Numbers Up

This article might make good the phrase, "A baby is proof God wishes the world to continue."

At least we are close to the replacement rate, if not just under it:

Nelson attributes the 2007 numbers to a "perfect storm" of factors: more immigrants having children, professional women who delayed childbearing until their 40s, and larger numbers of women in their 20s and 30s in the population, keeping the fertility rate high. The average number of births per woman was 2.1 in 2006, the highest since 1971.

And one wonders what those numbers would be like if it were not for the attitude the Culture of Death promotes.

A Different Field Of Dreams

You hear of stories like this.

It is good to have open ears, open mind, open hear, and open soul.

Pray for him as well as all in formation.

We still need laborers for the fields.

The Harvest Master will be pleased.

Yet Again

Another year in my life has come and gone.

I'm just starting my 46th. year of life and living.

To be honest, I don't think I am my "age", whatever that means. Despite what I have done to myself, I still have a somewhat youthful approach to my living. I don't feel "old".

I am reminded if you don't get to this day (or any day for that matter), you aren't among the living.

I have much for which to be grateful. I have a roof over my head, an ample supply of food, and the opportunity to continue to "Go Forward".

I need to start acting like it.

God is good all the time.

The best present He gives me is life.

For that, I say, "Amen."