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​Searching for answers?
Use common sense based on truth...

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​​Common Sense asks…

Who?

What?

When?

Where?

Why?

How?

Questions seek answers

Answers give knowledge

Knowledge brings understanding

Understanding allows acceptance

Acceptance requires adapting

Adapting develops respect

Respect promotes unity

Unity brings peace

Peace is Good.

MALE - FEMALE

Same-as/Different-from...

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This easy-to-read book provides a way out of the cultural chaos and a path to a spiritually-abundant life. Using analogies taken from scripture, it encourages readers to realign with their Creator, to discover their true identity in the One whose image they bear, and to embrace their designed position and purpose. It equips them to build healthy relationships with respect and appreciation for the how and why males/females were created the same-as… but different-from…

                               Who am I?     Why am I here?

                                    God, are you real?

Parents…youth leaders…are you searching for answers to life’s big

questions and a way to empower and equip young people to

critically think through the confusion of today‘s world?

Using spiritual understanding and common sense (SU/CS) this book

presents thought provoking analogies from Creation to reason

through the following subjects:

  • Male/female are the same-as but different-from

  • Adam/Eve - dust/bone - male/female - masculine/feminine

  • the power of the complement/component design

  • purpose and position and how perimeters empower performance

  • three types of male/female relationships

  • the importance of realignment

  • how to know God’s will

  • learn the primary, secondary, and spiritual purposes in life

  • discover a template for living a spiritually-abundant life

 

This book builds a solid foundation of understanding with layer upon

layer of  Common Sense answers based on Truth. Memory verses

and chapter review questions reinforce the teachings for your

personal and group studies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marleen M McDowell’s vision for her future was an ideal marriage and a life of tranquility. Foolishly, she expected it to ‘happen’ as soon as the marriage certificate was signed...she was wife...he was husband...and all was well. Sadly, life is not that easy…

Years later, her dream did come true-after devouring stacks of books on male/female relationships, attending seven marriage seminars, and being willing to put the knowledge into practice. Change can be so difficult… but so worth it!

After 50 years of marriage, she and her husband Aaron are one in heart, soul, mind, and spirit. Their life together is an unending adventure; even a trip to the local dump is a time to enjoy each other.

In 1996, the couple pioneered their off-grid retirement home in the secluded Cascade Mountains. There in the early morning hours when the pines are silhouetted like black lace against the dawn sky, she writes to encourage others that they too can have their dream come true.

Marleen has written numerous short articles for journals and magazines and has contributed to a James Bell anthology and an inspirational book, “Twenty-One Days on the Mountain Top”, and now adds her own book to the list.

Marleen M McDowell

Hello...

My real name is Marleen, but I have been called Mert, Myrtle, Maureen, Margaret or some such ‘em’ name so often I answer to anything starting with-mmm…

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