I get so excited when I start a new blog. Yes, I've started quite a few and then forget about them. This one seems more important to me though.
I have been Catholic for 14 years. I converted to Catholicism even before my husband asked me to marry him. I love being Catholic and have never felt more comfortable with my religion. I have to say though that I don't think I have really practiced the faith as it should be practiced.
My husband and I have been married for 13 years and have 3 beautiful daughters. We have not been the best parents though in getting our family to church each Sunday. It's been sporadic at best. I have a renewed faith to correct that however, thus the reason for this blog.
For most of our 13 year marriage we have used birth control. I never really truly understood the purpose of NFP as prevention. I honestly wonder if I was afraid of it so I avoided it. Recently I started listening to the Heart, Mind and Strength radio show by Greg and Lisa Popcak. I believe it was one of my first podcasts that I listened to where they talked about NFP. I noticed myself really listening to this portion of the show (I was driving).
The show stuck with me for a few days and I listened to it over again a couple of times. After about the 3rd time I realized that God was calling me to do this in our marriage. I talked with my husband, who isn't totally convinced it's the right thing to do, but that's another topic, and we started on this journey.
I've only been charting for about 10 days now, but I'm feeling very content with this decision and want to do many other things to be right with God and follow his examples.
I hope to keep this blog updated and include more posts about my struggles with becoming a better Catholic and Christian. Right now though, I have to pick up my babies.
Ciao!
2 comments:
What an interesting story! I'm a fellow convert and Catholic mom blogger (I just saw your comment over on Mammablogga) so I wanted to drop by and say hello.
And best of luck with the NFP thing! If your experience is anything like mine, you'll be *amazed* at how much your life will change (in a good way). I'm always writing about that on my blog. :)
Thanks for the comment. I'm going to have to look at your Blog tomorrow. I went over there and then my kiddos started begging me to do other things so I couldn't read. :)
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