Psychics

[Generally_Me]

Originally Posted by pam

I think she is meaning it more to keep peace in the family. Perhaps her husband wouldn't approve of seeking someone like a psychic. Some are against it.

Thank you Pam, that's what I meant.
Further:
Whenever someone does anything metaphysical or spiritual, I think that person should consult with their spouse. Particularly if:
a) money exchanges hands
b) a decision could be made that would affect both their lives

If the situation were different, perhaps (throwing it out there) someone who was Wiccan and married to a Wiccan, and she wanted to meet with a Mormon missionary, I would want her to discuss it with him BEFOREHAND, rather than have him think she was sneaking around with it.

Yes, I am aware that being psychic is not like being a clergyperson in another faith. But it is something that a lot of people feel creeped out about, mistrustful, and generally a lot of people are against it. There are some people who believe all powers not directly of God are of the devil, period. I don't believe that, but I also haven't met any psychics whom I trusted. The one I did consult years ago I did not take seriously, did not pay money to and spoke to with my husbands knowledge (it was at a party).

[Bini]

To OP. Yes I believe there are people who are more in tuned with their "sixth sense" than others. I think I'm one of them too for various reasons. But I guess regardless of one's ability to predict or foresee things in the future, the Lord should be the one we seek our answers and guidance from :]

[FairChild]

I understand the desire to have a child. My youngest son was concieved with the aid of Clomid after my 4th miscarriage. Perhaps now is the time for you to practice your mothering skills. I have nurtured and mothered women and men in their 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's and I have done it with as much love and vigulance as my own sons even before their births. I think as I love and mother others, I am also finally allowing myself the love and mothering that I was not able to recieve as a child. I have grown and become a far better person than if I had never accepted these challenges.

As for a psychic, why would you want to hand over any control or empower a stranger over the matter of your own life. Your life is yours, the control of it should all belong to you.

I wish you the best of luck. FC

[nmdesertrose]

I debated about whether or not I should post in this thread but I can't NOT post here. I have some recent experience in the area of psychics and powers of that nature that would lead me to proclaim emphatically to please NOT mess with them. There are powers in this world that we do not understand and that cannot be trusted. While God may occasionally work through us in this manner and while some people do have certain gifts of the Spirit, it is not the typical way that He speaks to us. God wants us to work by faith and He works by light and intelligence with the Holy Ghost as His teacher and testifier.

I understand very well the draw and intrigue and curiosity that people have spoken of in this thread as that is what led me to the experience I had. I'm telling you right now that it is NOT worth it. Ask yourself, by what authority is this power coming from? Satan waits, he waits for us to give him that half an inch so he can take a mile. He is subtle, cunning and manipulative and psychics are some of his best tools to take our faith away from God and misplace it in areas it should not be.

[Soul_Searcher]

Havent mentioned it to hubby. He would probably laugh in my face, hes very down to earth. He might not like it but he would support me whatever i wanted to do.

Its more of a fun thing really, maybe some hope to cling on to if she says yes. Not sure when to start the treatment either, have to think about that.

I will practice the mothering tho-trying to persuade hubby to let me have a dog!

[Tarnished]

We have two dogs, and it is the best thing we ever did. It really has cut down on my NEED for a baby, I really needed to have something to love and I was beginning to get on my hubby's nerves.

Starting the treatment can be a difficult thing to work up to. At least for us it was, mainly because there are so many things to take into account when getting fertility treatments, especially when it involves something like In Vetro Fertilization. There are the costs involved, the tests, the utter run around that you go through to just get into a clinic, then considerations of how the medicine will affect you, and heck even how the procedure will affect you. It takes a lot more planning than a regular pregnancy would.

[Maureen]

I will practice the mothering tho-trying to persuade hubby to let me have a dog!

A dog would be great. When I went through my waiting in the hopes of getting pregnant (which happened awhile ago), my cats were my wonderful babies, while I waited for my human ones to arrive.

[Tarnished]

I think dogs are especially good to prepare you for children, every time I talk to a friend who has children and they are complaining of different things their children are putting them through I find myself thinking, "Hey, I have gone through that same thing with my dogs!" Sleepless nights (getting up every few hours to let the puppy out to potty), crying babies (or howling puppies), destructive behaviors (chewing up everything in sight), the teenage years when they just don't want to listen to anything you tell them, tracking in mud and dirt, out smarting you at things you never thought they would out smart you in (like figuring out just how to climb up on the chair and then up on the table and finish off all the food there before you catch them, or even worse figuring out just how to get out of the fence again and again), insisting on attention when you REALLY need to do something, doing gross things in public. The great thing about dogs though is that they will never talk back, they love you forever, and they forgive you immediately. The sad thing about them is that they never live long enough.

Just as a little bit of entertainment would anyone be interested in seeing a letter I wrote to my relatives when we adopted our first dog? It is explaining the type of "child" we had just adopted. If so I can post it here.

[Soul_Searcher]

definitely Tarnished! Even though it sounds hard work I want one even more!!!

[Moksha]

Originally Posted by Maureen

A dog would be great. When I went through my waiting in the hopes of getting pregnant (which happened awhile ago), my cats were my wonderful babies, while I waited for my human ones to arrive.

Maybe I am channeling this information through Vort's answer of "depending upon the psychic, but try a certified canine psychic. Golden Retrievers would make for playful psychics and you could play catch afterward. Great for Mormons who cannot light up cigarettes.