The year is 1996, and no one has heard of Charlize Theron before. The movie is 2 Days in the Valley. All of a sudden she is the hottest topic on everyone’s lips! The Hollywood gossip pages can’t get enough of this beautiful farm girl from Benoni. And the South African people all feel equally proud of their lovely local export to Hollywood. From there it is one great movie role after another. We can all remember the fairy-tale story of how she arrived in Los Angeles with a one-way ticket her mother bought her, and how she had an outburst in a bank because they wouldn’t cash her cheque for $500, and how all of that got the attention of an agent who gave her his business card. Charlize received an opportunity to fame and fortune! She had her moment of roaring thunder that changed her life forever!
Mark 19:17–22 “And as He was setting out on His journey, a man ran up and knelt before Him and asked Him, “Good Teacher what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: Do not murder. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness. Do not defraud. Honor your father and mother.” And he said to Him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.”
I’m not a marriage counselor, neither an expert at the science of love. I’m just an ordinary woman who is also fascinated with the success stories of couples who celebrate their 50th wedding anniversaries and still kiss each other while holding hands! Many books have been written over the years to give relationship advise; but it seems that the more books are published, the more divorces go through court. So what exactly is the key to a happy marriage? And even more difficult - what is the purpose of marriage?
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