At our last Legion of Mary Curia meeting, one of our members brought with her a poem written by a young girl she used to baby-sit who I’m told is pretty seriously mentally challenged or developmentally disabled somehow. The girl was 16 or 17 years old when she wrote it and she told my friend that she wouldn’t mind if … Read More
Babies: the Movie!
This. Looks. FABULOUS! A movie celebrating the gift of life around the world. How cute are these babies?! h/t ProWomanProLife
Abortion is NOT Good or Loving
In a new ad campaign Northland Family Planning Centers of Michigan touts the “essential goodness of our work” and encourages women to feel good about choosing to end the life of their unborn child (h/t Creative Minority Report). This is diabolical: Despite abortion being a legal “procedure” for over 35 years and and relatively normalized in our society (based on … Read More
What a Difference a Week Makes!
Thank God for this misunderstanding! 1 year old Jaslyn Barnett is alive today because before she was born doctors thought she was at 23 weeks. Had the doctors known then that she was only at 22 weeks, according to Jaslyn’s mother, they would have done little to help her: “So because the ultrasound came back that I was actually a … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Suffering as a Gift from God
This is an excellent article from Steve Pokorny at Catholic Exchange. A bit of an intro: Throughout human history, since Adam and Eve, there has been the temptation to want to take the powers of life into our own hands. There is the insidious idea that is floated through our fallible minds that if we manipulate things to our liking, … Read More
Time is a Treasure
This sort of goes with my last post: “Time is a treasure that melts away. It escapes from us, slipping through our fingers like water through the mountain rocks. Tomorrow will soon be another yesterday. Our lives are so very short. Yesterday has gone and today is passing by. But what a great deal can be done for the love … Read More