I’ve said before how I love being around older couples who have been married and in love for a long time because they teach without even being aware that they do.
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Law vs Freedom – do not withold yourselves!
Marriage-purity-sex-family are all topics close to my heart and ones on which I’ve spent much time so when I read the Scriptures I’m always on the lookout for deeper understandings on these topics. I’ve read way too many books on these topics and in amongst them I have read a number of Christian teachers say that a wife should never withhold herself from sex and I have seen women damaged and part-way to deranged from their efforts to live out such teaching.
Continue reading “Law vs Freedom – do not withold yourselves!”Marriage and mercury
Once when I was little I broke an old mercury thermometer.
Mum found me playing with this liquid metal in my hands – watching it pull apart and flow perfectly back into itself.
Continue reading “Marriage and mercury”Older folk I admire
Another older couple I’ve spent time with were married a relatively short time considering their ages. They’d both been married before but had known so very much loss that at no point ever in the time I was with them did they look at each other with anything but sheer adoration.
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