tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734465554233359322.post1786525204300090729..comments2023-03-27T10:33:05.799+01:00Comments on the banksyboy brief: I don't understand your love...Peter Bankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11581918660786956398noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734465554233359322.post-76239801589913003392009-11-25T16:22:23.445+00:002009-11-25T16:22:23.445+00:00Thanks for adding such a personal and deep experie...Thanks for adding such a personal and deep experience to this blog entry Dave. Uplifting, moving and clearly so special.<br /><br />All the best<br /><br />PBPeter Bankshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11581918660786956398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734465554233359322.post-52167821911475176712009-11-23T20:28:39.506+00:002009-11-23T20:28:39.506+00:00"I was recently reminded, when listening to a..."I was recently reminded, when listening to a talk Frank Schaeffer gave at Greenbelt 2008, about how we attempt to rationalise the sacraments. Therefore we assume, in human terms, that it is not 'right' for a child to receive Holy Baptism until they can make up their own minds yet we acknowledge a mother whispering to her newly born 'I love you' is fine despite knowing the babe is unable to actually understand what is being said. It came home to me so powerfully to allow God to act in a 'mysterious way' we need to forsake our human rationality."<br /><br />Peter,<br /> I was adopted at 6 weeks old and for those first six weeks my Birth Mother looked after me and loved me like no other as she knew that at the end of the six weeks she was having to give me up for adoption. All my life (51 years)I have had such a strong feeling to find my Birth Mother and after years of searching eventually found her earlier this year. The bond between us must have so strong and entwined in those first six weeks. There was many a time I could have so easily given up but there was always something there driving me on.It says in the bible that there is much rejoicing in heaven when just one becomes a believer, it was nearly Heaven on earth in February when at last My Birth Mother and I could at last show our love to each other after all that time. <br /> Maybe by Baptising as a baby God in his own mysterious way has a hand with that baby's growing up even if for the formative years the parents do not take their child to Church or teach them about Jesus.<br /><br />DaveDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069009783838755633noreply@blogger.com