Catalyst

It’s almost midnight now and I’m actually quite tired. I’ve had a mad day at work; two designers off work and two of us picking up the slack. Rushing to a birthday party afterwards.

I want to write about the party. It was organised as a surprise for the birthday girl by her partner, a photographer I’ve come to know very well. They’ve been together 10 years and they have all those little habits that longstanding couples have. They plan on getting married in December and want to have a baby soon after. I love spending time with them. Plus, they’re both women.

I was thinking tonight about what a “Christian” response should be to their plans for marriage and children. I think I know what I ought to feel, but I just know what I feel in my heart, and that is that they love each other. They will be great parents and will give a stable home to a child.

It makes me think about what Phillip Yancey wrote in one of his books about an abortion rally and the pro-choice vs. pro-life protestors there. I can’t remember whether these were his words or whether he quoted someone. In a nutshell, he said that on principle he supported the pro-life group. But if he had to choose who to have dinner with he would choose the pro-choice group.

Why is it that we, as Christians, are so hard to like sometimes? And why is it that the values that we profess, like love, patience, fidelity and compassion are often more evident in non-Christians?

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