Dear friend. . .
You ask me why I dare touch such a hot topic in today’s political scene. After all, it’s a women’s right to choose. It’s private. It’s not right to push your opinions on others, you say. Thank you for your questions, for allowing me to be the one to listen.
I don’t often talk about abortion, but friend you asked the question so is it okay that I share my story?
My mom was 15 when she found out she was pregnant with her first. A young naval guy on her base told her he loved her. She believed him. Nine months later she gave birth to a sick child. Cystic fibrosis. She was far from home now. “You made your own bed; lie in it,” her mother said. (more…)
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Dear friend…
You ask how I can believe in a world that looks at Christianity in such a negative light. You ask me to describe my faith. Are you fundamental? Are you moderate? Liberal?
I don’t see myself as a label. I simply follow Him because I cannot see my life without a relationship with the God that transformed my life.
There was a time when I didn’t know God. Didn’t believe in him. I saw life as black and white and without the shadings of faith. And then one day I challenged that assumption. Is there really a God? The answer came in that moment. Yes, there is a God and somehow, inexplanably, I mattered to him. It was a transforming moment, a word I don’t throw out lightly.
It seemed simple to me. One day I lived without the knowledge that God was real and the next I couldn’t shake the truth that my life had taken a turn. Knowing him was suddenly a thread through the fabric of every choice, every decision, every part of my existence.
It was simple, really.
It only became complicated later, when somehow faith became tangled in a to-do list or was scrutinized under a microscope of culture that wanted me to defend what I knew had taken place in my heart. Funny, but the complexity came from both within and outside of the church. (more…)
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