The discussion taking place on Adam’s blog this week is why Catholics go to Priests to confess their sins rather than just to God. Shall be verrrry interesting. The other Adam is Catholic and is going to educate us. Please post your thoughts as well. I think it would be hard in a small town such as ours where there is primarily one Priest and everyone knows everyone, don’t you? Do you think in small towns Catholics feel comfortable truly confessing? Hmmmmm…..
Adam and I grew up drastically different…I believing whole-heartedly in santa and loving our Christmas tree, him not. I would be lying if I said this has not been an area of contention in our marriage. When first married, it was a huge issue when ever having children was brought up. We would sort of “agree to disagree” and that we would not have children until we could agree on those “sorts of things”. Like the Easter bunny or the tooth fairy. Once we were taking care of my sister’s kids while they were out of town and one of them lost a tooth. Heaven forbid I had to be the tooth fairy that night…Adam was NOT happy.
Over the years there have been great debates, awesome arguments over the holidays amongst my family and Adam. He definitely stands his own. One year my sister had him in the drawing and gave him a stuffed grinch wrapped in grinch paper…he took it in stride of course.
Like the easter bunny, Halloween is an issue too. These are all past-times that I am so very accustomed to and grew up with. These are things that we are sorting through and trying to figure out what will work for us.
SMURFS! That’s another area that has always gotten to me. I loved smurfette!!! Adam says he was never allowed to watch them and has a mind-set that the smurfs were bad because smurfette was a boy turned into a girl….something about witchery of some sort.
Where am I going with all of this, you may ask? Well, Adam has a good friend that he works with whose name also happens to be Adam (all the good one’s are!). They both love Jesus but have some differing opinions in some things and have decided to pick a topic to “discuss” each week on Adam’s (my Adam) bible study blog. This is in no way meant to be a method to criticise one another. It is not to judge one another, rather to simply help each other grow in Faith…..and maybe help Adam and I figure out what to do with our own little babe with some of these issues.
So, check it out. The link is also on the side bar with my other favorite sites. Please comment, but don’t attack. And, remember that they are going to start a new topic each Monday.
I received this from my Uncle this morning and I think we should all watch it. Think twice the next time you are quickly scribbling a note and write xmas instead of Christmas and like the guy says in the video the next time you go to order a latte and they say “Happy Holidays” maybe you could say something. I like the comment about Valentine’s day. We don’t say “Happy Holidays” to people on Valentine’s day.
Adam saw the specialist again today. He has been done with all of his medicine for over 24 hours now. They see no more “issues” inside the eye. All is healed, they say. They sound fairly sure that he is recovered to his max at this point. We hope he is WRONG. We are still going to pray for more recovery.
Before the accident his vision was beyond perfect at 20/15. His vision is now 20/50 and they recommended he get glasses. We are going to hold onto the prescription for the glasses for a couple-three weeks and then decide what to do. I can tell Adam is disappointed. I am, too but…we have to remember that he still does have sight at least…it could have been a heck of a lot worse.
You ALL rock!! SOOOO many people were praying for Adam yesterday and we both thank you immensely. I was able to get him into another specialist and things were changed up a bit. We are very thankful there is no tear to the retina or iris as that was initially a thought after I spoke with an opthalmoligist that specializes in burns to the eyes (he wasn’t available yesterday but WAS super nice and visited with me on the phone).
Last night when he held out his arms his wedding ring was blurry (of course I was just glad at least he could see it so he KNOWS it is there…teasing). He was having difficulty focusing even on a computer screen or a text message on his cell. BUT, today is a different story…MUCH improved he says. He is blessed, we are blessed and he wants me to tell you that he thanks you for all of your prayers.
Undoubtedly there will most likely be some damage with loss of vision but we are hoping for minimal minimal minimal so we’ll continue to hold on and wait and see. If anything gets worse again this weekend he will see that burn specialist on Monday.
Blessings to you all!!!
Shana & Adam
a little giggle for your day:
The blonde went to the eye doctor to have her eyes checked for glasses. The doctor directed her to read various letters with the left eye while covering the right eye.
The blonde was so mixed up on which eye was which that the eye doctor in disgust took a paper sack with a hole to see through, covered up the appropriate eye and asked her to read the letters.
As he did so, he noticed the blonde had tears streaming down her face.
“Look”, said the doctor, “there’s no need to get emotional about getting glasses.”
“I know”, agreed the blonde, “but I kind of had my heart set on wire frames.”