text: Good article and a healthy reminder.  Thank you. 
  
  Indeed, as the author points out, compromise calls for personal sacrifice, and the happier and more abandoning the sacrifice we give the more growth that will occur within us. 
  
  Perhaps another way to look at it is that if we're not constantly feeling a little bit of complaint from (in St Paul's language) "the old man" we may not be living Christian love well enough, and we won't likely be growing on the inside, where God wants most of His work to be going on anyway!
  
  I guess then it's not compromise that is the glue of relationships but real love, which is always sacrificing.