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- 0:04Podcast number four hundred and thirteen. Last night I was dictating a plenary,
- 0:15a preaching, a lecture, whatever you want to call it, about the
- 0:21little things that happen in marriage and that usually slowly destroy them precise these days
- 0:26we are working there in the Church with the Book of Song of Songs and
- 0:32just I get an email from a woman who says my name is Fernanda.
- 0:38I have problems with my husband. We' re about to split up the
- 0:43truth. I don' t know how we got here if there' s
- 0:49no big reason, but we argue all the time, sometimes even for nonsense,
- 0:55for things that don' t matter the least. But the discussion is
- 0:58getting more heated and neither he nor I want to give in a little bit.
- 1:03Sometimes we even last for 15 days without talking to each other. Sometimes
- 1:07he goes to his mom' s house or runs away to some friend.
- 1:12I' m on my own right now. Boring shepherd, my heart hurts.
- 1:19Many times I too would like to run away, but I can'
- 1:25t find a way out. It distressed me too much and I don'
- 1:30t want to be another damaged marriage, like it happened to my mom or
- 1:34my older sister. Help me, please, okay. I' m so
- 1:40sorry to hear about the situation you' re going through, Fernanda. Thank
- 1:42you because, moreover, as I was teaching the Book of Song of Songs
- 1:47there in the Church just your email put me to study and to delve a
- 1:53little more into those little details, Precisely in the Book of Song of Songs,
- 1:59chapter two. Verse number fifteen. The Wise One says catch the foxes,
- 2:07the little bitches that spoil our vines, our vines in bloom to see
- 2:12I explain. This is a book that talks about sentimental relationships between a man
- 2:19and a woman. Why the Wise Solomon pauses a little while to talk about
- 2:24the beloved’ s beloved and begins to set an example of foxes and vineyards.
- 2:31He says they hunt the foxes, which bitches, the little ones,
- 2:37which are the ones that spoil the great fields of grapes. In ancient times,
- 2:44when a farmer was working for his harvest, he could spot the big
- 2:50bitches, see them coming from afar, and he could scare them away,
- 2:55set them up, or just kill them. But the farmer couldn' t
- 3:00see the little sluts crawling into the grape fields, and they didn' t
- 3:04even eat the bunches, eat the roots, and start damaging all those crops.
- 3:13The problem is that, by not taking care of the low parts of
- 3:17the crop, these bitches damaged all the work that had cost the farmer,
- 3:24the farmer a lot of effort. Solomon here says they are complicated to find,
- 3:30but if you look for them and take care of them, trap them
- 3:35to fight them, the crop will never be spoiled. As I say.
- 3:42It is powerfully striking that Solomon was talking about marriage relations. That' s
- 3:47the Song Book of Songs, but here' s an example to invite us
- 3:53to take care of the little things, the little details and the little altercations
- 4:00Fernanda, as you indicate in your email, sometimes fight for nonsense. Well,
- 4:05actually, there' s no such thing as nonsense in a marriage.
- 4:10Let' s say that there are matters that are part of our daily life,
- 4:17but a little discussion and a little conversation the Lord shows us in God
- 4:21' s word how we have to solve those small inconveniences details that we sometimes
- 4:29call small, which have no greater relevance. I don' t know how
- 4:32many times your husband has told you to stop fighting for nonsense or this or
- 4:38that isn' t important. You kill yourself, woman, and you get
- 4:43too hysterical about simple things. Well, you have to tell your husband that
- 4:46you have to be careful to neglect the simple details, the common things,
- 4:51the things that are repeated in our daily lives. If there is a small
- 4:57fault, I repeat, there has to be a small counterclaim, a time
- 5:02to talk, because little by little the person' s mood is ending.
- 5:08When we are caring for someone in counseling comes to tell great problems that one
- 5:14day began as small things that were insignificant that were not solved in time.
- 5:20The word of God shows us number one. How we should argue. For
- 5:26example, he tells us to get rid of all the screaming. Do not
- 5:30overcome evil with evil, overcome evil with good. So you have to keep
- 5:35an eye on the little details and know them, talk and fix them.
- 5:42How the word of God says. Let us be ready to hear time to
- 5:47speak, ready to hear, dear gentlemen, that our wife has long been
- 5:51complaining. Why don' t we extend the towel, why don' t
- 5:56we cover the toothpaste, why don' t we take the shoes to the
- 5:59closet. One kitchen over there, one little thing over here. I add
- 6:01one flaw over there, another fails over there, and the mood gets tired.
- 6:06To women we have to tell them a cry over there, a bad
- 6:11attitude, an disrespect that seems irrelevant, a little thing over here, another
- 6:15little thing over there and everything is gradually being undermined. In this podcast I
- 6:21wanted to invite you to look in detail at those things that look like little
- 6:27things, but that, if they build up, they usually become big bitches.
- 6:30On the second day of our marriage workshop, we' re going to
- 6:34be talking about how difficulties in marriage are resolved and we' re talking about
- 6:41the mistakes wives make sometimes when they don' t know how to master their
- 6:46personality and with little things, they end up looking at the mood of men.
- 6:50How to avoid situations like those Dear Fernanda, have a spirit of reconciliation
- 6:58and patience, a lot of patience. Remember that first Corinthians, chapter number
- 7:00thirteen says love is patient. Love is built little by little. If you
- 7:09talk to marriages that are not twenty, thirty forty years old together, and
- 7:14not only is it a cluster of many years living together, but those many
- 7:18years, they have lived with property, they have known how to build a
- 7:25stable relationship. They can tell you that all the times they faced small inconveniences
- 7:30they managed to solve them. The worst thing is that one day you quit
- 7:35wanting to have an argument with your husband or husband with you just to avoid
- 7:41the problem and say I don' t tell him anymore, because he'
- 7:44s never going to change, because she' s never going to change.
- 7:46Then they give up having an argument and again I challenge what I' ve
- 7:53always said. It' s not about us not having marital arguments. It
- 7:58' s about having marital discussions of the way of life, in the right
- 8:05tone. So, to finish and sum up, a little flaw, a
- 8:11little conversation, remember that God' s word even teaches us time. Don
- 8:16' t set the sun on the anger. It means that we resolve it
- 8:22as soon as possible. Possible in the workshop we' ll be talking about
- 8:28how to solve it. I mean, what do I do as a man,
- 8:31when I have an argument with my wife, what do I expect my
- 8:35wife to do, what should women do, what should men do when they
- 8:39face the difficulty of having differences. We will work with many verses that we
- 8:45hope will remain in the minds and hearts of people so that, when they
- 8:48are confronted with these situations, they will have rudiments in order to solve them.
- 8:54The word of God is full of advice, promises, ordinances that help
- 8:58us to have a stable, frugal, delicious daily relationship. Because remember this,
- 9:07marriage is one of the few things that has life guarantee. So we
- 9:13have only two days left with a price of only fifty dollars, because on
- 9:20August 3, the fourth workshop for marriages, will already cost seventy- seven
- 9:24dollars. So take advantage of this special discount that we have until August 2nd
- 9:31and at once put it on your agenda 19th to August 23rd, from seven
- 9:37o' clock in the night time of Colombia, through Zoom, we will
- 9:41be sharing two hours of class and one more of counseling, three hours every
- 9:48day until we finish with the last of the lessons. Yeah, because Friday,
- 9:52Friday, we' ll be talking deep about sexuality in marriage. We
- 9:58will learn thoroughly about what is allowed and not allowed in sexual matters. For
- 10:05now I wish you to have a nice fernanda day that God will help you
- 10:11solve the small inconveniences little by little, with wisdom that God bless you