And the best news is that no matter how bad your earthly relationships have been, you have a Heavenly Father that loves you unconditionally and intensely. The best teacher when it comes tolearning how to relate to others is God. Our Creator knows what we need and made us to be conduits of his great love. God’s son, Jesus Christ, was Love incarnate. His life models for us what real love looks like. Jesus loved the whole world – even those who nailed him to a cross. Yet, his love was not a weak passive love. He often confronted the pious hypocrites of his day, and he reached out aggressively to social outcasts. By learning from the Master and inviting God’s Spirit to live in us and love through us, we can learn to live a life of love. While it is sometimes difficult to love, every act of love makes the world a better place. It changes the one who is loved, it expands the heart of the one who loves, and it sends ripples of love out into the world.

Walking – You would be surprised to discover the power behind a nice leisurely walk. There is something truly magical about making nature apart of your date. Although not everyone is fortunate enough to have a beach close to them, there is sure to be parks, waterfronts and old fashioned neighbourhoods awaiting your footsteps. Holding hands and talking on an evening stroll, watching the sunset in silence, and gazing up at the stars, are just some of the ways you can use simple beauty to add to the romantic atmosphere of your date. Due to the fact that traditions are an important part of Latin culture, dating someone of your same ethnic background is usually a plus when it comes to family relations, especially if you are interested in perusing a serious relationship with your dating partner. Nevertheless, despite your dating intentions, there are many ways you can make your dating experience a beautiful time that you can truly enjoy who knows where a little romance can take you.

This love has its genesis in doing. It is not a state of fantasy, but a process of action that is sincere and ever present. It starts with ourselves, and extends out to others. It is not love that we are fishing for, but feelings that we are giving to others. This kind of love, which won’t fail, is built upon your actions of worth. When we fill our lives, and our actions towards others, with things of value, things that we can respect – actions towards them and ourselves that are loving, respectful, generous, kind, love happens right then. The more actions of this kind that we take towards others and towards ourselves the stronger our foundation of love becomes. No matter how the other is behaving, we can always respond with an action of worth – with a kind word, a moment of forgiveness, a hug, with seeing the vision. We can open our hands and offer life to them, rather than close our hands and our hearts, embrace and comfort them in a special place.

The healing Gift of Love allows ourselves to be loved in whatever condition we arrive. True love can do this, selfish love cannot. Unconditional love can do this, judgemental love cannot. With pure love, the pains of the past start to disappear. The coldness of your heart begins to melt. Resentments give way to forgiveness. And comfort soothes the loneliness. To be on the receiving or giving end of this blissful love doesn’t matter. Many say, “You must first love yourself before you can love another.” I say it usually happens at the same time.

The old standby of dinner and a movie is a really poor choice for a first date. How will you get to know the lady if you are sitting in a darkened theater with a movie being shown? If you choose the movie, there is probably going to be a lot of frantic car chases and a lot of blood involved. Neither are conducive to creating a memorable evening.

Also, don’t take your date to your parent’s house! She will know right away that you are a mama’s boy and you will never see her again.

Don’t take your date to a sleazy bar with a motel out back. You will scare the poor woman to death. She will jump out of the car and hitchhike back to town believing that she would be safer with a burly truck driver than with you.

Now, some good first date ideas are:

Begin with a simple lunch or coffee date. You want to keep the date casual so suggesting meeting up for lunch or coffee can be a good start. This way, if the date didn’t go so well, you can end the date there but if you enjoy each other company, you have the rest of the day to spend getting to know each other better.

Here are some ideas of where to go if the lunch or coffee date tells you’re there is some good chemistry happening:

If it is the season, an amusement park or a theme park is a good first date idea. It doesn’t matter how old you are, we can all be big kids at heart. There are so much you can do at amusement parks and theme parks that most likely you will forget about the dating pressure and just have fun.

Most well populated areas have an array of museums covering many different subjects. Visiting one that is dedicated to something that you have in common with the woman is another good first date idea.