#ididntproofreadthis

As a little girl reciting the Nicene Creed in Mass, one line was my favorite: God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten not made, one in being with the Father. Begotten not made. It was not until my 36th year, I asked myself with the intention of meditating on an answer for myself- What does “begotten not made” mean?   I Googled “begotten”, and I constructed an answer how it means to me.  Beget is a verb and its second definition is “to give rise to; bring about”.  Christ was begotten not made.  He was born Son of Man, yet became Son of Man. God intended Christ to rise amidst human experience. I heard it poignantly over the radio on the drive home tonight: He was tried and found worthy to suffer.  Begotten not made, one in being with the Father.  Christ had risen to Man being one with the Father.  He endured  suffering, and faithfully.  I also heard encouragement in this same talk I linked back to my favorite line in Th...

Matt and I were riding home yesterday, and one of the things I thanked God for in my own thoughts was for the silence we can sit with and still enjoy each other’s company in.  Matt was a fan of Everybody Loves Raymond, and he told me about an episode where Ray and Debra acknowledged that kind of silence.  #toofunny And then I interrupted the silence with this “podcast”.  And he was like, “Oh God.”  But he certainly did not mind when I would press pause and be like, “Yes.” and here comes #thisiswhyyes.  I always know when I say something right that speaks to his masculinity because one) Matt doesn’t roll his eyes at me.  https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xT0e3pOwnxztD14wxXnhz?si=YQ2jkInlRR-JWHDDlrmdLA This podcast is one of my favorites on this channel because even the host was reverent in this truth spoken.  I felt intelligent just listening on.  I felt genius for agreeing in my own words with the ideas presented.

One of the things about the movement of pro-choice that bothers me is, it is a self-serving, power-hungry movement.   In my brutally honest opinion, it is a kind of grand scheme to degrade the human race.   For every choice there is risk because the only true control we have is the power to make a choice.    For every choice there is a consequence.  Whether it is a positive or negative consequence is relative at an individual level.  One thing I have found in my experience to be present in time of consequence is Grace.  I have the power to receive Grace in my choice’s consequence.   Pro-choice movement takes it a bit too far, in my opinion.  I hear it encouraging its followers: you have the power to manipulate your choice’s consequence.  (June 8, 2022 How grave is the consequence manipulated? Without choice, the innocent life assumes the ultimate shift in responsibility for the consequence: death.  How lazy can people be? ...