As a blogger, you’ll be sharing your perspectives, but this is NOT the same as picking a fight. When living in community, we should all be able to “take some, leave some.” Your blogging is your sharing – giving some of yourself to others – not your judgment on them.
We don’t understand why so many people resist the calling of parenting. Why are millions of people opting out of it? Why is the childless life attractive? Our jaws drop at such ideas.
Before we get on a high horse and condemn Christians for thinking like the disciples, let’s get down to earth. We all tend to resemble the disciples at times. Doesn’t every parent? We get short with the children, testy, annoyed. That’s not how Jesus viewed children.
You know where we’re coming from. We love children. They’re blessings. Always. We’re often misunderstood. Some of the misunderstandings are commonplace and understandable, others outrageous. We got a doozy not too long ago.
Our Christmas Eve is spent preparing for the celebrative birth of Jesus. There is commotion going on all day. Here is a list of things we do. What about you?
Regardless of how parents feel about their parental freedom, current law and practice in the US (and many developed countries) reveals that the government saves ultimate authority over the child for itself. There is a third option, however, and one that transcends either of these choices.
Yesterday, we listed four common doubts most couples experience when considering another child, but we purposely left out one. It’s actually the most important of the list of five. Not sure if you tried to guess, but some of you did.