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English to Spanish: Medical Translation General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Science (general)
Source text - English Article
Prospective Longitudinal Study of Signs and Symptoms Associated With Primary Tooth Eruption
1. Joana Ramos-Jorge, BDS, MSa,
2. Isabela A. Pordeus, BDS, MS, PhDa,
3. Maria L. Ramos-Jorge, BDS, MS, PhDb,
4. Saul M. Paiva, BDS, MS, PhDa
Author Affiliations
1. aDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; and
2. bDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, Brazil
ABSTRACT
Objective: To assess the association between primary tooth eruption and the manifestation of signs and symptoms of teething in infants.
Methods: An 8-month, longitudinal study was conducted with 47 noninstitutionalized infants (ie, receiving care at home) between 5 and 15 months of age in the city of Diamantina, Brazil. The nonrandomized convenience sample was based on the registry of infants in this age range provided by the Diamantina Secretary of Health. Eligible participants were infants with up to 7 erupted incisors and no history of chronic disease or disorders that could cause an increase in the signs and symptoms assessed in the study. Tympanic and axillary temperature readings and clinical oral examinations were performed daily. A daily interview with the mothers was conducted to investigate the occurrence of 13 signs and symptoms associated with teething presented by the infants in the previous 24 hours.
Results: Teething was associated with a rise in tympanic temperature on the day of the eruption (P = .004) and with the occurrence of other signs and symptoms. Readings of maximal tympanic and axillary temperatures were 36.8°C and 36.6°C, respectively. The most frequent signs and symptoms associated with teething were irritability (median: 0.60; P < .001), increased salivation (median: 0.50; P < .001), runny nose (median: 0.50; P < .001), and loss of appetite (median: 0.50; P < .001).
Conclusions: Irritability, increased salivation, runny nose, loss of appetite, diarrhea, rash, and sleep disturbance were associated with primary tooth eruption. Results of this study support the concept that the occurrence of severe signs and symptoms, such as fever, could not be attributed to teething.
Key Words:
• tooth eruption
• signs and symptoms
• deciduous tooth
• teething
Translation - Spanish Artículo
Estudio longitudinal prospectivo sobre signos y síntomas asociados con el brote de dientes primarios.
1. Dra. Joana Ramos-Jorge.
2. Dra. Isabela A. Pordeus.
3. Dra. Maria L. Ramos-Jorge.
4. Dr. Saul M. Paiva.
Afiliaciones de los autores
1. Facultad de odontología pediátrica y ortodoncia. Departamento de odontología,
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil; y
2. Facultad de odontología pediátrica y ortodoncia. Departamento de odontología,
Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, Brasil
Resumen
Objetivo: evaluar la asociación entre el brote de dientes primarios y los signos y síntomas de la dentición en niños.
Métodos: se llevó a cabo un estudio longitudinal de una duración de ocho meses entre cuarenta y siete niños no internados (es decir, que recibieron cuidados médicos caseros) que tenían entre cinco y quince meses de vida en la cuidad de Diamantina, Brasil. La muestra de conveniencia no aleatoria se basó en el registro de niños comprendidos entre estas edades, que fue facilitado por la secretaria de salud de Diamantina. Los participantes elegibles fueron niños con un brote de hasta siete incisivos y sin historias clínicas de enfermedades o trastornos crónicos que pudieran aumentar la cantidad de signos y síntomas evaluados en el estudio. Las mediciones de las temperaturas timpánicas y axilares y los exámenes bucales se realizaron diariamente. Se les realizó una entrevista diaria a las madres para investigar la incidencia de trece signos y síntomas asociados con la dentición en los niños en las veinticuatro horas previas.
Resultados: La dentición fue asociada con un aumento de la temperatura timpánica en el día del brote (P=,004) y con la aparición de otros signos y síntomas. Las mediciones de las temperaturas timpánicas y axilares máximas fueron 36,8 °C y 36,6°C respectivamente. Los signos y síntomas que se asociaron más frecuentemente con la dentición fueron la irritabilidad (mediana 0,06; P < ,001), el incremento de salivación (mediana 0,50; P < ,001), la rinorrea (mediana 0,50; P< ,001) y la pérdida del apetito (mediana 0,50; P
English to Spanish: Love Languages
Source text - English The fallacy of mutual need meeting
Posted on 06 August 2011
Tags: love language, needs vs. desires
• Love Languages
• Love & Respect
• His Needs, Her Needs
These are some of the books and buzzwords that are bandied about Christendom in an effort to get people to like one another. I understand, on several levels, why such materials exist. However, it seems in marriage counseling specifically that these concepts generally are more of a hindrance than a help.
Rarely does a counselee talk about how they need to restore their relationship with God. They seem to not understand that when they have sinful attitudes toward their spouse, God is grieved and his name is not made great due to their selfishness.
God is typically marginalized in their thinking
The wife’s main concern is that her husband is not meeting her needs or he is not speaking her love language and she has a list of how he could speak herlanguage in practical ways.
The husband is frustrated because his wife does not respect him. He has conditions contrived in his mind of what his love for her could look like if she would make the first move by meeting his needs.
Both spouses are manipulating one another and neither of them are grieved or broken about how they are defaming their Father. Their relationship is more about mutual need meeting than confessing their personal sin against God and reconciling what has been broken vertically.
First Things First
Any Christian spouse can get the love they desire. But they cannot get it through self-centered or self-serving methods. To “skip” God in order to have a great marriage is like trying to have a wonderful meal without food. It is incoherent.
When a spouse understands the Gospel rightly, then they will see how the Gospel is not about getting needs met, but about pursuing one another in love. (See Mark 10:45)
The reason I love Christ so much is because he unselfishly came to this planet to rescue me from my sin. He saved me and now he is restoring me to himself and one day he will allow me to join him in heaven to live an eternal existence with him.
He accomplished this by taking on flesh, living three decades on earth and then dying on the cross. God poured out his wrath on Christ while he was hanging on Adam’s Tree. Christ hung in my place. This is unfathomable love. I am stunned by this Good News.
It is his Gospel-Kindness that bends my heart toward him in repentance. (See Romans 2:4)
• Christ isn’t asking for my love language. He is too busy dying for my miserable self.
• He isn’t hung-up on love and respect. He doesn’t have time. He has a sacrifice to make and that sacrifice is himself.
• He isn’t negotiating at the bar of his needs, her needs. That is nonsense when there is a world to save. His his need is to die for me.
How nice it would be if we could chunk the Christian mutual need meeting nonsense and just be kind to one another the way Christ has been kind to us, as understood through the Cross.
Rather than trying to figure out our “languages” we can die to self and aggressively love others. In God’s economy we get by giving, not the other way around. This is what Paul was saying in Ephesians 5:27
…so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish
Christ will get what he paid for: a church in splendor
Husband! You die every day for her and see what you get. Wife! You do the same. It will be glorious.
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You’re not meeting my needs and I’m upset!
Posted on 06 August 2011
Tags: the problem with love languages
What do you need? Give me your list? Here is mine.
• Physical Needs: Air, Water, Shelter, Food, Health
• Spiritual Needs: God’s salvation and on-going Spirit empowerment
There you go. That’s it. Can’t think of anything else?
In counseling, however, it is a different story. Over the years I have heard person after person give me a laundry list of all their needs. Here are some of the frontrunners:
• Love
• Sex
• Communication
• Companionship
• Significance
• Acceptance
• Respect
I think, in most cases, the counselees do not realize what they are saying when they say they have a need outside the real needs I listed above. Furthermore, they do not realize how their craving for their “need” is controlling them.
Often I will illustrate the difference between a need and desire this way:
If you held me underwater in a swimming pool, I would fight you to the end because I need air. A need is something you cannot live without. But when you elevate desires to the level of needs, there is some form of idolatry going on and if you don’t repent of your idolatry, that craving will wreck whatever relationship you are trying to extract that perceived need from.
