Have you ever been questioned by someone engaged in collecting information by Gallup poll or some similar fact-finding agency? If you have, you were probably forced to say ‘Don’t know’ in response to some question or other. ‘Don’t know’ means either, ‘I haven’t sufficient information…
Are all good homes alike? Is there a mould in which they are cast or a set of parts out of which they are built? And, if so, do we simply set it up and let it look after itself? No, life is never like that.
But there are family likenesses, marks of identification, things held in common by good ho…
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HOW strange that sweet love should bring so much heartache. Almost everyone has known it from the earliest days in the upper forms at school when previously unexperienced feelings sweep us off our feet: sometimes, alas, not to be requited and leaving us desolate. Later, when at college or our first …
What’s gone wrong? The dream seems to have been shattered; the peaceful and comforting harmony is in discord, and it hurts. Can our happiness be recaptured? Almost always, it can.
Unexpected?
Did we really expect perfection? After all, two sinners have become man and wife and that provides fer…
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CASUAL friendships are different from ‘going steady’, as Americans say. Our first meeting may be the result of being unexpectedly brought together at a gathering or at someone’s wedding. A spark is kindled. Perhaps it is the response to a look or to the way in which the other person speaks or …
IN Britain, it is compulsory by law to take out insurance to cover injury or damage we might cause to other persons and to their vehicles when driving our own. It is a sensible law and provides some redress when other people suffer loss or injury.
We live in a world where third party damage t…
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THERE is no more precious moment than, when returning from the honeymoon, we enter our home or flat or rooms, and close the door with our two selves on the inside, not having to go our separate ways again. Around us are the things we have accumulated and those given to us as wedding presents. The ta…
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THE Scripture tells us plainly that “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus”.
(Galatians 3:28)
This cannot mean that there are no such things as Jews and Gentiles, slaves and freemen, men and wome…
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NO bride, however much in love, would think of running down the aisle at the wedding ceremony. No maiden, however much in love, should think of becoming engaged too hastily. Engagement is not a means of ‘securing’ a companion who might otherwise get away. When we become engaged we have given a p…
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A WORLD in recession has made us starkly aware that ‘money does not grow on trees’. The ‘never-had-it-so good’ syndrome was a delusion, anyway, but whatever it was it has rapidly disappeared from the western world. It is time to take stock and get our thinking straight.
Some of us have be…
