When God Writes Your Love Story is a 1999 book by Eric and Leslie Ludy (pictured), an American married couple. After becoming a bestseller on the Christian book market, the book was republished in 2004 and then revised and expanded in 2009. It tells the story of the authors' first meeting, courtship, and marriage. The authors advise single people not to be physically or emotionally intimate with others, but to wait for the life partner that God has planned for them. The Ludys argue that one's love life should be both guided by and subordinate to one's relationship with God. Leslie writes that God offers new beginnings to formerly unchaste or sexually abused individuals. Leah Andrews of the Lewiston Morning Tribune compared When God Writes Your Love Story to other popular Christian books providing alternatives to dating, including Joshua Harris's I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Boy Meets Girl. American college professors Margaret and Dwight Peterson responded to the Ludys' book by writing an essay called "God Does Not Want to Write Your Love Story," in which the Petersons argue that the book makes young people see marriage as a fantasy comparable to that of Disney Princesses.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_God_Writes_Your_Love_Story
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of the people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen
1883:
A massive eruption destroyed the volcanic island of Krakatoa, ejecting so much ash that average global temperatures fell by as much as 1.2 °C (2.2 °F) over the next year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa
1928:
At a cafe in Paisley, Scotland, May Donoghue found the remains of a snail in her bottle of ginger beer, causing her to launch one of the landmark civil action cases in British common law, Donoghue v Stevenson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson
1970:
Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women organized the Women's Strike for Equality in New York City, in which 20,000 women protested the continuing lack of gender equality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Strike_for_Equality
2008:
More than a week after a ceasefire was reached in the South Ossetia war, Russia unilaterally recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Abkhazia_and_South_Ossetia
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
paradigm shift: A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated when new scientific discoveries produce anomalies in the current paradigm. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paradigm_shift
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. --Mother Teresa https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
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