As Sisters

Okay okay.... Kind of feeling mama bear tonight. I'm not a mother, but I work with mothers every day, most of my best friends are mothers, and I have the best mother one could ever ask for. I can see what they go through, and let me tell you it is hard enough without other mothers telling them that they are horrid parents. But, unfourtunatly, that is what happens. Mothers looking down on other mothers for their choices.

Shouldn't we be supporting loving helping and otherwise lifting up our fellow women, and not to mention men? Don't get me wrong, I am really enjoying parts of this "go natural" movement. I think people can come to some really cool conclusions when we think about how and why God made us and our world the way He did, and here is what I believe about that.

1) While we are made in God's image and will someday have perfect immortal bodies like His, our bodies now are not perfect. They aren't meant to be and that is really okay.
2) There are a few things that make us like God. Those are the powers to create life and take it away, and the power to choose. I strongly believe, a long with many of my LDS friends, that being born was totally a choice. We knew for the most part what we were getting ourselves into.
and 3) If you are nothing else in your life, at least be kind. This is the most important thing we can do not only for ourselves, but for those around us.

So, my question is, ESPECIALLY in dominantly Christian communities, where do you get off belittling any one elses choices? This weird idea that the "natural" community has that if you just get someone to read enough research they will reach the same conclusions as you is total ignorance. I know plenty of people who have researched and participated in caesarian sections, circumcision, toothpaste, vitamins, cloth diapers, public schools, home schooling, EVERYTHING, and they have come up with their own choices and they and their families are doing fantastically.

So the next time you think about saying something like "I love my children so I refuse to hold a job" think about your sister in arms sitting right next to you who needs to work her full time job to feed her family. "Circumcision is disgusting and is abuse" to your sweet and wonderful husband or his mother. Do you really think that these things open up constructive disscussions? You aren't going to convince anyone you are right if you present it as "my way is the only good way."

I strongly believe that we could all get a lot of good from a little "tongue holding." We never NEVER never know what someone is going through or what their circumstances are, so keep even the potentially belittling comments to yourself. What your sisters need isn't pictures of the "Foreskin Man", botched surgeries, or our own pile of scientific journals or (a longer list of) bloggs from individuals with strongly worded opinions.

What our sisters need is a hand to help, a heart to love, and a shoulder to cry on. You can keep your own "all natural propoganda" if that is what helps you sleep at night, but please, be considerate. Be kind. It is not our place to judge. That is God's arena and it is evidence of a lack of faith in Him if we judge our fellow men and women.