NO MARRIAGE IS ALL SUNSHINE

THE Blue Niles a rushing, churning river,
which gains its energy from the mountains
down which it descends. It carries
with it much of the rich and muddy
soil from the country through which
it passes to the Nile delta far away.

In the delta, the Blue Nile is joined
by the White Nile, a sleepy, peaceful river
and which flows across the plains.
As their names indicate,
the White Nile is a clear river in comparison to the Blue.

Once they join together
into the same riverbed,
these two river maintain their distinct qualities
and colors for many, many miles.
From high above, one can clearly see
the muddy currents of the Blue Nile,
and the clear waters of the White.

They are separate, yet united.
The longer the rivers share
the same riverbed, however,
the more their current intermingle,
until the two rivers truly become
one powerful and life-giving waterway.

When tough times hit a marriage
or disagreement erupt,
make a decision that you will pull together,
rather than allow yourself
to be pulled apart by temporally circumstances,
momentary conflicts, or resolvable differences.

Choose to flow together.
The longer you do,
the more “one” you will become. No marriage is all sunshine,
but two people can share one umbrella if they handle close.

BEST FRIENDS MAKE THE BEST SPOUSES.


Is your spouse your best friend?
How privilege you are if the answer is “Yes.”
Perhaps an even more important
question to ask is this: “Are you a good friend to your spouse?”
in being a good friend, you very often gain a best friend!

A true friend is someone
to whom you can empty your heart
a heart often made to feel “full”
by many different sources of passion, concern, or worry.

Francis Bacon once wrote:
“We known diseases of stopping and suffocation
are the most dangerous in the body;
and it is not much to otherwise in the mind:
you may take sarza to open the liver,
steel to open the spleen,
flower to sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for brain;

but no receipt openeth the heart
but a true friend, to whom you may impart grief,
joys, fears, hopes, suspicions,
counsels and whatsoever lieth upon
the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confusion.”

One of the best gifts
you can give your spouse and your children
is listening ears.

Be a friend to the four C’s:
Compassion,
Caring,
Consideration
and Comfort.
Those four traits never grow old or fall out of fashion.

THE BONDS OF MATRIMONY

A MAGENT has tow poles.
It doesn’t, it isn’t a magnet!
It’s only a useless hunk of scrap iron.
One of the greatest danger signals
in a marriage is when either partner
no longer feels attracted to the other.


This attraction actually
has very little to do with youth or sex appeal
as some might think. Attraction is based
on how we define and perceive “beauty”
which is an inner quality, not merely a cosmetic
or superficial state of prettiness or style.

True beauty lies in the image of God.
When we see another person
as being created by God’s image,
we begin to see more of their beauty.
The more we acknowledge the beauty
of their creation, the more we are attracted to their beauty.

Part of keeping the magnet working
is seeing your spouse as
“God’s creation in process.”
Your spouse may be influenced and encouraged by you,
but ultimately your spouse is God’s creation.

Your spouse’s beauty is rooted
in what God is doing in his or her life.
You are privilege to watch your spouse’s
beauty unfold and to enjoy the person
your spouse is becoming!

The bonds of matrimony
are worthless unless
the interest is kept up.

Love & Motivation

The goal of motivation
Is to inspire you others to action
Action you can be proud of action
That is based on truth and love
Love and motivation

Over and over repeatedly
We are told that example
Is the key to leadership?
If we want people to do something for us
We must inspire them by example

In short…
We get what we give
So watch what you give out
What you sow you reap
What you think attract what you get

Love is not love
When it is cooped up
It is not a source of power
Until you give it away
Love is action

…COLD SILENCE


…COLD SILENCE
There is a silence that goes inside of me
Life bring such a silence on and on like that
Mortal’s unimaginable traits and deeds fad one up
You don’t really know who is who as everyone fakes it
Fake life so much everywhere with plastic smiles

A prolong misdeeds springs forth cold silence
Among the mischief of mankind that transcends
And span a distance of friendship just on and on like that
It fades off and fake away in pretense and hypocrisy
Just the heart can tell only when the heart is cold

Just because of the heart is heavy of betrayed friendship and relationship
It was whether and slaughtered away on the stable of mankind
Cold silence ensue when it has all be taken away from it all
Cold so cold silence within makes the heart too hurt to house trust
The one you gave out your trust out is lost you were so cold

Everything starts to fall out and fade out
Silence makes the heart cold and void of the excitement
Of living a life in the midst of deceit and distrust from friends and love ones
Staring you at your eyes when men has slaughtered the hope out of you
Down casted and weathered out by the unfair criticism of human

Cold silence…so locked away in your own world
So silence without life inside of it
But when it hurts so badly
Who do you talk to when you are all by yourself?
Where do you go to when you needed someone to talk?

Hmmm
But…

When life gave you thousands of reason to doubt your shadow
When mortals write you off when the immortal one hasn’t done so
When the situation of life gave you thousands of reasons to end it all
When the coldness of the heart becoming unusual
Cold Silence

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A Partner She is


Don’t just fall for facial outward look
But look deep inward of this being
That carries your heart away taken it from you
So charming but there is fault somewhere
Hiding within this your charming being

Remember perfection is not of human
But all human are working towards perfection
No human is labeled perfectionist in dealings and behavior
A partner she is not just mere not or property
See life flows such a way that everyone complements each other

She ought to be the one you confide in
She ought to be the one you chase your dream with
She ought to be the one you hold so dare to
She ought to be the one you stood by come rain and sunshine
A partner she is not a property

She is a partner not property
She is a partner not a pain in the neck
She is a partner not an extravagant spender
She is a partner not a slave

Treat her like one
Look out for her always
Let her needs be your needs
Be nice to listen to her even when tired
Stay with her even if you got somewhere to go

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All Rights Reserved/Okoh C. Paul