But I Need Love!
No you don’t. You need a relationship with God and if you have that and the relationship is right, then your dependent demand on another human to meet your craving for love should not be. If you are resting in the Gospel, then you can turn the tables on all your relationships and rather than being the deficient taker, you can be the overflowing giver. Rather than expecting people to meet your inordinate craving for love, you will be able to love others. You will be Christ-like: he did not come here to be [loved], but to [love]. SeeMark 10:45.
Imagine Christ saying,
I need love. These people are not respecting me. I’m not feeling accepted today. I’m feeling a bit rejected and it is not right. My love cup is chipped and I must do something to bend their good favor toward me. My feelings are hurt and I’m getting a little mad with these people who seem adamant not to meet my needs.
Christ was so connected to his Father that he was not controlled by the hurtful opinions or the disappointing acts of others. He was not on the defensive, responding to others. He was on the offensive. He was about giving love, not waiting for someone to meet his needs.
He was not controlled by others because he knew what he was about, what he came to do and what relationship really mattered. He was led and loved by his Father, therefore he was not bothered by what man did.
Paul Tripp gave this 5-step descent into anger whenever we redefine our desires as needs:
1. Desire – “You should do ____________ for me.”
2. Need – “You will do ___________ for me.”
3. Expectation – “I expect you to do ___________ for me.”
4. Disappointment – “You didn’t do ___________ for me.”
5. Punishment – “You didn’t do _________ for me, therefore I am going to make you pay in some way.”
Whenever your desires morph into needs, you can expect this downward spiral to result in a sinful confrontation.
Application Thoughts
1. Christ was properly related to the Father. Therefore, he was not a servant to man’s actions. Are you in Christ? If so, how controlled are you by others?
2. Anger, impatience, criticalness are three quick ways to identify whether you are controlled by man or God.
3. Why do you allow others to control you? When you get angry, for example, the person you are angry with is controlling you. They have something you want. Your desire, which may not be bad in itself, has morphed into a need? Why did you let this happen?
4. Why can’t you live in the good of the Gospel? What is wrong with God? Why isn’t his grace enough? Do slaves have rights? Are you a slave to Christ? Why are you so demanding that others treat you the way you want to be treated?
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My five Lust Languages
Posted on 06 August 2011
Tags: CCEF, David Powlison, Gary Chapman, love languages
I need for you to love me the way I want to be loved. Don’t give me the “Jesus stuff.” I know what I want. I know what I need. If you really pay attention, you can win my affection.
Even Jesus talked about this when He said, “What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?” If Jesus said it, then you have to do it.
You can learn to love me the way I need to be loved.
The Bible also says, “Even the tax collectors and Gentiles know how to love those who love them.” You can do better than a Gentile, right? Why can’t you love me the way I need to be loved? You don’t want me to commit adultery do you? You don’t want a divorce do you? Then all I ask is that you understand me. If you do, I promise not to be a problem.
It is your job to find out where I itch. All you have to do is scratch and then I will be happy. The blessing for you, if you try, is that I will not be so demanding. Your effort will help me mask my naked self-interest with a more civilized self-interest. I know my heart; I know what I need and I realize this may be hard for you. Therefore, I have listed my top five lust languages for you:
Words of affirmation - I want you to talk to me. If you do not talk to me I will not be happy with you. I will endure you for awhile, but it matters if you don’t affirm me and it matters enough that if you don’t talk to me I will hold it against you. You don’t want me to nag do you? You do want sex, right?
It also matters what you say to me. Content matters. If you only talk about yourself then it won’t work. You have to affirm me. You have to tell me how wonderful I am. Don’t make me fish for compliments. That is what our culture does. Don’t make me stoop to the tricks and techniques of our culture. That’s demeaning.
Mirror, mirror on the wall. Tell me I am the fairest of them all.
Go ahead and tell me that I am wonderful, but don’t flatter me. Make it real. If you want me to stop spending so much time at work then you’re going to have to change your attitude toward me. Otherwise, I will find affirmation at work. They love me. I have three “Employee of the Month” plaques on the wall and when I walk down the hall it makes me feel important. That is what strokes my ego. You don’t make me feel good when you’re quiet. However, if you will change, then I will change.
Quality time - Though I want to spend time with you I do not want to go deep with you because you have so many issues and you’re a burden to me. Quality time for me is broad and wide, rather than deep and substantive. Let’s not go deep. There is an exception to this rule: if you are interested in only me. I crave to be understood by someone, anyone. The Bible says you should esteem others more than yourself. I need for you to esteem me.
Don’t make me compete with you or anyone else for that matter. I want you to drop what you are doing and spend time with me. Agree with my opinions. Don’t be disagreeable with me. Don’t interrupt me.
Don’t set me up by talking about me in order to talk about yourself. You’ve done that more times than I care to think about. You talk to me and about me. You ask me questions and seem to be trying to understand me and then all of a sudden we are talking about you. I’m scratching my head. How does that happen?
I’m not really interested in you. Quality time does not mean it is about you. I’m being as honest as I know how: I love me; I am loyal to me and I want you to enjoy me as much as I enjoy me.
Receiving gifts - I do love gifts. When you come home, the first thing I think about is whether you bought me something or not. Yes, I do grade you on this. Why not? You grade me! I have to grade you. Gifts are my lust language. I read a book about it and they described me to a tee. Therefore, I know what they said is true.
• Job said, “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away.” I say, “You give and you better not take away.”
• Job said, “Blessed be the name of the Lord.” I say, “Blessed by the hand of the Lord.”
I’m interested in what I get. I have this insatiable desire to be given stuff. If you love me the way I need to be loved then you will buy me things. The Beatles said, “You can’t buy me love.” That is so lame. You can!!
Yes, it is insatiable: the more you buy me the more I want. Yes, your gifts open an abyss of lust in my soul. That is okay because I feel loved when you buy me stuff and it is my lust language. It may not matter to you, but it matters to me and that is what matters. The book was written to show you how to make me happy. Don’t worry about me having too much stuff. We can get rid of the old stuff as long as you’re bringing me new stuff.
Acts of service - I really like for you to do things for me. It’s a twofer: It makes me feel better about you and things get done. I know you can’t do everything that I want to get done. That’s okay. I will have to get off my duff and do some things. That’s only fair.
There is a cool feeling inside of me when you do things for me. Here’s your warning: do not treat me as though I really need things to be done for me. There is a line that you can’t cross. I’m not a charity case. It is easier to give than to receive and you know that, so don’t treat me as though I really need what you are doing for me. Keep the balance.
Do something, but do it so I don’t lose my self-respect. Also don’t go and tell folks what you did for me. People talk. You know that too. If they knew some of these things and it got around, I’d be mortified. The truth is, I’m self-reliant even though doing things for me does sound like a contradiction.
Physical touch - I really like for you to touch me too. It feels good. I know you love me when you touch me. If you don’t touch me then I am tempted to judge you for your lack of affection toward me. Yes, I have judged your motives, I know why you really touch me; you just want sex. At other times you are afraid that I will go off on you due to your lack of touching. You’re afraid of me. I know this and you know this. We must get beyond this because being touched, hugged, and caressed are important to me.
My craving for your touch is stronger than whatever your motives are. However, don’t expect me to reciprocate. Touching is my lust language, not yours. I know what they say, “You scratch my back and I will scratch yours.” I don’t think so.
Bottom line: I realize there is nothing in the book about a Redeemer, but that is the point. If you really pull this off then I won’t need a Redeemer. You can be my Redeemer, my need-meeter.
This article is a satire of the book, The Five Love Languages. If you would like to read a comprehensive critique, please click The Five Love Languages by David Powlison at CCEF
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Loving your wife like Jesus love you
Posted on 06 August 2011
Tags: marriage and love languages
I’ve never had a counselee come to me and say, “Hey Rick, can you teach me how to love my spouse according to his/her love language?” That is not how the folks I counsel roll. Their question is always some version of, “My spouse does not know how to speak my love language. How can I get her to meet my needs?”
