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Truth Wisdom Freedom - September 2006

Commitment in Marriage.

September 30th 2006 03:48
One of the great things, when you have a marriage in which you are totally committed to each other, is that you can argue properly, because your spouse is not going to "solve the problem' by walking out the door! You have the freedom to say what is deep in your heart.

Of course wisdom doesn't use this freedom to hurl abuse at the spouse. But it does allow for complete expression of the issue. This must be one of the greatest of advantages over a tenuous live-in relationship.

(Yes, I know marriages break up, but I'm talking about the totally committed marriage. This comment was made by a pastor whose first marriage did break up and whose second marriage is one of total commitment to each other. Both partners are very clear and stabilised on this.)


What other advantages can you think of in this kind of relationship?
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Wisdom in Quotes

September 30th 2006 03:24
I have a stack of favourite wise quotations beginning to fill up a thick book. Here are some of my favourites, and I invite you to add yours to the list.

Efficiency is doing things right,. Effectiveness is doing right things. Dr Peter Drucker.

A father's greatest gift tohis children is to love their mother! Mother's greatest gift to her children is to honour their father!

How do you measure success/ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
To laugh often and much
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children.
To earn the appreciation of honest critics, and endure the betrayal of false friends.

To appreciate beauty.
To find the best in others.
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a redeemed social condition or a job well done.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.


The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. Colin Wilson.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker.
My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us but to call out our courage and strength.

You don't get a second chance to create a first impression

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.

Serving others is the foundation for relationships Everyone loves when someone serves them. Chris Widener.
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Pre-marital Cohabitation and Virginal Marriage

September 29th 2006 13:44
I listened to a radio show today about the current practice of living with a partner before marriage and gained some interesting insights.

1. It’s done, supposedly, to test whether people are compatible and able to live together. This makes it a performance-based relationship. Very often the performance is about sex and the deeper things that build relationship are omitted altogether.
2. If eight couples so engage, four will never marry. Of the four who do, three couples will break up (much higher percentages than for those who marry as virgins)
3. There is a natural barrier formed because there is no certainty about permanence (which is what most people want at heart) and therefore protective installations take place.
4. If the girl gets pregnant, the most frequent experience is that her fellow will leave after two years and she will have the responsibility of the child(ren) alone. The fact was that, even though she was permitted to believe that marriage would follow, it was never on his agenda.
5. The incidence of unfaithfulness (both male and female) are very much higher.

Marriages where the couple are celibate until marriage have a much greater success rate, more stable and successful children.

The new suggestion was that in depth and personally tailored marriage counselling needs to occur pre-engagement, so that the couple can truly assess their prospects and learn the important factors that build marriage partners into a powerful team.

The marriage counsellors are ideally examples of successful marriage so that they have experience to talk from as well as learning.

The radio broadcast was from Focus on the Family
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Freedom: What is it?

September 27th 2006 16:42
In a famous Australian court case an innocent mother went to gaol for the murder of her baby daughter, declaring her innocence and that the child was taken by a dingo! Many years later, after three years imprisonment, marriage breakdown, and much personal wear and tear, it was established that her story was right. A lie put her in prison but could not take her innocence. She held consistently to her story, and was totally free of guilt.

Once the truth was revealed she was able to live free of the lie, especially in America where it did not follow her everywhere


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Blessing and Violence

September 27th 2006 13:46
There are two possibilities when we a re interacting with another person. Either we benefit them or we harm them. Not to benefit them is actually to harm them by neglect if nothing else because no-one likes to be ignored! It damages self-esteem.

At a barbecue I once was told how the leader of a team on an oil rig managed his men. When they made a mistake he simply said "Next time try it this way." and showed them how to do it. These guys actually loved their boss, they told me,for he was like a father to them. This was not your usual reaction for rig boys. They liked being treated as intelligent even when they made a mistake.They enjoyed someone who was interested in their development career-wise. It pleased them to be invited to a barbecue outside of work and make them feel valuable (hospitality is a wonderful gift for building people's personal worth


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Banish Depression!

