Edited for Content

There came a point last night when I realized I edit my life. There are things I don't say because they'd be too much. There are actions I don't take as they'd be too much. How different would I be if I didn't edit for content? Don't we all edit? Isn't that what our conscious is for?

I may sit and ponder all the things I don't say, all the actions I don't take but isn't that who I am just as much as the things I do say and the actions I do preform?

Grateful & Thankful

Sometimes we forget to say thanks. Thanks for being there, thanks for caring, thanks for just being you. We are who we are because of the people we allow in our lives and I've being meaning to say thank you to all of them.

Thank you to my Madre to with whom I wouldn't be me. For all you've done, for always being there, thank you. For never giving up on me even when you weren't sure how to lead me, thank you.

To my Ma-in-Laws both are wonderful and both are very similar (wonder what that means....) You may not notices how much I listen or how much I care about you but I do. Thank you for aways having patience even as I stumble. For not just shaking me but explaining why things maybe the way they are. Thank you for being you. & for my Spare Ma-in-Law... all I can say is WOW! I never realized how great you are. Thank you for being in my corner, even when you don't agree with me. I am so grateful to have you there.

To the one I call my sis-in-law. You are unique, you have often been my Jiminy Cricket & we both know it. I love you and am so glad God put someone so much like me, and yet so very different, in my life to shake me up when other won't ;-) Without you I'd surely be very different.

To my aunts & uncles, thank you for always letting me vent, for being that sounding board we all need.

To my Brother, thank you for showing me time and time again how NOT to do things!!! Btw I'm so very Proud of how you've turn out... things could have been so different.

To all my other family & friends, thank you for putting up with me. I have a better understanding of what makes me tick because of it, and what to watch for.

To my husband. I love you. You don't always see it, and you don't always let me say it but I do. I am grateful we are taking this next step in our relationship and building a better tomorrow for us and our family. It takes courage to admit you might have faults and greater courage to say lets fix it. Thank you for finally taking my hand.

It's funny how God puts certain people in your life and what they can show you. Reflection is all well and good, but moving forward is necessary too. thank you one and all for being my support team, the web that binds me.

God Opens the Womb Part 2

It's true, God truly does open and close the womb. He sees how our lives are, he sees the people we surround ourselves with. He sees into our hearts. He knows if we are ready and willing to open our hearts to a new child. He sees the hope that may or may not be there. God knows all. He sees all.

We may not understand why he closes our womb, even when we pray so hard for him to open it, but he lets us know. In time God always shares with us. We just have to open our hearts and our ears and listen to him.

Premarital Sex

With more & more Americans par-taking in premarital sex we have to ask ourselves if this is really how we would like our children to be raised? In a world where Sex and the City is celebrated (yes I'm VERY Guilty on this one) is it possible to lessen the effect of premarital sex on minors? How can we take sex off the TV when it sales so well? How can we convince producers that really there can be more to a plot line than a steamy sex scene. As a responsible parent we've got a lot of help from TV stations on the quality of the programing based off of the reviews and ratings posted in the beginning of the shows but how about keeping some of these programs off TV all together?

I'm all for Sex and the City. I loved it when it was on HBO and hunted for people that would let me come crash their couch to watch (always with a little gift of bubbly of course) but now that it is on TBS, I wonder at the effect it has. Yes it's edited for content but the message is still there and at 7PM my kids are still up. That is at least one show that should NOT be on during waking hours for my children to happen upon, but yet it is. I'm not suggesting that the world edit it's content for children but shouldn't it be a bit more red light? Lets get our children to an age that they can understand the plot lines and the show biz aspect before we shove them in front of shows on the CW. Children have the right to be Children and our shows shouldn't target them into thinking it is the norm for all this sex.

NFP

NFP, Natural Family Planning. I stumbled across this term yesterday in search of the whole God opens the Womb thing. This concept complete caught me off guard. I knew that there were people out there that still practise the rhythm method but I didn't realize it was a whole movement. They amount of stuff I found out there for NFP was amazing. Here the "Church" is recommending every woman regardless of her status of trying to get pregnant or trying not to, should practise NFP for health reasons. They even quoted science for their argument. Here was a line I wasn't expecting to see. It was nearly a reasonable argument for their side. Afterwards I was left in awe about how well thought out the argument really was. Go NFP for walking the fence accurately.

Anyhow I'm not saying everyone should jump the NFP movement but that sometimes it doesn't hurt to listen to the other side... This blogger isn't ready to give up her MoHot just yet, but I'm glad to her argument as to why the 26 year old mother may not be so into it. ;-)

God Opens The Womb

As I set out to answer my eternal question on how God sees conception today I was reminded how Vague he can be. My husband gets on to me about being Vague but really God has got the handle on that one doesn't he? Genesis alone, the first Book of the Bible, we see example after example of how God states a man goes to his wife and she conceived. Here God hints at how he is the one in control of the womb. But is he? Doesn't he also give us free will? And in Genesis 29:31 when he states he opens Leah's womb, he doesn't give a time line, only hints that now she should be able to conceive. Even with the birth of each of her son's, God doesn't hint at how long it took to conceive or how many times Jacob came unto Leah, just that Leah bore sons. The important thing to remember is that God leaves a lot up to us. He gave us freewill but ultimately he's in control of the gift of life. What we do with it once we've got it is ours to live.