0720211004: There is such a thing as being too low maintenance. When you don’t speak up for yourself -other people really don’t learn anything.

And, by pointing out someone’s faults, we’re helping them to become better people through it, which is not the same thing as judging or criticizing them (remember something called constructive criticism?). Doesn’t The Bible say something about going to your fellow man, and addressing any issues you may have between you in a loving, beneficial way?* I’ve known people who do this, and it’s something I’ve never really been able to get myself to do. I just try to keep my mouth shut and leave people alone. I guess it’s an improvement lol

I know a gal whose husband is about as low-maintenance as they come (according to her anyways). You know what she had to say about her 30 year marriage -after several years with me lol (care to venture a guess where I scored on her maintenance- meter 😄). Anyways, looking back on her marriage she said she never really learned anything (and that she learned so much from me). Because she was never really challenged. And in addition -she felt her marriage lacked passion -on his end anyways.

*People often have good intentions but go about things the wrong way -in some cases the opposite way. Parents are perhaps the greatest example, and the greatest offenders. They don’t want to see their children suffer so they rescue them at every opportunity (many times, in fact, rescuing themselves for feeling like failures as parents). Again, this is precisely how someone, or some thing would go about breaking down mankind -first by breaking down the ties that bind us and strengthen us -and as a result, leaving us lethargic, listless; both spiritually and familially.

IF WE ARE UNWILLING TO BELIEVE IN ALL THE SO-CALLED SPIRITUAL HOCUS-POCUS, ATLEAST START TAKING A REAL HARD LOOK @ THE ENSUING FALLOUT THAT IS CORRELATIVE TO THE PATH WE ARE PRESENTLY ON -If you want to know whether the path you are on currently is for better or for worse, than simply compare the fall out now to the fall out of previous generations -and the path they were on. A lot of people today are saying life was much simpler, and much better years ago. And don’t give me this excuse about the world being more populated… It was the values and the decency, and the trust, and the stability in the home that was the difference back then.