His real motive for fixing on sex as the method of reproduction among humans is only too apparent from the use He has made of it. Sex might have been, from our point of view, quite innocent. It might have been merely one more mode in which a stronger self preyed upon a weaker-as it is, indeed, among the spiders where the bride concludes her nuptials by eating her groom. But in the humans the Enemy has gratuitously associated affection between the parties with sexual desire. He has also made the offspring dependent on the parents and given the parents an impulse to support it-thus producing the Family, which is like the organism, only worse; for the members are more distinct, yet also united in a more conscious and responsible way. The whole thing, in fact, turns out to be simply one more device for dragging in Love.
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
My Bride and I were married eight years before we were blessed with twins. My sole regret of having three kids is that they didn’t have more siblings. Kids aren’t a part of life, they are life for most parents. For those not blessed with kids, they can be an important influence on the life of children in many important ways. A very good friend of ours who has no children has been an important influence on our kids and earned the title “Aunt”. Good teachers along the way have also helped:
When dealing with a child always remember that what you do will likely echo long after you are gone.
You echo advice is solid gold… or better.
When dealing with a child always remember that what you do will likely echo long after you are gone.
Or, to quote Maximus, what we do in life echoes in eternity.
I’d like to know how he fired off five Double Xs followed by six consecutive XYs.
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What the “progressives”, atheists and feminists miss big time is the passage of time. Children grow up faster than one can think, for they are gifts from God and Divine Providence guides them each and every one in his own way.
God bless them and their children for they are our Constitutional Posterity to whom we, the People must secure their innocence and their ciivl rights as our legacy to them.
Another aspect is that spiritual fathers and mothers have thousands of foster children. Saint Pio said that he would not be going to heaven until all of his spiritual children are in.
A mother of six told her child complaining that she would give one away. He was to pick the one to give away out.
Kevin Rush
“I’d like to know how he fired off five Double Xs followed by six consecutive XYs.” He had God’s help.