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.
When we lose a loved one it is natural to wonder how they are faring in the next life. I would warn against going to a medium to find out. At worst these people are charlatans after your money, the rest misguided or worse. We are told in the Bible not to try to reach the dead. The best person to call on in this situation is Jesus. That's right, go to the top. He is always available through prayer and doesn't make a charge. All he requires is that you look for him with all your heart. He has the answers to all of life's difficult questions.
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