Throwback Thursday

Try Contemplating Your Navel

That's probably one of the last post titles you'd expect to see in a Catholic blog, but I was contemplating my navel today. In other words, I was thinking about my belly button, about
why I have a belly button.
I have a belly button because, when I was born, my umbilical cord was clamped off.
So from contemplating my belly button, I went on to contemplating my umbilical cord. I thought of how I received nourishment and oxygen through that umbilical cord while I was in the womb.
And the fact that I needed nourishment before I was born is, to me, another proof that life begins at conception. If life began at birth, we wouldn't need to be nourished while in
the womb.
"For Thou didst form my inward parts, Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb." [Psalm 139:13]
A belly button is a wonderful reminder of how God provides for us, cares for us, from the very beginning of our lives.
So, yes! Try contemplating your navel.

Originally posted on January 28, 2011

Is It A Sin? It All Depends

There are certain actions, for example theft, or murder, which are sinful for everybody.   And then there are those actions which are sinful for some people, but not for others.

Case in point: As a Catholic, I can eat pork without committing a sin.  My observant Jewish neighbors, however, cannot.

I had planned to write a long post on this subject, but I've decided against it.  After all, a long

post is not really needed here.

Besides, when you get right down to it, there is really only one sin, and every sinful action or

omission is just another form of that one sin: 

DISOBEDIENCE.

Almost Familiar

I found an old, round brass knob in a drawer in the kitchen today. Of course, it's going into my Break-off Collection.
The funny thing is that it is almost familiar; I can almost remember the piece of furniture it came from.
Almost familiar; like a snatch of music from an old song you almost think you know; a song you very likely did know when you were very, very little.
Almost familiar, like old, faded photographs of people and/or places you almost think you remember. But do you remember them from having seen them yourself, or from having been told about them by your parents and grandparents?
And where did that knob come from?

Try Contemplating Your Navel

That's probably one of the last post titles you'd expect to see in a Catholic blog, but I was contemplating my navel today. In other words, I was thinking about my belly button, about
why I have a belly button.
I have a belly button because, when I was born, my umbilical cord was clamped off.
So from contemplating my belly button, I went on to contemplating my umbilical cord. I thought of how I received nourishment and oxygen through that umbilical cord while I was in the womb.
And the fact that I needed nourishment before I was born is, to me, another proof that life begins at conception. If life began at birth, we wouldn't need to be nourished while in
the womb.
"For Thou didst form my inward parts, Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb." [Psalm 139:13]
A belly button is a wonderful reminder of how God provides for us, cares for us, from the very beginning of our lives.
So, yes! Try contemplating your navel.