"Not a lot to lean on, I need your light to help me find my place in this world..."

Buck is sleeping, so I thought I'd throw up a strictly info post today. No plans to do anything more than pick up a coffee. Currently skipping a mommy's group this morning. We only have about 9 more days, so I'm playing favorites with my time. Also, Buck is doing some serious teeth cutting today.

I wanted to put a little excerpt from an interview with Pope Benedict XVI. He's commenting on the fact that he didn't offer a lot of "you can't do this or this" while he was speaking at the recent family conference in Spain. I like what he said, so I'm including it. You can skip this post if you are looking for just day-to-day family info. This is a rare divergence. Come back tomorrow & it will be filled with myself, RKZ & Buck :)

Here's what the Pope said on zenit (http://www.zenit.org/english/subscribe.html):

Firstly you have to know what we really want, right? Christianity, Catholicism, isn't a collection of prohibitions: It's a positive option. It's very important that we look at it again because this idea has almost completely disappeared today.

We've heard so much about what is not allowed that now it's time to say: We have a positive idea to offer, that man and woman are made for each other, that the scale of sexuality, eros, agape, indicates the level of love and it's in this way that marriage develops, first of all, as a joyful and blessing-filled encounter between a man and a woman, and then the family, that guarantees continuity among generations and through which generations are reconciled to each other and even cultures can meet. So first, it's important to stress what we want.

Second, we can also see why we don't want something. I believe we need to see and reflect on the fact that it's not a Catholic invention that man and woman are made for each other, so that humanity can go on living: All cultures know this.

As far as abortion is concerned, it's part of the Fifth, not the Sixth [adultery FYI], Commandment: "You shall not kill!" We have to presume this is obvious and always stress that the human person begins in the mother's womb and remains a human person until his or her last breath. The human person must always be respected as a human person. But all this is clearer if you say it first in a positive way.

(this is me) Feel free to comment below. I'm not sure if people even really read this blog, so I guess I'll just continue to post what I want & you can comment if you have something to add or detract.

Peace!