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I'D ENCOURAGE every man, woman and child over 10 with an IQ over 80 to get a copy of

Attachments: Why You Love, Feel and ACT the Way You Do: Unlock the Secret to Loving and Lasting Relationships

By Tim Clinton and Gary Sibcy

BEING too easily OFFENDED tends to go a LOT with inadequate attachment the first 6 years of life. If one's buckets are not filled--by both a MOTHER AND FATHER IDEALLY--then a long list of personal and relationship problems tend to set in. Being easily offended is one of them, IMhO.

This excellent book has a road map for overcoming such entrenched psychological, emotional, relational flaws, gaping holes, habits etc.

It seems to me that we have enshrined BEING OFFENDED as a Constitutional Religious Right in our country. The attorney priests are happy to dispense gold coin communion wafers for a huge percentage. And the social fracturing increases accordingly.

Of course satan loves winding up human selfishness because he knows how destructive it is to individuals, families , marriages and society. He's about his business of stealing happiness, destroying individuals, marriages and families and killing everything good as much and as fast as he can as he knows his time remaining to do so is very short.

But THE TRUTH DECLARES that he that saves his life shall lose it; while he that loses his life for Christ's sake shall save it . . . and thereby have life abundantly and full of incomprehensible, unspeakable joy.

Of course, if one insists, one can sit in a shrinking corner whining about how offended one is.

Or, one can get up and out of the corner and start sowing the good, affection, happiness that one wishes to reap--realizing that the reaping of goodies tends to take a lot of time and some tolerably good soil with a lot of good seed, watering and cultivating over quite a period of time.

But many a miserable Walter Mitty has been turned into a real tiger at work and in bed by a wise, nurturing, encouraging, upbeat wife.