If you were to have a coffee with anyone you wanted to...
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And then... after getting married you can date? Huh... Well I did hear about this church near where I live that the pastor started telling his church that it was okay for a married man to have a girlfriend "in Christ" meaning another girl on the side as long as the girlfriend was also in church. All but two couples in that church wound up swapping spouses...
No, I didn't make that up. I wish it was just a story.
No, I didn't make that up. I wish it was just a story.
Sorry, I should have explained. Sometimes I go from point A to point D mentally but fail to relate all of what I'm thinking to the people I'm talking to, and they understandably have trouble following me through points B and C.
The preceding post was taking "you can't date until after you're married" to its logical end-point. To recap - you said your youth pastor told you jokingly that you couldn't date until after you are married. My brain rang up "dating after marriage" and that story popped up. If you date after you are married I bet your husband will object...
The preceding post was taking "you can't date until after you're married" to its logical end-point. To recap - you said your youth pastor told you jokingly that you couldn't date until after you are married. My brain rang up "dating after marriage" and that story popped up. If you date after you are married I bet your husband will object...
There are some people I would like to meet and talk to. A few of them I will meet over coffee (iced tea/buffet dinner in my case) and a few I will just meet at no specific location.
The ones I will meet but not in a cordial atmosphere
1. Adolf Hitler
2. Osama bin laden
3. The man who nearly kidnapped me
4. The man who harmed me when I was a kid
There are questions I would like to ask each of them. What made them do it? Do they feel good about the suffering they caused? If they were to go back in time and re-live their lives, would they change anything or do the same things again?
I know you guys would probably judge me or shake your heads reading this. But I believe that every criminal has a story - a reason why he became what he is. Being the listener that I am, I want to hear their story. Also, it would do society a lot of good to know what triggered such criminals and to avoid such incidents in the future.
The ones I will meet in a cordial atmosphere
1. St. Thomas - the Apostle who brought the Gospel to India
2. Albert Einstein - how geeky was he?
3. Louis Armstrong - to hear him sing "What a wonderful world"
4. My maternal grandpa - to hear his jokes and to have a massive dinner/lunch with him .. it's a pity that I was not a voracious eater when he was around. We would have shared such happy times together! And to ask him 'Was it worth eating all those ripe mangoes when you were an acute diabetic?' *this thought just hit me now*
And above all, my God and my Saviour. I would like to know what made Him die for me and to be so patient with me when I let Him down so many times.
The ones I will meet but not in a cordial atmosphere
1. Adolf Hitler
2. Osama bin laden
3. The man who nearly kidnapped me
4. The man who harmed me when I was a kid
There are questions I would like to ask each of them. What made them do it? Do they feel good about the suffering they caused? If they were to go back in time and re-live their lives, would they change anything or do the same things again?
I know you guys would probably judge me or shake your heads reading this. But I believe that every criminal has a story - a reason why he became what he is. Being the listener that I am, I want to hear their story. Also, it would do society a lot of good to know what triggered such criminals and to avoid such incidents in the future.
The ones I will meet in a cordial atmosphere
1. St. Thomas - the Apostle who brought the Gospel to India
2. Albert Einstein - how geeky was he?
3. Louis Armstrong - to hear him sing "What a wonderful world"
4. My maternal grandpa - to hear his jokes and to have a massive dinner/lunch with him .. it's a pity that I was not a voracious eater when he was around. We would have shared such happy times together! And to ask him 'Was it worth eating all those ripe mangoes when you were an acute diabetic?' *this thought just hit me now*
And above all, my God and my Saviour. I would like to know what made Him die for me and to be so patient with me when I let Him down so many times.