The reason for this is because of a Gospel deficiency in most of the folks who are enamored with love languages. The Gospel does not think about what it can get, but what it can give. The Gospel has a uni-directional purpose, which is to completely transform others by its power.
Imagine Christ turning to His Father and saying, “These people are not speaking my love language.” Isn’t that ludicrous? It is Gospel-insanity! If Christ were a “love language guy” He would probably be in line for meds. Hardly a person had more rocks hurled at Him than the Savior. Nobody was as despised, rejected, or acquainted with grief than our Lord. (Isaiah 53:3)
I suppose He could pray, “Father, please forgive them for they do not know my love language.” Then He could whip up a printing press, throw down some inspiration about love languages, pass the books out, and the folks could repent this way: “Shazam! We get it now. We see how we missed it. You wanted worship all this time. Snap…our bad. We worship you.”
No, that is not how it went down. The Savior came to earth with an entirely different agenda. His agenda was not what He could get. His goal was to give His life by being executed on a cruel cross by His Father so that we might be saved. There was an amazing lack of self-interest in the Savior of the world. (Philippians 2:5-11)
Christ will get what He wants
It is true that Christ will be worshipped. It is also true that we will love Him throughout eternity. But let’s think about how He made us to love Him. We worship Him because of His bloody sacrifice, though being worshipped was not His primary motive for coming to earth. He came to die in order to restore us to Himself. Christ never has a “what do I get out of it” attitude. Christ did not come to earth to be served, but to serve. (Mark 10:45)
This is where I see a misunderstanding and misuse of the love language notion. Let’s see how Paul thought about love in the context of marriage:
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. – Ephesians 5:25-27 (ESV)
The Gospel-deficient husband wants his wife to love him according to his love language. Sadly, in most cases he has not modeled the life of Christ to his wife. In short, he wants to be loved before he sacrifices. This is how it usually goes in counseling. His focus is more on what she is not doing and what she needs to do, rather than on his role as the leader of his marriage. This is NOT how the Gospel works in a marriage.
A self-focused, what’s-in-it-for-me mindset will implode a marriage. Christ would never ask or expect someone to love Him before He died for them. If that were the case, then there would be no need for His death. It is because of our complete inability that He came to die.
Christ loved us to death
The Church does not initiate love for Christ, but responds to the love of Christ. We see in the text that Christ will receive a glorious, holy church that is head-over-heels in love with Him. This is because of what He did for us on the cross. Husband, are you more interested in getting your love language quota met by your wife or are you more interested in laying down your life for her? This is a watershed question that will define your marriage.
Your job is to trust God to meet your desires through your wife. Don’t worry about what you’re not getting. Give yourself totally to her, as Christ gave Himself to the church. Guard your heart from the temptation to love with the expectation of something in return. That is a dangerous attitude in any marriage. Christ loved us to death and He did this before any of us were converted to Him. You “die” for your wife and trust God to honor your Gospel-centered, Gospel-motivated sacrifice.
Don’t grade her responses and then allow your love to be governed accordingly. What I am saying here is, do not do to her what Christ would never do to you: Christ does not issue a daily or weekly report card and then loves you accordingly. If Christ loved any of us based on our affection for Him, then we all would miserably fail. Christ did not take into consideration our failures as it pertained to whether or not He was going to love us.
Christ received the work of His hands
Because of what He did on the cross He will be loved throughout eternity. It cost Him His life, but His love for us was so irresistible, we are motivated to love and worship Him forever. Husband, your job is to love her to death and trust God for the effects your love has on your spouse.
Is there any merit to love languages? The better question is, why do you need a book to tell you what to try on your wife? Whatever happened to old-fashioned communication? Why don’t you ask her how you could serve her most effectively? (A Gospel-motivated question.) Ask her what she likes and does not like? How hard is that?
My wife loves it when I ask her how I can best serve her. I don’t have to truncate my love down to five languages. The Gospel enables us to love each other in ways that transcend five categories. Love languages are way too limited for the Gospel-motivated man or woman. Let the world have that tool. We have the Gospel!
Application Questions
1. How does the Gospel influence the way you love your spouse?
2. Do you “grade” your spouse in your heart and then dole out your love according to their performance?
3. How do you think you would measure up if Christ loved you according to your worthiness to be loved?
4. Are you more apt to love your spouse after he/she changes or before there is change?
5. Which came first: (1) Christ’s love for you? (2) You changed and then Christ loved you? (Answer:Romans 5:8)
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My desire is not a bad desire…is it?
Posted on 06 August 2011
Tags: can good desires be bad
You said in an earlier post that we don’t need love. I find that troubling. What is wrong with wanting to be loved by someone?
There could be nothing wrong with a desire to be loved. I want to be loved too. God wired us to be loved. To not desire to be loved is anti-God. To not desire to be loved is against our made-in-the-image-of-God design.
This desire to be loved is not the problem. During the early days in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had only two options regarding love.
• God the Father loved them
• They loved God and each other
A desire to love and be loved is a wonderful and godly dynamic in our relationship with God and others. However, when the Snake came along, sin entered the equation. For the first time in their lives, Adam and Eve’s desire for love was distorted. Their sinful natures twisted their desire for love into something heinous.
Similarly, we’re not immune from taking the good things that God provides for us and twisting them into idolatrous cravings for self-serving pleasures. For example:
• A desire for love is a good thing, but when sin is mixed in, it can become lust
• A desire for food is wonderful, but when we give over to sinful cravings we become gluttons
• A desire to access the Internet has redemptive qualities, but our sin can drive us into isolationists
• A desire to be physically fit profits the body some, but it can quickly turn into sinful self-absorption
• A desire to socialize is godly, but we can sinfully use our friends to garner approval and acceptance
Sin Changes Everything
None of the items mentioned above are inherently evil. To desire for any of them is not necessarily wrong. The problem, however, comes into play when we take normal God-given desires or redemptive opportunities, add a little sin and then they morph into means to satisfy our own flesh rather than making God’s name great.
What happens when sin wraps itself around our desires is that our desires turn into needs. It was not wrong, necessarily, for Gollum to have the ring in the novel The Lord of the Rings. However, a natural desire to possess a ring morphed into a heinous, lustful, needy, craving that, in his mind, he could not live without.
To desire love is one thing. To say you cannot live without love is dangerous. (Rarely does someone mean God when they are talking about how they cannot live without love.)
Quick & Dirty Application Questions
1. Would you like to have someone or something?
2. Do you believe you can’t live without someone or something?
The first is a desire and it could be good or evil. The second is a need and if it is not food, water, shelter, air, health or God, then it is idolatry and it must be repented of. It is not wrong to want to be loved. It is sinful to say you can’t live without it.
My alternate title for this post was going to be Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places!
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Translation - Spanish [Tú me satisfaces, yo te satisfago y así nos engañamos.]
Publicado el 6 de agosto del 2011
Etiquetas: [lenguajes del amor], [necesidad vs. deseos]
• Lenguajes del amor
• Amor y respeto
• Las necesidades de él y de ella
Hoy por hoy, la cristiandad repite estos libros y palabras para fomentar el amor entre las personas. En varios niveles, entiendo porque existen estos conceptos. Sin embargo, parecen ser un estorbo en vez de una ayuda al tratarse de la orientación matrimonial.
Por lo común, el consejero no habla de cómo una pareja necesita restituir su relación con Dios. El matrimonio precisa entender que al tener actitudes pecaminosas en contra de un cónyuge, Dios sufre y su nombre pierde grandeza debido al egoísmo.
La dificultad para entender a Dios
La esposa se preocupa porque su marido ignora lo que ella necesita y no habla su lenguaje del amor. Además, ella tiene una lista de cómo él podría hablar ese lenguaje apropiadamente.
