Today's reading centered around the story from yesterday. The woman in the story, Kayleen, did not love herself. Ms. Manning states, "When we lack self-love, we are doomed to fail at finding true intimacy with others because we feel unworthy." (page 43)
I do not believe there is a creature (cast down angel/hellfire and brimstone) that "makes" us do evil. However, Manning suggests otherwise:
"Ungodly love (lust) is a pacifier from the devil, and we understand his trickery is never for our betterment, only our demise." (page 43)
I do believe that life experiences influence our perception about our self worth. As stated in an earlier blog, we have core lies that we tell ourselves all the time. It is these lies that make us believe we are not worthy of love (real love) and thus we convince ourselves to get into hurtful and vulnerable situations.
Ms. Manning also mentioned abortion being a sin as well as premarital sex. This is not a surprising read, but I am not going to get into a moral discussion regarding fornication and abortion. I will state that if you are interested in my opinion of abortion, please read a blog I wrote a few months back: Abortion.
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