JoeUser Forums[quote"]I like the pink writing Poetmom!!!" Thanks! Just wanted something a little more "me" for my responses. :)
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. Few issues are worth a long-running feud or a heated debate with your mate. It's best to simply accept that you will not see all things from your spouse's point of view at times and vice versa. Perhaps your differences of opinion center around a political viewpoint or a philosophical stan
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CULTIVATING COMMUNITY TAKES HONESTY You will have to care enough to lovingly speak the truth, even when you would rather gloss over a problem or ignore an issue. Often we know what needs to be said to someone, but our fears prevent us from saying anything. Real fellowship depends on frankness, but frankness is not a license to say anything you want, whenever and w
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"My wife and I eat dinner together every night, and when we have our children the same will happen. None of this eating dinner at different times. That's not how a family works." Occasionally, because of the schedules and activities the children are involved in, especially as they have gotten into their teen years, it's impossible to have all three of them here every night.....but anyone who can be is expected to be here for dinner, which is a
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Hey Dharma...it's just the teacher in me coming out again...and I hope you won't take this the wrong way...but it just dawned on me why the title didn't look right....it's "loneliest" :)
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Real fellowship includes unselfish loving, honest sharing, practical serving, sacrificial giving, sympathetic comforting, and all the other "one another" commands in the New Testament. Every Christian needs to be involved in a small group within their church, whether it is a home fellowship group, a Sunday school class or a Bible study. IN REAL FELLO
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Are you always eating on the run? Tonight, will dinner amount to grabbing a quick burger from a drive-thru? If so, you're missing out on an opportunity to communicate with your mate. As often as possible, share your meal at the table in the quiet of your own home. Don't plan a big production, or your sit-down dinner plans will seldom materialize. The
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"I agree that the basis for a good and lasting marriage are commitment and love. I also agree that commitment is a choice. I'd contend with you that love is a decision. The course of my marriage has not always run smooth, and there have been times when it would have been easier for us both to have thrown up our hands and walked away..it would have been easy to do this had we not loved each other. I can't NOT love him. I've never been able to NOT love h
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"I said this before - I never understood how it was possible to be in a room full of people but still feel desperately lonely until we started this remote assignment. I think that's what my problem is, and has been recently...all the months of separation are finally starting to wear on me a little. I have friends, but that's not what I need right now. I need my love, my one and my only. He's the only one who can satiate the needs I have. Ah we
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it is very easy to blame someone else for your own bad decisions. *You* signed the waiver, *You* went along with what your command wanted without checking your options. Exactly....but it's so much easier to play "blame the government" than to say "I made an error in judgement."
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the one nation that IS "allowed" to exist is the Jewish nation of Israel; criticism in this vein will get you labelled an "anti-Semite" (regardless of the fact that 90% of Muslims are Semites and less than 10% of Jews are - 90% of Jews are white Khazars that use the so-called "Holocaust" myth to elevate themselves to Preferred Op
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And finally, if you know thousands of people who would disagree *that actively work in the military*, then I'll give you a hundred thousand that don't, because I don't know one person who wants to be in Iraq. Not one. And now that my army buddies are back, my marine friends and relatives have taken their place, and EVERY SINGLE O
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[quote"]If only America could get as worked up over students' reading, writing, math, history, and critical thinking as they do about petty rules." As a parent AND a teacher, I am very "worked up" about all of those things, believe me.
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" I think is is shallow to pick on something like spelling especially when it is a proper name of someone whose ideals I do not subscribe["/quote] So if someone were to incorrectly spell the name of Jesus, consistently, you would not be bothered by it or see it as a possible sign of intentional disrespect, as long as it was done by someone who doesn't subscribe to His ideals?
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"An unfortunate symptom of my church status is that I tend to think of non-Christians as atheists. My profound apologies, I really am trying to work on it." OMGoodness....Jews, Hindus, Moslems, Buddhists, etc.....they're all ATHEISTS in your mind? And you had the nerve to refer to ME as closeminded? Yeah, right!!!!
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Where there is room in the heart there is always room in the house. If you're like most, living life gets messy, especially if you add children, pets, appliances that break down, and an occasional bout with the flu. Keeping a house that looks magazine perfect is a full-time job and doesn't allow much time for real living. The flip side is that utter
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We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves. While your relationship to Christ is personal, God never intends it to be private. Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree. WHY
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"To gain respect for LAW, we must be responsible for changing all the bad LAWS." Very well said....and I agree 100%.
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"It was too good to be true, it really was. I was witnessing karma in action. B had succeeded in making a total fool out of herself, and I hadn't had to do anything to help her! I hadn't needed to be vindictive, I hadn't needed to be underhanded, I hadn't had to force anything to happen....it all came to pass without any intervention from me. This was literally an ephiphany for me. It all became clear; everything I had learned and had been trying to pu
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"Defending someone's right to say something is not the same as agreeing with what they said." Good point...to look on the up side of this incident, as someone else said, it brings their true colors more out into the open, and people who don't agree with that sentiment, such as myself, can be sure no immediate family members ever attend there, and that the university never receives our support in any way, shape or form. I am truly di
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"Thank you Pat Tilman for being the role model America so desperately needs." Amen to that....he and his story were the topic of our dinner table conversation this evening. I don't usually point out athletes as heroes or role models, but this is one major exception. Thank God for him, and may God bless his family.
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I read this earlier today, and saw the photo. What I saw was a very solemn, very respectful picture, which did not warrant anyone losing their job. I suppose the government believes we won't realize people are actually dying if they don't allow those photos out to the general public? @@ Okay, I know, they made some noise about protecting the privacy of the families. IMO, seeing as how no family members are pictured, no names are attached anywh
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"A Birmingham ‘alternative’ high school saw fit to steal cell phones from over a hundred students, who were minding their own business but breaking a State statute disallowing “ALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES” from school grounds. And, thank GOD! fifty or so parents got angry enough about this perfidious brain-dead behavior to demand an accounting. I’m telling you, people will rise up against the BullShit just as likely when the stakes are small as when the iss
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"baptism was an out ward symbol that a person had dedicated their life to God and to obey His voice. Hence a child does not yet have the knowledge required to propose such a dedication.( John 17:3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.) So it is up to the parent to hold a relationship with God for the safety of their child" This is why I belie
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. Before you enter any other appointments on your weekly planner, reserve a standing date night with your mate. Schedule this time as you would any other important business meeting. Free nights seldom, if ever, magically appear. If your calendar or bank accou
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