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Somerset Maugham’s mother was an extraordinarily beautiful woman married to a man widely considered ugly. When a friend asked how…
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Don’t Pull the Knobs Off
Grady Nutt, Homemade, July 1990
A man bought a new radio, brought it home, tuned it to one station, and then pulled all the knobs off. He had already found all he ever wanted to hear. Some marriages become the same way—locked into “what has been will still be.” Openness is the willingness to grow, a distaste for ruts, and the readiness to see what tomorrow might bring. Stay open to newness. Stay open to change.
How you’d preach it
For marriages that have settled into rigid patterns. Stay open to growth and change.
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