Thursday, July 10, 2003
WTI New Search Engine!
From our home page you can search the archives of WTI with our new seach engine from Google. Whether it's a specific topic, writer, or key word you're looking for you'll find it with our new search feature. Try it, you may like it.
Aloha, Glenn
From our home page you can search the archives of WTI with our new seach engine from Google. Whether it's a specific topic, writer, or key word you're looking for you'll find it with our new search feature. Try it, you may like it.
Aloha, Glenn
Monday, July 07, 2003
The mind of God.
I don't know much about the Mind of God, other than what I read in Scripture. But, it seems to me that there are a lot of things not specifically covered that intrigue me as a writer.
I read this morning about the brave Iranian twins who are undergoing surgery to become separate individuals. Anytime twins are born conjoined, I feel for them and for their families. The decision to separate them can be difficult, and often the life of one of the children is at stake...and the parents are more often than not the ones who are burdened with that decision.
But with Ladan and Laleh Bijani , the decision rests with the sisters themselves. They have chosen, as 29-year-old women, to take the risk and opt for surgery so that they might choose independent lives. One account of this surgery is here: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0707IranTwins07-ON.html
As a Christian, I wonder. What does God intend with such a circumstance? How can we decide if one person or the other might die in such a situation? How can we choose? Do we let every set of conjoined twins stay that way, and figure that the Lord will make a way? Or do we opt for surgery, even if it risks the life of one or both children?
As a writer, I wonder how to communicate this dilemma. Not to make light the heart-wrenching dilemma that those with this decision must truly face, but merely to explore it.
How to decide? What if one twin does not survive the surgery? What, then, will the other think and feel?
I've rambled on enough. I just wanted to float this.
Comments always welcome...lol
mailto:sandilayne@sandilayne.com
I don't know much about the Mind of God, other than what I read in Scripture. But, it seems to me that there are a lot of things not specifically covered that intrigue me as a writer.
I read this morning about the brave Iranian twins who are undergoing surgery to become separate individuals. Anytime twins are born conjoined, I feel for them and for their families. The decision to separate them can be difficult, and often the life of one of the children is at stake...and the parents are more often than not the ones who are burdened with that decision.
But with Ladan and Laleh Bijani , the decision rests with the sisters themselves. They have chosen, as 29-year-old women, to take the risk and opt for surgery so that they might choose independent lives. One account of this surgery is here: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0707IranTwins07-ON.html
As a Christian, I wonder. What does God intend with such a circumstance? How can we decide if one person or the other might die in such a situation? How can we choose? Do we let every set of conjoined twins stay that way, and figure that the Lord will make a way? Or do we opt for surgery, even if it risks the life of one or both children?
As a writer, I wonder how to communicate this dilemma. Not to make light the heart-wrenching dilemma that those with this decision must truly face, but merely to explore it.
How to decide? What if one twin does not survive the surgery? What, then, will the other think and feel?
I've rambled on enough. I just wanted to float this.
Comments always welcome...lol
mailto:sandilayne@sandilayne.com
