Stories to tell

                When can abortion be justified? This was the first question that came to my mind while I was listening to the report and to the reasons behind abortion. I mean, how can a woman who is in the right mind would want to abort a child in her womb?  Unless of course in several cases where the woman is a rape victim or if the child was abnormal, what other reasons would be suitable enough to allow a pregnant woman to undergo abortion? 

                Abortion has several degrading effects upon the mother. One of which is that it can give a traumatic experience mixed with guilt and an emotion stricken feeling that might last for many years.

                A lot of issues are being thrown at this sensitive topic. Even in local churches, there are a lot of debates whether the issue of the use of contraceptives is immoral or not? Different schools of reason have had their fair share of answering and defending their opinion on this topic but, what do we (as Christians) have to say to this sensitive issue?

                As for me, the use of contraceptive is appropriate for the time and situation that we have right now in the Philippines. However, the use of contraceptives should be put in a proper and right perspective.

After the day went by and the class ended for that day, something inside me was a little bit tingling and uneasy. Right after the class, me and some friends,  went to Bethany to play a game of basketball. While on the way, I kept on thinking about the lessons during the class and I realized how much I did not know about Christian social ethics. I never realized the vastness and wideness of the matter.

As we were playing during the game, the people whom we were playing against were somewhat older that us and they kept on cursing when something wrong happens or an error occurs. I said to myself that time, to them it is just normal to curse and say profane words;  it was really uncomfortable and uneasy hearing those words. Well I guess to them and their beliefs, it’s just ok and normal to utter such phrases and words.

 While I’m thinking of something to write about my last essay, I heard a song that says “I’m gonna marry your daughter I will make her my wife I want her to be the only girl that I will love for the rest of my life I’ll give her the best of me till the day that I will die… I’m gonna marry your princess and make her my queen and she will be the most beautiful bride that I’ve ever seen… I can’t wait to smile when she walks down the aisle on the arm of her father on the day that I’ll marry your daughter…”  I cannot understand my emotion when I heard about this lovely song.

Beyond this thought, a very important person came in mind and that was my father. My father is already sixty three years old now. I have this anger towards my family before especially with my father when I learned that my mother is already his third wife.

A Memoir of a Broken Heart by hayde

While reading a novel titled “White Orchids” by Grace Livington Hill, I remembered my past melodramatic love story. A story that taught me a lot of lessons giving me reasons not to love again.

Once there was a guy who courted me. His name was Michael.