Youse is right on, Brad. I'd be a joik to disagree.
New Yawkuh lion wondering if he's talking like this because he's watching
the parade or got the accent from Julie's visit to New Yawk
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From: "BD" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: Soldiers Killed in Iraq
> Actually Paul, the situation of wife tugging the strings of the man's
> sensitivity and pulling him back a bit happened to me recently. I've
> thought of a few scriptures in which I violated their precepts in our
> particular situation. I rather quickly and a bit too firm, made comment to
> my daughter on a matter. She was offended and hurt, my wife tried to tell
> me what my daughter was meaning by her actions and comments. I saw it
only
> one way and did not see she was actually doing a nice thing, I took it as
a
> controlling type gesture and laid into her a bit. So my daughter was hurt
> and went off to lick her wounds, my wife was disappointed in my behavior,
> and I laid down to go to sleep. My wife's comments of how I was not seeing
> the situation for what it was gnawed at me enough until I started to
defend
> my position. My wife then proceeded to open my eyes to what really was
> going on and I then couldn't sleep until I made it right with my daughter.
> It was my wife's sensitivity that pulled me back a bit, and helped a good
> thing come out of a negative one. We are to love our wifes and they submit
> right? Submitting doesn't mean the guy pins her to the ground until she
> says uncle, and it doesn't mean they have no right to express their
> thoughts and feelings. Their is a balance that comes into play and if God
> isn't make the marriage a threesome, that is, sometimes the man loving
the
> wife because he, at the moment doesn't feel like it for some reason but
> does because he was ordered to by God and honors that, or perhaps the wife
> not feeling like submitting to hubby but does for the same reasons, then
> we are taking a holy union and removing the one thing that keeps it in
> line, God. I've heard it this way... that loving our wife is like a
gift
> to them, out of honor to God's command or directive, and the same goes for
> wife and submission.
>
> If you think about it, submission extracted from our wife without love to
> cradle it, produces man's chauvinistic tendencies, and love extracted
from
> man, without submission to honor it is harletry. Now thems strong "woids"
> eh? lol
>
> Brad
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