its interesting all the rhetoric i've been hearing from the Christian right about voting in a certain way in order to be a good Christian centering mainly on abortion made me a little curious so i did a little digging on abortion statistics.

In Canada there was a significant dip in the number of abortions performed between 2004 and 2005 from 100,039 to 96,815 with an annual average of about 100,000. however in the USA the number of abortions performed annually on average are 1,307,000....

Annie

so i don't usually listen much to so called "life coaches" or self help gurus or anyone that claims to offer solutions to a better life if you just listen to them and buy their books and pay to go to their seminars, etc... because, frankly, they're pretty much full of it 99.99999% of the time and are only after our money.

but the other night while i was flipping through the channels i stopped on The Hour ( a late night talk show here in Canada) and Tony Robbins was a guest...

Annie

Forgiveness is key to living the Christian life in its full abundance. Its easy to say that but rather difficult to really put that into practice. We always seem to jump to our first instinct that we're owed something. He did something wrong that hurt me so he owes me an apology, and until he apologizes I'm not going to speak to him or have anything to do with him; once i get that apology then i'll forgive him. But what we often forget is that forgiveness is inseparable from loving our enemies and...

Annie