Often Parents Communicate Most Effectively With Their

Ugly Reports And Conversations Are Always Available To Those Who Would Promote The Sordid And Sensational. None Of Us Are Yet Perfect. We Each Have Failings That Aren't Terribly Difficult To Detect Especially If That Is The Aim.

We ... Tend To Evaluate Others On The Basis Of Physical, Outward Appearance: Their "good Looks," Their Social Status, Their Family Pedigrees, Their Degrees, Or Their Economic Situations. The Lord, However, Has A Different Standard By Which He Measures A Person. When It Came Time To Choose A King To Replace King Saul, The Lord Gave This Criteria To His Prophet Samuel: "look Not On His Countenance, Or On The Height Of His Stature; ... For The Lord Seeth Not As Man Seeth; For Man Looketh On The Outward Appearance, But The Lord Looketh On The Heart."

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!

We Often Equate Charity With Visiting The Sick, Taking In Casseroles To Those In Need, Or Sharing Our Excess With Those Who Are Less Fortunate. But Really, True Charity Is Much, Much More. Real Charity Is Not Something You Give Away; It Is Something That You Acquire And Make A Part Of Yourself. And When The Virtue Of Charity Becomes Implanted In Your Heart, You Are Never The Same Again.

True Love Is A Process. True Love Requires Personal Action.