my frustration at my current "stuckness" (even if it's for a couple of days) is here.

I showed a little gain this week (that seems to be my pattern - a really good weight loss, followed by a little gain, then another loss, so I'm not unhappy at all). I've got my recipes lined up for Christmas dinner, so tomorrow will be a good diet day.

I have "Walking Away the Pounds" dvd's - my goal is to "walk" 35 miles while I'm off on break. One of the things that I do is log all this stuff on the little (very little) "MzEllen's Weight Loss Journey" blog - it won't work for everybody but I have MasterCook and I put everything I eat (most days, some days it just doesn't work) in a "recipe" and put it on that little blog. I also keep websites that I really like on that site. I put recipes there also.

So...my goals for on break (starting today)

• drink all my water
• log all my food (good days or bad days)
• walk 35 miles

The final science grade is posted - "B".

That's 4 credits.  The 2 credit class (Graphics Software) is not posted, but I know I've got a solid "A".

Back to the land of the living for a few weeks...  😉

Actually, I'm doing pretty well, all things considered.

Today, my baby is:

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I wasn't quite sure what to make of this section, it is not a theology that I'm familiar with. The author doesn't go into the name of the belief or where it came from, he merely presents it.

The belief that is discussed in this chapter is the concept of "salvation after death".

The teaching is convoluted and depends solely on 2 Peter, where it says that the gospel was preached to those who are dead. That can mean either spiritually dead, or those who were alive when they heard the gospel, but who had died by the time of the writing of the letter.

Applied to infants, this teaching says that when a baby dies, they are brought to a point of maturity where they can hear the gospel and choose to accept it or not.

The problem with this theology is that it is not found in Scripture. It also is akin to throwing your theological hands into the air and stating that the question of where babies go when they die has no answer in this life.

Another problem is that there is no comfort for hurting parents.  Is there child in heaven or not?  There is no answer here, because with this theology the answer does not depend on God's goodness, it depends on the (post-death) choice of the child.

When the Bible speaks of judgement day, and the final judgement, a person is judged on acts committed during their life - not on a choice made after death.

Teaching that a baby goes to heaven or hell, based on their own choice made after they die is not the anser.

One of the sites I read often is LifeSite.

This story appeared of December 4, with a history going back to July.

MIAMI, December 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An autopsy report has been released by Operation Rescue showing that a baby who died in a Florida abortion mill in July was born alive. Abortion facility staff placed the child still breathing and moving into a plastic medical waste bag. (...)

On July 20, an 18-year old woman went to a for-profit abortion facility owned by Belkis Gonzalez and Siomara Senises. She gave birth to a living baby girl while sitting in a recliner in the facility’s recovery room. The child’s mother, Sycloria Williams told police that she had watched her daughter moving and gasping for air for approximately five minutes.

The Dade County Medical Examiner report dated October 28, said that the baby died of “extreme prematurity” and lists no “contributory cause.” The report lists the “manner of death” as “natural.”

The report says that the child, who has since been named Shanice by her mother, then 22 weeks gestation, was delivered “and placed to the side. A staff member cut the umbilical cord and placed the neonate into a red biohazard bag.”

Jessica Simpson should NOT sing "O Holy Night"

Imagine (and this will hurt your brain)...

Marilyn Monroe, leaning over John Kennedy's shoulder (with her best "happy birthday" voice") singing "Amazing Grace".

It's like a pole dancer singing...I don't know.

From AsiaNews.IT:

Lahore (AsiaNews) – The situation of Christians and other minorities in Pakistan has “gone from bad to worse in 2006” whilst “blasphemy regulations are increasingly being used in twisted ways against the weakest groups in society,” Shahbaz Bhatti, chairman of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, told AsiaNews on International Human Rights Day.

“The misuse of the blasphemy law increased alarmingly,” he noted. “Many cases filed against Christians are baseless. The number of rapes and kidnappings of minority women have also increased.”

Let us all pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ who are being persecuted for their faith around the world.

Although, confession time...I did not have a good last two weeks (microbreweries are not good for diets, nor is airport food).  I am now (after losing five pounds this week) only 1/2 pound less than I was three weeks ago.