Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Love puts its object first.
When you tell him, “I love you,” you’re saying you put him first.
When you declare your love for them, you’re committing yourself to keep putting them ahead of yourself.
Love puts aside selfish self-interests and self-centered self-absorption in order to do what is best for another.
Love puts a premium on the good of another…and without complaint or self-pity pays that premium.
Love puts its best into benefiting the other. Read it all
If you start feeling like I’m conditioning our friendship on your 100% compliance with my wishes, please let me know.
In fact, let me know if such conditioning reaches even 20%.
I don’t want to be that kind of friend. Read it all
I thought to post some of my observations from/of the weekend (which I presume begins Friday evening and ends Sunday evening). But I need to finish writing CLE Bible 902 Lesson 1.
And yet, how shall I write about Abram with “Mark’s Weekend Thinking” a-buzz in my head? (To my friends: none of this “Mark’s weak end, thinking” business, OK? 🙄 Thank you.)
So I figured out that I should write down some snippets and memory joggers to serve as a guide (for later) and as a mind declogger (for now).
Wow! I dredged up and skimmed off far more than I realized was there. 😯 I have way too much to write about. So I won’t.
Except to post my snippets and memory joggers. Alphabetically. Read it all
In my late teens and early twenties, I received a lot of teaching and encouragement from “Basic Youth,” so I’m very sorry about this:
On March 7th, Bill Gothard, the founder and president of the Institute in Basic Life Principles resigned from his position in the organization after allegations from over thirty women were made public that Gothard sexually harassed, and in one case out right sexually abused, these women while they were teens or young women.
I wonder what his side of the story is. Read it all
I’ve heard portions (at least) of this said or sung at weddings, by the bride to her groom:
Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee:
for whither thou goest, I will go;
and where thou lodgest, I will lodge:
thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried:
the Lord do so to me, and more also,
if ought but death part thee and me.
Pretty touching stuff. And meaningful. And even appropriate.
But what if those words were said or sung at a wedding…by the bride…to her mother-in-law? 😯 Read it all
No, not that kind of railing!
My general impression of the term railing has been one that has to do as much with content as with the tone and demeanor of the speaker.
The very day after hearing a definition that was milder than the one I’ve had, I had work-related occasion to check some book sources. Let me show you some of what I found.
OK, so it’s hard to read. See below. Read it all
Goody two-shoes? What does that mean?!
It must be something bad. Really, terribly bad. I’ve never heard anything positive about a goody two-shoes. I’ve never heard anyone aspire to being one. Obviously there’s no good in that kind of goody.
Goody two-shoes are mocked, derided, and scorned. They are held in contempt and as a standard of what not to be.
Why?
OK, after writing all that, I looked up the term and found these two helpful entries:
A prudish, self-righteous individual, a goody-goody. For example, Phyllis was a real goody two-shoes, tattling on her friends to the teacher. This expression alludes to the main character of a nursery tale, The History of Goody Two-Shoes (1765), who was so pleased when receiving a second shoe that she kept saying “Two shoes.” The goody in the story is short for goodwife but means “goody-goody” in the idiom.
Source: dictionary.com
That helps. I’ve even met people like that. And people I thought were like that, but I discovered later my own weakness propelled me to a huge leap onto a wrong, unjust conclusion. Andrée over at World magazine experienced something similar: Read it all