Throughout the Bible there are records of prophets, patriarchs, and apostles who passed unharmed through great tribulations because of their unfailing trust in God, uplifting, strengthening, and protecting them.
Many of us are becoming increasingly burdened with the pressure of material duties, responsibilities, business competition, and the accelerated tempo of human activity in the twenty-four-hour period we call our day.
Of all Christ Jesus' teachings perhaps the hardest for mankind to understand and fulfill is his command, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Do we sometimes consider a disappointment final, as though some invisible computer has processed our desires and come out with a coldly uncompromising No?
Where sex is concerned, many of us live under the shadow of a fear morality, guiding our conduct by a set of negative values erected out of a partial understanding of the Mosaic Decalogue.
