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Birth Control…a Neutral Issue?
“Why can’t birth control just be a neutral issue…your choice if you want to use it, my choice if I don’t. Why does it have to be good or bad? Or is it good or bad?” I’ve mulled over this question before, mainly after, perhaps, someone has said something like the above to me. “It’s…
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The Snowball Destruction of Career Women
What do working women, or should we say, women who pursue outside careers, have to do with children? Everything. The issue of children, and women’s roles, and all the issues surrounding those, are intricately intertwined, and difficult to separate. They all follow a continuum, beginning “way back when”, influenced by wrong thinking and wrong practices…
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Secularism Causes Pleasure to be Our Measure
Sometimes you read something, and although the subject is nothing new, maybe the author puts a different light on it, and makes the issue yet a little clearer. The book I was reading to my children this morning had nothing to do with the issue of children and birth control, and yet had everything to…
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Thoughts to Ponder…
Words are awesome…so powerful, so profoundly life-changing, if they are called upon in just the right order, at just the right time. I LOVE words…and I love deeply meaningful words that others have woven together making me ponder something anew, or in a different light. I wanted to share the following such words from various…
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"Mommy/Daddy Time" or Sacrifice…Where’s the Balance?
Keep the vision….keep the vision! I know all of us are in different seasons of life. Some of us have grown children, some of us are trying to keep up with a passel of little ones; but the burden of my heart today says “Keep the vision”. I have spoken with a number of young…
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It’s Not a Tumor
“I was so happy the day my children left the house…they couldn’t leave soon enough…and when they had children and complained to me about how bad their children were, I just laughed and said ‘Good’…pay-back is sweet!” Try to guess where I heard these comments (and many more astonishing such words)? From a Christian lady…
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Deep Thoughts…
Yesterday we attended my husband’s grandparent’s church for Homecoming/Decoration Sunday. It’s one of those “little mountain church-houses”, still alive and thriving with 4th and 5th generations attending. Everyone who goes there is related…from the oldest to the youngest. Every member is a descendant of my husband’s grandfather’s family. He was one of twelve children, and…
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The Old-Time Family
I ran across this precious poem on Amy’s Humble Musings this morning (thanks Kathy!), and just had to post it. It is especially encouraging to me as I carry our seventh baby…and even those of us strong in our conviction and desire for children still waver from time to time…we are still human, prone to…
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Crying Out for More Children?
As I swooned with dizziness and nausea from my sixth pregnancy, my 6-year old son, in his childish excitement, asked, “Mommy, can you have twins? Because I can’t decide if I want a girl or a boy, so I just want both.” Able to manage a chuckle, I secretly thought, “What would I do with…
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The Importance of How We Speak About Children
Any of you who have more than three (and sometimes more than two) children, have been met with a variety of responses from other people. Some responses are positive and encouraging; some are not. Some are spoken without any thought, and therefore it is easy to “let it go”. But overall, I believe the responses,…