September 26th 2006 02:10
Much depression, I believe, is caused by believing a lot of lies about oneself. Over a period of time, especially in one's impressionable childhood, one perceives the comments of parents, schoolmates, teachers, siblings, family. Seeing that you are a child, you tend to think they know better than you, and so you believe what is said about you. Together with your feelings about things, it all goes deep down into your bones and you build a life around what you have believed about yourself.

This is not a life that is proportionate with your potential, with what God has placed in you in terms of talent etc. Trying to balance the lies and keep pace with what you suppose the world expects of you is a huge struggle. Depression can be over-powering


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Start at the Beginning

September 23rd 2006 13:41
The Knowledge of God is the beginning of wisdom.

When you look out of your window in the morning and see the sunlight shining through the trees, the birds merrily eating the food freely provided for them, the dew on the grass, the exuberance of the spring flowering, you just know there is a grand design somewhere. After all, nothing ever came from nothing. It just doesn’t make sense


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Tithing the Tree!

September 21st 2006 10:33
We received exciting new wisdom today in prayer meeting, about tithing.

Tithing is the habit Christians have of giving to God the very first 10% of gross income, before tax, before expenses. This money then goes towards the expenses of the church and the ministry work that is done from there


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A Favourite Word

September 19th 2006 10:49
Today a fictional story about what might have happened before Adam sinned, when God first planted him inthe Garden of Eden.

“Walk” is a favourite word in our house


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Generousity

September 15th 2006 05:34
Proverbs 11:25 The generous soul will be made rich.

A seed sown in the ground grows and produces a plant, a flower, a hundred new seeds. Just imagine, if he had kept the original seed he would have only one


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Listen Up!

September 15th 2006 05:29
“Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.”

There are those who will listen and consider words of experience, and there are those who are completely content with the wisdom (or lack therof) they already have


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Trapped!

September 15th 2006 05:15
I met a builder who always had excuses why his men’s pay was not ready. He lost his men and then his partners, and ended up being limited to projects he could do by himself. God’s natural justice goes a long way. This builder was caught in his own trap. No-one would work for him.

There are quite a number of verses in scripture that explain this principle


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Egomania

September 15th 2006 05:06
Mr. Proudman.

Hey there folks. I’ve been to self-esteem school. I’ve climbed mountains, been bungy-jumping, skydiving. I’ve broken through the fear barrier. My intelligence can solve all my problems and provide all the answers I need. I’ve had business success. I can live life ‘my way’ to quote Frank Sinatra. I love myself, because you can’t love others until you love yourself. I can do anything I want and no-one can stop me. I have good looks I value my life so I’m out to get everything I can out of it. You only live once! You can be my friend if you accept my terms and live up to my expectations. Quality is what I’m after and I don’t suffer fools gladly


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Honour the Feminine

September 14th 2006 14:48
‘A gracious woman retains honour,” says Proverbs 11:16.

Feminism has tried to equalise men and women. Extreme feminism has tried to dispense with men altogether. This has caused great pain to (you could even say disenfranchised) many men and to huge numbers of children who have grown up under the influence of having the father’s role negated. Feminism was valuable to protect women from abuse by a percentage of men. However, anything taken to excess just swings the pendulum to the opposite extreme


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The Family House

September 14th 2006 14:44
The Family House

When you build a house (family) several essentials are there


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A Nose Ring?

September 14th 2006 14:22
If a rich man who loved his pet pig (pet pigs were in a while ago!) and wanted her as a house pet were to put a gold ring in her nose to signify his affection, would this make her suitable to live with? Probably not. Her large size and ingenuity for knocking things over would not be affected. She’d be bowling up to people and knocking them down with affection! She’d come in all muddy from the water feature in the back yard or from digging under the peach tree. The gold ring would never cover up for her lack of social graces.

“As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a lovely woman who lacks discretion.” says Proverbs11:22


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Integrity

September 14th 2006 09:24
Integrity

Prov 11:3


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