El esposo se frustra porque su cónyuge no lo respeta. Él imagina cómo sería el amor por su pareja si ésta atendiera primero las necesidades que él tiene.
Ambos se manipulan entre sí y ninguno se aflige o entristece por la manera en que difaman a su Padre. Su relación se basa en satisfacer mutuamente sus necesidades, sin embargo deberían confesar su pecado contra Dios y reconciliar lo que fue arruinado en forma vertical.
Primero lo primero
Cualquier esposo cristiano puede obtener el amor que desea. Pero no lo logrará a través del egoísmo o la conveniencia. Tratar de “evitar” a Dios para tener un gran matrimonio es como querer servir un gran banquete sin la comida. Es incoherente.
Cuando un esposo entiende el Evangelio correctamente, el matrimonio aprende que el dogma no se trata de atender las necesidades del otro, sino de buscarse mutuamente en el amor. (Ver [Marcos 10:45].
Amo a Dios fervientemente porque vino a la tierra en misericordia para salvarme de mis pecados. Me redimió, ahora me está restituyendo a su espíritu y, algún día, me dejará unírmele para vivir eternamente en el paraíso.
Él logró esto al encarnarse, vivir en la tierra durante tres décadas y perder la vida en la cruz. Dios volcó su ira en Cristo, quien colgaba del árbol de Adán. Cristo fue ejecutado en mi lugar. Este amor es insondable. Estas buenas noticias me dejan maravillado.
Es la gratitud del Evangelio la que me guía hacia Él en arrepentimiento. (Ver [Romanos 2:4])
• Cristo no pregunta por mi lenguaje del amor. Está muy ocupado dando su vida por mi triste existencia.
• Él no está obsesionado con el amor y el respeto. No tiene tiempo. Tiene que hacer un sacrificio y ese sacrificio es él mismo.
• Él no está negociando en el bar de las necesidades de él y de ella. Eso no tiene sentido cuando hay un mundo por salvar. Su necesidad es morir por mí.
Atender las necesidades es un sinsentido que debería ser descartado. La cruz nos enseña que lo único que necesitamos es ser como Dios y tratarnos con amabilidad.
En vez de tratar de descifrar nuestros “lenguajes”, podríamos morir a nosotros mismos y amar a los demás con fervor. En la economía de Dios, obtenemos cosas al dar y no al revés. Esto es lo que Pablo decía en [Efesios 5:27]
… a fin de presentársela a sí mismo, una iglesia en toda su gloria, sin que tenga mancha ni arruga ni cosa semejante, sino que fuera santa e inmaculada.
Cristo obtendrá lo que con sacrificio ha buscado: una iglesia esplendorosa.
¡Esposo! Muere por ella cada día de tu vida y verás lo que consigues. ¡Esposa! Haz lo mismo. Encontrarán la gloria.
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[¡No atiendes mis necesidades y estoy molesto!]
Publicado el 6 de agosto del 2011
Etiquetas: [el problema con los lenguajes del amor]
¿Qué necesitas? ¡Dame tu lista! Aquí está la mía.
• Necesidades físicas: aire, agua, comida salud y un hogar.
• Necesidades espirituales: la salvación de Dios y la continua vigorización del espíritu.
Ahí lo tienes. Eso es todo. ¿Puedes pensar en algo más?
De todos modos, la historia es diferente a la hora de aconsejar. A lo largo de los años, he escuchado la interminable lista de necesidades de muchas personas. Aquí están algunos de mis candidatos favoritos:
• Amor
• Sexo
• Comunicación
• Compañía
• Importancia
• Aceptación
• Respeto
Usualmente ilustro la diferencia entre necesidad y deseo de la siguiente manera:
Si hundes mi cabeza bajo el agua en una pileta, lucharía hasta el final contra ti porque necesitaría aire. Una necesidad es algo de lo que no puedes prescindir en tu vida. Cuando elevamos los deseos al nivel de las necesidades, nos encontramos con cierto tipo de idolatría. Si no nos arrepentimos de esa idolatría, todas nuestras relaciones se arruinarán.
¡Necesito amor!
No es así. Necesitas crear una relación sana con Dios. Si lo logras, ya no dependerás de otro ser humano para que satisfaga tu ideal del amor. Si descansas sobre el Evangelio, entonces puedes cambiar tus relaciones para bien: ofrecerás tu amor con generosidad en vez de querer recibirlo caprichosamente. En vez de esperar a que la gente satisfaga tus pretensiones, serás capaz de amar a los demás. Serás igual a Cristo, quien no vino aquí para ser [amado], sino para [amar]. Ver [Marcos 10:45]
Imagina si Dios dijera:
Necesito amor. Esta gente no me respeta. Hoy no me siento aceptado. Me siento un poco rechazado y eso no está bien. Mi taza del amor se ha resquebrajado y debo hacer algo para que me favorezcan. Han herido mis sentimientos y me estoy enojando porque las personas se niegan a satisfacer mis necesidades.
Tan conectado estaba Cristo con su Padre, que no era afectado por las opiniones hirientes y el desalentador proceder de los demás. No estaba a la defensiva, esperando para responderle a la gente, sino a la ofensiva. Se concentraba en entregar su amor, no en esperar a que alguien cumpliera sus deseos.
No lo dominaban porque sabía en que enfocarse, cual era su meta y que relación importaba realmente. Su Padre lo guiaba y amaba, por esa razón lo que el hombre hacía no lo perjudicaba.
Paul Tripp confeccionó esta lista de cinco pasos hacia el enojo propios de esos momentos cuando redefinimos nuestros deseos como necesidades:
1. Deseo- “Debes hacer________ por mí.”
2. Necesidad- “Harás_______por mí.”
3. Expectativa- “Espero que_______por mí.”
4. Decepción- “No hiciste______por mí.”
5. Castigo- “No hiciste________por mí y ahora me vengaré de alguna forma.”
Cuando tus deseos se transforman en necesidades, verás que estas actitudes arriban a un enfrentamiento pecaminoso.
Pensamientos para tener en cuenta
1. Cristo estaba relacionado de forma adecuada con el Padre. A causa de ello no era un sirviente de las acciones del hombre. ¿Estás en Cristo? De ser así, ¿Qué tan dominado estás por los demás?
2. El enojo, la impaciencia y el enjuiciamiento son tres métodos rápidos para determinar si eres dominado por el hombre o por Dios.
3. ¿Por qué te dejas dominar por los demás? Cuando te enojas, por ejemplo, la persona con la que estás enojado te domina. Tiene algo que tú quieres. ¿Tu deseo, que no es necesariamente malo en sí mismo, se ha convertido en una necesidad? ¿Por qué dejaste que esto sucediera?
4. ¿Por qué no puedes vivir en la gracia del Evangelio? ¿Qué hay de malo con Dios? ¿Por qué su gracia no es suficiente? ¿Los esclavos tienen derechos? ¿Eres esclavo de Cristo? ¿Por qué demandas con tanta insistencia que los demás te traten como tú quieres?
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[Mis cinco lenguajes del deseo]
Publicado el 6 de agosto del 2011
Etiquetas: [CCEF], [David Powlison], [Gary Chapman], [lenguajes del amor]
Necesito que me ames como yo quiero. No me des el típico sermón de Jesús. Sé lo que quiero. Sé lo que necesito. Si prestas atención, mi corazón será tuyo.
Incluso Jesús habló sobre esto cuando dijo: “¿Qué padre, entre ustedes, le daría una serpiente a su hijo cuando éste pide un pez; o un escorpión cuando lo que quiere es un huevo?”. Si Jesús lo dijo, entonces debes hacerlo.
Como amarme de la forma que necesito.
La Biblia también dice: “hasta los recaudadores de impuestos y gentiles saben como amar a quienes los aman”. ¿Puedes hacerlo mejor que un gentil, verdad? ¿Por qué no puedes amarme como necesito? ¿No quieres que cometa un acto de adulterio, o sí? ¿No quieres divorciarte, no? Bueno, todo lo que pido es que me entiendas. Si lo haces, prometo no ser un problema.
