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Wisdom & Grace

08 Tuesday Mar 2016

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Parents & Children Spa
PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Today’s Reading: Deuteronomy+6:6-7; Proverbs 22:6; Ephesians 6:4 Version ESV
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What is the place of children in the family? How do we face them during marital crisis? Some deceive themselves by thinking that, when children come, comprehension and understanding between them will be back. What often happens is that the children take the place of the husband or the wife, and this is a serious problem. The children are temporarily given; they come and then leave. You need to understand this. Our wife must be for us the most important person in the family. On the other hand, we expect to continue to remain number one in her life.

And what should be the position of the parents in relation to the children? It should be a position of authority, not authoritarianism; they must raise and avoid alienating the children.

Raising children requires a commitment to live before them the principles of God, teaching them such principles. In this experience, the husband and wife need to find agreement and cooperation. They must be united in the decisions and cannot remove the authority of the other in front of the children.

The husband and wife need to have the wisdom and grace of Christ to support each other’s lives in the difficult days.

Ildefonso Torres

Commitment

28 Sunday Feb 2016

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Dream or Reality
DREAM OR REALITY
Today’s Reading: Ephesians 5:22-33 Version NIV
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Anyone who have been married for a month, or for ten years, knows very well that the “happily ever after” phrase does not become a reality in front of the problems and conflicts that are lived in marriage. Although surrounded by dreams and passions, marriage must be addressed within everyday reality, problems in human relationships, lack of patience and incomprehension, financial difficulties, lack of information, resentment in the sexual area, and countless other misunderstandings.

Antonio and Margarita have completed fifty years of marriage, the golden wedding anniversary. Anyone who sees them with their white hair, walking from one place to another, imagines the small and large problems they had in their relationship during these long years. The struggles and experiences made them understand that the reality of life should not kill their dreams. However, we cannot live of dreams but of commitments.

We have heard: “I promise to love, honor, be faithful until death do us part!” If the commitment of love and loyalty remains in marriage, the reality of life will not destroy it.  By the way, this commitment of love and loyalty overcomes any barrier and transforms marriage into a sweet reality.

Ildefonso Torres

Humbled

16 Wednesday Dec 2015

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Humbled
Today’s Reading: Philippians 2:5-8 Version ESV

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An athlete said: “when my friend becomes the winner, I die a little bit”. The truth is that we all insist in outshining, to be the best, to put ourselves first. It’s so hard to take second place!

The 21st century has raised the level of our selfishness. “I have to do it by myself”, “I have the duty to develop my skills”; “I must be the best”. “And if loyalty or commitment to others stops me, well, then I put them aside”.

I think it’s very important to be aware of our commitments to each other even in the world of competition and selfishness we are living today. We have to agree that the person, who stands out, should not therefore ensure his own interests but the interest of those around him.

To fight for the interests and welfare of others is not easy, especially in a consumer society like ours. But it is the only thing that can keep our marriage, our neighborhood, our friends, our church, in short, it is the only thing that can sustain us.

Jesus Christ, our Savior, did this as an example for us. “He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross”.

Ildefonso Torres

 

Emphasizing The Virtues

17 Monday Aug 2015

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Today’s reading: 2 Peter 1:5-7
We are not the first to write a history of wars, violence, crimes and injustice. All sins are old. If we look carefully, the world is not worse than it ever was. The problem is that we tend to exaggerate the defects and ignore the virtues. In a group of friends, the tendency is to talk about the shortcomings of each other. Very rarely will you hear someone highlight the virtues of the people.

Make today a commitment to yourself to see and praise the virtues of the people around you. A word of appreciation, an incentive, a thank you, are small things that can change the environment in which we live. The problems, disappointments, sufferings, however small, make us completely forget all the good that has happened to us.

God, who knows us very well, says many times in the Bible that we should be grateful, remembering his protection and provision. The exercise of gratitude requires us to look at the positive and good aspects of life and brings back confidence in a God who does not abandon us, whether in joy or in sorrow, in good or in bad times.

Ildefonso Torres