St. Augustine, Confessions

Hmm, well let's see. I quite enjoyed this reading. As I was reading I had a few questions, like one for example is, well he was talking about God, and in the beginning he talked about liking astrology, but still preaching about God. Isn't astrology against the Christian faith, or maybe not against, but frowned upon. Because I know, that for me growing up as a christian I wasn't allowed to believe in magic, or astrology. But anyways, enough about that. It seems that he was attached to many personal relationships, one having a huge impact on him. I really liked what he had to say about friendship. And I also liked the few paragraphs where he had to mourn the death of his friend. What I got from this is, that beauty is having many good relationships, or having a good relationship with a certain someone, or someone who you greatly trust. I'm not really sure, but I'm guessing we'll discuss this in class. I really liked when he said "What a great difference there is between the restraint of the marriage bond contracted with a view to having children and the compact of a lustful love, where children are born against the parents' will, although once they are born they compel our love." Not that I can relate to this, but I'm sure this is true. And well besides that, I think that's all I understood. Maybe I didn't understand that much, but even if I didn't understand the reading, I still found it sort of entertaining.