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This current series of blogs is about dysfunction in families today. We’re using David’s family as an example. We’ve been looking at some of the results of growing up in a dysfunctioning family by using Solomon for an example. We’ll finish our list of symptoms today. Adults who have grown up in dysfunctional families have trouble labeling and expressing their feelings and emotions. Substitutes are found: sex, power, success, etc. But they don’t satisfy. For all his wisdom Solomon wasn’t able to label his feelings in order to get a handle on them and deal with them in a mature way. He wasn’t able to truly express his needs, his fears, his hurts and his anger. This is another common symptom today. Adults who have grown up in dysfunctional families often have a pattern of getting into one destructive relationship after another. Solomon married one ungodly woman after another, despite … Continue reading →

            Solomon was remarkable!  He was unbelievably wise, unimaginably wealthy, immensely powerful and incredibly gifted.  He wrote three books of the Bible (Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon and Proverbs).  Being David’s youngest son, he seems to have had a closer relationship to his father than his older siblings.  Changes were taking place in David over the years.  Still, it was too little too late.  Imagine how he must have felt when he heard the servants whispering about how his father had his mother’s first husband killed because he had gotten her pregnant, and that that baby had died.  How did he respond to his older sister’s despair when rumors of her rape circulated?  What about the two older brothers that tickled and played with him — what was he to think when he found one killed the other and he didn’t see either any more?  No one talked to him about … Continue reading →