Life Ties: Cultivating Relationships That Make Life Worth Living

by Judith K. Balswick, Boni Piper

Connection. Intimacy. Relationship. Whatever we call it, most of us have a desire to be understood at the core of our being. Yet that core part of us is not all strong - it also contains our weakness and brokenness. So we want God, family and friends to know and love us, but fear that if they really know us they will reject us.
Judith Balswick and Boni Piper believe that God uses close relationships to make us whole. Longtime counselors and close friends for twenty years, they have learned how we can overcome our fear of knowing and being known, how we can enrich relationships and be healed through them.

172 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1995

About the author

Judy Balswick (MA, EdD) is senior professor of marital and family therapy at the Department of Marriage and Family School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, California).