Tu trabajo es encontrar el lugar de la comezón. Lo único que debes hacer es rascarme allí y seré feliz. Tu bendición consistirá en que dejaré de ser tan demandante. Tu esfuerzo me ayudará a enmascarar mi desnudo interés por mí mismo con un egoísmo más civilizado. Conozco mi corazón y necesidades; pero sé que darte cuenta de ello puede costarte un poco. Por eso he confeccionado una lista sobre mis cinco lenguajes del deseo más importantes.
Palabras de valoración: quiero que me hables. Si no lo haces, no seré feliz contigo. Te soportaré un rato; pero sí importa que me valores y sí importa que me hables, sino te guardaré rencor. ¿No quieres que te fastidie, verdad? ¿Quieres tener sexo, verdad?
También cuenta lo que me dices. Ese contenido es importante. Si sólo hablas de ti mismo, las cosas no van a funcionar. Tienes que valorarme. Tienes que decirme cuan maravilloso soy. No me hagas rogarte por cumplidos. Eso es lo que genera nuestra cultura. No me obligues a rebajarme ante los trucos de nuestra cultura. Es degradante.
Espejo, espejito, ¿quién es el más bonito?
Vamos, dime que soy maravilloso; pero no me halagues. Procura sonar sincero. Si quieres que deje de pasar tantas horas en el trabajo, vas a tener que cambiar tu actitud conmigo. De lo contrario, buscaré la valoración que necesito en el trabajo. Allí me aman. Me premiaron con tres placas, que cuelgan de la pared, por ser elegido como “empleado del mes” y cuando camino por el pasillo me hacen sentir importante. Esas son caricias para mi ego. El que guardes silencio me hace sentir mal. De todos modos, si cambias, cambiaré.
Tiempo de calidad: aunque quiero pasar tiempo contigo, no quiero que las cosas entre nosotros se tornen muy serias porque tienes muchos problemas y serías una carga para mí. El tiempo de calidad, en mi opinión, es ancho y vasto en vez de profundo y sustancial. Evitemos la seriedad. Hay una excepción a la regla: debes mostrar interés sólo por mí. Me urge que alguien me entienda, quien quiera que sea. La Biblia dice que debes apreciar a los demás más que a ti mismo. Necesito que me aprecies.
No me hagas competir contigo o con nadie más por eso. Quiero que abandones lo que estás haciendo y pases tiempo conmigo. Concuerda con mis opiniones. No muestres ingratitud. No me interrumpas.
No me engañes al entablar una conversación sobre mí para hablar de ti. Lo has hecho más veces de las que puedo contar con mis dedos. Me hablas sobre mí, me haces preguntas y parece que quieres entenderme; pero, de repente, empezamos a hablar de ti. Me dejas perplejo. ¿Cómo lo haces?
No me interesas, para ser honesto. El tiempo de calidad no consiste en ti. Estoy siendo tan sincero como puedo: me amo, soy leal a mí mismo y quiero que me disfrutes tanto como yo lo hago.
Obsequios: sí que amo los obsequios. Cuando llegas a casa, lo primero que hago es pensar si me compraste algo o no. Sí, mido tu amor de esa forma. ¿Por qué no? ¡Tú me mides a mí! Tengo que medirte. Los obsequios forman parte de mi lenguaje del deseo. Leí un libro sobre el tema donde me describieron a la perfección. Por ese motivo sé que es verdad lo que dijeron.
• Job dijo: “El Señor otorga y el Señor quita”. Yo digo: “Otorga y más te vale no quitar”
• Job dijo: “Bendito sea el nombre de Dios”. Yo digo: “Bendito por la mano de Dios”
Me interesa lo que obtengo. Tengo una sed insaciable de recibir cosas. Si me amas como necesito que lo hagas, me comprarás cosas. Los Beatles dijeron: “No puedes comprar mi amor”. Eso es tan erróneo. ¡Sí que puedes!
Sí, es insaciable: mientras más compras, más quiero. Sí, tus regalos abren un abismo de deseo en mi alma. Eso está bien porque me siento amado cuando me compras cosas. Ese es mi lenguaje del deseo. Quizá no te importe, pero a mí me importa y eso es lo que importa. El libro se escribió para mostrarte como hacerme feliz. No te preocupes si tengo muchas cosas. Podemos deshacernos de las viejas mientras me traigas nuevas.
Servicios: Me gusta que hagas cosas por mí. Es un dos por uno: mi criterio acerca ti mejora y las tareas se realizan. Sé que no puedes hacer todo lo que quiero. Está bien, tendré que despegar mi trasero del sillón y hacer algo yo también. Es lo justo.
Cuando me haces favores, me siento genial; pero tengo una advertencia: no me trates como si realmente necesitara que te comportes así. Existe una línea que no puedes cruzar. No necesito tu limosna. Es más fácil dar que recibir y lo sabes. Entonces, no me trates como si necesitara esa atención. Mantén el equilibrio.
Actúa, pero hazlo de una formada determinada para que yo no pierda el respeto por mí mismo. Además, no quiero que andes por ahí contándoles a nuestros amigos lo que haces por mí. La gente habla y lo sabes. Si se enteran de esto y lo divulgan, seré mortificado. Lo cierto es que soy autosuficiente, aunque esta característica se contradiga con el trato que me brindas.
Contacto físico: También me gusta mucho que me toques. Se siente bien. Sé que me amas cuando lo haces. Si no me tocas, me tentaré a juzgarte por tu falta de afecto. Sí, he analizado tus intenciones y sé por qué quieres tocarme realmente: sólo quieres sexo. En otros momentos, temes que sienta apatía por ti debido a tu falta de atención. Te inquieto. Ambos lo sabemos. Debemos superar esto porque es importante ser tocado, abrazado y recibir atención.
Mi afán por tu contacto físico es más fuerte que cualquiera de tus intenciones. Pero, no esperes a que te corresponda. El contacto es mi lenguaje del deseo, no el tuyo. Sé que dicen “tú rascas mi espalda y yo rasco la tuya”, pero no creo que así funcione el asunto.
Resultado final: Me doy cuenta de que en el libro no dice nada sobre el Redentor, pero ese es el punto. Si en verdad logras superar esto, no necesitaré al Redentor. Tú puedes ser mi redentor. La persona que satisfaga mis deseos.
Este artículo es una sátira del libro “Los cinco lenguajes del amor”. Si deseas leer la crítica sobre éste, has click sobre [Los cinco lenguajes del amor] por David Powlison en [CCEF]
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[Amar a tu esposa como Dios te ama a ti]
Publicado el 6 de agosto del 2011
Etiquetas: [Matrimonio y lenguajes del amor]
Jamás un consejero me preguntó “¿Rick, puedes enseñarme cómo amar a mi pareja de acuerdo a su lenguaje del amor?” Así no se maneja la gente a quien oriento. Sus preguntas son del tipo “Mi pareja no sabe cómo hablar mi lenguaje del amor. ¿Cómo puedo hacer para que satisfaga mis necesidades?
Esto se debe a que la mayoría de la gente que está enamorada de los lenguajes del amor no entiende el Evangelio. En el Evangelio, no se habla de lo que se puede tener, sino de lo que se puede dar. El Evangelio tiene un propósito unidireccional: transformar a los demás por completo con su poder.
