Thoughts, Musings, Reflections, and Ramblings of a campus minister, father, husband, and a Jesus-follower
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Enjoy the slideshow of the past year set to my favorite Christmas Hymn.
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Over our Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we had a chance to enjoy a new soundtrack in our lives. I’m thinking we can easily release an album with the hit single, “ABC”!
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In a few months, baby #2 will bless our family. We don’t know much about the baby, except that the baby is a boy and should be making his presence known sometime in February. We would like to run a contest between now and the baby’s birth.
The purpose of this contest is to raise some money for Baby #2’s college fund. Pick the date of the baby’s birth, and you have a chance to split the pot with our Baby’s college fund.
The Contest: Pick the correct birth date for the baby.
Entry Cost: $10
Rules: Pay $10 using Paypal and email me your guess as to the date of the birth. The person closest to the due date wins. In case of a tie, the person who guesses closest to the time of birth will win. The winner will get 50% of the pot. The rest will go toward Baby #2’s College fund.
Hints: There have been three due dates so far for Baby #2. They are 2/12, 2/14, and 2/18. Layla, Baby #1, was born 8 days before her due date. She was born at 2:04am. If you have any questions that may affect your guess, ask me!
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Rhoda went in to her regular pregnancy check-up today (she is exactly halfway through her pregnancy) and everything is going well so far. One of the options she is given at this stage is to do the alpha-fetoprotein screening (AFP). The screening will alert the parents to be and the doctors if there are risks for birth defects such as spina bifida and Down syndrome.
The reason this screening is common at this stage is that if this screening (and subsequent tests) reveal a high likelyhood for these defects, the parents can opt to “safely” abort.
This screening is by no means 100% accurate (meaning it can produce false-negatives and false-positives). But that’s not the reason why Rhoda has opted out of of this screening. The reason she has opted out of the test is that the conclusion of the test will not affect the outcome of our decision to follow through with this pregnancy.
The nurse and the doctor were shocked by her waiving the test (she had to sign a waiver declaring her intent to skip out of the screening). They asked her multiple times if she was sure she wants to do that. We are both sure (at two different appointments).
Her doctor—who happens to be an immigrant to the US—turned to Rhoda after her appointment and told her, assuredly, “I agree with your theory—this test is a whole bunch of American B***S***!”
I’m not sure it’s just American BS. Apart from the fact that this test is not very accurate, people who are opting to abort based on the results of this test are indirectly placing a higher value on the worth of life on the “perfectly, healthy child.” This child in my wife’s womb is alive, breathing, kicking and reacting. In a few weeks, this child can theoretically live outside the womb.
We are prepared to care for our little one. We cannot wait to meet him or her. Maybe there is some value for administering and/or opting into the screening. But I’m glad my wife shocked her doctors this afternoon!
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The Spanglish Gringo is musing on what keeps him up at night. I thought to answer that question for myself. What kept me up last night is a 4.5 (on the Richter scale) earthquake that rattled my house for about 10 seconds.
Earthquakes and Northridge tend to be common word associations that I’d rather not put together. The quake’s epicenter was about seven miles from our house. Layla slept through it, but it did knock down a few frames in her room.
I usually don’t fear earthquakes, but this particular one kept me up last night. I began to wonder what I would do if “The Big One” were to hit while we were still in Southern California? Are we safe? Can we afford to repair the damage? The more stuff I have and the bigger my family, the more pertinent these questions become.
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Before you are too quick to wonder the cuteness of this one, remember that this little one has a few things working against him or her—like not all of his or her organs are developed yet.
Rhoda went in to her two month check-up and all is well so far. The baby is due to be born in February (Due date is February 14!) We are excited for the expansion. We think Layla is excited too.
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