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<font color="green">Mid-town Manhattan, anyone?</f
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- Aug 25, 2004
Just back from VA - THANK GOODNESS, BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY- I want to say how very much I've emjoyed the conversation that has grown up around this thread.
As a result, let me add a couple of additional thoughts that occur to me.
One, I have absolutely nothing against sex. Yeah, sex!!!!
On the same point, in VA we had an intergenerational conversation (three generations represented, unfortunately the fourth generation just passed away and the funeral is tomorrow) in which I was heard to say, once again, that children (without benefit of marriage) are hardly the worst thing in the world. In other words, what I have consistently communicated to my kids (now teens) is that sexual intimacy IDEALLY happens between two folk who are committed to the relationship. BUT, we say, sex short of that is not the worse thing in the world and neither are the children who might result.
Which leads me to restate my original point, which is that from this pastor's point of view, human life is not easily compartmentalized. We human beings are very messy creatures who usuallly transcend our impulse to categorize any and all human qualities - including, and probably most especially, sexuality.
Sigh,
, all of which very much goes beyond the question of the liberty we, as parents, choose to afford our on-the-brink-of adulthood-teens.
For the record, on that topic, we afford our two teens a lot of freedom - but never without LOTS of conversation - which now probably comes as no surprise!!!!
As a result, let me add a couple of additional thoughts that occur to me.
One, I have absolutely nothing against sex. Yeah, sex!!!!
On the same point, in VA we had an intergenerational conversation (three generations represented, unfortunately the fourth generation just passed away and the funeral is tomorrow) in which I was heard to say, once again, that children (without benefit of marriage) are hardly the worst thing in the world. In other words, what I have consistently communicated to my kids (now teens) is that sexual intimacy IDEALLY happens between two folk who are committed to the relationship. BUT, we say, sex short of that is not the worse thing in the world and neither are the children who might result.
Which leads me to restate my original point, which is that from this pastor's point of view, human life is not easily compartmentalized. We human beings are very messy creatures who usuallly transcend our impulse to categorize any and all human qualities - including, and probably most especially, sexuality.
Sigh,
, all of which very much goes beyond the question of the liberty we, as parents, choose to afford our on-the-brink-of adulthood-teens.For the record, on that topic, we afford our two teens a lot of freedom - but never without LOTS of conversation - which now probably comes as no surprise!!!!
