A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.