Knowing and Doing

When a woman conceives and becomes pregnant, goes to Wal Mart and buys a cheap pregnancy test, visits her doctor to verify her pregnancy, different emotions come and true thinking begins about a baby being born, a life that is conceived inside of her.  Is it here that human life begins at conception?  Is it here that life becomes meaningful?  According to Roe vs. Wade in 1973 at the Supreme Court of the United States, the Justices determined that life was not meaningful at this stage.  How do they determine when life begins?  The medical community has differing views as does the scientific. In our history, Randy Alcorn points out, “Whites decided blacks were less human.  Men decided women had fewer rights.  Nazis decided Jews’ lives weren’t meaningful.  Now big people have decided that little people aren’t meaningful enough to have rights.”  Newsweek even reports, “With no hype at all, a fetus can rightly be called a marvel of cognition, co...

First of the year, first blog....yea, yea, yea I ran away from home the summer I was about to turn 17 for about a week.  I was running because I did not like the rules my parents had in the house where I was living.  I didn't care about what they thought!  I thought I could live how I wanted.  I slept on a couch on a friends house.  I went to work on a farm with a friend to make some money.  We stayed up till whatever time we wanted and didn't have to worry about being home or being anywhere for that matter.  I didn't care.  Maybe I was living the "hippie" dream, I don't know.  My parents went out looking for me and actually found where I was living but didn't find me.  They were concerned about where I was and what I was doing.  I was living the free life and loving it. One day at work, I stepped on a nail.  I was moving some old furniture for this farmer and a rusty 16 penny nail went through my foot.  Ouch!  I pani...