Comments on the by-log: Weekend in Review

This is in response to an earlier post. I'm the d...

2005-05-18T14:19:00.000-05:00

This is in response to an earlier post. I'm the doctor aunt. I think in all of our activities, we should be responsible. If our child is sick, I think we should be responsible and make the appropriate medical decisions and not just say we'll let God decide whether he gets well or not or lives or dies. Likewise, having children involves decisions and activities. I think it is wrong to just indulge our sexual pleasures in any way we want or at any time we want without thought given to what the actions may result in. Sexuality is good and fun and enjoyable, but to divorce it from responsibility and throw it all back on God and His will is, I think, overly presumptious. I think having children should involve choice, responsible choices. That, I think, is foundational to then discussing other aspects of birth control.

P.S. John Smucker used to live at Halsey, Oregon. You ought to know that, Byran.

On sensing spiritual battles...It's not always for...

2005-05-18T12:17:00.000-05:00

On sensing spiritual battles...
It's not always for us to see the unseen. We want it all to fit into a neat package: I am in ministry, therefore this sickness/danger/loss is an attack from the Enemy, therefore I need to counter-attack in this particular manner.
But sometimes we simply don't know. Remember when we hit a moose and our van burned up? There were those who called us and had it all figured out: See, you guys are in Ministry and Satan doesn't like that, so you're being attacked.
And I thought, "Excuse me? We're no longer on the Reserve, (where the spiritual battles were up close and personal), and we're leaving the mission field in 5 months. Strange strategy on Satan's part if you ask me. Maybe God had a purpose here that no one will ever know."
I think we have to be at peace with not knowing and with things not making sense. Sometimes it is given to us to see the unseen clearly, and sometimes not. What really matters is trusting and obeying even when we don't see. As you said, "He'll work things together for good...and I claim that promise."

I have an uncle John Smucker in Poland. I don't t...

2005-05-17T13:58:00.000-05:00

I have an uncle John Smucker in Poland. I don't think there's one in Halsey.

Totally off-topic, but: Do you know a John Smucker...

2005-05-17T08:54:00.000-05:00

Totally off-topic, but: Do you know a John Smucker from Halsey, OR?

Thanks for sharing some of the details from your p...

2005-05-17T08:24:00.000-05:00

Thanks for sharing some of the details from your programs as well as sharing what it meant to you. PTL! Our prayers were answered.

Karen