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"My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. " -- Proverbs 3:1-7

Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it.  Be careful to ask what matters most.  Be careful not to ask for things for the wrong reasons.

"...ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts." -- James 4:2-3

As time goes by, things change, knownledge grows, expectations rise and passions thrive.

Let them. It'll be alright.  Proverbs 3:5-7, "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil."  Matthew 22:37, "...Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."

Fireproof: Never leave your partner behind

As a single man, this may seem like a silly idea to write a review on a movie about marriage.  I agree.  Silly me.  I had the opportunity to watch Fireproof today, and found it delivered so much more than I ever anticipated, and I haven't even fallen in love the first time.

Kirk Cameron plays the role of Captain Caleb Holt, the husband and firefighter who keeps demanding more love and respect, but hasn't yet realized that he can't give what he does not have.  Erin Bethea solidly wraps up the part of Catherine Holt, the wife who wanted so much to marry a brave man, but feels she has been left out to dry.

Caleb's father challenges him to a "Love Dare", a 40-day experiment to see if Caleb can revive their marriage.  To tell more would ruin the movie.  But I'll say this, there is no way to be disappointed with this well thought-out and thought-provoking movie.

Then, right when you think it's all done, and the curtains is going to close, it just keeps on turing up surprises that strengthen the relationships and put the world back together one more time.  Read more at FireproofTheMovie.com.

"When I was asked to make this address I wondered what I had to say to you boys who are graduating.  And I think I have one thing to say.  If you wish to be useful, nevertake a course that will silence you.  Refuse to learn anything that implies collusion, wether it be a clerkship or a curacy, a legal fee or a post in a univeristy.  Retain the power of speech no matter what other freedom you may lose.If you can take this course, in so far as you take it, you will bless this country.  In so far as you depart from this course you become dampers, mutes and hooded executioners.

As a practical matter a mere failure to speak out upon occasions where no opinion is asked or expected of you, and when the utterance of an uncalled-for suspicion is odious, will often hold you to a concurrance in palable iniquity.  Try to raise a voice that will be heard from here to Albany and watch what comes forward to shut off the sound.  It is not a German sergeant, nor a Russian officer of the precinct.  It is a note from a friend of your father's offering you a place in his office.  This is your warning from the secret police.  Why, if any of you young gentlemen have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

I have seen ten years of young men who rush out into the world with their messages, and when they find how deaf the world is, they think that they must save their strength and wait.  They believe that after a while they will be able to get up on some little eminence from which they can make themselves heard.  'In a few years,' reasons one of them, 'I shall have gained a standing, and then I will use my powers for good.'  Next year comes and with it a strange discovery.  The man has lost his horizon of thought.  his ambition has evaporated; he has nothing to say.  I give you this rule of conduct.  Do what you will, but speak out always.  Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don't be gagged.  The time of trial is always.  Now is the appointed time."

--John Jay Chapman, Commencement address to the graduating class, Hobart College, 1900