I feel you...Im saying that was a "no good" statement. Your word is all you have. I think the words of your mouth are speaking the meditations of your heart, and when you speak that...oh it's just a mistake... to ME you're saying, no big deal. Everybody does it...let this little baby grow up and be a statistic like the other fatherless kids.
I apologize if you took it wrongly, or were hurt, Ms LaRue.
I have had TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo much experience with men that do wrong like this, and then cover it up with even more wrong. He would be RESPECTED BY ME, and others if he would have just been a MAN, and made sure his baby, and baby's mother were taken care of...
I didn't take it wrongly; I took it the way you said it. But, it's all good. No hard feelings.
I know FIRSTHAND what it's like to be on the "baby mama" side of things. My daughter (who is adopted) has two biological deadbeat parents. Both of them were court-ordered to pay child support and neither of them EVER did. Not one payment. EVER. She's 18 now. Not only did they fail to support her, her bio mother claimed her on her taxes 3 years in a row. It took the IRS 3 years to catch it, and it took me 5 more years to prove that I had legal guardianship, then custody, then parental rights through adoption of her. During that period, I had my wages garnished, my bank accounts frozen, my tax returns garnished. I suffered that and a lot more as a result of raising a deadbeat's child, so trust me, I know all about it.
Nonetheless, deadbeats are human beings that belong to God. He created the man behind the deadbeat. If dude repented (and none of us can say whether or not as of 1/22/09 11:58 a.m. EST, he has or has not) then the Lord has forgotten all about it. Y'all can talk about it all day; that's your right. I'm just not going to get down with that. Shucks, we can shut this forum down talking about what you did or said or thought yesterday... or even today! (
"you" in general, not at anyone in particular, and of course, not to the ones who don't sin at all, ever).