Sentences with phrase «pregnancies as those souls»

It's also a time of year that can be especially painful for those who have lost babies and pregnancies as those souls are remembered.

Not exact matches

The Muslim theory that unborn babies receive their soul at forty days enables them to agree with us on eight of the nine months of pregnancy, and as Chesterton said, something is better than nothing!

The more I experience pregnancy and birth in all its mess and glory, loss and life, the more I uncover the devout links between how we as women experience birth and how the Holy Spirit often «gives birth» in our souls.

I've come to think of my pregnancy as destiny — my husband and I have been chosen to be trustees of this soul, nurture its own fullest expression, and then hand the soul back to the Universe, feeling content that we did our best.

Although Islamic scholars disagree over exactly when life begins or when abortion is acceptable, most view terminating a pregnancy after four months — «the point at which, in Islam, a fetus is thought to become a living soul» — as not permissible.