Truth, Love And Books

Hardest time in my life, hands down: Mid-twenties. Not because I had made terrible life choices. By 26 I had bought a house, couldn't have picked a better guy to be married to, had a fun, well-paid job, traveled, graduated from college and was surrounded by an abundance of friends and family. I had nothing but hope for a beautiful future. I silently felt proud of my decent choices because life you could say, mirrored the so-called American dream.  Until, I suddenly found myself in a position where I did not have a choice. I was seven weeks along and walked into my job looking for answers. Reasons why I was experiencing scary, not-good pregnancy symptoms, red flags that potentially meant I was no longer with child. Ironically, the woman I worked for had recently finished a masters in midwifery. On the verge of losing composure, I asked her several questions. What I really wanted to do was scream and cry and beg as if she held the answers I was looking for: "Please just tell me ...

  Dear Friend, Thanks for your response. I have a few additional thoughts. Again in no way am I trying to sound condescending. As far as the CS Lewis quote, I disagree. I don't think the argument fully hinged on what he desired. And it is congruent with what mainstream science says about the fine-tuning of the world. The fine-tuning points to a mind/creator. To keep it quick, it's the idea that if our world was a razor's edge closer to or further away from the sun, life here would be uninhabitable.  A good comparison is Mt. Rushmore. Did billions of pieces come together on their own or did it take a   mind/design? "See the very fact that atheists have reasons to be atheists actually presupposes that God exists. How so? Because reasons require that the universe be a reasonable one that presupposes there is order, logic, design and truth. But order, logic, design, and truth can only exist and be known if there is an unchangeable objective source and standard of such th...