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I Am Acquainted With A Wife And Mother Who Is Chained Securely At The Present Time To A Life-style Of Murmuring And Criticism. She Is The First To Point Out Faults In Her Husband Or To Repeat Neighborhood Gossip. How Damaging Is A Habit That Permits Fault-finding, Character Assassination, And The Sharing Of Malicious Rumors! Gossip And Caustic Comments Often Create Chains Of Contention. These Chains May Appear To Be Very Small, But What Misery And Woe They Can Cause!

Wise Is The Man Who Says What Needs To Be Said, But Not All That Could Be Said.

If He Could Have His Way, Satan Would Distract Us From Our Heritage. He Would Have Us Become Involved In A Million And One Things In This Life-probably None Of Which Is Very Important In The Long Run-to Keep Us From Concentrating On The Things That Are Really Important, Particularly The Reality That We Are God's Children. He Would Like Us To Forget About Home And Family Values. He'd Like To Keep Us So Busy With Comparatively Insignificant Things That We Don't Have Time To Make The Effort To Understand Where We Came From, Whose Children We Are, And How Glorious Our Ultimate Homecoming Can Be!

Certainly One Of Our God-given Privileges Is The Right To Choose What Our Attitude Will Be In Any Given Set Of Circumstances. We Can Let The Events That Surround Us Determine Our Actions-or We Can Personally Take Charge And Rule Our Lives, Using As Guidelines The Principles Of Pure Religion. Pure Religion Is Learning The Gospel Of Jesus Christ And Then Putting It Into Action. Nothing Will Ever Be Of Real Benefit To Us Until It Is Incorporated Into Our Own Lives.

Many Marriage Tragedies Are Caused, Not By Lack Of Money, But Rather By The Mismanagement Of It.