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Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem

Meditating Upon The Names and Attributes of God



"Bridegroom"

(Old Testament)

Isaiah 62:5

As a young man marries a young woman,
    so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
    so will your God rejoice over you.

(End of Scripture Passage)







"Bridegroom"

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Beloved Father,
How We Love You!
With Whole heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength!
We Love You Because You First Loved Us.
You Alone Are Worthy of Our Worship!
Like a Tender Bride, gazing in joy at her Beloved,
Let Us behold You,
Our One and Only True Love and Bridegroom!

May the Leaders of Our Own Beloved USA
Receive Wisdom from You
to do the Right Thing.

We Pray For The Swift and Sure Coming of Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Establish His Kingdom,
and Make All Things Right.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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The TV sit-com had been going strong for seven years. The two main characters, a guy and a girl, had an off/on relationship that often resulted in extremely funny situations that resonated with people, and there was a lot of speculation. "Will They?" or "Won't They?". The "sexual tension" between the two was a huge part of the comedy. Then...the writers made THE BIG MISTAKE. They married off the main characters, and made a big deal of it. Inevitably, the show crashes the next season, or limps along, unable to generate the same excitement that existed before. The uncertainty that made us laugh is gone.

We used to laugh hysterically every time one of the Bonanza Boys found true love. Whether it was Hoss, Adam, Little Joe, or even the Dad, we knew she was a goner. Once the ring was on the finger, she was DOOMED to die before the end of the episode. We figured out that the most dangerous job in the Old West was not a Cowboy, or a Soldier, or even a Train Robber, but was a "Ponderosa Bride".

Every Screenwriter knows that marrying off the main character is "Jumping the Shark".

Why is this? Isn't the ultimate goal of relationships in our culture Marriage? Isn't Marriage the institution that modernist fought their darndest to destroy, only then to clamor for the "civil right" of "non binary" couples to marry? What's going on here?

Nearly every culture, no matter how primitive, has some form of "marriage" but very few have equality. There are child brides, polygamy, arranged marriages, bride-prices, dowries, harems, and all kinds of startling inequities between men and women. Yet, in this Ancient Inspired text, God Himself, the Creator of the Universe, expresses Himself as "The Bridegroom Rejoicing over His bride". He is Filled with Joy and Love for His Precious Creation. The Bride is elevated to beauty, joy, and glory. This is the ideal marriage that we, in our Judeo-Christian Culture, truly long for, and it is essential in our world-view. In my humble opinion, it is far better than anything mankind could cook up on its own.

And, unlike The Ponderosa Bride, This Bride gets Eternal LIFE!

Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[etabeta]

Joining in prayer. Blessings.

[Red Badger]

Captain Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy and Lt. Smith are on a planetary landing party.

Guess who ain’t coming back!.................

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Thank You, Etabeta, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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The Classic Red Shirt!

(I am convinced that every Ponderosa Bride had a Red Shirt in her Hope Chest.)

[Red Badger]

BTW, what was the sit-com?.................

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Thank You, Red Badger, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

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Actually, a lot of them. “Rhoda” come to mind.

I have also had a few people mention to me that “Big Bang Theory” hasn’t been the same since Sheldon got married.

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I did some online research, and here are some more shows that some folks on the internet say were ruined by the main character’s marriage (or having a child, which is another aspect of marriage!):

Bones
Dexter
Parks and rec
The Office
Buffy The vampire Slayer
Angel
War of the Worlds
Law and Order SVU(Olivia adopts a kid)
Murphy Brown
Sons of Anarchy
X-Files
Scrubs
Mad About You
Friends
Fringe
Castle(this one is leading up to it)
Charmed

(I haven’t seen most of these shows, but these were ones mentioned on the internet, mostly about people having babies. Same thing.)

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I haven’t watched any of those shows, except for a few episodes of ‘Dexter’, on Showtime cable, ‘Everyone’s favorite serial killer’..................

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Well Dexter got married, and John Lithgow killed his family...and then the show DIED.

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Of course, the whole reason I brought this up in the first place is to contrast “The world’s” view of Marriage with “God’s View.”

The contrast is so striking that, when TV tries to depict either Marriage or Having Children, they fail so badly that the public can’t help but be bored or disappointed.

[Red Badger]

Like in the 50’s and into the mid 60’s married couples ALWAYS has twin beds..................

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Yes. that is true. And Lucille Ball was the first to have a baby on TV. She and My Mom were expecting at the same time...Lucy with “Little Ricky” and Mom with ME! (Ooops! Showing my age)

That show, along with most of the 50’s sitcoms STARTED OUT with the main characters being married, so the tensions I described in the original post did not apply.

However, Lucy was always trying to pull the wool over Ricky’s eyes with some scheme, so their marriage wasn’t perfect either.

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Yesterday, on Rush, he said that when he was a kid, in the 50’s, his next door neighbors would not allow their kid to go see a Doris Day / Cary Grant movie, because it was too ‘racy’...............

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As much as an advocate for Freedom of Speech and personal liberty as I am, I sometimes muse that those were better, happier times.

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AMEN!!!!

[Red Badger]

Ozzy & Harriet, Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Show, et al, portrayed an America that never existed..................

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Well that may be true for some, but my mom and dad were married and in love, and he was a WW2 Vet who bought our little six room house on the GI Bill and worked for the telephone Company, Mom was a stay-at-home Mom who sewed and cooked and was always singing. There were six kids and we all became conservatives except one. But even SHE didn’t vote for Hillary! LOL!

So, although idealized, it wasn’t too far from the truth for a lot of Baby Boomers.