Last
week was a week of vacation in the sun, sand, and warm water.
Yesterday, I returned to 5 inches of snow on the ground. God has a
plan.
39 years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United
States of America stripped the states of the right to criminalize
abortion on demand. The hundreds of thousands of pre-born children who
have been aborted since then will never see a sunset, or (look to the
right in the photo) a storm squall on the ocean, or towering
cumulonimbus clouds pouring forth their rain. Those children will never
sit and watch billowy white clouds form the shapes of animals in the
sky, or feel the strain of the tide pulling sand between their toes at
the beach, or feel the warmth of the sun across their cheeks and
forehead. Nor will they ever wonder at the beauty of newfallen white
snow, or feel the cool brisk winter wind on their forehead, or look up
at the icy clouds that hang high in the winter sky.
Abortion has stolen the beauty and wonder of life on Earth from them.
In my years as a priest I have listened to, and held, couples as they
cried and told me how long they've been waiting to adopt a child. I've
known many a couple who have spent their life savings to travel around
the world to adopt a child. At the same time, I have held women who
trembled and wept as they recounted their stories of abortions from
years ago, now wondering what their children would look like and sound
like, and missing the opportunity to answer the inevitable questions:
"Why is the sky blue?" or "What are clouds made of?" or "How big is the
ocean?"
Can't we see that God has a plan, and it is for life?
Not everyone can provide a loving home for a child, but for all who are
pregnant and unable to care for that child, there is a couple waiting
to adopt.
If ever you hear of a woman who is considering
abortion, do all in your power to talk her out of it and to give her
child to the Church. We will find a loving home for that child, and
provide a future for both the child and the mother.
The child
will giggle at the clouds and the seashore, marvel at the ocean and the
sky, and learn to fall on her or his knees to worship the God of life,
depending on His grace and providence every day. The mother will never
wonder if she made a mistake. Let the Church be Church and enable God’s
plan for life.
1/22/12
Msgr. William J. King
39 years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States of America stripped the states of the right to criminalize abortion on demand. The hundreds of thousands of pre-born children who have been aborted since then will never see a sunset, or (look to the right in the photo) a storm squall on the ocean, or towering cumulonimbus clouds pouring forth their rain. Those children will never sit and watch billowy white clouds form the shapes of animals in the sky, or feel the strain of the tide pulling sand between their toes at the beach, or feel the warmth of the sun across their cheeks and forehead. Nor will they ever wonder at the beauty of newfallen white snow, or feel the cool brisk winter wind on their forehead, or look up at the icy clouds that hang high in the winter sky.
Abortion has stolen the beauty and wonder of life on Earth from them.
In my years as a priest I have listened to, and held, couples as they cried and told me how long they've been waiting to adopt a child. I've known many a couple who have spent their life savings to travel around the world to adopt a child. At the same time, I have held women who trembled and wept as they recounted their stories of abortions from years ago, now wondering what their children would look like and sound like, and missing the opportunity to answer the inevitable questions: "Why is the sky blue?" or "What are clouds made of?" or "How big is the ocean?"
Can't we see that God has a plan, and it is for life?
Not everyone can provide a loving home for a child, but for all who are pregnant and unable to care for that child, there is a couple waiting to adopt.
If ever you hear of a woman who is considering abortion, do all in your power to talk her out of it and to give her child to the Church. We will find a loving home for that child, and provide a future for both the child and the mother.
The child will giggle at the clouds and the seashore, marvel at the ocean and the sky, and learn to fall on her or his knees to worship the God of life, depending on His grace and providence every day. The mother will never wonder if she made a mistake. Let the Church be Church and enable God’s plan for life.
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