He was awesome.
Still, I would rather take dating advice from Johnny Bravo than Animal.
Thoughts of Christian Dating
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He was awesome.
Still, I would rather take dating advice from Johnny Bravo than Animal.
As somebody commented earlier, you're free to do whatever you like as long as it's not explicitly proibited by God in the bible, but it is also written, everything's lawful, but not everything's beneficial. You wanna date and meet people at the cost of the time and resources God put in your hand, that's your choice, just don't take God's name in vain by calling this 20th century invention godly. that's what you want for your own pleasure.The only people that could really tempt me are those that give more than they take, which is exceedingly rare, so I'm pretty safe.
And even when I do meet those kinds of people, they wind up becoming just a good friend.
I'm glad you've found peace in theology, classical music, and literature.
It most definitely helps to guard against temptations when we know what keeps us grounded.
Pull the string...
And one of the same 5 phrases repeats.
Lol!
Thanks for the tips.
I'm in my 50's.
My next goal in life is retirement, and that's something I've worked on by myself.
I'm almost at a point in life where I can hopefully choose when and where I want to go sometime in the future.
I sure haven't figured out everything in life, but I've learned enough to avoid a lot of the typical pitfalls.
I'm not even 40 yet, but if I lose my current job, it'd be retirement in the current economy and the onslaught of AI job displacement.
You know, it'll probably sound disconcerting if you hear something like "driving a Christian car", "using a Christian computer", "eating a Christian candy", somebody correctly pointed out the absurdity of "washing away your sins with a Christian soap." If you can recognize those as a sleazy marketing schticks, you may understand the problem with "thoughts on Christian dating".
Don't you know the difference between things and actions. Inanimate objects can't become christian, heck it would even sound weird to talk about a christian mouse or christian dog. But it makes a lot more sense to talk about how people who follow Jesus should go about driving, eating, working, or finding a spouse. Christians talk about how to do things in a way that honors god and reflects his truth because that's something that they consider important.
At least those other "actions" are within your own control, dating on the other hand is not up to you. If your partner is ungodly, and they influence you into ungodly ways, nothing you say or do would honor god or reflect any of his truth.
I was talking to a widowed sister last night, we believe one of our goal right now is to build a strong social network for older singles. Many things in life we need another one to help, major medical test procedures, car shopping, .... we will start with our local church, neighbors, a few singles to have a network to help each other out.
Reason is married people is hard to ask them for help, they have their own tasks.
Especially for 50 +.
Or "Christian family." Or "Christian wife." Or "Christian husband." These things can't be real, can they?
A tree is known by its fruits, not its trunk, branches or leaves.Or "Christian family." Or "Christian wife." Or "Christian husband." These things can't be real, can they?
Judge them by their fruits. If you don't know any better, than "Christian" is just a label until proven by the fruit.
Why didn't I make that my profile picture? It's perfect for this forum!
Yes, I had guessed you were in your 30's.
That's part of what's been making what you say so interesting -- because I'm viewing it from a completely different stage of life.
I know you've talked about having to deal with "nasty customers", as you put it, at your daily job. I can very much relate. I've worked with the public all my life, and it's a bear.
My family is very frugal, and I saw what other family members were able to do, so from the time I started working in my early teen years, I told myself I was going to try to save as much as I could -- and get out of this God-forsaken rat race if I could, and as soon as I could. God willing, I'm almost there. But of course, I made a lot of wrong turns and had a lot of pitfalls along the way.
I married young, but when he left for his girlfriend, I thought my life was over. God kicked me in the butt and said, "Get up, just because things have changed doesn't mean you can't still work toward your goals." And so, that's basically been my life. Boring, but blessed. And still moments of adventure with travel now and then.
I'm here to try to help singles who aren't finding someone, or who never find someone, or who find themselves back to being single after being with someone, to hopefully see that life, dreams, and purpose doesn't have to end just because one doesn't have a spouse.