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Sometimes we Need to Mourn our own Desires in Order to Accept God s Way

During my wife’s first pregnancy, our doctor identified some irregularities in an early ultrasound. He informed us that these irregularities meant our child would be born with a genetic disorder. We were getting our care at a Catholic healthcare system that had specific beliefs regarding abortion and precluded the procedure within the system.

Sometimes we Need to Mourn our own Desires in Order to Accept God s Way

Sometimes we Need to Mourn our own Desires in Order to Accept God s Way
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Those who mourn and the sanctity of life

In the process, I came to see that I had created a self-serving fantasy. In my innocent fiction, I was a wonderful father who raised a son who would avoid all the mistakes I had made. He would achieve everything I hadn’t.

Life can be painful, but it is not without hope

Photo by Thomas Bormans on Unsplash The concept behind Broken Signposts is both simple and challenging, old and new. In the most recent of his many books, the Anglican theologian and biblical scholar N. T. Wright formerly bishop of Durham, now a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews takes us through seven universally preoccupying themes: justice, love, spirituality, beauty, freedom, truth and power. HarperOne   His premise is that each of these themes is a kind of signpost directing us toward some fundamentally important truth the kind that philosophers, writers and artists all try to decode. But their attempts are necessarily flawed, because the only way to real understanding is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. Unless we ground our thinking in that one perfect and universal source of knowledge, the signposts of our world cannot do more than point us vaguely along the right path. On their own, they are broken.

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