For those who are curious, I'd like to share my own personal, spiritual beliefs. I hope that no matter what I believe and what you believe, that you can still find useful information and encouragement in the pages of this blog. But I'm sharing so that others may find hope, if they need it, and because my beliefs do, so often, affect my parenting decisions, and are my source of strength on those days when I want to just lay down in the middle of the Duplos. (Though I have been known to do that.)
On a primary level...
I believe God exists, He created the world we live in, He created us, loves us, and is involved in our lives.
I believe humans are flawed. No one is perfect. But God is perfect. Since He loves us, He provided a way for us to be together, a bridge between the flawed and perfection.
I believe that bridge is Jesus Christ. Fully God, fully man, Jesus lived a perfect life.
I believe Christ's death on the cross offered up that perfect life as a sacrifice for all of humanity's sins, so that we need not suffer permanent consequences for those sins.
I believe that three days after his death, Jesus Christ rose from the dead and is alive now.
I believe that Christ's resurrection means that sin does not win, death does not win, and God is all-powerful.
"For God so loved the world, that he sent his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
On a secondary level...
I believe parenting is hard.
I believe parenting multiples can be harder, easier, worse, and better than parenting any other grouping of children one might have. Depends on the day.
I believe we are all doing the best we can.
I believe we should share what we know and encourage one another in this hard, and worthy, work.
"All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin." -Lord Byron
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