"Music and clicking"
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For thousands of years
the same yellow sun has risen
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over the vast collection of
people that in the last century
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we have come to call India.
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The term country just
doesn't seem to capture it.
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Twenty-eight states, more like
28 countries with a multitude
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of traditions, languages,
and styles stretching over a
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geography that varies
from the soaring Himalayas
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to the steamy Bay of Bengal
and yet within this riot of
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color and culture, one building
has come to represent India
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to the world.
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Ivory-colored stone
intricately carved and perfectly
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proportioned
glows in the rising sun.
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Its central dome and flanking
towers soar above the plain
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of Agra. Here shimmering in
the sun beside the River Yamuna
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is one of the most celebrated
buildings in all the world.
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Breathtaking isn't it?
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It's no wonder the
United Nations has awarded it
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World Heritage Status,
more than two million people
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travel here every year to
admire it's architectural beauty
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but few know the equally
beautiful story behind its
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construction. Today we will
journey into this magnificent
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masterpiece and discover the
lessons this building contains.
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Lessons of love that are
shared with the greatest book
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the world has ever
known revealing practical tips
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for those strained relationships
that cause us so much stress
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and hurt.
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The very approach to the
Taj Mahal shows why historian
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believe it to be
the finest example of
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Imperial Mughal
Architecture in India.
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The Great Gate is a monumental
construction in mostly red
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marble that mirrors
the greatness of the
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earlier emperors.
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It's surfaces are
decorated with sacred scriptures
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and the elaborate geometric
designs that are found in other
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red sandstone
buildings in the complex.
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But these intricacies are only
a pale reflection of the beauty
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that lies beyond.
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The Taj Mahal is the
creation of the greatest emperor
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during the golden age of
the Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan.
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In 1632 the emperor ordered
construction to begin on a
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complex that would
take thousands of craftsmen
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22 years to complete.
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It would bring together
the best that man and nature
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could provide. A garden 300
meters on each side incorporates
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raised pathways and reflection
pools that represent the
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rivers of paradise and the
culmination of this earthly
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beauty four Muslim Minarets
that surround a fabulously
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decorated 35 meter
white marble cube crowned by
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an iconic onion dome.
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The Taj Mahal is
widely acknowledged as one of
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The Seven Wonders of the World,
but there's more to its claim
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to fame than
awe-inspiring architecture.
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The Taj Mahal might be the
creation of a king but it isn't
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a palace, it's actually
a tomb built to commemorate
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a love story that is even
more beautiful than its pale
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white walls. This magnificent
work of art is a monument to
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an unusual relationship
and its story starts further up
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the river Yamuna.
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"Music"
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Every spectacular red
fort was Shah Jahan's palace
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and the seat of his empire,
it was a statement of his power
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and prestige. The fitting of
the greatest empire India had
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ever known and every other
part of his life was expected
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to follow suit,
including his marriage.
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In Shah Jahan's day royal
marriages were almost always
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a matter of political alliance,
there was expected to be a
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payoff for getting hitched but
Shah Jahan chose differently.
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One day Shah Jahan was
visiting a certain royal bazaar
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and his eye fell
on Arjumand Begum.
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Now, he was a man
used to beautiful things
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but Arjumand arrested
his eye, she would become the
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unquestioned love of his life.
The Emperor asked for her hand
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in marriage and was accepted but
they had to wait five long years
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before court astrologers decreed
that the stars were properly
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aligned for a royal wedding.
During that time Jahan and
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Arjumand never met, never
saw each other but their love
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remained strong.
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From the day of their wedding,
the two became inseparable
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Royal poets wrote the
Beauty of Arjumand made the moon
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hide its face in shame,
but Shah appreciated much more
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than her physical beauty.
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His bride proved so intelligent
that she soon became his
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most trusted political
adviser. She was generous and
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compassionate, each day drawing
up lists of helpless widows and
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orphans and making sure
their needs were attended to.
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Arjumand bore her husband many
children and despite the complex
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problems of ruling an
empire, Shah Jahan enjoyed
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an idyllic
existence with his wife.
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Shah Jahan was so taken
with his wife that she became
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not only his chief consort,
but his empress and he conferred
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on her the title by
which he is still known today
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Mumtaz Mahal, the
chosen one of the palace.
