Have you ever had a quiet moment when all of a sudden an illumination of understanding comes that is so monumental it decisively reorients your understanding? Early this morning while I was simply at rest and not mentally engaged in any particular thought, I had just such an experience. It didn’t come accompanied by…
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Love and marriage, love and marriage, Go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can’t have one without the other. Frank Sinatra, 1953 Automobiles are designed with their power sources, engines, or electric motors, located in three possible locations: front, middle, or rear. Marriage, however, is designed to operate…
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Shipshape Your Marriage! The word “shipshape” means: good and seamanlike order, prepared for all contingencies. Wouldn’t you like to have your marriage shipshape, strong, and prepared for whatever storms of life may come against it so they will not prevail and destroy the marriage “ship” or damage the hull beyond repair? In the book I…
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“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.” John 15:1, New International Version (NIV) Topiary is the horticultural practice of clipping foliage and twigs of trees and shrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful. In order to accomplish the most complex designs, a wire form is constructed in the ultimate desired shape for…
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