NFP Week Wrap-Up and Resources
There are so many resources out there to help you LEARN ABOUT NFP and to help you LEARN A METHOD.
There are so many resources out there to help you LEARN ABOUT NFP and to help you LEARN A METHOD.
My very first sense of the divide among Christians—anti-Ecumenism, if you will—came as a very young child.
Neither of us is particularly deferential. We both like to win—a lot. It’s aaaaaalmost a competition between us to determine who is more strong-willed. . .imagine that ring of purgatory, will you?
One of the worst things I could think of was a change that was thrust up on me. I was so attached to my own comfort zone—the good and the bad—that choosing to let go of the known was unthinkable.
Walking out of the bathroom, I was met with all the paraphernalia of the upcoming Mother’s Day. Cards, candy, flowers–all the things. I was riddled with questions.
If I want a big old bacon cheese burger on a sunny summer Friday afternoon, I can do it! But, Mother Church still nudges me to remember Friday as a day of penance.
As Christians, we don’t need April Fools Day for lessons in foolishness. We have the Cross.
“Every other person who ever came into this world came into it to live. He came into it to die.”
I literally had to have a come to Jesus talk with my 4 year old. I explained to him that Mama and Daddy and the big boys are giving up meat for Lent for Jesus, so “We won’t be going to Chick-fil-A during Lent.”
We had assumed that self-sacrifice, generosity and trusting God, for us, meant saying yes to babies every 2-3 years.