We just finished week five of our ten week Bible Study and it is getting interesting, mainly because of the gals who are in the Bible Study. Everyone in the study is from my neighborhood and the Study is made up women who represent various beliefs…there are a few Catholics, Baptists, a Mormon, a Jew (who was raised Southern Baptist) and several other Protestant denominations. Clearly, we have some differing viewpoints, but we have been able to respectfully disagree so far. Last week we were talking about how you get into heaven…is it by the work you do here on earth, is it because you have been baptized, is it because you have accepted Jesus into your heart or is it a combination of some of the above? Can anyone (rapists, murderers and the like) get into heaven if they confess their sins and truly ask for forgiveness? Today we somehow got on the topic of homosexuals. Again, very differing viewpoints. We may not be staying on topic, but it sure is interesting.
Archive for March 9th 2009
Liam is taking over Colm’s post for this week. I had to boot Colm out for the week because Liam’s interests have swung in another direction and I just had to capture it. Liam has spent the last year or so reading every science fiction book in the children’s section of the library plus many of the other series that are popular with the elementary crowd. He has read all of the A to Z Mysteries, all the Magic Tree Houses, all the of the Beast Quests, all the Secrets of Droon and all of the Jack Stalwart books and the list goes on and on…anyways, the point being that we were getting to the point where the library didn’t have anything for him to read that he was interested in and then (drum roll, please)…he found the section in the library with the books about alien abductions, Bigfoot, UFOs, Atlantis and the like. He is obsessed. I am so glad he has found some other reading interests that also happen to be translating into topics for his weekly reports he has to write for school (which he was starting to have trouble coming up with topics for). I am hoping these topics will at least carry him through the summer and then maybe he will stumble upon something else that interests him.