Imagina a Cristo diciéndole a su Padre: “Estas personas no hablan mi lenguaje del amor”. ¿No es esto ridículo? ¡Es demencial! Si Cristo fuera “un hablante del lenguaje del amor” estaría en peligro de ser maltratado. A pocas personas les han lanzado tantas piedras como al Salvador. Nadie fue tan despreciado, desechado o asediado por el dolor como nuestro Señor. [(Isaías 53:3)]
Supongo que él podría suplicar y decir: “Padre, perdónalos, no hablan mi lenguaje del amor”. Luego podría abrir una imprenta, mostrar una inspiración inusitada acerca de estos lenguajes, distribuir los libros y provocar el arrepentimiento de la gente, quien diría: “¡Oh, por Dios! Ahora entendemos. Ya sabemos porque lo arruinamos. Querías ser adorado todo este tiempo. Castíganos… es nuestra culpa. Te adoramos”
No, así no es como sucedieron los hechos. El Salvador vino a la tierra con planes totalmente diferentes. No se trataba de lo que Él podía conseguir. Su propósito era salvar nuestras vidas. Lo logró al entregar la suya para ser ejecutado en la brutalidad de la cruz por su Padre. En el Salvador del mundo había una increíble falta de egoísmo. [(Filipenses 2:5-11)]
Cristo obtendrá lo que quiere
Es cierto que Cristo será adorado. Es cierto también que lo amaremos por el resto de la eternidad. Pero enfoquémonos en cómo nos hizo reverenciarlo: aunque su motivo principal para venir a la tierra no fue ser exaltado, lo veneramos a causa de su heroico sacrificio. Murió para restituirnos a él. Cristo nunca piensa en las ventajas que puede obtener de una situación. No vino para ser servido, sino para servir.
Aquí es donde veo un desentendimiento y mal uso de la noción de los lenguajes del amor. Veamos como pensaba Pablo acerca del amor en el contexto del matrimonio:
Maridos, amad a vuestras mujeres, así como Cristo amó a la iglesia y se dio a sí mismo por ella, para santificarla, habiéndola purificado por el lavamiento del agua con la palabra, a fin de presentársela a sí mismo, una iglesia en toda su gloria, sin que tenga mancha ni arruga ni cosa semejante, sino que fuera santa e inmaculada. [Efesios 5:25-27 (ESV)]
El marido que no entiende el Evangelio espera que su esposa lo ame de acuerdo al lenguaje del amor que él habla. Tristemente, no ha modelado la vida de Cristo en su esposa. A fin de cuentas, quiere ser amado antes de sacrificarse. Esto es lo que usualmente pasa en la orientación. Él se concentra en lo que ella hace y tiene que hacer en vez de pensar en su rol como jefe del matrimonio. Así NO funciona el Evangelio en un matrimonio.
Enfocarse en uno mismo y especular que ventajas se pueden obtener deterioran la unión de los esposos. Cristo nunca esperaría que la gente lo ame, sin antes morir por ella. Si este fuera el caso, su muerte sería innecesaria. A causa de nuestra total incompetencia, él vino a sacrificarse.
Cristo nos amó hasta la muerte
La iglesia no genera el amor por Cristo, sino que responde a él. Podemos observar en el texto que Dios recibirá a una iglesia gloriosa y sagrada que está profundamente enamorada de él. Esto se debe a lo que hizo por nosotros en la cruz. ¿Esposo, estás más preocupado por que cumplan con tu cuota del lenguaje del amor, o por sacrificarte por tu pareja? Esta es la pregunta del millón que definirá tu matrimonio.
Tu trabajo consiste en confiar que Dios cumplirá tus deseos a través de tu esposa. No te preocupes por lo que te falta. Entrégate por completo a ella, como Cristo hizo con la iglesia. Protege a tu corazón de la tentación de amar para recibir algo a cambio. Esa actitud es peligrosa en cualquier matrimonio. Cristo nos amó hasta la muerte y lo hizo antes de que cualquiera de nosotros fuera convertido a él. Tu “mueres” por tu esposa y confías en que Dios hará honor a tu sacrificio, que está centrado y basado en el Evangelio.
No evalúes las respuestas tu cónyuge y condiciones tu amor por ella a raíz de esa apreciación. Me refiero a que no debes hacerle a tu pareja lo que Cristo nunca te haría. Cristo no te entrega semanalmente una planilla evaluativa y te ama acorde a tu desempeño. Si Cristo analizará nuestro afecto por él para amarnos, entonces todos fallaríamos rotundamente. Cristo no se fijó en nuestras fallas para determinar si nos amaría o no.
Cristo recibió el trabajo de sus manos
Por lo que hizo en la cruz, será amado por toda la eternidad. Le valió su vida, sin embargo, su amor era tan irresistible que nos motivó a amarlo y adorarlo por siempre. Esposo, tu deber es amar a tu pareja hasta la muerte y confiar en Dios que tu amor tendrá efecto en ella.
¿Hay algún mérito para los lenguajes del amor? Una pregunta mejor sería: ¿Por qué necesitas un libro que te aconseje lo que tienes que intentar en tu vida? ¿Qué le pasó a la forma clásica de comunicarnos? ¿Por qué no le preguntas cómo puedes servirle eficazmente? (una pregunta inspirada en el Evangelio) Pregúntale que le gusta y que no. ¿Es tan difícil hacerlo?
Preguntas para tener en cuenta
1. ¿Cómo influye el Evangelio en la forma en que amas a tu esposa?
2. ¿Evalúas a tu esposa en tu corazón y luego repartes tu amor según su desempeño?
3. ¿Estarías a la altura de las circunstancias si Dios te amará de acuerdo a tu valor para ser amado?
4. ¿Eres proclive a amar a tu pareja luego de que ésta haya cambiado, o antes?
5. ¿Cuál está primero: (1) El amor que Cristo siente por ti, (2) un cambio en tu persona y el amor que Dios sentirá por ti? (Respuesta: Romanos 5:8)
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[Mi deseo no es malo… ¿No es así?]
Publicado el 6 de agosto del 2011
Etiquetas: [¿Pueden los buenos deseos ser malos también?]
En una publicación anterior, mencionaste que no necesitamos amor, pero no puedo entenderlo. ¿Qué hay de malo con querer ser amado por alguien?
No tendría que haber ningún problema con el deseo de ser amado. Quiero ser amado también. Dios quiere que seamos amados. Rechazar el amor va en contra de su voluntad. Fuimos creados a imagen y semejanza de Dios, por lo tanto, actuar de esa forma sería inapropiado.
El deseo de ser amado no es el problema. Durante los primeros años, en el jardín del Edén, Adán y Eva tuvieron sólo dos opciones al tratarse del amor:
• Dios Padre los amaba
• Se amaban el uno al otro y a Dios
El deseo de amar y ser amado es maravilloso y dinámico en nuestra relación con Dios y los demás. Sin embargo, cuando la serpiente apareció, el pecado se sumó a la ecuación. Por primera vez en la vida, el deseo de amor de Adán y Eva se vio distorsionado. La naturaleza pecaminosa de ambos convirtió ese deseo en algo atroz.
De manera similar, estamos en peligro de transformar las cosas buenas que Dios nos da en la codicia que alimenta nuestros anhelos más profundos. Por ejemplo:
• El deseo de amor es bueno; pero puede convertirse en lujuria cuando el pecado se involucra.
• El deseo de comida es maravilloso; pero puede convertirse en gula a causa de nuestros pecaminosos ansias.
• El deseo de ingresar a internet nos redime; pero podemos convertirnos en solitarios si el pecado toma el control.
• El deseo de estar en buen estado físico es beneficioso; pero puede transformarse en egocentrismo rápidamente.
• El deseo de socializar es divino; pero podemos usar a nuestros amigos para ser aceptados y aprobados.
El pecado lo cambia todo
Ninguno de los puntos mencionados anteriormente es intrínsecamente malo. Desear cualquiera de ellos no es necesariamente nocivo. El problema se genera cuando los deseos que Dios nos otorga y las oportunidades redentoras se mezclan con el pecado. Entonces, buscamos satisfacer nuestra propia carne, en vez de exaltar el nombre de Dios.
Cuando el pecado envuelve los deseos, estos se transforman en necesidades. En la novela “El señor de los anillos”, no era necesariamente malo que Gollum tuviera en sus manos el anillo. De todos modos, ese deseo natural se desvirtuó en un anhelo atroz, lujurioso y apremiante del cual Gollum no podía prescindir para vivir.
