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Threshold is the visible or invisible line a person takes to visit a new place such as a family home.

• A Cultural Mark <watershed>: All Chinese brides goes to their new families is spoken in Hokkienas "crossing the threshold"
• A threshold in geograhical re-localition is similar with the cross of a new watershed, a new frontier or a new beginning, All these terms derived have application in context of politics, social implications etc, etc.
• A sermon describing "crossing the threshold" [[1]]
• In our Chinese Culture adopted from old Mainland China, when some beautiful bride-to-be is married into another family. We call it "crossing the threshold" Once she crosses that alien threshold, she became an alien to her own family, and it is a threshold of no return. The happy bride knows it, and had to live with it all the rest her life into the new family with her husband, not with her parents! In life, we all had important decisons; both at personal level and family level, and at our national level the threshold we cross affect all Singaporeans. Our Government always chooses the right and wise decisions. It is our hope and prayers that it will be the right ones in the years to come. We need to take risks,not risk our national life for a bleak future.

[edit] Crossing the threshold experiences

You are probably familiar with the term “crossing the threshold” or perhaps being “carried across the threshold”.

A threshold is the step that forms the base of a doorway, and so when you cross one, you pass through from one side of a doorway to the other.

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You are probably familiar with the term “crossing the threshold” or perhaps being “carried across the threshold”. A threshold is the step that forms the base of a doorway, and so when you cross one, you pass through from one side of a doorway to the other. While you rarely hear the term used for an architectural feature these days, it is still widely used to speak of passing through significant change points in our lives. This use comes from the old marriage tradition of a man carrying his new bride “across the threshold”, and while that had a literal meaning as he carried her through the door of their new house, the idea was significant not so much for the literal door but for the passing from one stage of life to another, a passage which has permanent and irreversible consequences. Even if a person becomes unmarried again, they can never regain the position of being a person who has never been married.

So from that marriage tradition, the idea of “crossing thresholds” came to be used for any major transition point in life. Starting school; reaching puberty; having your first kiss; leaving your parents home; beginning your first paid job; bearing your first child; retirement; and finally death; these are all thresholds, major points of change in our lives after which we are never the same again.

There are lots of others in between, some of which are common to most people and others which only some may experience.

[edit] tea ceremony

[edit] Beyond the now - crossing to heaven