November 2011
22 posts
Heebie-Jeebies About Marriage →
“In the context of your question, a key part of being married is making room for both people in the relationship.”
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Why (or When) We Take Things For Granted
Because we don’t notice it when it’s there, but only when it’s gone.
Because we don’t motivate and reinforce positive behaviour, and wish we did after it’s been taken from us.
Because it happens so often we think it’s going to happen anyway, until it doesn’t.
Because we’ve gotten used to it being there that it no longer catches out attention,...
“Very often it’s not so much what you say it is that matters - its what it...”
“Don’t try to convince me that I can simply keep it from him. Whether he...”
– Overheard conversation between two girls on the train, about their boyfriends
“Just because one never bears the effects of something going wrong doesn’t...”
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“Love knows the cost of each gift - particularly from the giver’s...”
“It’s a very small man, who thinks that everyone who happens to agree with...”
“Your time is the most precious thing you can give anyone.”
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“People don’t change overnight.”
“Whether it turns out to be for 5 minutes or 5 hours, nobody likes to have wait...”
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Before you do anything...
…think about that special someone else.
Just for that moment, put aside all of your own thoughts. You may see things one way, but you must also remember that a lot of your information is based on your own experience and another person’s information on your experience and processes are limited because they don’t share the same life or the same brain. 80% of your information comes...
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“Just because you haven’t reached the breaking point doesn’t always...”
Singleness, Marriage and Credibility | Boundless... →
Exerpt:
I believe that married folk (such as myself) can offer meaningful, honest and (hopefully) helpful counsel on the subject of singleness. But I also believe those of us trying to do so need to be very careful not to take our own experiences with God and dating and courtship and make them normative for everyone else. It may be something in our experience can help others in similar...