Category: openness to life

Was It “Luck”, Or Was It the Lord?

July 15, 2024

church history, culture of death, Family, heaven, openness to life, supplication/petition

My car ditched the road for the ditch full of muck
It flopped on its side
I hollered, “O, yuck!”
Along came a dude in a big ol’ tow truck…
Was it “luck”… or was it the Lord?

I searched high and low for job for a year
With kids rarely full
And spouse full of fear
Then cheering us grandly, an offer appeared
“Lucky stars”… or the “Bright Morning Star”? (Revelation 22:16)

My phone my companion; long time since last hug
My joy was in “sleep mode”
My hopes were “unplugged”
An old friend surprised and embraced me, heart tugged
Was it “fate”… or a gift from afar?

The prenatal test showed that something was wrong
The doc said “abort”
The child “wouldn’t live long”
But our kid turned out healthy, vivacious and strong

Call it “chance”?... “Happenstance”?

Not a chance…

Each child is a dream given flesh...

Redeemed and predestined to dance in that heavenly throng

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Sometimes Love Needs A Brand New Name

March 20, 2024

Family, openness to life, theology

The Father loves His Son with love that’s total, fruitful, free

The Son then loves His Father just the same

The Love that’s shared between them’s bearing fruit, unceasingly (1)

So personal, that this Love IS a Person

“Spirit” by name

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The Bridegroom loves His Bride with love that’s total, fruitful, free

Christ draws His Bride to love Him just the same

His Love bears fruit and grants a brand new name: God’s “Son” or “Daughter”

When Blood and Water both “rebirth” and wash

One’s sin and shame

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A husband’s call: to love his wife as Jesus loves His Bride (2)

With love that’s total, faithful, fruitful, free

Their love bears many kinds of fruit, and sometimes, if God wills

Nine months will bring the need to give their love

A brand new name (3)

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(1) Romans 5:5

(2) Ephesians 5

(3) Scott Hahn

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Be Fruitful & Multiply (Haiku: 5-7-5 syllables)

June 24, 2013

openness to life

June 24, 2013

Jesus loves children
“Let [them] come to me…” He says
“…Do not hinder them” (Mk.10:14)

*He creates children
Not just for this short earth age
But for Ageless Life

*God’s Married couples:
God’s chosen means to fill up
His heavenly house

*Various “ism”s
Influence priorities
And children’s ranking

*Consumerism
More cars, clothes, college, clutter
Aren’t always needed

*Third world families
Bigger, poorer, happier
Than those in the West

*But are they “poorer”?
Who can measure a child’s worth?
Each one a treasure

*Scripture makes it clear
“Blessed… those with quivers full” (Ps.127)
Of quivering kids

* “Be fruitful”, says God
In Genesis- and today-
Babies are blessings

* “Husbands love your wives…”
“…as Christ loved the Church”, His Bride (Eph.5:25)
He gave everything

*Family planning
Weighing various factors

“Seek the mind of Christ” (1Cor.2:16)

* “Openness to life”
And Christian “fruitfulness”, both
Take various forms

*Also “fruitfulness”:
Fostering and adopting
Children are waiting

*Has one “closed the door”?
Reversals are an option
To discern in prayer

*The root of the word
“Generous” is “generate”
There’s a connection

*Generous Father
Give all more generous hearts
For fruitfulness

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Be Open to Life

April 29, 2013

openness to life

Just who is the author of life on this earth?

Our God dreams up children and brings them to birth

“Let’s wait to have kids” But why wait? Is that love?

God longs to fill heaven with souls up above

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“You can’t take it with you” (well, children excepting)

So open your heart to God’s Will- be accepting!

IF well-grounded reasons for waiting are found

Use N.F.P. methods! They’re morally sound

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Each month, reassess and discuss with your mate:

“How can we be freed from this reason to wait?”

Keep asking each other and God in deep pray’r

The Lord who moves mountains will show you His care

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Yes! N.F.P. works, if it’s properly used

Stressed? Pray! And your souls soon will be grace- suffused

Quest? Seeking Christ’s will, “letting Him be in charge, Hon!”

