Tuesday, January 21, 2020

In honor of Friday's March for Life (which you will probably not hear much about on the news unless Nick Sandman shows up again). The following is my rant on abortion.


Doe AND Roe


Jane Roe's (of Roe VS Wade) real name was Norma McCorvey. She was never raped, she decided not to have the abortion she was fighting for, and she eventually converted to the Catholic faith. In Doe VS Bolton, Sandra Cano (Jane Doe) was not aware she was the plaintiff, she did not have an abortion, and started a pro-life ministry called Wonderfully Made Ministry. Both women have since passed. January 22 is the anniversary of Roe VS Wade and the same day Doe VS Bolton made abortion legal.

Yesterday we celebrated Martin Luther King Day. A man who fought for injustice. His daughter, Alveda is a pro-life advocate. Slavery was an injustice, the Holocaust was an injustice, civil rights had to be fought for just so people would not be treated as 2nd class citizens. History will show that abortion was the injustice of our time.

Are we at war?


I will never, ever understand how a choice has to be made at the expense of a life. I am not an uncompassionate person. I care about the mother AND the father. There are many, many people and agencies willing to help when a women has an unplanned pregnancy. Whenever a choice has to be made and an innocent person may be killed, that's usually what commanders in armies have to factor in during war. They decide if the casualties are worth the risk.

Are we at war? Is it a war on women or a war on babies? or both? What are we fighting for? The right to choose to end a life for the sake of convenience? Do we not know how to suffer for the sake of others anymore? It's my body, you can't tell me what to do. Still, will never, ever understand that once a life is forming inside a womb, women can't understand they share their body with another person. It's not just theirs anymore. Call me a jerk but that's human biology.

I've experienced this 6 times, losing one at 11 weeks and one was unplanned. It does take great sacrifice. The power, strength and beauty of a pregnant woman's body should be celebrated. She brings forth life. How amazing is that?!

Right to choose?


Is it a right to choose? When so many women really don't get to choose. They are either coerced, manipulated, and forced into the abortion. Yes, some freely choose and have no regrets, but when we have a country with laws on our books that say its ok to end a life (kill) then the culture thinks it must be moral. It makes it easier to do an immoral action.

And what about the fathers? Yes, some are jerks and 'force' the woman to abort or abandon the mother and offer no help. But I'm guessing there are many men that don't even know about the pregnancy and are probably told you have no say, it's my body. I like to believe some men would step up but that's were women have the control. Men, fight for the unborn. You do have a say.


Cultural Civil War


Abortion is the cultural civil war of our times. We do have bloody casualties in this war. We can't deny that. It's heartbreaking because the casualties don't even get to fight.

Great article on Norma McCorvey the Jane Roe in Roe VS Wade.


Thank you for reading. I appreciate you.

My youngest of 5. Born on Jan 22, 2010. The anniversary of Roe VS Wade.
What a wonderful way to celebrate life than a birthday!


Will you pray for the unborn and the mothers?

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Simple Country Catholic: God Searches for Us

Simple Country Catholic: God Searches for Us: God Searches For Us I've recently discovered a Catholic author, priest, and professor of psychology, Henri Nouwen.  I've been read...

God Searches for Us

God Searches For Us

I've recently discovered a Catholic author, priest, and professor of psychology, Henri Nouwen.  I've been reading his "The Dance of Life" book. He's got some gems of ideas.

We often talk about the 'search for God', how our souls are looking for him, trying to understand Him, longing for Him. While that is all true, I had never thought about the flip side of that, God is searching for us, longing for us.

Nouwen asks "The question is not "How am I to find God? but "How am I to let myself be found by him?" The question is not "How am I to know God?" but "How am I to let myself be known by God?" And, finally, the question is not "How am I to love God? but "How am I to let myself be loved by God?"

God searches for Adam and Eve, the lost sheep, finds the lost coin, eats with the sinners.

He is searching for US. 


In my experience, often what leads someone to the faith isn't as much reason, history, scripture, etc. but rather a longing.  That longing will never be filled unless God encounters that person. God seeks and finds them and calls them as His own. There really is no rhyme or reason on how Jesus seeks out others. It's random. There's no pattern that I see.  Some encounters take years, others happen in a flash (like Paul).  Backgrounds of people seem not to matter.

God can penetrate a harden heart.  


We still have to choose Him.  But if he encounters us, we have no choice but to embrace the encounter.  I've seen two instances of this.  A man I met once said he felt the Lord calling him specifically to my Church, he came for awhile, I haven't seen him in months (not so say he didn't encounter God and is doing something else). Another man said he had no choice but to come to my Church, he didn't want to be there, but he couldn't ignore it anymore. God encountered him and he couldn't deny it.

When God encounters us, we must listen, it may seem crazy, but God is crazy. He is crazy in love with us.

My new prayer. 


This reflection has taught me another way to pray to bring people to the faith.

Lord, search for my loved ones, those that are lost,  find them, encounter them. Amen.

My silly brain has a vision of a classroom where students are holding up their hands saying "pick me, pick me!"  I'm the teacher behind the student pointing to them and mouthing 'choose this one'.  How do we get Gods' attention so he may choose us? Hello God, I'm right here! Do you see me? This verse from Psalm may answer that question.

God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.  Psalm 53:2

God encounters us first so we can encounter Him for eternity.

How are you allowing God to find you, to know you, to love you?
How will you answer when God calls you by name and says 'where are you'?