Babies are such a nice way to start people
It's true. Even more so when you're in a room with 9 of them at the same time. Here's the names of the babies that were there today in no particular order:
Sasha (Or Alexandra, she's the russian baby-SO cuddly and SO sweet!)
Amelia (Thank goodness she's not walking yet-she'll leave the baby room when she does-but very bubbly and happy)
Ella ( shes usually good and not fussy, but when she is fussy there's not much you can do to stop her)
Luke- (He's exactly what I want a little boy to be like- he's the perfect size for a baby and he's SO happy!)
Allie- (Luke and Allie are cousins but they dont look too much alike, Allie's a very happy easy going baby)
Mollie (Shes is the cutest 10 month old baby! She crawls, gets into things, usually steals everyone else's passie, and is always happy and smily- she steals cheerios too :-)
Cambria and Josiah- They're 8 month old twins- very cute-especially because there's two of them
Emma- She has a ton of hair! She's really cute crawling around on the floor and sucking on her passy
Needless to say that today was a fun morning. And then I got to meet with my worldview teacher and she can make even government interesting.
My question that I got from that time is: Do Christians have certain inalienable rights? (inalienable meaning cannot be taken away or abandoned, and rights meaning, life and the right to preserve it, liberty -not being a slave to anything and the pursuit of happines.)
I'm going to say no. When we surrender our lives to Jesus we give up entirely our right to our own life and the right to preserve it at any cost. Think of Jim Elliot- he didn't consider it a right of his to preserve his life- and look what fruit it brought.
As to a right to liberty, we have no rights before God. Anything he gives us is a gift, and so liberty is definantly a gift. Did some slaves believe they were free because they were serving God? Absolutely -God can give that gift in any circumstance, even a Nazi concentration camp.
Our pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of God. Again it's a gift that God grants, and we can pursue God in any circumstance. But I dont think thats what the authors had in mind, or what most American's have in mind. The pursuit of happiness can be taken to mean pursuing anything that makes you happy. And Christians do not have that right, because pursing anything other than God does not satisfy.
I made my blog to where ANYONE can post- You don't have to be signed up with this particular website, and I'd love to get some feedback on what I just wrote. If you can't get the post to work, email me! :-)
Sasha (Or Alexandra, she's the russian baby-SO cuddly and SO sweet!)
Amelia (Thank goodness she's not walking yet-she'll leave the baby room when she does-but very bubbly and happy)
Ella ( shes usually good and not fussy, but when she is fussy there's not much you can do to stop her)
Luke- (He's exactly what I want a little boy to be like- he's the perfect size for a baby and he's SO happy!)
Allie- (Luke and Allie are cousins but they dont look too much alike, Allie's a very happy easy going baby)
Mollie (Shes is the cutest 10 month old baby! She crawls, gets into things, usually steals everyone else's passie, and is always happy and smily- she steals cheerios too :-)
Cambria and Josiah- They're 8 month old twins- very cute-especially because there's two of them
Emma- She has a ton of hair! She's really cute crawling around on the floor and sucking on her passy
Needless to say that today was a fun morning. And then I got to meet with my worldview teacher and she can make even government interesting.
My question that I got from that time is: Do Christians have certain inalienable rights? (inalienable meaning cannot be taken away or abandoned, and rights meaning, life and the right to preserve it, liberty -not being a slave to anything and the pursuit of happines.)
I'm going to say no. When we surrender our lives to Jesus we give up entirely our right to our own life and the right to preserve it at any cost. Think of Jim Elliot- he didn't consider it a right of his to preserve his life- and look what fruit it brought.
As to a right to liberty, we have no rights before God. Anything he gives us is a gift, and so liberty is definantly a gift. Did some slaves believe they were free because they were serving God? Absolutely -God can give that gift in any circumstance, even a Nazi concentration camp.
Our pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of God. Again it's a gift that God grants, and we can pursue God in any circumstance. But I dont think thats what the authors had in mind, or what most American's have in mind. The pursuit of happiness can be taken to mean pursuing anything that makes you happy. And Christians do not have that right, because pursing anything other than God does not satisfy.
I made my blog to where ANYONE can post- You don't have to be signed up with this particular website, and I'd love to get some feedback on what I just wrote. If you can't get the post to work, email me! :-)
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