I did end up coming home from work early this afternoon to attempt to sleep. I got a good 3.5 hours in, but had to get up to do some grocery shopping. That's all done for the remainder of the week, so now I can focus on other things.
Since I knew sleep would be elusive again tonight, I decided to tackle the pumpkins Jason grew and harvested. I've been putting them off because I knew it would be a lot of work, and it was. They had to be cut up, seeds removed and washed, stringy mess removed, baked for 1.5 hours, pulp removed from rind, pureed and canned. I'm not so sure that it's worth the work. I love that his first pumpkin plant was so successful, but it's a lot of work for something that cost $0.79. It does look nice and fall-y sitting on the counter, though. I'm just hoping that whatever I decide to make out of it turns out nicely.
I did do my devotional last night. The scripture of focus was Psalms 139: 13 - 14; "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." The subject of the devotional had to do with all of the parts of the egg and how most of us don't think about what the egg would have turned out to be if we had allowed it to be fertilized and hatched. I think the parallel is a good one; that God has that picture in His head every time a child is conceived. It reminded me of an online argument I was reading that involved an acquaintance from another church I attended. She was voting on a particular candidate and a friend of hers asked how she, as a Christian, could vote for someone who was pro-choice. The voter responded that abortion was okay if the mother was raped, forced to conceive by her parents/spouse, or if it was medically necessary to save the mother. I understand the reasoning on the latter, but it BOGGLES MY MIND that a born-again Christian can honestly believe that an abortion is okay simply because the child was conceived under unfavorable circumstances. God allowed that child to be conceived, for His own divine purpose, and I feel it is a direct attack on His good and perfect will to condone such abortions. A child is a child and murder is murder. God loves us and has a plan for us, regardless of how we were conceived.
Well, that was my rant for the day. It was not meant at all to be political, but sorry if it was. If you're offended because of my biblical viewpoint of abortion, that's okay with me. You're entitled to your opinion and I to mine.
On that note, I'm off to do another devotional and then see about this bed thing. I hear that it's marvelous!!
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