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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

  How many bathrooms does a teenage girl require for her stuff and personal domain?

  Those of you with one or more young maidens can readily answer the question with a question: How many bathrooms are in your home?

  This situation may result in household male ire - he who uses a single bar of soap to shampoo and cleanse, especially men that don’t treasure counters and cabinets full of solutions and instruments soft (washcloths etc.) and hard (pumice stones etc.).

  OK, so you may not have or ever had a normal teenage daughter, niece, or granddaughter in your home. But you do know, have observed, and probably experienced the unavoidable fact of human emotions.  Emotional quotient varies from individuals to individual, family to family, culture to culture; ranging from impassive stoic to drama kings and queens and those in tween’.  But you do know, have observed, and certainly experienced the unavoidable fact of human emotions. 

  Peeved, consternation, ire, anger, fury, lust, joy are human emotions that effect, sometimes wonderfully, other times disastrously.

  Emotional quotient varies from individuals to individual, family to family, culture to culture; from impassive stoic to drama kings and queens and those in tween’. 

  Emotions can be sinful; displeasing to God.

  How can we know when sinful, when not?

  In some cases we can find clear definition in God’s Word, lust being a perfect contrastive example of this: Lots of verses spell out when lust is sinful. Then there is acceptable Hebrews 13:4.

  Some others seem ambiguous, but are clearly understood when framed in larger Biblical text. Anger being a case in point.

  In Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians (4:26) he tells that we can be angry without sinning and encourages not going to bed furious, explaining primary reason why going to bed angry is a bad practice . . . but does not in those two verses give formula for succeeding. But as we read other Scripture like 1Corinthians 13 we see the discipline of love is to supersede anger. Put in my words for self: Is my anger all about me?

  Enough for today! Plus I must go see if there’s enough hot water for my shave and shower.  EBB4