This is a thorny topic.
My own mother-in-law was a very gentle person who never interfered,
except to buy cards for my birthday and other occasions for my husband to give
me. I always knew that she had done this
because the cards had corny verses of a sickly sweet kind which made my husband
and I giggle. So how am I shaping up as a mother-in-law? There is always the temptation to interfere
with my years of wisdom. It is hard to
stand back when you know the right way to do things. But standing back and letting the young
couple get on with sorting themselves out is the most important thing you can
do for them. How are they going to learn to swim in family life if you keep
dragging them out of the water? Plying them
with money is also very bad. How are
they going to learn to budget for themselves if there is always a slush fund
waiting to bail them out? So my advice on being a good mother-in-law is, “Keep
your hands off.” After all it does say in the Bible that a man shall leave his
mother and father and cleave to his wife and that applies to daughters too.
First of all thanks to Fat Prophet for your interest. I see from your blog you are having trouble commenting. To get back to my assessed service. Criticism albeit constructive is harder for some to take than others. I felt a little crushed after my assessed service but then remembered I had recorded it on my dictaphone. I listened to it all through and although my assessors were quite right about me speaking a little quickly and rushing from item to item, I was actually very pleased with the content of my sermon and how I presented it. So I have decided to take heart. I highly recommend other trainees to record your services. You can hear your good points and your bad and there is no argument about it, it is all caught on the recorder.
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