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When the Shire was to go
into a military expedition
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against rebel forces in the
South of India, Mumtaz Mahal
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insisted on going along
to be at his side even though
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she was pregnant and it
was during this campaign that
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tragedy struck.
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After giving birth to
her 14th child Mumtaz died
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Shah Jahan was devastated.
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"Chanting"
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He locked himself in his
quarters and refused to eat
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he lay moaning on his bed
for eight long days and when
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Shah finally emerged, he seemed
to have aged several years.
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Mumtaz Mahal the
love of his life was gone,
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the love that seemed eternal
snatched away but this man
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found a way to
immortalize his passion,
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he decided to build a mausoleum
for his empress as beautiful
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as their love and so
the Taj Mahal was built.
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An exquisite monument
enshrining Mumtaz Mahal's
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remains, the perfect match had
been cut short but Shah Jahan
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made sure it would be
remembered for ages to come
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in this exquisite structure
this would be the emperor
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monument to their love.
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When people stand before
this structure, they are really
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at the physical manifestation
of a commitment that transcends
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even death and many are moved
by the eloquence of one mans
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undying devotion to his wife.
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The Taj Mahal is a
wonderful monument but you know
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I believe each of us can
build and equally beautiful
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living monument
with our marriages.
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In a world of stunted
relationships we can each make
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our own eloquent
statements about undying love.
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We all love someone or something
we are made for giving and
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receiving love, Solomon who
was supposedly the wisest man
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who ever lived suggested
there was something wonderful
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almost mysterious about
a couple falling in love.
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Are we any closer
in our current times
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in understanding
how we fall in love?
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Current brain research is
providing new insights into
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the nature of love,
we're discovering more about
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how the different parts of our
brain and our various hormones
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work together to produce
feelings of love and affection.
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Many people fail to understand
love because they think of it
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as a single thing, a feeling or
emotion, it certainly includes
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that but love is
actually more like the ancient
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Indian art we call Pietra Jura,
highly polished colored stones
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and other materials are
glued or driven into a surface
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to create an
intricate pattern...
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God's idea of eternal
love works the same way
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many appealing elements
making up the one beautiful
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relationship.
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You can see the same technique
employed in the decorations
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in the Taj Mahal, many elements
making up one beautiful result
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and the best place
to find it in the Bible
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is Paul's first letter to
the Corinthians Chapter 13
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is the Bible's great love
chapter and it's as beautiful
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and if not grander
than the Taj Mahal.
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After telling us without
God's kind of love we accomplish
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nothing, we are nothing,
Paul focuses on its specific
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qualities, he tells us
the way love behaves...
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In these two verses,
Paul contrasts two mindsets
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patience and kindness,
verses pride, boastfulness,
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selfishness, and anger.
The first expresses love
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and builds it up,
the second destroys it.
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God's kind of love is the
great adversary of selfishness.
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The self-centered life is
always trying to protect itself
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keeping threats away by putting
up a proud boastful exterior
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it's a me against them approach
one that's easily irritated
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and angered.
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Love is God's weapon against
this most basic human problem
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selfishness, the person who
is receiving and giving God's
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kind of love is secure enough
to move beyond that little
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circle of self. He's able to
be sensitive to other people's
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needs as well as his own,
this love is the bedrock of a
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lasting marriage.
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Nowhere is it more essential and
in the union of two individuals
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marriage requires that
we step out of ourselves
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now that is easy to do at first
when the heat of infatuation
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drives us to gaze lovingly
into the eyes of our beloved
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but as the years go by that old
tendency to self-centeredness
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catches up with us.
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Giving our time, our
attention our concern, ourselves
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to our mate doesn't
always come naturally.
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Only God's love is
strong enough to keep us giving
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throughout a lifetime.
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Only His love can generate
patient kindness when the going
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gets rough, that's when
it really counts isn't it?
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It's easy to love when
the flowers are blooming
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and your spouse is beaming
and the paycheck just came in,
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but when the garden
flops, and your spouse is fuming
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and the bills flood in,
human love usually collapses.
