Found on the internet:
My parents were really old when they had me—mid-40s. Old enough that they were teenagers during The Great Depression. They had so many insane stories about that time. Oatmeal for dinner. Kids sleeping 4 to a bed. My grandfather going out in the street at night looking for cigarette butts so he could pull out enough tobacco to roll his own cigarette. All the kids going to work in their late teens and giving all their money to my widowed grandmother so the entire family could survive. They were poor. One other theme that always echoed from those stories was that they “never went on relief.” (“Relief" was what they called government welfare programs back then.) They were so proud of that fact. It was shameful to go “on relief,” and they never did....
Notice that the grandparents were MARRIED? To each other?
That, my friends, is the single biggest difference.
4 comments:
Nowhere did it say they were married. Your psychosis is acting up again.
None so blind as they who will not see.
Jeremiah 5
21 Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.
22 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.
23 But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.
24 And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
27 As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
28 They are grown gross and fat: andhave most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, they have not judged the judgement of the poor.
29 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
Hey Capper,
The Book of Jeremiah was written during ministry of Jeremiah, which began around 627 BC and continued until shortly after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC. This makes the book approximately 2,600 to 2,700 years old and its lesson are still applicable today.
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