Desear amor es una cuestión diferente. Decir que no puedes vivir sin amor es peligroso. (Muy pocas veces la gente se refiere a la falta de amor de Dios).
Preguntas comprometedoras para tener en cuenta
1. ¿Quieres tener algo o a alguien?
2. ¿Crees que no puedes vivir sin algo o alguien?
Lo primero es un deseo que puede ser bueno o malo. Lo segundo es una necesidad, y si no es por comida, agua, un hogar, aire, salud o Dios, es una forma de idolatría y debes arrepentirte de ello. No es malo querer ser amado. Es pecado afirmar que no puedes vivir sin amor.
Un título alternativo para esta publicación era “Buscando el amor en los lugares equivocados”
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English to Spanish: Abortion
Source text - English Abortion: truth or consequences
Posted on 03 October 2011
Tags: Abortion truth or consequences, Living waters, Ray Comfort
What do abortion, Hitler, Ten Commandments, and morality have in common?
This fast-paced 30-minute video pulls all of these ideas together in a powerful way.
Ray Comfort at Living Waters Ministries put this video together to help spread the word about the killing of children.
It is compelling.
As an aside, I was personally convicted by Ray’s boldness. His dedication to Christ and laser-like determination to spread God’s truth was inspiring. I want to follow him as he follows our Savior (1 Corinthians 11:1).
Help spread the word about this documentary. 180 is available for free viewing online at 180 the movie. You are invited to post the information on your Social Media outlets and let people know about this film.
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I asked Emily Baker if I could post the following article about abortion from her friend, Rebekah. She graciously agreed. Thanks Emily! Mark & Emily’s counseling website is Hope for Life.
Abortion in the ER – a true story
The truth is not always pretty or welcomed, but the truth needs to be heard.
A baby lays in a cold metal basin, with the products of its birth, and slowly loses body heat, is denied food, water and comfort and slowly dies in a dark, back room all alone and then it is disposed of as biological waste – not as a human being.
This is truth as honestly as it comes.
It is so much easier to turn away and not hear, to say, “It’s not my problem, it doesn’t affect me, I’ll never have to face this so I don’t want to look at what it entails – this is scary, stop talking about it” when in reality we do nothing to protect that little life or mourn its passing.
It is too easy to be just like everyone else and shelter ourselves and let those in political circles take care of it – then stand back and click our tongues because we disagree with their choices.
Twenty years ago when I worked in the ER, a mother brought her 15 year old daughter in. Her daughter had been 5 months pregnant that morning – until her boyfriend took her in for an abortion in another county when the girl should have been in school.
He dropped her off at home with baby parts still coming out of her uterus because the abortion clinic hadn’t done an adequate job.
Her mother was heartbroken and in shock and the 15-year old was in such a state of shock she couldn’t speak, she could only stare and cry. I had to help the doctor as he took out parts of that 5-month old baby and put them in a dish that we covered so the mother and daughter couldn’t see.
And I had to try and comfort both women because the horror of what had happened was so overwhelming neither could even acknowledge what had happened – and I had to explain to the sobbing mother that the police couldn’t take a report because no crime had been committed.
Even the doctor was disturbed by what had taken place and was shaky the rest of night – a hardened ER doctor brought low by an abortion and its aftermath. It took me months to come to grips with it.
Abortion is reality – whether you have seen the aftermath or not, whether you know how it happens or not, it still exists. It kills innocent lives and it destroys the mother’s life – abortion haunts women for life.
So when you don’t see or understand the horrors of abortion and how deeply it wounds those who have them, you can easily call speaking about abortion a scare tactic.
You can say it is terrorism because it is hard to listen to and think about. Yet it happens thousands of times a day in this country.
Yes – it should spark terror in your heart, and disgust and pity and sorrow. And it should also spark something else – the strength to speak out about the horror and let others know, because they – just like you – don’t want to hear it or know it exists.
It should spark the demand for reform, for change and we do that by electing government officials who will hold our ideals and cares as highly as we do.
If you don’t understand the horror of abortion on all the victims, you can’t be as strongly opposed to it. You can even look over it to other things you consider more important like the economy, gay marriage, or taxes.
Everyone needs to hear it and know the reality for what it is – it isn’t just stories, it is real life and it happens in our country every single day. – Rebekah
Post abortion guilt
Perhaps you are one of the millions of ladies who have had an abortion and you live with the guilt of what you have done. Believe it or not, Christ died for your sin, but not just that one.
He died for every sin you ever committed. If you are in Christ, the guilt of an abortion was placed on Him. That is the truth of the Gospel. You cannot pay for what you have done no more than I can pay for my sins.
Though the consequences are irreversible, the guilt does not have to continue.
Rest in the same mysterious grace of God that we all must rest in. Do as the Savior said, “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11).
If you are not a Christ-follower, then the news for you is worse than you might imagine. My appeal to you is to trust Christ. If you do not know how to do this, then click Two Ways to Live and read about how to become a Christian.
The truth is that the consequences of your sin cannot be changed, but you, like me, can be changed by the grace of God.
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Getting ready for abortion doc’s death
Posted on 18 July 2011
From USA Today
Wichita police and federal marshals are preparing for the funeral Saturday of late-term abortion provider George Tiller.
Although Tiller’s clinic was a magnet for protest, most abortion opponents said they would stay away.
“It would be morally reprehensible if anybody shows up” to protest, said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue. The Wichita group has picketed Tiller’s clinic for years.
Read entire article Here
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Mohler’s take on abortion doc’s death: a moral dilemma
Posted on 18 July 2011
From Al Mohler’s Blog
The murder of Dr. George Tiller presents America with yet another reminder of the violence that exists within our midst. This is not the way the pro-life movement wanted Dr. Tiller’s life to end. Our mission is to convince Americans of the sanctity of every human life—born and unborn. The murder of Dr. Tiller does not serve that cause.
George Tiller was one of the most recognized abortion doctors in America. This nation has known few doctors who would perform the late-term abortions for which Dr. Tiller was infamous. He was known for his willingness to perform almost any abortion—even to abort babies that would safely survive outside the womb. He saw himself as a champion of women’s rights. To others, he was an agent of death who was personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of unborn human beings.
Read entire article HERE
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Pro choice lobby is upset Mrs. Tebow made a choice
Posted on 18 July 2011
From Sally Jenkins at The Washington Post
I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I’ve heard in the past week, I’ll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the “National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women All The Time.” For one thing, Tebow seems smarter than they do.
Tebow’s 30-second ad hasn’t even run yet, but it already has provoked “The National Organization for Women Who Only Think Like Us” to reveal something important about themselves: They aren’t actually “pro-choice” so much as they are pro-abortion. Pam Tebow has a genuine pro-choice story to tell. She got pregnant in 1987, post-Roe v. Wade, and while on a Christian mission in the Philippines, she contracted a tropical ailment. Doctors advised her the pregnancy could be dangerous, but she exercised her freedom of choice and now, 20-some years later, the outcome of that choice is her beauteous Heisman Trophy winner son, a chaste, proselytizing evangelical.
Pam Tebow and her son feel good enough about that choice to want to tell people about it. Only, NOW says they shouldn’t be allowed to. Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for America to see for 30 seconds, but women in bikinis selling beer is the right one. I would like to meet the genius at NOW who made that decision. On second thought, no, I wouldn’t.
Here’s what we do need a lot more of: Tebows. Collegians who are selfless enough to choose not to spend summers poolside, but travel to impoverished countries to dispense medical care to children, as Tebow has every summer of his career. Athletes who believe in something other than themselves, and are willing to put their backbone where their mouth is. Celebrities who are self-possessed and self-controlled enough to use their wattage to advertise commitment over decadence.
