interpret the road signs.