Family

New Age Gobbledy-Gook

Maybe some of you might be able to offer some advice here on this issue.

My mom-in-law passed my wife a CD earlier today asking if we could help replicate it. The issue of copyright aside, my wife and I have decided that we’ll be telling my mom-in-law a white lie that it has some Digital Rights Management (DRM) on it and we can’t replicate it.

The issue is that the CD is from a book called Invoking Angels and contains tracks with titles like Archangel Meditation, Wise Guide Meditation and Guardian Angel Meditation, and was loaned to my mom-in-law by an elder of the extended family.

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Seriously, if there ever was a statement that drives me up the wall and has me tearing my hair out, it’s just that. And the fact that most people, even Christians, just go “hmm… yea, true that!” accepting it as some sort of truth doesn’t help things either.

What’s my beef?

Two things: please define “open-minded” and “progress”.

It’s become quite a phenomenon in this day and age to treat the two words “close-minded” as a cuss word and even an insult. Tell someone that he is close-minded, and watch him turn into this snarling hulk ready to tear you up with his bare hands and defend his “open mind”.

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Happy 10th Anniversary, dear!

It’s quite an amazing thing to wake up one day, look at your spouse, and realize that both of you have been married for 10 years.

Because when you think about it, 10 years is a long time, isn’t it?

There we were, young ‘kids’ fresh out of school for no more than three years or so (I was 27, and she 24), committing to each other for life on 19 December 1997 not knowing much about the journey we’d undertake together.

Looking back on the past decade, we’ve had our share of fights, difficulties, disappointments, joys, and triumphs. Along the way, we bought our own abode, tried to have a child (without success, fortunately in some ways but that’s another story), and most importantly, learned what marriage really means and entails.

And after all these years, it’s still amazing that we still possess those little qualities that spice up our daily lives, like how we still have that spark, that ‘psychic’ connection with each other, and all those little weird and idiosyncratic things we do that identifies us as a married couple indeed.

Above all, we thank God that we still love each other deeply and are able to do so because of His mercy and grace.

With lots and loads and oodles and tons of love…

Happy 10th Anniversary, babe!

Photo by WTLphoto.

My wife requested that this song be our song of the Shabbat recommendation, and I agree with her totally, so here’s Hillsong with Hosanna:

Listen especially to the bridge, which I love.

On another note, my apologies for the lack of a voice at the moment; I’ll get to answering all your comments and a post soon as I am rested from a most strenuous week.

Shabbat Shalom from both of us to you and your loved ones.

Some who know me well will know that I get very riled up when I see Israel sinning and her leaders giving away land that is rightfully God’s in exchange for false peace. I feel indignant when Israel is being condemned and maligned, and when the world turns a blind eye to her troubles.

Nowadays, my wife will be the one to calm me down with these words “Dear, if these things don’t happen, how then shall what God has ordained to happen come to be then?” (I am paraphrasing a little here, but the essence is there).

This coming from a woman who used to scoff at my “doomsday prophet” sayings as she used to call them, ha ha!

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The Chinese character for family

It has been a really busy week at work and I do apologize for the lack of updates to the blog. And I must also apologize if I haven’t visited some of your blogs till recently because of the hectic schedule.

Being quite occupied with work doesn’t mean I haven’t got things whirling in my head on what the Christian life is and one of the things that spoke most to me this week was God’s plan for the family, which I shall share with you today.

Do you ever wonder why God made man and woman and ordained the institution of marriage, along with the commission to be fruitful and multiply, i.e. have children?

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Marriage -- ordained by God

In Part One, we learned that marriage is an institution ordained by God from the very beginning, when Eve was made a help for Adam as God knew that it was no good for man to be alone.

In this second part, we’ll look at the gender roles for men and women in a marriage as instructed in the Bible.

Husbands

Perhaps the most important passage in the Bible on the role of the husband in a marriage is found in Ephesians 5:23 –

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Ephesians 5:23

That sets the tone for any marriage. The husband is the head of the family, just as Christ Jesus is the head of the church.

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In today’s world where we read and hear of failed marriages leading to divorces, adultery and of couples that no longer communicate, it’s time to take a step back and see what God intended for men and women in the institution of marriage.

What most married couples don’t realize is that God has ordained separate and distinct roles for men and women in a marriage, and that it is exactly this failure to recognize and fulfill their roles that most couples end their marriages citing irreconcilable differences.

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