In the mail came today Christmas greetings from attorney general Greg Abbott, with a picture of him on election night with family and supporters, quoting scripture in Luke 2:14.

I am listening to an interesting audio book titled Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. One rather significant conclusion in a study by John Gottman mentioned in the book is that in any marriage there are four negative emotions that hurt the marriage: critical, defensive, stonewalling, and contempt. Contempt, talking or looking down at the other person, is one deciding factor leading to the failure of a particular marriage. What is interesting is that in the Bible, Ephesians 5:22-26 to be exact, God commanded the wife to submit to the husband as the church submits to Christ and the husband is commanded to love his wife even to the point of giving his life for her as Christ did for the church. Now if a man loves his wife to the point of giving his life for her, he can't possibly have contempt for her. If a woman submits to her husband the way the church submits to Christ, she can't possibly have contempt for him. Maybe if Christians live more Christ-like, just as Bill Maher suggested in an interview, the world would doubt Him less and maybe the divorce rate among those who claim to be Christians would be way less than 51% rate in the secular world.