Resource<\/b><\/p>\n
David Augsberger, When Enough is Enough, (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1984), p. 98.<\/p>\n
Familiarity Vs <\/p>\n
Familiarity and intimacy are not the same. Each has a value in life, certainly in married life, but one is no substitute for the other. If one is confused for the other, we have the basis for major human and marital unrest. In marriage, familiarity is inescapable. It happens almost imperceptibly. Intimacy is usually hard to come by. It must be deliberately sought and opened up and responded to. Familiarity brings a degree of ease and comfort. Intimacy anxiously searches for deep understanding and personal appreciation.<\/p>\n
Gordon Lester, Homemade, V. 4, # 11<\/p>\n
Lemons<\/b><\/p>\n
The University of Northern Iowa once offered a general art course that included a most unusual exercise. The teacher brought to class a shopping bag filled with lemons and gave a lemon to each class member. The assignment was for the student to keep his lemon with him day and night\u2014smelling, handling, examining it.<\/p>\n
Next class period, without warning, students were told to put their lemons back in the bag. Then each was asked to find his lemon. Surprisingly, most did so without difficulty.<\/p>\n
Ministry, September, 1984<\/p>\n
Marilyn Monroe<\/b><\/p>\n
Years ago Father John Powell told the story of Norma Jean Mortenson:<\/p>\n
Norma Jean Mortenson. Remember that name? Norma Jean\u2019s mother, Mrs. Gladys Baker, was periodically committed to a mental institution and Norma Jean spent much of her childhood in foster homes. In one of those foster homes, when she was eight years old, one of the boarders raped her and gave her a nickel. He said, \u2018Here, Honey. Take this and don\u2019t ever tell anyone what I did to you.\u2019 When little Norma Jean went to her foster mother to tell her what had happened she was beaten badly. She was told, \u2018Our boarder pays good rent. Don\u2019t you ever say anything bad about him!\u2019 Norma Jean at the age of eight had learned what it was to be used and given a nickel and beaten for trying to express the hurt that was in her.<\/p>\n
Norma Jean turned into a very pretty young girl and people began to notice. Boys whistled at her and she began to enjoy that, but she always wished they would notice she was a person too\u2014not just a body\u2014or a pretty face\u2014but a person.<\/p>\n
Then Norma Jean went to Hollywood and took a new name\u2014Marilyn Monroe and the publicity people told her, \u2018We are going to create a modern sex symbol out of you.\u2019 And this was her reaction, \u2018A symbol? Aren\u2019t symbols things people hit together?\u2019 They said, \u2018Honey, it doesn\u2019t matter, because we are going to make you the most smoldering sex symbol that ever hit the celluloid.\u2019<\/p>\n
She was an overnight smash success, but she kept asking, \u2018Did you also notice I am a person? Would you please notice?\u2019<\/p>\n
Then she was cast in the dumb blonde roles. Everyone hated Marilyn Monroe. Everyone did. She would keep her crews waiting two hours on the set. She was regarded as a selfish prima donna. What they didn\u2019t know was that she was in her dressing room vomiting because she was so terrified.<\/p>\n
She kept saying, \u2018Will someone please notice I am a person. Please.\u2019 They didn\u2019t notice. They wouldn\u2019t take her seriously. She went through three marriages\u2014always pleading, \u2018Take me seriously as a person.\u2019 Everyone kept saying, \u2018But you are a sex symbol. You can\u2019t be other than that.\u2019 \u201cMarilyn kept saying \u2018I want to be a person. I want to be a serious actress.\u2019<\/p>\n
And so on that Saturday night, at the age of 35 when all beautiful women are supposed to be on the arm of a handsome escort, Marilyn Monroe took her own life. She killed herself. When her maid found her body the next morning, she noticed the telephone was off the hook. It was dangling there beside her.<\/p>\n
Later investigation revealed that in the last moments of her life she had called a Hollywood actor and told him she had taken enough sleeping pills to kill herself.<\/p>\n
He answered with the famous line of Rhett Butler, which I now edit for church, \u2018Frankly, my dear, I don\u2019t care!\u2019 That was the last word she heard. She dropped the phone\u2014left it dangling.<\/p>\n
Claire Booth Luce in a very sensitive article asked, \u2018What really killed Marilyn Monroe, love goddess who never found any love?\u2019 She said she thought the dangling telephone was the symbol of Marilyn Monroe\u2019s whole life. She died because she never got through to anyone who understood.<\/p>\n
Dynamic Preaching, June, 1990<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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