Did you know that it is the National Single and Unmarried American’s Week? Neither did I until I learned it from the New York Times! They believe that it’s a shame that we push people into marriage. Personal experience tells me that people in general don’t seem to have that problem.
The value of marriage is significantly less than it has ever been, and I believe this is for a variety of reasons:
One of the most interesting passages of Scripture on the topic of modesty is the one that we find ourselves faced with this morning—the topic of braided hair in 1 Peter 3:
“Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.”
1 Peter 3:1-4 ESV
What could God possibly have against braided hair?
Find out more at Is This Modest…
In the Country Song, Hot Mama, Trace Adkins confronts something all marriage relationships go through:
You’re doin’ all you can to get in them old jeans.
You want that body back, you had at seventeen.
Baby, don’t get down; don’t worry ’bout a thing.
‘Cause the way you fill ‘em out, hey, that’s all right with me.
I don’t want the girl you used to be.
An’ if you ain’t noticed, the kids are fast asleep,
We all know that bodies change, they never stay the same. For the wife and mother, this is even more dramatic. It seems that, for nine months, the soon to be mom is putting on weight, and then is expected to lose it all in the first few days after the baby makes its appearance.
Let alone the fact that there’s “sympathy weight” that the man gets, metabolisms going down, less time to get out and work out—it seems only the natural progression that the husband and the wife will put on weight.
But should that effect the relationship, does it?
Read more at Lies Wives Believe…
You know what really gets me going—the political theater that’s going on in Washington right now. For weeks I’ve been mulling over this thing, and I’ve come to a few conclusions.
The truth of the matter is, before any child is sent off to school, daycare, head-start or any of these locations outside of the home, they are homeschooled:
Until you put your child in a "head start" program or kindergarten, what had you been doing with them? Many parents of young children will say they are "thinking about" homeschooling, but their child is "only three" so they "haven’t started yet."
What have they been doing all that time? Haven’t they trained them to walk, to eat, to say "Thank You," to brush their teeth, to tie their shoes, to chew with their mouths closed, to go potty by themselves, to sleep through the night, to say "Yes, Ma’am" and "Yes, Sir;" to count to ten, to say their ABCs, to pray, to sing, to play pat-a-cake, to finger-paint, to eat Goldfish, to clean up after themselves, etc.?
John Curtis, Ph.D., of WeCohabitate.com had an extensive comment to Practicing Failure, a post on this site that talked about the problem of cohabitation. So, I figured that it’d be beneficial to address some his point1.
Many of us that believe that homeschooling is the best option for raising children wonder when it will dawn on other Christian believers that sending their children to be indoctrinated by the humanist school system might not be the best choice for their kids.
Things like this e-mail from Rachel make you wonder if anyone’s paying attention:
