How to Improve Your Love Life

Writings on the Wall: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin
From the Book of Daniel, of The Bible, there is the account of encrypted writing appearing on a wall of King Belshazzar's palace during a feast, celebration, or party. The king could not understand the message, the writing on the wall. It was beyond his ability - or willingness - to understand. Perplexed and concerned, he sought out Daniel to decipher the encrypted message. Daniel did. Daniel revealed the message, written in Hebrew script Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin, to mean [paraphrasing]: Weighed, found wanting, and (will soon be) gone.

Is your life being weighed on the scales and found wanting, so its days are numbered and coming to an end...?

The writings on the wall of your life may be encrypted and not easily decoded. Too, the writings on the wall of your life may be hiding in plain sight. Whether overlooked, rationalized, or ignored, the writings on the wall of your life arevisible, discernible, and understandable.

You only need to look and to understand. You need to understand how to improve your life, how to improve your love life. Ultimately, you need to understand and act on your love of life. Such understanding and action will improve the quality of your life. Such understanding and action, shared with her (or him), will improve the quality of your love life.

Seen any mysterious script on the security fence circumscribing your gated community? Perhaps a few scrawls on the façade of the exclusive private school your heir apparent attends? A graffiti or two, downtown, in the alley behind your favorite posh restaurant? Quality of life can be obscured in the good life.

Even destructive relationships, self destructive relationships, self-destructive relationships, and emotionally destructive relationships all can hide behind the mask of material success, beneath the veneer of popular culture.

In a larger context, consider The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.? Read the writing there? Maybe something encrypted, writing behind the writing? Encrypted messages on changes in technology, politics, culture, and society are written there.

The writing on the wall of your life may be obscured, masked, or encrypted. The vision to improve the quality of your life, the quality of your love life, the quality of the life of Our Nation, may seem opaque or clouded.

What ifthe writing on the wall were in GIGANTIC LETTERS right in front of you? Would you, could you see it, then?

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......W..R..I..T..I..N..G.............K..I..L..L..S .

Strung on steel cables across the three, northbound lanes of the Suncoast Parkway coming out of Tampa, the tarp banner hung taunt. The message, in Arial Black letters, five feet high, could be seen from more than a mile away.

Perfect language syntax, Rafe thought: a noun, a verb, and a period. Complete and "to the point"

Alternately, the writing could be reasoned creatively as noun, verb - period. He liked that. More like quality life should be.

Could the characters of the quality life really be bunched, grouped, organized, and thought of in equal juxtaposition without the emotions giving them quality? No.

Emotions were the focusing of a quality life. Just as punctuation gave life to a living sentence, so, too did the emotions engender and enliven the quality life.

Mere existence could be a fragment, a splice, or a run-on-sentence, but quality life? How meaningless or meaning less, little, or nothing. Not the quality life. The Quality Life had to have flow, balance, and continuity to have meaning.

Malley's sharp tongue pierced Rafe's dreamy idealism.

"Your mind is vapor passing away. Your supposed reality, your desperately needy rhetoric is flaccid and weak fantasy next to firm, unyielding reality. Emotions are but excuses for irresponsibility, apologies for excess."

"How did you know what I was thinking?"

"How do I ever know? You are so easy to read - for me. Your love gives me the perfect channel to tap into your best - and worst."

Rafe squirmed at Malley's backhanded slap of love. He knew, in his heart, that she wasn't right for him, but the rest of him so enjoyed and needed her wrongs.

Rafe jammed the accelerator hard. He'd show her e-motion. His Infiniti Q45 zoomed forward and in a race of heartbeats, they were up to the overpass. As they flew under it, Rafe squinted up at the banner:

The W R I T I N G on the wall K I L L S .

A chill went through Rafe and his hands visibly shook on the wheel. A glance at Malley was met by her sparkling blues and a bemused smirk.

"Arrogant Porsche bitch," Rafe muttered.

He immediately jerked his foot from the accelerator to break, to slow down. It was too late.

The finest of the Florida Highway Patrol was behind him. The cream and black guardian of Florida's Interstates lit up with a blazing scarlet and sapphire lightshow.

"Damn."

"Did you say something, dear," Malley chortled, in her continuing amusement with him.

"You'll figure it out - eventually." ('After it's too late,' he continued to himself.)

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Thomas Carlyle (Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian) wrote about change in technology, politics, culture, and society. These changes were creating turmoil and chaos in the traditional order of things during the Victorian era - nearly 200 years ago.

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
- Thomas Carlyle

So, too, is it in our time. There are signs of OUR own time. There is writing on the wall of our culture, our society, our lives.

Can you decipher the writing on the wall of your life? Too encrypted for your keen mind? Figured it out, yet?

Specter of doom, the end, an inevitable decline and end? You can right it, yet...

What are you writing on the wall of your life? Think it over - and write it right.

You never know who might read it...and possibly change His mind about your Life.
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God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.
You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
Your Kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
The Book of Daniel 5:26-28, The Bible

R E A D the Book of Daniel 5:1-31. L I S T E N to the Book of Daniel 5:1-31.
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