The 39th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision here in the US is approaching this Sunday the 22nd. My family and I will be walking in our local Walk for Life. Last year, our parish hosted it, but this year a neighboring parish will host it. I am so thankful to finally be on the right side of this controversial topic and working to change people's hearts and minds. It feels good to fight for the truth.
There are many results of this national decision that occurred back in January of '73, so I thought I'd outline some of them here. Because of legalized abortion, our country has been an accomplice to approximately 55 million murders of innocent children...OUR children. The deaths are gruesome and painful - many times the murders occur after the healthy baby has been born alive. We are seeing more and more investigations into abortion clinics lately and finding this last fact to be true time and time again. Some mothers have even died as a result of complications during an abortion. We, as a nation, have these babies' and women's blood on our hands. We have looked the other way for far too long.
Women who undergo an abortion suffer many psychological and physiological effects as a result. Some of them are: guilt, suicidal thoughts, mourning, low self-esteem, hostility, thwarted maternal instincts, desires to end relationships with partners, nightmares, gastro-intestinal disturbances, loss of appetite, loss of bodily organs, perforated uterus, coma, bleeding, infections, stillbirths, ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, sterility, higher rate of breast cancer. There are even more side effects which is hard to imagine. So this "freeing" decision, this "woman's choice", has resulted in murder - millions of times over - and psychological and physiological harm to our nation's women. I hardly see that the Roe v Wade decision gave women a good choice. I think one of the most astonishing facts to come from that fateful day is that Norma McCorvey "Jane Roe" of Roe v Wade is now prolife! She speaks publicly and started her own pro-life ministry. You can see her website here: http://www.leaderu.com/norma/ If that's not enough testimony as to why the Roe v Wade decision was a bad one, I don't know what is.
If you are sitting on the fence about this topic, stop sitting. Get up and join the fight! Go find a walk this weekend - I bet there's one out there near you. Contact your church and see what your Respect Life Ministry is doing. If you are still in favor of legalized abortion, do some serious soul searching. Murder is never okay! We as citizens of the United States have the right to life. Our babies belong to us - they are our citizens as well. They are crying out for us to end this horrific genocide that we have turned a blind eye to. Stop looking the other way and fight for what you know is true!
Here is Norma McCorvey's (Jane Roe's) pro-life commercial:
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Here's to Being a Naked Cowboy in 2012!
Early evening in our house can be a bit like juggling scoops of ice cream - just quit while you're ahead because a meltdown is coming anyway! Between trying to get dinner on the table for four children with very different appetites, cleaning up the aftermath of spilled or thrown or spit food, rounding up the cowboys for a wash down, bathing baby girl without one of the cowboys knocking her over while they are enroute to their nighttime snack or an ever-important HotWheels race, and finally bedtimes which vary with each child and from night to night depending on the day's activities, it's no wonder I'm usually dizzy by the time I crawl into bed around midnight each night.
The other night, however, as I was bathing baby girl, I heard my two year old cowboy coming down the hallway (as it's hard not to hear him coming), so I turned to look. What I saw was a beautiful, just-bathed boy with blonde curly hair bouncing down the hallway - buck naked! He was just bee bopping along without a care in the world as if everybody walks with ease around the house in their birthday suits. It gave me such a laugh and I thought, "It doesn't get better than this!" I had flashbacks of my six year old running down the hallway in nothing but cowboy boots when he was two, and of my fifteen year old greeting guests at the door in nothing but cowboy boots when he was two!
This is LIFE! In my sleep-deprived daily haze, I know this time will pass and I will miss it. Small children are like naked little souls for us to learn from. They haven't yet put on their sweaters to protect themselves from life's cold shoulders or their suits of armor to protect themselves from life's piercing moments. We can be more like them though and shed our heavy outerwear and armor. It's difficult to be a light to the world with those things covering us up. This new year, I will try to strip myself from things that keep me from showing God's light.
It's hard to bare ourselves for the world to see, but I kind of feel like everyone is just walking around with masks on - the masks they want us to see - not their naked faces, bodies, and souls that God created. It's time to take all that junk off that's been weighing us down and be who God created us to be. There's no time like the present, so go be like my naked little cowboys and take the bull by the horns. Go make 2012 the best year of your life by exposing your God-given talents. Here's to the New Year!
The other night, however, as I was bathing baby girl, I heard my two year old cowboy coming down the hallway (as it's hard not to hear him coming), so I turned to look. What I saw was a beautiful, just-bathed boy with blonde curly hair bouncing down the hallway - buck naked! He was just bee bopping along without a care in the world as if everybody walks with ease around the house in their birthday suits. It gave me such a laugh and I thought, "It doesn't get better than this!" I had flashbacks of my six year old running down the hallway in nothing but cowboy boots when he was two, and of my fifteen year old greeting guests at the door in nothing but cowboy boots when he was two!
This is LIFE! In my sleep-deprived daily haze, I know this time will pass and I will miss it. Small children are like naked little souls for us to learn from. They haven't yet put on their sweaters to protect themselves from life's cold shoulders or their suits of armor to protect themselves from life's piercing moments. We can be more like them though and shed our heavy outerwear and armor. It's difficult to be a light to the world with those things covering us up. This new year, I will try to strip myself from things that keep me from showing God's light.
It's hard to bare ourselves for the world to see, but I kind of feel like everyone is just walking around with masks on - the masks they want us to see - not their naked faces, bodies, and souls that God created. It's time to take all that junk off that's been weighing us down and be who God created us to be. There's no time like the present, so go be like my naked little cowboys and take the bull by the horns. Go make 2012 the best year of your life by exposing your God-given talents. Here's to the New Year!
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