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That handsome groom that seemed
to charming and considerate
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leaves his dirty socks on the
floor and spends most weekends
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watching TV and that
lovely bride who seems so sweet
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gets irritable and spends
a time on the phone gossiping
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to friends, sooner or later
we all realize we didn't marry
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Mr. Wonderful, always perfect.
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This is when the
conflict becomes more frequent
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in the relationship, now
we all know that conflict is
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inevitable as there are
two viewpoints coming into
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the relationship but the key
is how we take time to listen
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and understand what is important
to one another and work together
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Patience, forbearance,
kindness during the tough times
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that's God's kind of love.
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Burt was driving to work
one morning during rush hour
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and got a little too close
to the man in the car ahead,
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when he put on his
brakes, she didn't stop in time
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and crunched into his
rear fender, both cars stop
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Burt got out, surveyed the
damage and broke into tears
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she knew it was her
fault and her car was brand new
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just two days from the
show room. How was she ever
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going to face her husband?
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The other driver was sympathetic
but explained that they needed
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to note each other's
license and rego numbers.
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So Beck reached into her
glove compartment to get the
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documents, but when she
pulled them out, she saw there
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was a note attached, in the
heavy masculine scroll of her
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husband were these
words addressed to her.
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In case of accident,
remember Honey it's you I love
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not the car.
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That's kindness
when it really counts.
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That's the kind of
love that lasts a lifetime.
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Millions come to see
the Taj Mahal every year
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but many miss an interesting
feature inscribed on the walls
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of this majestic building.
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Passages of the Koran are
inscribed throughout the complex
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as decorative elements,
they were chosen to reflect
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themes of judgment in
the building that has come to
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symbolize the love of a husband
for his wife there are hundreds
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of reminders that God has
His eye on the way we treat
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each other and
will hold us to account.
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The self-centered lash out
at problems while the patient
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try to solve them, the
self- centered react in anger
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to any threat while the patient
overcome anger with kindness.
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There was a time when venting
your feelings were standard
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advice for married couples,
we've come to realize that
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suppressing anger,
holding it inside is emotionally
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unhealthy even a
threat to physical health
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so the solution
was to get it all out.
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Healthy relationships we
were told require total honesty
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you must say exactly what
you feel but intense expressions
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of anger, resentment and
dislike don't solve too many
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problems. Expressing anger
freely usually doesn't make it
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go away, it only intensifies
it ugly habits are reinforced.
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A survey was carried
out involving 350 couples
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who had been married for 15
years or more, the goal was to
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discover what makes
lasting relationships work
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It discovered that the majority
of these happily married couples
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strongly agreed that
regularly expressing your anger
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in an intense way
could have damaging effects.
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They felt restraint was
important and that a certain
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calmness is necessary in
order to deal with conflict
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constructively. It's
still true that as the book of
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Proverbs says...
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Patience and kindness are
what solve problems and they are
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what binds people
closer and closer together
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over the decades.
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Paul's Letter to the
Corinthians tells us...
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Did you know that there
are and an awful lot of couples
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who seem to delight in
evil, they love keeping a record
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of wrongs and as the
years go by people often notice
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more and more imperfections
and weaknesses in their spouse.
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What a difference it would make
if we concentrated on the best
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in our partners rather than
keep a record of their wrongs.
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Selfishness dulls a relationship
love values, protects, polishes,
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God's kind of love
focuses on the good in the other
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it emphasizes the best.
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Do you appreciate your partner?
Then express that appreciation
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it will diminish and may even
die if it isn't given a voice
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but your love will
blossom if it is expressed
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focusing on the
positive does make a difference,
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it can transform our perspective
and put an end to problems
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before they take root.
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There was a young wife
named Amber who walked into
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her pastor's office one
day looking terribly depressed
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she began to pour out a long
painful story about her husband
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Ben, he treated her with
contempt, nothing she did
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pleased him. Each day
she dreaded the moment he
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returned home from work.
Now, Amber was a beautiful
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young woman but her sense of
rejection had turned her into
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defeated, tense, and distant
wife and the more she felt
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Ben's disdain, the less
motivated she became to please
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him. Amber was
trapped in a vicious cycle,
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the pastor decided he
better have a visit with Ben.
