And it becomes so easy once convinced that this lie is truth to discount all other life truths and moral values once life itself is deemed worthless.
I was wearing today a button pinned to my bright pink jacket that reads: PRAY FOR ABORTION TO END!"
At a Graduation lunch in a New Orleans Catholic Parish the Sunday following Father's Day 2013...I was astounded the responses I received & conversation it spawned.
I expect this kind of confrontation if & wear it to the grocery store but not to Catholic Holy Mass & to a party of Catholic Families at a Catholic Church.
I was told that "Even if I personally would not abort my child, I don't have the right nor do you have right to suggest to others what they should do!"
Well is preaching & teaching the Holy Gospel suggesting to folks a better way to live???
And so this statement contradicts the entire life of a christian for we are called to always live by the Holy Scriptures that say: "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so!"
Let HIS life, HIS joy, HIS mercy which endures forever never cease from parting from our lips!
We are to be imitators of God who calls each by name and who speaks good things into being at all times....
We are to like God embracing all that befalls us with great FAITH...speaking hope to the hopeless and life into the dead!
I pray you see this contradiction that we all plainly see and hear all over where ever we go...
Maybe you never thought of in this perspective.
Every person has value....
Every person has ability to bring positive change in their own life and the lives of many but only after you or I convince one who thinks he or she is "Never Needed" that he or she has gifts valuable to share.
When you & I encourage anyone who is blue to step out and be a voice to another who is still stagnant in the old shoes that you yourself once wore...
Try inviting such a person to join you one day on a mission...whether to join you as you visit an old folks nursing home where residents are always hungry for love...or an orphanage where children have been left & forgotten...
Certainly when anyone who mistakenly thinks they have no value enters such a place and greets kindly one of these...
The love that will immediately be exchanged will transform the mind and heart who had so erroneously believed that he or she could not ever have purpose to realize that everyone can make a difference...
Some just need an invitation in order to see how!
Every person has value....
Every person has ability to bring positive change in their own life and the lives of many but only after you or I convince one who thinks he or she is "Never Needed" that he or she has gifts valuable to share.
When you & I encourage anyone who is blue to step out and be a voice to another who is still stagnant in the old shoes that you yourself once wore...
Try inviting such a person to join you one day on a mission...whether to join you as you visit an old folks nursing home where residents are always hungry for love...or an orphanage where children have been left & forgotten...
Certainly when anyone who mistakenly thinks they have no value enters such a place and greets kindly one of these...
The love that will immediately be exchanged will transform the mind and heart who had so erroneously believed that he or she could not ever have purpose to realize that everyone can make a difference...
Some just need an invitation in order to see how!
Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1144
Ponchatoula, LA 70454
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