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I'm not being caddy about it, Wednesday, May 11th, 2022.

Dear Darla, I told you in my last letter, the guys are pretty straightforward.

This is not to say that there are no complicated men for there are, but taking one thing with

another, guys are less complex than women.

It can take women some adjusting to get used to this because underneath each simple action

he takes or simple word he utters, she suspects deeper forces at work.

Consequently, men can be hard for women to understand because they represent an alien

thought form.

But women can be hard for women to understand as well.

And this is for the old fashioned reason, the complexity.

Some of the complexity that women exhibit is easy for other women to follow because it

is their native language.

They see and understand what is happening.

But some of a woman's complexity is as hard for another woman to follow as it is difficult

for the men to follow.

It is a masked complexity.

This usually happens when sin gets into the picture.

And the sin I'm talking about is usually the sin of envy or striving.

When it breaks out in a circle of women who work friends, classmates, roommates, or acquaintances,

it comes out in the form of caddiness.

Now, the Bible doesn't really talk about caddiness, but it does talk about envy.

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