Les Parrott III's Blog, page 11
February 4, 2014
What Do You Cry About?
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” –Naquib Mahfouz
The apostles and elders met to consider this question. –Acts 15:6
We were having lunch with Jim and Karen at Chinooks, a favorite restaurant with one of our favorite couples. As we got settled into our booth and were perusing our menus, Jim said, he had a question for us: “What makes you cry?”
Les nearly did a spit-take with his glass of water. “What are you talking about?”...
January 27, 2014
Are You Marriage Mentoring Material?
“People are not very good at taking orders but they are great at imitating.” –Wayman Mitchell
Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing. –Ecclesiastes 7:11
We’d been married less than a year, total beginners, when Dennis and Lucy Guernsey, a married couple for decades, invited us to their home. We’d recently moved to Los Angeles from Chicago to start graduate school. They must have seen the uncertainty in our eyes as we were trying to navigate the uncharted waters of our new marriage. Actual...
