Airlines and breastfeeding - Part 2

The employee involved in the incident I ranted on a few days ago has been "disciplined" according to Freedom Airlines spokesperson Paul Skellon.

See the full story HERE!

A huge hat tip to the mom for defending her child's right to breastfeed -- and to the airlines for stepping up and doing what's right. And I do pray that the flight attendant keeps her job!! and learns from this situation. While it angered me that she was so uninformed about breastfeeding in public, I can't condemn her. I am too busy taking my foot out of my own mouth (in addition to taking the log out of my own eye...)

From our home to yours...
Deb

HEY YOU! De-LURK!

Pass it on... According to RevGalBlogPals it's De-Lurking week!

Grab the graphic - post it on your blog - and then go visit your usual bloggy friends...

Leave them a hug {} or just a "blogstone" (o).

Hmmmm.... can Blogger handle this much activity???


Happy de-lurking... Be sure to come by on Friday and have some leftovers!

Deb

Sweeeeeeeeeeet!

After all of these years... it's Sweeeeeeeeeeet! To end the season #1. To go into the championship as #1...

Yes, I wore my OSU shirt to church today. I would have worn it if we had lost. But it was definitely worth the teasing to wear it. And the girls wore their OSU gear as well. Ken showed class with a scarlet/grey checked shirt. We let him off the hook...

I have the right to party! You see, I was in "THE Band." I have a degree from OSU. I sat in the rain, sleet and beer spray in Ann Arbor. Made the long bus trip home on the losing end of several games...

I was a Buckeye fan in the Earle B years, after the TKO by Woody... and it's just really nice to have a classy coach like Jim Tressel and the Buckeyes having a winning season.

Sooo pardon me if I do a little victory dance and yell a little. It's just SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!

GO BUCKS!!!! YES!!

Wish I were here...

GO BUCKEYES!
BEAT MICHIGAN!

I thought I'd get pepperoni on my Tombstone...

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Friday Five: Thankfulness

The Friday Five this week from RevGalBlog Pals is about giving thanks:
"It's that time of year. In the U.S., college students will be on their way home, traffic on the highways will be at its highest point, cooking and baking will ensue. But before the gorging and napping begins, let's take a moment to give thanks.

Please tell us five things or people for which you are thankful this year."

This is an easy one... for me anyway...

• I'm thankful for my husband and kids. I'm thankful for my extended family, even though we spend more miles apart than together. I am blessed to have a family that not only encourages me to pursue my training and Call, but even think it's kinda "cool" (and that was from my teenager!) I am blessed that my husband and children all love God and are followers of Jesus Christ. Which leads me to...
• I am thankful for Jesus Christ, Son of God, the Living Word, Savior, Redeemer and Friend. I can't imagine what my life would be like without His love and saving grace in my life. I would be a "bitter Mara" instead of a "Naomi," experiencing God's "pleasant" blessings in my life. Or I would be a schemer, overworked cog somewhere, burning out in my desire to be "something", instead of being content in the "someone" God has called me to be.
• I'm thankful for the freedom of our country, that I am not (like many in our world) persecuted as I try to live out my faith in God. I am grateful for those who fought to get our religious freedom in the first place, and for those who continue to do so. I am grateful for the opportunity to write, talk and live out my faith as best I can.
• I am thankful for inner peace. Peace that comes from God, not from politicians, through lines on a map, or from any kind of inner striving to achieve it. It is a gift from God. It is bestowed on me by His Spirit. And it is what I rest in when the unanswered questions come...
• I am thankful for a faith community that encourages, challenges and loves me for who I am, yet believes God can do "more" in and through me. You know you are. Come claim your hug the next time we meet.

From my grateful home to yours...
Deb

Airlines and breastfeeding

My friends on the Parenting as Ministry email group forwarded this link to me...
"Nursing a grudge: parents support breastfeeding."

I'm amazed and annoyed. Have we come so far as to get nowhere on this issue? First of all, the whole family was inconvenienced with a three hour delay. I've had to handle children after a three hour delay in an airport. It isn't ideal. That the child needed to eat after being delayed was probably a part of choosing to nurse on the aircraft.

But apparently an employee of the airline, a flight attendant, was as upset that she was nursing a toddler as she was nursing, period. And handed her a blanket, which the mother said she did not need and declined. And it was the flight attendant, not a customer who complained that she was "offended!" So the parents -- who were already inconvenienced by the airline's delay -- had to deplane??? This is silly.

Have we all forgotten that humans are MAMMALS??? That breastfeeding is not erotic and does not have an age cut-off? That a nursing 22 month old would be quiet and comforted as the plane took off instead of screaming? Geesh. I mean, the woman did not stand up and say "watch this!!" and then strip off her clothes and expose her nipples. She was sitting in her seat. By the window. With her husband in the aisle seat. With her seatbelt on. Nursing her child.

Will the airline hand out blankets for other people who have almost-exposed body parts? To women in low-cut blouses or wearing thongs that show over the edge of their jeans? Or maybe cover tshirts that have a message that is not politically correct? How about men with shirts that aren't buttoned up? I mean, chest hair is so sexy. It might make it hard for a flight attendant to do her job...

I am proud to support women who choose to breastfeed. Period. This stigma has got to go!!!

From our home to yours-
Deb

Job - Part 2...

As a follow-up to my earlier post on Job...

This weekend and next I'm playing keyboard for worship. We are doing a song by Superchic[k] called "Beauty from Pain" and the words just speak to the heart of what I've been studying in Job. The gal that's singing it will be amazing. Grab your tissues...

Treasuring serving Him...
Deb

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BEAUTY FROM PAIN

The lights go out all around me
One last candle to keep out the night
And then the darkness surrounds me
I know I’m alive but I feel like I’ve died
And all that's left is to accept that it's over
My dreams ran like sand through the fists that I made
I try to keep warm but I just grow colder
I feel like I’m slipping away

After all this has passed, I still will remain
After I’ve cried my last, there'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today, Someday I’ll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

My whole world is the pain inside me
The best I can do is just get through the day
When life before is only a memory
I'll wonder why God lets me walk through this place
And though I can't understand why this happened
I know that I will when I look back someday
And see how You've brought beauty from ashes
And made me as gold purified through these flames

Here I am, at the end of me
Tryin' to hold to what I can't see
I forgot how to hope
This night's been so long
I cling to Your promise
There will be a dawn ...

After all this has passed, I still will remain
After I’ve cried my last, there'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today,
Someday I’ll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain...

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