Congrats Carol and Mike on the anniversary. Many more loving years to you.
Interesting how that scripture is sandwiched between to contencious ones as
if they were two pieces of white bread. Did you know white bread isn't good
for you either? hahaha.
Brad
At 10:06 AM 6/5/2007, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Well, our fourteenth wedding anniversary is here and we reflected, last
>night, that we hadn't really got anything planned or even anything special
>to eat . . .. Of course, we went to sleep content in the knowledge that
>we were His and He had given us each other!
>
>My phone rang today and it was Mike on the other end.
>
>As part of today's reading he'd read Proverbs 19.
>
>Now, some of you may have got there . . .. (I needed a little reminder.)
>
>He said: Read verse 14 but not 13 and 15!
>
>Of course, I read 14 first and went "Ah, lovely" as a smile spread across
>my face! Then I read 13 and 15 and laughed!
>
>How good is our God!
>
>Here are the verses for any who want to read:
>
>Proverbs 19:13-15 Amplified Bible:
>
>13A self-confident and foolish son is the [multiplied] calamity of his
>father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continual dripping [of
>water through
>a chink in the roof].
>
>14House and riches are the inheritance from fathers, but a wise,
>understanding, and prudent wife is from the Lord.(A)
>
>15Slothfulness casts one into a deep sleep, and the idle person shall
>suffer hunger.
>
>On the note of hunger, I have now found us something special to eat . . .
>and I'm off to do some preparation!
>
>Love to you all:
>
>--
>Carol - Reading, UK
>
>To you, o Lord, I lift up my soul;
>In You I trust, o my God. . . .." PS25:1-2 NIV.
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