Some sexual advice this morning - flee temptation. Don’t look. Sirach understands how men are led by their eyes, and so his advice is simple: don’t look. I wish our culture had taken this on board, but it hasn’t. The opposite is true, and everywhere there are open invitations to ogle, to gaze, to peek, to pry, to stare. And it’s very hard not to.
I like the line, “friendship is like wine, it grows better as it gets older.” Old friends are a precious resource, and need nurturing.
There’s lots of advice about keeping the right company. All common sense stuff, but |i can’t help thinking it’s the opposite of what Jesus did. He sought out the company of the disreputable, not being afraid of the damage it might do to him, but thinking instead about how his influence might rub off on them.
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