Eight? You've been keeping busy
Wow girl, I didnt know you you had that many! LOL.
So you think
8 is enough then?
that was so bad lol.
(Not as bad as " yeah I have 8,..
that i know of *wink wink)
Nah sis, I never took birth control after my mom took me to get it at around 16, when I started to gain weight (being vain as I was) I was like, "forget this"
(as if that made any sense either! lol)
LOL
Yeah, I did gain some weight while not taking BC pills
Im 44 and have not taken it since that time. But I would never feel guilty for such a thing now. I mean if I hurt someones feelings or stole something (etc) I'd feel guilt for doing my wrong, but I wouldnt have a second thought or feeling of guilt attached to something like that.
The reality of the matter is,
Im just plain less active in the evenings then you are sis
Fer Shizzle!
Gotta be more active with all these kids. No time to lay around.
You're too funny, you naughty thing you.
However, I also don't believe that we, as individuals, have the right to come to our own conclusions on such important issues as abortion and contraception. We need to be careful how we approach such matters. If we are starting out with the preconcieved notion that this is what I believe to be right, and then we try to make God's will conform to our own, we are putting ouselves on a very dangerous path. If, however, we start out by saying that we want to first find out what God's will is on this issue, and then we conform ourselves to His will, we put ourselves on the right path to understanding and accepting God's truth. We must always be willing to humbly submit our own will to His truth.
Amen.
Now, with that, come the questions, "What is truth?" or, "What is God's truth?" These questions have been asked by great men throughout history, from great philosophers, to great theologians, to even Pontius Pilate himself who asked Jesus this very question.
And here I could have told them the answer!
Thy Word oh Lord is Truth
Thankfully, we as Christians have the light of our Lord's truth and teachings to guide us down the narrow path which leads to righteousness, and away from the broad path which leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13-14)
This is not meant to be offensive to my Protestant brothers and sisters in Christ, but
RUT ROH!
I see Protestantism as the, unfortunate, first step leading down the dangerous spiral staircase from the Fullness of Truth of the Catholic Church to the ideology of our individualistic, liberal, atheistic and anti-Christian culture we see today.
Holy smokes! That wasnt offensive now, was it? lol
The Reformation led people to question why they should listen to the Church and not just come up with their own Christian beliefs based on the Bible.
And you see that is a bad thing?
The "church" wasnt acting like "the church"
If it doesn't walk like a duck and it doesnt look like a duck
and doesnt talk like a duck...
Do we call it a ... duck??
I suppose it could always be a 'sick' duck
in need of a change of diet (the word)
But what if the ducky wont take the meds?
Then people began questioning why they should even believe in the Bible
No, they began to question why they couldn't read the Bible for themselves.
Canon 14. We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; unless anyone from motive of devotion should wish to have the Psalter or the Breviary for divine offices or the hours of the blessed Virgin; but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books.
Source: Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, Edited with an introduction by Edward Peters, Scolar Press, London, copyright 1980 by Edward Peters, ISBN 0-85967-621-8, pp. 194-195, citing S. R. Maitland, Facts and Documents [illustrative of the history, doctrine and rites, of the ancient Albigenses & Waldenses], London, Rivington, 1832, pp. 192-194.
I don't mean to be a naysayer but this don't seem right to me.
