Comments on: Marriage Tip

By: raoul

raoul — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:50:17 +0000

In reply to Ed. Awww thanks for the encouraging words. Hope you watch it. Let me know what you think.

By: raoul

raoul — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:49:33 +0000

In reply to Heather.

When you have nurtured your family relationship, getting old is just like eating the fruits of your labor. So happy for you. God is good.

C U Monday!

TGIF!

Raoul

By: raoul

raoul — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:48:16 +0000

In reply to Tom.

Thanks for the compliments Tom.

Indeed. When both enter with an unselfish attitude, it’s a real blessing. And even if trouble brews, to come out in one piece, is usually a better piece.

TGIF!

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:45:28 +0000

One of the best issues ever, Raoul! Thanks.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:44:59 +0000

Thanks Raoul. Loved the story about the movie. You do a great job with the cartoons and illustrations.
Marriage is wonderful if lived properly and unselfishly. True Love is wonderful to experience. Tom

By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:41:44 +0000

funny funny LOL!!

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:10:36 +0000

Another winner…

I sort of expected the Hope Gap would be the heart of your introduction, and was impressed how you transitioned into the loss of a spouse.

The casual Friday battle cartoon was particularly funny…

And the results of this addition of TGIF really did put a smile on my face…

By: Oscar

Oscar — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:05:34 +0000

TGIF! Love to see old people married for many years and still living together and taking care of each other. I could only imagine that’s how it always is as long as at least one of them has the strength and health and room and financially prepared but most importantly have Jesus in their life.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:02:56 +0000

I haven’t watched a movie in years. I was always partial to silent films. Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, the classics. In the 20s Clara Bow was the “It Girl.”n In Chicago I went to the Biograph Theater, outside where the gangster John Dillinger was shot.
Saw the 1927 Oscar-winning film, Wings starring Clara Bow.

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:57:35 +0000

Powerful words Raoul!

Every pastor has to deal with divorce in the church these days and those who come with all the answers seldom have a useful thing to say to such couples. I have tried to get couples to reconcile but have not always succeeded in my attempts. I finally realized that some mountains for some people are to high to climb. The longer I was a pastor the less judgment I had for those who ended their marriage. I do not approve of divorce, but I do know that somethings in a relationship are not reconcilable in current circumstances, especially when it involves physical and verbal abuse. I have seen some horrible situations in marriages—even when the couple came to church regularly.

Often if trust cannot be established or reestablished when one partner has failed terribly, separation may be the only thing that will help a person to find healing from a painful relationship, but I encourage trying everything before that happens. I have seen some very successful second marriages and some that were disastrous when one partner could not trust the new partner and was concerned that the problem with the first spouse was likely true in the second one.

This is a very complex issue and does not my simplistic comments, but I am aware of the complexity that appears when one spouse begins to falter in memory or physical well-being. Thanks for bringing this up. I do want to view that movie, Hope Gap.