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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
The doctor told me I should breast feed the baby but I explained to him the church needed me and it would be best for me to bottle feed him..so I did that.
Having a baby never hindered me from obeying the Lord...And when a woman has her certain days it is just a part of life...It never hindered me from doing whatever the Lord needed.
Women do not have to be pampered ...we are soldiers...
Only the laws of the old testament considered a woman unclean but no so under grace.
to be continued...
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Sister Alvear....just a little sidenote...I would never advise a woman to pursue ministry instead of nursing her baby. As a mother, my primary role from God is to nurture and care for my child, and that is number one, especially when the child is small! Breastfeeding is something women should be encouraged to do, and obviously it doesn't matter now since your children are probably grown, but I think that it would be wrong to choose to bottle feed a baby just to be more helpful to the church! JMHO
Breastmilk is perfect for babies...God made it that way...and I would hope no mother would ever be encouraged to do otherwise, just to be more available to the church. God is the one who gives life, and if that life is given to me, then I think He wants my primary objective to be to care for that life.
I'm sorry if this comes across as a bit critical...not really meaning to be...I'm just a bit shocked that any woman would choose to bottle feed in order to serve the church.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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