Nest? Jesus may open your heart to a large one

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Blessed? Virtues, self-sacrifice, grow in big portions

Safe? Yes, unlike pills, IUDs, and abortions

Zest? Blooms because sacrifice proves love to spouse

Best? Kids will your joy and your holiness rouse

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I must -confess -this is -no jest

Folks do -profess -they are -so blessed

When they -embrace -this time -ly grace

His plans -some times -their plans -displace

“Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” (Jesus, Mk.10:14)

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Censored Epidemic: A Hidden Holocaust

January 2, 2013

openness to life

The top cause of death in our country today

Not anything W.H.O. may now say

But there are a few folks who do know the fact

[It’s censored], the commonmost violent act

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The deathtoll throughout the whole world every day

Will never be seen in the news- nope, no way!

The scope of [it’s censored] is HUGE, I’ve assessed

Before I reveal, why don’t you take a guess

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[It’s censored] kills daily a hundred and twenty

Now add three more zeros, yes, so very many (1)

And this does not count unseen victims that die

Through hormonal drugs found in ready supply (2)

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But what about stats in the U.S. of A.

[It’s censored] snuffs thousands of lives every day

A holocaust hidden from cam’ras and news

The fruit of the lust those same cam’ras enthuse

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Christ calls us to speak up for those with no voice

To challenge with prudence and love the “pro-choice”

Do we understand that this “choice”, it destroys

With violence and blood, little girls, little boys

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The tools “doctors” use would make anyone shudder

Blades cutting, dismemb’ring; small hearts stop their flutter

And whether they feel it or not, does it matter?

God’s children are murdered; our hearts, do they shatter?

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Besides these small victims, their fathers and mothers

Are victims as well! For their love this choice smothers

Through couns’ling and prayer, Jesus heals their raw pain

Forgives all who ask Him, and wipes out their shame

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[It’s censored], “The greatest destroyer of peace”

Says Mother Teresa! But when will it cease?

Just what can abolish this heinous, child-killing

Which lines greedy pockets with many a schilling

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Lord, how can we help the unborn in their plight

Evangelization is key in the fight

Without knowing Christ and his love, joy, and peace

Society molds us and [censored]s increase

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“But won’t contraception reduce this sad killing?”

No; studies have shown that it makes folks more willing

For condoms and pills can throw gas on the flame

Encouraging unmarried sex without shame

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Because it’s so easy to get contraception

Adultery spikes, then divorce and deception

Next, poverty follows, more fatherless youth

Demand for [it’s censored] then grows, that’s the truth!

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[It’s censored] is sought e’en by folks “on the fence”

When birth control fails, [censored] seems to make sense

This “choice” is made often with pressure from men

Who use and abuse… and then pressure again

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The teachings of Christ which His Church is proclaiming

Are antidotes sure to this too-frequent maiming

Pope Paul’s famous document,“Of Human Life”(3)

Unmasks many lies, changes minds, halts the knife

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Saint Mother Teresa was never afraid

To speak up for life, her conviction conveyed

She challenges us, as does many-a pope

To pray before Christ in the Eucharist- our Hope

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The cure for [it’s censored] is penance and prayer

In visits to Christ in the Host, which is where

His Beating Heart waits for us; always He’s there

Such visits, and Masses, melt hearts that don’t care

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We mustn’t neglect heartfelt prayer to our Mary

The Patroness of the unborn mothers carry

Our heavenly Queen’s intercession we plead

Her pray’rs vanquish Satan who strives to mislead

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But pray’r must not ever become an excuse

To loaf in the comforts of home, which seduce

Our hands, voices, voting must protest this killing

“The least of [Christ’s] brethren” cry out! Are we willing?

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So let’s start up groups at our churches and schools

To educate folks (who may think we are fools)

To pray and speak lovingly at [censored] centers

Remembering always… it’s Jesus who enters

(1)Guttmacher Institute’s “Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide” reports 43,800,000 abortions worldwide in 2008; to determine the average daily abortion rate (120,000), this number was divided by 365

(2)Like the pill, patch, etc.

(3) Humanae Vitae

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Category: openness to life

Was It “Luck”, Or Was It the Lord?

Sometimes Love Needs A Brand New Name

Be Fruitful & Multiply (Haiku: 5-7-5 syllables)

Be Open to Life

Censored Epidemic: A Hidden Holocaust