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This guy was astounded to hear
that he was the cause of his
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wife's depression, like
most men, he didn't understand
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how well he could read his
wife's attitude toward her.
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Well, this pastor came up
with one specific suggestion,
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find 10 positive
qualities in Amber, he said
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and thank God for
them, thank God twice a day
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on the way to
and home from work.
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Now that didn't seem
so hard so Ben agreed.
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Ben began thanking God for
the things he liked about Amber
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and before long, she actually
began to change before his eyes
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she became more affectionate,
Ben continued to be thankful
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for her and Amber grew in
self-respect and motivation.
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After some time the pastor
asked Ben if he'd memorized
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his list of Amber's
10 positive qualities.
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He replied I've not
only got them memorized,
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I'm finding a new ones to
be grateful for every day.
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Now wouldn't it be wonderful
if each of us decided to
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find new things to be
grateful for in our spouses?
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Instead of looking at the
flaws, the things that irritate,
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we decided to discover
and appreciate those faucets
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that reflect
God's glory the best.
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If you are having a hard
time appreciating your husband
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or wife, let me challenge
you to do one simple thing.
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Write down things that
you do like about him or her.
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Now if you're wrestling
with bitter experiences it'll be
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hard at first, the pool to
keep records of right or wrongs
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is hard to resist. But
look hard, look carefully,
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there are qualities you
can appreciate in your spouse,
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begin by concentrating on
them, thanking God for them,
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and I believe you will see
your partner transformed before
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your very eyes.
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Some senior couples declare
that they're experiencing
00:23:28.57\00:23:31.74
the best love in all
the time they were together,
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are they just being forgetful?
Or might they be close to the
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truth? I think
they might be right.
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A marriage as God intended
it does get better with time,
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a marriage filled with
love, forgiveness, kindness,
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a marriage that looks out for
the other rather than yourself.
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That's a beautiful thing
which reflects in an earthly way
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the immense love that
God has for all of us.
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Like Shah Jahan, God loves
us with an everlasting love
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that transcends even
death and through our marriages
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we can show an example of that
love to others in the world.
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We have the privilege of
something divine as a couple
00:24:17.92\00:24:23.09
each of us in our
homes can build a Taj Mahal,
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our lasting monument.
00:24:27.73\00:24:29.96
Shah Jahan the builder of
that splendid tomb experienced
00:24:30.00\00:24:38.94
one more great tragedy sometime
after the death of his beloved
00:24:38.97\00:24:42.94
wife, his own son became greedy
for power and turned against
00:24:42.98\00:24:48.78
him. In 1658 the son led a
plot against his father and
00:24:48.82\00:24:54.09
usurped the throne. Shah Jahan
was confined in his own palace
00:24:54.12\00:24:59.76
he lived there the
last eight years of his life
00:24:59.79\00:25:02.60
a prisoner in a gilded
cage but he had one consolation
00:25:02.63\00:25:08.84
through his window, he could
look out across the Ganga River
00:25:08.87\00:25:13.71
and see his wife's resting
place, the monument still stood
00:25:13.74\00:25:18.51
the symbol of his love
remained as beautiful as ever.
00:25:18.55\00:25:22.38
It said that when the
guards found Shah Jahan dead
00:25:22.42\00:25:26.99
at the age of 74, his eyes
were still, open fixed on the
00:25:27.02\00:25:31.99
sparkling jewel
or the Taj Mahal.
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God wants each one of us
to have a monument like that
00:25:35.03\00:25:43.07
an expression of the
love that lasts forever,
00:25:43.10\00:25:46.37
He wants our marriages to
fulfill that high calling,
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He longs for our homes
to be a foretaste of heaven.
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And we can have that kind of
marriage if we center our lives
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on God's kind of love. That
can become our greatest resource
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the love that God gives
if we are feeding our hearts
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and minds on that each
day we'll be able to exhibit
00:26:08.73\00:26:12.93
patient kindness and believe
the best when it really counts.
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Being in a healthy and happy
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the God who
loves each one of us.
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Dear Heavenly Father, Our
relationships our marriages
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are so vitally important to
us, so vitally important to our
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happiness and well-being and
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build those relationships,
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Amen!
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