You know what we really need more of? Famous guys who aren’t embarrassed to practice sexual restraint, and to say it out loud. If we had more of those, women might have fewer abortions. See, the best way to deal with unwanted pregnancy is to not get the sperm in the egg and the egg implanted to begin with, and that is an issue for men, too — and they should step up to that.
“Are you saving yourself for marriage?” Tebow was asked last summer during an SEC media day.
“Yes, I am,” he replied.
Read the Entire Article Here
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Translation - Spanish Abortion: truth or consequences
Posted on 03 October 2011
Tags: Abortion truth or consequences, Living waters, Ray Comfort
What do abortion, Hitler, Ten Commandments, and morality have in common?
This fast-paced 30-minute video pulls all of these ideas together in a powerful way.
Ray Comfort at Living Waters Ministries put this video together to help spread the word about the killing of children.
It is compelling.
As an aside, I was personally convicted by Ray’s boldness. His dedication to Christ and laser-like determination to spread God’s truth was inspiring. I want to follow him as he follows our Savior (1 Corinthians 11:1).
Help spread the word about this documentary. 180 is available for free viewing online at 180 the movie. You are invited to post the information on your Social Media outlets and let people know about this film.
Here is the code if you are able to post 180 on your blog:
I asked Emily Baker if I could post the following article about abortion from her friend, Rebekah. She graciously agreed. Thanks Emily! Mark & Emily’s counseling website is Hope for Life.
Abortion in the ER – a true story
The truth is not always pretty or welcomed, but the truth needs to be heard.
A baby lays in a cold metal basin, with the products of its birth, and slowly loses body heat, is denied food, water and comfort and slowly dies in a dark, back room all alone and then it is disposed of as biological waste – not as a human being.
This is truth as honestly as it comes.
It is so much easier to turn away and not hear, to say, “It’s not my problem, it doesn’t affect me, I’ll never have to face this so I don’t want to look at what it entails – this is scary, stop talking about it” when in reality we do nothing to protect that little life or mourn its passing.
It is too easy to be just like everyone else and shelter ourselves and let those in political circles take care of it – then stand back and click our tongues because we disagree with their choices.
Twenty years ago when I worked in the ER, a mother brought her 15 year old daughter in. Her daughter had been 5 months pregnant that morning – until her boyfriend took her in for an abortion in another county when the girl should have been in school.
He dropped her off at home with baby parts still coming out of her uterus because the abortion clinic hadn’t done an adequate job.
Her mother was heartbroken and in shock and the 15-year old was in such a state of shock she couldn’t speak, she could only stare and cry. I had to help the doctor as he took out parts of that 5-month old baby and put them in a dish that we covered so the mother and daughter couldn’t see.
And I had to try and comfort both women because the horror of what had happened was so overwhelming neither could even acknowledge what had happened – and I had to explain to the sobbing mother that the police couldn’t take a report because no crime had been committed.
Even the doctor was disturbed by what had taken place and was shaky the rest of night – a hardened ER doctor brought low by an abortion and its aftermath. It took me months to come to grips with it.
Abortion is reality – whether you have seen the aftermath or not, whether you know how it happens or not, it still exists. It kills innocent lives and it destroys the mother’s life – abortion haunts women for life.
So when you don’t see or understand the horrors of abortion and how deeply it wounds those who have them, you can easily call speaking about abortion a scare tactic.
You can say it is terrorism because it is hard to listen to and think about. Yet it happens thousands of times a day in this country.
Yes – it should spark terror in your heart, and disgust and pity and sorrow. And it should also spark something else – the strength to speak out about the horror and let others know, because they – just like you – don’t want to hear it or know it exists.
It should spark the demand for reform, for change and we do that by electing government officials who will hold our ideals and cares as highly as we do.
If you don’t understand the horror of abortion on all the victims, you can’t be as strongly opposed to it. You can even look over it to other things you consider more important like the economy, gay marriage, or taxes.
Everyone needs to hear it and know the reality for what it is – it isn’t just stories, it is real life and it happens in our country every single day. – Rebekah
Post abortion guilt
Perhaps you are one of the millions of ladies who have had an abortion and you live with the guilt of what you have done. Believe it or not, Christ died for your sin, but not just that one.
He died for every sin you ever committed. If you are in Christ, the guilt of an abortion was placed on Him. That is the truth of the Gospel. You cannot pay for what you have done no more than I can pay for my sins.
Though the consequences are irreversible, the guilt does not have to continue.
Rest in the same mysterious grace of God that we all must rest in. Do as the Savior said, “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11).
If you are not a Christ-follower, then the news for you is worse than you might imagine. My appeal to you is to trust Christ. If you do not know how to do this, then click Two Ways to Live and read about how to become a Christian.
The truth is that the consequences of your sin cannot be changed, but you, like me, can be changed by the grace of God.
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Getting ready for abortion doc’s death
Posted on 18 July 2011
From USA Today
Wichita police and federal marshals are preparing for the funeral Saturday of late-term abortion provider George Tiller.
Although Tiller’s clinic was a magnet for protest, most abortion opponents said they would stay away.
“It would be morally reprehensible if anybody shows up” to protest, said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue. The Wichita group has picketed Tiller’s clinic for years.
Read entire article Here
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Mohler’s take on abortion doc’s death: a moral dilemma
Posted on 18 July 2011
From Al Mohler’s Blog
The murder of Dr. George Tiller presents America with yet another reminder of the violence that exists within our midst. This is not the way the pro-life movement wanted Dr. Tiller’s life to end. Our mission is to convince Americans of the sanctity of every human life—born and unborn. The murder of Dr. Tiller does not serve that cause.
George Tiller was one of the most recognized abortion doctors in America. This nation has known few doctors who would perform the late-term abortions for which Dr. Tiller was infamous. He was known for his willingness to perform almost any abortion—even to abort babies that would safely survive outside the womb. He saw himself as a champion of women’s rights. To others, he was an agent of death who was personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of unborn human beings.
Read entire article HERE
Posted in Abortion, CultureComments Off
Pro choice lobby is upset Mrs. Tebow made a choice
Posted on 18 July 2011
From Sally Jenkins at The Washington Post
I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I’ve heard in the past week, I’ll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the “National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women All The Time.” For one thing, Tebow seems smarter than they do.
Tebow’s 30-second ad hasn’t even run yet, but it already has provoked “The National Organization for Women Who Only Think Like Us” to reveal something important about themselves: They aren’t actually “pro-choice” so much as they are pro-abortion. Pam Tebow has a genuine pro-choice story to tell. She got pregnant in 1987, post-Roe v. Wade, and while on a Christian mission in the Philippines, she contracted a tropical ailment. Doctors advised her the pregnancy could be dangerous, but she exercised her freedom of choice and now, 20-some years later, the outcome of that choice is her beauteous Heisman Trophy winner son, a chaste, proselytizing evangelical.
Pam Tebow and her son feel good enough about that choice to want to tell people about it. Only, NOW says they shouldn’t be allowed to. Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for America to see for 30 seconds, but women in bikinis selling beer is the right one. I would like to meet the genius at NOW who made that decision. On second thought, no, I wouldn’t.
Here’s what we do need a lot more of: Tebows. Collegians who are selfless enough to choose not to spend summers poolside, but travel to impoverished countries to dispense medical care to children, as Tebow has every summer of his career. Athletes who believe in something other than themselves, and are willing to put their backbone where their mouth is. Celebrities who are self-possessed and self-controlled enough to use their wattage to advertise commitment over decadence.
You know what we really need more of? Famous guys who aren’t embarrassed to practice sexual restraint, and to say it out loud. If we had more of those, women might have fewer abortions. See, the best way to deal with unwanted pregnancy is to not get the sperm in the egg and the egg implanted to begin with, and that is an issue for men, too — and they should step up to that.
“Are you saving yourself for marriage?” Tebow was asked last summer during an SEC media day.
“Yes, I am,” he replied.
Read the Entire Article Here
Read Abortion: Truth or Consequences
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