When Is It Okay To Cheat?
June 23, 2021
What's wrong with cheating as long as you don't get caught? While most people would publicly decry the practice, the majority of people, two-thirds, practice some form of cheating says a leading authority on human behavior. It's the getting caught that becomes embarrassing. Especially prevalent is the practice of deception by college students according to the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization.
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When Bud and Shirley James went to a party and things began to drag, someone got out a Ouija board. A friend who was a Christian asked, "Will I have a baby?" The woman already had several children, and she and her husband didn't plan for any more. However, the person operating the Ouija board replied, "Yes--twins!" Everybody had a good laugh! But six months later, nobody was laughing. The same woman gave birth to twins, who were still-born. What no one knew including the woman herself was that she was pregnant at the time.
June 22, 2021
Sarah Winchester didn't have to be convinced of the spirit world. The widow of the man who invented the Winchester rifle believed that the spirits of the people killed by Winchester rifles would haunt her unless they could be driven away by the sound of hammers. So she had men construct a house built with stairways leading to nowhere and doors leading into one inch deep closets. For 36 years carpenters labored 24 hours a day. Eventually a house was built with 160 rooms, containing 47 fireplaces, 13 bathrooms, and 10,000 windows. Undoubtedly, it is the strangest house ever built.
June 21, 2021
Have you ever stood on the banks of two great rivers and watched as the two merged into one? Turbulence and white waters fight each other as the two finally settle and begin to flow. I've often thought of that as I talk with couples about the merging of two lives--or for that matter, two families--which become one. There is difficulty enough when two people bring different habits, cultures, and attitudes into a marriage, but when two families are blended, the factor of turbulence only multiplies.
June 18, 2021
"By the world's standard he was a failure," wrote Bernie May. "Even worse, he was a fool. 'What a waste,' his friends said when he died. 'He had everything and threw it away'" His name was William Borden, of the wealthy and famed Borden family. His family had made millions in the milk business back at a time when money was scarce.
June 17, 2021
"If I were in charge of the world," says Lucy to good ol' Charlie Brown, "I'd change everything!" Charlie, looking a bit puzzled, says, "That wouldn't be easy. Where would you start?" "I'd start with you!" says Lucy. Changing the world usually means changing other people, whipping them into shape, making them conform to your ideal.
June 16, 2021
I picked it up from my friend Ken Gaydos, and I suspect that he got the idea from someone he had heard. It's concluding an interview with the question, "If you could live your life all over again, what would you do differently?"
June 15, 2021
William Wordsworth, the English poet, wrote, "The child is the father of the man," meaning the events of childhood shape your destiny and future as an adult. Another way of putting it is the rather old saying, "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
June 14, 2021
Have you ever had the urge to just break out in song? It may have been inspired by a beautiful morning, or the check that arrived in the mail, or the phone call from a best friend. You felt like shouting something that Handel would have written, something that would praise God from the depths of your being.
June 11, 2021
When a friend of many years became involved in an affair, Annette Lawson began asking, "Why do people walk out on good marriages for someone who is totally different from themselves and the kind of a person they would live the rest of their lives with?" Finding answers to that question led to more than a decade of exhaustive research. When this sociologist was asked, "What advice would you give to someone contemplating an affair?" she replied, "One thing that hasn't changed about adultery is the danger. It really is a risky undertaking that can leave people's lives in ruins."
June 10, 2021
When I asked the Episcopal Bishop of Liberia what was the greatest problem facing families in his country, he immediately responded: "Unfaithfulness in marriage, in at least 90% of our homes." The bishop gave me a straightforward answer untainted with excuses or justification. He could well have said, "You know, we really can't help what's happening here ‑‑ it's our culture!" Or he could have told me, "Our problems here are the result of the media and the role models which have been imported. The rest of the world is destroying us here!"
June 9, 2021
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