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Most Practical Tool For Marriage

Bill Bean — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:16:29 +0000

Reading Wangerin’s As For Me And My House again. (You do read to improve your marriage, don’t you?) The book is overwhelmingly good. Highlighting the passages that stand-out will require more than one highlighter.

Forgiveness is, according to Wangerin, the most practical tool for keeping a marriage working well.

“There is no tool more practical to marriage maintenance nor more important than that both husband and wife are capable of the reparation of forgiveness. But, despite our self-confidence, it is not a tool any of us knows by nature or uses by instinct. Oh, we know the term forgiveness well enough; but we confuse its meaning, and we must acquire the skill of using it.”

Somehow, it gets easier and more difficult.

A Quote For Emily

Bill Bean — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:11:58 +0000

Emily will soon be leaving for a big, new adventure. I came across this quote and thought it appropriate for her.

“You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” ~ Frederick Buechner

She’s leaving but we’re going with her.

The Way One Speaks Is A Form Of Leadership

Bill Bean — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:23:51 +0000

“The way one speaks is a form of leadership that constantly affects the state of mind of all in earshot.”

from Riding The Blue Train by Surinder Kumar and Bart Sayle

Some good ideas and interesting stories but the book was not remarkable. However, this quote stuck out to me.

Everything He Touches Turns To Fact

Bill Bean — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:31:24 +0000

“Man is so avid for knowledge that everything he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology, his love becomes lechery, his wisdom becomes science. Pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.” Malcolm Muggeridge

That quote came from an article by Ravi Zacharias. Read his post Hyperseeing and the Towers of Babel for the whole context.

Just as Zacharias says, it does lend new meaning to that parable of Jesus. (Matthew 13:13)

I Can NOT Do it!

Bill Bean — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:28:08 +0000

“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” ~Aristotle

I See Difficulty

Bill Bean — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:40:46 +0000

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
–Winston Churchill

Bono nails it

Bill Bean — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:35:41 +0000

“It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger,” the U2 lead singer told Clinton’s fourth annual philanthropic summit in New York. “That’s mad, that is mad.”

original article

A maxim for perspective

Bill Bean — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:43:40 +0000

heard this today. good to remember.

“I don’t know as much as I think I do but I am capable of doing more than i think i can.”