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2023, An Opinion Piece, Discipline of children, What Can We Do?

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I am alarmed.
I think you should be too.

Children.
Home life.
Family life is not so good for likely more children than we want to think about. There are predominant trends harming the little ones. It’s wrong. They deserve better. Children should be protected. They should be treasured rather than owned like chattel.

I am here to speak of only one of the culprit trends bruising the children.

I don’t see it so much in older homes, of course; it’s more likely to happen with younger families – like the 2nd and 3rd generations following people born in the 40s and 50s. That’s 1940s and 1950s. The math is easy to decipher, right?

Who are these families?

It’s not just families that do not frequent church buildings.
Churched families have been bewitched too. They seem to have bought in as equally as the world. The lines of propriety are not just blurry now but by and large, they have been removed. Slowly and quietly – like boiling a frog, you know.

Marriage.
Partnership. Sadly that’s how recent generations have come to see marriage  – a partnership and the children suffer. GOD does not see marriage as a partnership.
Did you think He did?
Did you ask Him?
Did you search The Scriptures to hear what He has to say about marriage, family, children?
I warn you, it’s not a quick study.

No, GOD established marriage to be a covenant, not a partnership contract.  covenant
And for the members of this covenant, are there stipulations?
Oh yes, there are strict, precise qualifications and restrictions to make these covenants successful, mutually pleasing, and rewarding. When these initiatives are rejected or just ignored, the children suffer; so do the husbands and the wives. Nobody wins.
The majority of these children, based upon long-standing documentation, who do reach adult age, leave this world unprepared for a peaceful eternity. Rejecting GOD’s Covenant affects eternity, did you know?

Lives. Precious lives are at stake – perhaps even those who were birthed or adopted by some of you reading this.  Covenant instead of a partnership.
Did you know a Covenant Keeping Mom and Dad is a child’s best chance to live well?

I suppose you have figured out by now there is more to the Plan of GOD for husbands, wives, and children than is said here — what now remains to be seen is who’s listening so far.

Shalom, Kathie

2023, An Opinion Piece, Christian Living, Questions

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img_8038I’m not responding at the venue I found this but I am compelled to address it.

Submission has become as bitter as bile in the mouths of those who do not understand this God-given gift and sadly for these there is no vision for unwrapping or embracing this holy privilege. It is to them an undesirable mystery.
I hope I can help.

For the woman of GOD, submission is non-negotiable.
GOD expects it of us. Actually, He commands it.
And we cannot do well as daughter to Him, wife to husband, and mother to children, without Biblical submission.   And this is the whole of the bitterness to the women of the world and to many women of professing Christian faith.  It’s Biblical and it boils down to TRUST – not a lack of trust in the husband but of GOD Himself. 

The means and principles of living submission deserve a lengthy unfolding.

I’m not here to do that today.

I am here to plant a seed hoping it will take root and cause every woman who happens upon this page to reap a holy harvest as she digs deep and long into Scripture meeting the GOD who loves her on every page.
Additionally, there are some well-researched resources available. I am in the process of reading one of those resources now. Here check it out. Link

I also read this one. 51AM5FAXDRL._SX309_BO1,204,203,200_

And because it is out of print, it’s costly for a book so small but so HUGE.
I do advise keeping it in mind and should you find a copy in your budget, snap it up.

Let me close with this.
Biblical Submission is first Vertical and then horizontal – GOD is the Author and Finisher of submission both for the wife and the husband.

And yes submission is for the husband too.
Did you know that?
Do you know to whom he is commanded to submit?
By the Way, it’s not the wife — Go WAY Higher!

I hope you will start a detailed study to discover the means and principles of Biblical Submission right away.

Love, Kathie

2022, An Opinion Piece, Womb Babies

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First, this is an opinion piece.
If your worldview is not a Biblical one, you might prefer to pass on reading any further.

I recently came across an article that I think I just can’t pass on.
There are some things I just need to say.
The Article found in The Washington Post is well-put-together and likely an emotionally stirring one. Many hours and much effort and planning were done to pull it together.

However, the subject article was not primarily written to tell us a story; it was written to shame and/or demonize people who dare to believe that abortion is the evil destruction not only of womb Babies but a train wreck for the girls and women who have them.

“Nearly 10 months into the Texas law, they have started having the babies they never planned to carry to term.”

I wonder if The Washington Post realizes it has placed in print confirmation that what some call a product of conception, this very article acknowledges a womb baby is indeed A BABY. A living human being.

Let me restate that, the article, perhaps inadvertently, acknowledges abortion kills living human beings.

Outside the womb so far we call intentionally killing an unadjudicated human being, murder.
(With the exception of Womb Babies, of course.)

“He’d thought about adoption, but Brooke wouldn’t even consider it.”

Please explain to me how it is that one will not consider adoption but killing the baby in the womb is somehow not only thinkable but preferred to giving the baby for adoption.

“There was only one way she could make sense of it, she said. Losing them now, as fully formed human beings, would be different from losing them back then.”

What heinous manipulation has been done by the abortion industry?

Babies have to be human beings in the womb to be human beings out of the womb.
The difference is MATURING.

Let’s look at maturity. Studies say the human brain is not fully developed until we are in our 20s, even up to the 30s.

What shall we do then with these fully formed human beings whose brain capacities are not sufficient to restrain them from premarital irresponsible sex, shall we kill them for their lack of human maturity? 

Absurd! Isn’t it?
But that is a reason given for killing Womb Babies – they are not fully formed (mature) human beings.

“Starting to panic, Brooke looked over at her mom. When she found out Brooke was pregnant, Terri Thomas told her daughter to get an abortion. While she was a devout Christian, going to church a few times a week and twice on Sundays, she had her own views on this particular issue.”

The article also contains other purported behaviors.
Let me say without hesitation TRUE REAL DEVOTED CHRISTIANS do NOT behave as “Christians” described in the article. 

I am weary of people parading as Christians.
It’s nauseating.
But GOD is gracious and IF they REPENT and turn FROM their sins TO HIM, he will forgive.

“If it wasn’t for the Texas law, Brooke knew she might not be standing here.”

If a Texas Abortion Law could prevent her from standing before a Justice of the Peace to get married, has she really improved her well-being by standing there? 

The only safe reason to stand before an officer of the Court to enter a marriage is because both the man and the woman are assured by GOD that He is joining them in a covenant of marriage. 

Have I addressed everything in the article? 
Probably not but perhaps if you have made it this far into my essay, you have something to think about if you choose to read the article offered below.

This Texas teen wanted an abortion. She now has twins.