Introduction

What is Unconditional Love?

Unconditional love says, I will not only love you if you do what I say or behave in the right way, but I will love you anyway. Unconditional love is a quiet understanding, a mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. Unconditional love is loyalty through good times and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Unconditional love is content with the present as it hopes for the future. Unconditional love doesn't brood over the past. It has no day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, and disappointments. But rather it shares big victories, and common goals. If you have unconditional love in your life, it can make up for many things that are missing. If you don't have unconditional love in your life, no matter how wealthy you are, there is never enough.

To love unconditionally is to find happiness in making others happy. It is to understand what others think and feel and need and show you care in what you say and do. It is to know an other's weaknesses yet see them as strong. It is to accept others as they are; and when they fail your aspirations or spurn your outstretched arm, you keep the door of your heart open. It is to appreciate the importance of others and to help them appreciate their own importance. Most of all, unconditional love is losing ourselves in something greater than "self." Unconditional love is knowing all about your mate and loving them still, facing realities as they are and deliberately caring more.

 

Task

Your Task
1. In a mentoring team, discussion is essential. Allow each member to share ideas during each step of the WebQuest process.

2. During this study you will be discussing unconditional love.

3. Follow the six process steps.

Step 1 - Learn about the family history.

Step 2 - Read the case study and answer the reflection questions.

Step 3 - Produce a Problem Statement and add it to the Discussion/Communication box to share what you have done with others.

Step 4 - Use the Links to go on a WebQuest to research on the web.

Step 5 - Produce a Hypothesis and use the Discussion/Communication box to share what you have come up with.

Step 6 - Finally, use the Discussion/Communication box again to reflect and share on the learning experience.

 

Process

STEP 1 | STEP 2 | STEP 3 | STEP 4 | STEP 5 | STEP 6


Step 1: Learn about a family

Pick a family from the choices linked on the family history page and learn about a family, their history and all the struggles they are currently facing.
Step 2: Read a case study on the family you picked
Read a case study from one of the following categories that match the family history that you read from Step 1

newlyweds

grandparents raising their grandchild

Create a list on a piece of paper under the heading: "What do we know?" This may include data from the family history, the case study, or information based on prior knowledge.

 

STEP 1 | STEP 2 | STEP 3 | STEP 4 | STEP 5 | STEP 6

Step 3: Develop a Problem Statement

A problem statement should come from your analysis of what you know. The problem statement will probably have to be refined as new information is discovered and brought to bear on the situation. Typical problem statements may be based on discrepant events, incongruities, anomalies, or stated needs of the family.

Need Help? View Problem Statement Helps

"What is this families problem"

Problem Statement Discussion Boards

Enter The Family Life Curriculum Forum and submit your problem statement on the discussion page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forum Rules:

1. You must log on by creating a user name and password.

2. Each group should maintain the same user name to enable discussion consistency.

3. You may not use the discussion boards for sales or advertisements.

4. You may not use profanity.

5. Respect and courtesy for others is required.

 

Step 4: Gather information on the Web

Search for what you need to know about your study

List on paper what is needed for your family. Presented with the problem, you will need to find information on this topic to research family issues. Make a second list on your paper under the heading: "What do we need to know?" These questions will guide searches that will take place on-line.

Click here to research the newlyweds
Click here to research the single Mom
Click here to research the blended family
Click here to research the grandparents

Step 5: Formulate a hypothesis

Under the heading: "What should we do?" list actions that may be taken, recommendations and solutions.

Need Help? View Hypothesis Helps

"What should we do?"

Hypothesis Statement Discussion Boards

Enter The Family Life Curriculum Forum and submit your hypothesis statement on the discussion page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forum Rules:

1. You must log on by creating a user name and password.

2. Each group should maintain the same user name to enable discussion consistency.

3. You may not use the discussion boards for sales or advertisements.

4. You may not use profanity.

5. Respect and courtesy for others is required

 

 

STEP 1 | STEP 2 | STEP 3 | STEP 4 | STEP 5 | STEP 6

Step 6: Reflection and Sharing

As part of reflection and sharing, present your findings and recommendations. The presentation should bring together all the material gathered in the previous steps. Analyze the problem statement, questions, data gathered, analysis of data, and support for solutions and recommendations based on other peoples comments in the discussion pages to make an argument to support your solution.

Need Help? View Reflection Helps

"Conclusion"

Reflection Statement Discussion Boards

Enter The Family Life Curriculum Forum and submit your reflection statement on the discussion page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forum Rules:

1. You must log on by creating a user name and password.

2. Each group should maintain the same user name to enable discussion consistency.

3. You may not use the discussion boards for sales or advertisements.

4. You may not use profanity.

5. Respect and courtesy for others is required.

 

Conclusion

Lets see what we have learned!

Unconditional love is not natural to our human nature. If we want unconditional love we must first learn it from God, the master of love.

A little boy was told by his doctor that he could save his sister's life by giving her some blood. The six-year-old girl was near death, a victim of disease from which the boy had made a marvelous recovery two years earlier. Her only chance for restoration was a blood transfusion from someone who had previously conquered the illness. Since the two children had the same rare blood type, the boy was the ideal donor. "Johnny, would you like to give your blood for Mary?" the doctor asked. The boy hesitated. His lower lip started to tremble. Then he smiled, and said, "Sure, Doc. I'll give my blood for my sister." Soon the two children were wheeled into the operating room-Mary, pale and thin; Johnny, robust and the picture of health. Neither spoke, but when their eyes met, Johnny grinned. As his blood siphoned into Mary's veins, one could almost see new life come into her tired body. The ordeal was almost over when Johnny's brave little voice broke the silence, "Say Doc, when do I die?" It was only then that the doctor realized what the moment of hesitation, the trembling of the lip, had meant earlier. Little Johnny actually thought that in giving his blood to his sister he was giving up his life! And in that brief moment, the final decision that he had made was the greatest love of all. The unconditional sacrificing love.

The most important lesson we need to gain from this study is that our families are redeemed by the unconditional sacrificing love of Jesus. So using this family curriculum should teach us to have the same unconditional sacrificing love as Christ.