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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Letters to My Daughters about Dear, White, Republican with the genre: Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships.. End with the sentence '"'.
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conversations.value: <a href="/exec/obidos/author=the author%2c%20Mary/${0}">the author</a>, the media savvy Republican strategist for two Bushes and one Cheney, switches to mama bear mode in a series of letters intended as a legacy for her two preteen daughters. Her advice reflects on formative experiences--losing her mother at age 26, working in the White House, marrying a soul mate from another political planet (high profile Democrat <a href="/exec/obidos/author=Carville%2c%20James/${0}">James Carville</a>), and surviving Hurricane Isabel. Each letter's theme is reflected in her greeting. For example, "Dear hormone handmaidens" gives equal time to menses and menopause," Dear lovelies" focuses on how not to become a dieter or fashion victim and "Dear unfortunate carriers of the the author DNA," acknowledges anxiety (hers and theirs). the author is at her best when translating family or political lessons in her own terms including her mother's quiet faith, her brother Stevie's gallant response to his bicycle accident and the climate of loyalty in Bush's White House. Her love for her daughters is wonderfully ferocious and funny--full of mom sound bites. After promising not to spy or pry she warns: "But from a distance, I'll be keeping track of you like a rat on a cheeto."
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conversations.value: Give me the first two paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Letters to My Daughters
  Golden Pine is simply an enormous painting. It is 16.5 feet x 22.5 feet in size, and executed with pure mineral pigments and more than two thousand sheets of gold leaf applied to Japanese handmade paper. Sounds a lot like marriage, I thought as I read the descriptive words handmade and labor-intensive. The longer I studied the image, the more it spoke to me.
  You've glanced at the painting, but look again. A secure tree reaching heavenward is the kind of wife I want to be—strong, always growing upward toward the One who made me and outward toward those He gave me to love and shelter. Now count the panels. Nine large panels make up the whole image, each one necessary for the overall effect, yet each an incomplete work if removed from the whole. The separate panels represent so much of the complexity of marriage. Each panel must work with the others to create the finished image of Golden Pine. So, too, as a wife, I must work in a multifaceted way in my marriage. Some situations where I function as a wife call for empathy and silence, and some for strong yet kind words of truth. Sometimes I help my husband in practical, tangible ways; sometimes I help by backing off; and sometimes I help with words that are a gentle nudging, a reminder, an encouragement to keep trusting.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'Remind your husband of your love and commitment to him, but always seek to choose right over wrong, God's way over sin, and encourage him to do the same'.
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conversations.value: Remind your husband of your love and commitment to him, but always seek to choose right over wrong, God's way over sin, and encourage him to do the same. Put ultimate trust in God. It was what Esther did in helping her husband avoid the sin of murder. She continued to believe God even in facing potential death at her husband's hand. It's what Peter meant when he wrote of "the holy women who hoped in God" (1 Peter 3:5).
  Isaiah 33:6, "And he will be the stability of your times," is a favorite of mine, for it speaks to the One who is constant even when circumstances in a marriage or in the world scream distress. Following in marriage is first of all a heart to follow God, so hear me in this—if he doesn't respond to your encouragement and God's to get back onto a healthy and holy dance floor, it is then time to seek out a godly counselor. There are amazing people out there who can help you with any issue you face and help you get back on track. Ultimately, as a wife, let God use the example of your own life, trusting God supremely to convince your husband to reconsider his ways.
  No husband is perfect. Every husband will make decisions that will impact his family negatively. His decisions may have cost your family financially. Maybe his decision resulted in broken relationships with friends or family. The cost could have been emotional or even physical. Your husband can't see in 360 degrees, which means he can't make perfect decisions. Most husbands are good-hearted men who don't intend to cause their wives or children harm or suffering. But following an imperfect man, which all married women must do, means there will be difficult circumstances and some suffering as a result. Still, God is saying, "Do you believe my design is very good? Will you trust me?" Or is He saying to you, "This is a dangerous, unholy path. Step away and call to your husband, remind him of your love, and pray the truth will be revealed to him"?
  In the "worst of times" in any marriage, wives must be more supportive, more on guard, more alert than in ordinary times. Peter says our behavior can win our husbands. I know many women who risked believing God's Word and had to step away from their husbands for years or even for the rest of their lives; I've also known many others who have experienced the miracle of a resurrected marriage and a new man for a husband, like my friend Donna, who I wrote about in the last letter. Nothing is impossible with God.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Endurance is such an unromantic word. It sounds upside-down and backward to imply endurance produces happiness, but such is the way God works. It is where we are in our marriage today, and it is truly wonderful. The happiness we experience is more aptly described as contentment or satisfaction or peace. It is deep and lasting as opposed to the shallowness of our early years. Knowing the high purpose for which God created marriage strengthened our faith to persevere through the normal, common trials of building a healthy marriage.
  May you follow Him faithfully until the end as you and your husband go dancing in the minefields of this shadowland. Never give up. That's what the promises are for!
  She is married to her best friend, Dennis Rainey, whose heart has belonged to Jesus Christ since their first meeting when she was a sophomore and he a junior in college. Her six children are all adults who amaze her with the ways they are using their abilities and gifts to live for Christ. And from five of these six have come twenty-two grandchildren who call her Mimi. But the best title of all is to be called friend by Jesus. Barbara is increasingly in awe at being chosen and loved by Him.
  More recently, Barbara has begun a new venture within FamilyLife called Ever Thine Home, a holiday and home collection of beautiful and biblical products for women to use to make their homes a witness for their faith.
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