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Re: Wedding rings
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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
Several times while I was pregnant it was assumed by those in the medical community that I was an unwed mother because I wasn't wearing a wedding ring.
"Avoid the appearance of evil" comes to mind.
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That was the main reason that Jeff and I bought rings. My Dad's church didn't allow them either, but when I was pregnant with Hannah, I was so embarrassed--I knew that it looked like I was unmarried and pregnant.
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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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