...................................Prayer...................................
 

Dear Lord,

I am deeply sorry for having offended Thee.  Please forgive me for all of my sins; especially for the things that I didn't do and those sins committed in ignorance.  May I grow more aware of and have a deeper understanding of Your plan for my life.

Amen.

Previous Thoughts Index

...Abortion

I truly didn't think much about abortion growing up and only gave it an occasional thought as I matured.  I didn't understand the horror nor the significance of Roe v. Wade for the simple reason that it was never mentioned in our house, at my Catholic school nor at the Evangelical Christian high school that I attended.  I'm ashamed to admit that as a young married woman, I never took a firm verbal stand against it if was mentioned in conversation.  I'm not even sure that I really thought at that time that it was wrong...desensitized due to the media and disconnected due to the lack of any personal information about it...I truly was not close to anyone that actually had an abortion.  Thank God!  It was only after rediscovering and reclaiming my Catholic Faith and I read that the Pill was, in fact, an abortifacient that it hit home.  I had taken the Pill for the first 6 months, in my first marriage.

Abortion became a personal issue again after I gave birth to Quinn.  Several people, after learning of him being born with Trisomy 21, questioned me, "Didn't you have an amniocentesis?  Why not?"

And so, with my own sons, we talk about the sadness and horror of abortion and because they have a precious little brother who society thinks shouldn't have even been born...I pray that they grow up, unlike their mother, very aware.