04-01-2017, 03:50 PM
(04-01-2017, 10:12 AM)GMDino Wrote: Nice write up about his marriage and his wife.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karen-pence-is-the-vice-presidents-prayer-warrior-gut-check-and-shield/2017/03/28/3d7a26ce-0a01-11e7-8884-96e6a6713f4b_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.a6ad31786a31
They seem like a really happy, loving couple.
And personally I don't care about his refusal to eat alone with any other woman or attend a party where there is alcohol if his wife isn't there also.
Personal choices.
But it reminded me of a guy who did some work for our company last year.
They were from Indiana also. I had never met the boss in person but the morning they showed up he stopped me in our shop and asked if we could remove the "adult magazines" from the men's room. He told me he was a Christian man and trying to stay faithful to his wife while he was on the road.
The magazines were the biker/car type with bikini clad models on the cover.
Before I could move them one of the guys in the shop had already put them away. We left them stored for the three days he was on our site.
But we ALL, from the most craven employee to the most holy, had the same question: Why can't you just not look at them?
Temptation is different to different people. But you cannot simply go through life trying to have it removed from your site/life and then claim you never fell to it.
Doesn't mean you go looking for situations to test your faith/marriage. It means you are strong enough to ignore it when you are in those situations by yourself.
A recovering alcoholic who is trying to stay sober wouldn't go into a bar or to a bbq where alcohol is being served. Someone on a diet who is trying to get to a certain weight wouldn't go into a bakery.
Every person has that one sin they can't ignore, sex may be your bosses one sin that he just can't shake so he tries to remove the temptation whenever and wherever he can.
At least he didn't tell you that there could be no magazines anywhere on site and only to keep them out of view.
I don't think it's unreasonable to remove temptation from your life if you can.
