[stfassisi]

What a pantload. Metmon has declared she is a CHRISTIAN. She has no obligation to play your games

The choice of words(pantload)shows me the spirit in which you posted me, and I'm not playing games.

I ask questions because I want to know what I should pray for the people I interact with.

I know in my heart that metmom is a wonderful person, but I also believe she needs prayer to help her on her journey. We all need prayer and I take prayer very seriously and act upon it.

It helps me to know as much about someone as can so I know what to pray for

"And take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God). By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit; and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints "Ephesians 6;17,18

[WVKayaker]

You’re definitely playing games...
Jesus said to go into your closet to pray, not to stand up in front to show others how ‘holy’ you are...

[stfassisi]

I pray that those who have a heart filled with love(which would be united with God since He is Love) see this bond between Mother and Son and recognize that this is not an ordinary Mother and an ordinary Son. This bond between Mother and Son leads us to Salvation.

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From the words of GK Chesterton...

Bethlehem is emphatically a place where extremes meet. Here begins, it is needless to say, another mighty influence for the humanization of Christendom. If the world wanted what is called a non-controversial aspect of Christianity, it would probably select Christmas. Yet it is obviously bound up with what is supposed to be a controversial aspect (I could never at any stage of my opinions imagine why); the respect paid to the Blessed Virgin. When I was a boy a more Puritan generation objected to a statue upon my parish church representing the Virgin and Child. After much controversy, they compromised by taking away the Child. One would think that this was even more corrupted with Mariolatry, unless the mother was counted less dangerous when deprived of a sort of weapon. But the practical difficulty is also a parable. You cannot chip away the statue of a mother from all round that of a newborn child. You cannot suspend the new-born child in mid-air; indeed you cannot really have a statue of a newborn child at all. Similarly, you cannot suspend the idea of a newborn child in the void or think of him without thinking of his mother. You cannot visit the child without visiting the mother, you cannot in common human life approach the child except through the mother. If we are to think of Christ in this aspect at all, the other idea follows I as it is followed in history. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes not to mingle and cross.

My prayer is for this thread to end soon!

[Elsie]

The choice of words(pantload)shows me the spirit in which you posted me, and I'm not playing games.

BAck in the day, DOGPILE made the rounds of the MORMON threads.

[Elsie]

We all need prayer and I take prayer very seriously and act upon it.

Yes we do; Brother.

I appreciate all I can get.