How I had yearned with each month to be pregnant after we married on August 3, 1978. It took 7 long months for it to happen, and in that time I had learned to do NFP charting to use reversely... I wanted to be pregnant and not prevent!
We never used it to prevent, and the charts became a habit for me... I have my entire fertile years charted minus the first few months, and each one is filled with hope for another pregnancy/child. Much journaling sharing the joys and the horrific pains of loss! So many prayers in between the lines and the temps and the mucus!
http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/my-most-cherished-cross-patrick-gerard.html
If you take the time to read the sharing on our fertility years... you will discover that I have always had a very deep sense of the beauty of LIFE and had trouble in even preventing with natural means. I had such a profound sense of God's work in my life and felt so deeply that I would never get in the way of a LIFE... whether it be with me here on earth or waiting for me in heaven!
Ruth, as is true of all our children, has followed our example of being open to life and raising lights! She has also been led deeper by her own history of rupturing her uterus on her attempting to Vback on her second child, Mary. She was told no more children, and after getting a second opinion from the surgeon, who saved her uterus.. she was told to wait a good year to allow things to heal. She then went to learn Creighton Model NFP, and then went on to become a Creighton Model Instructor! Helping women to use natural means to wait or work on infertility...
https://www.creightonmodel.com/
http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/now-stories-of-johns-4-sistersruth.html
I love to imagine the 7 siblings all around them, which they truly are in Spirit! Who could ever call those innocent souls evil? Just as Jesus was outraged today in the Gospel when they called him possessed of an evil spirit, so it is unfathomable that the innocent that are lost naturally or killed through abortion could be anything but sweet innocent LIFE! I know that they are forever with Jesus, Mary and the Saints! They keep our eyes on heaven!
Today is the 45 anniversary of the legalization of abortion... millions of shining lights/lives have been lost, and millions of women hurt and broken and misled to think that they have a right to take that innocent life within them to make life easier/to erase a mistake. How did it ever come to this point? I am saddened and sick by the whole mess!
John and I prayed at breakfast as did Pat and I at morning prayer... to end this horrible massacre of life in the name of having a right to choose! We asked our little ones in heaven at the foot of Jesus by name... Christopher, Thomas, Joseph, Paul, William, Robert, Mary, Hector, Ida, Peter and Maximilian to intercede and end the taking of innocent life! God is the only one that can take a life, where did it ever come to being our right? From conception we have a God given right to LIFE!
Dearest Lord!!! I know that my hero for LIFE, marriage and family, Saint John Paul II, is working hard from heaven to save LIFE and end the horror of killing the innocents in the womb! I also know that St Teresa of Calcutta is showering down much graces and Truth to end the lies of Satan that are misleading so many down the wide path to death! The Saints are rallying and fighting hard to end this culture of death that has filled our country. May your LIGHT shine into the darkness and may LIFE be valued from conception to natural death. Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Hallelujah
There they stand... Saints in heaven and at work to save all LIFE!
MOTHER TERESA’S 15 TIPS TO HELP YOU BECOME MORE HUMBLE
1. Speak as little as possible about yourself.
2. Keep busy with your own affairs and not those of others....
3. Avoid curiosity (she is referring to wanting to know things that should not concern you.)
4. Do not interfere in the affairs of others.
5. Accept small irritations with good humor.
6. Do not dwell on the faults of others.
7. Accept censures even if unmerited.
8. Give in to the will of others.
9. Accept insults and injuries.
10. Accept contempt, being forgotten and disregarded.
11. Be courteous and delicate even when provoked by someone.
12. Do not seek to be admired and loved.
13. Do not protect yourself behind your own dignity.
14. Give in, in discussions, even when you are right.
15. Choose always the more difficult task.
1. Speak as little as possible about yourself.
2. Keep busy with your own affairs and not those of others....
3. Avoid curiosity (she is referring to wanting to know things that should not concern you.)
4. Do not interfere in the affairs of others.
5. Accept small irritations with good humor.
6. Do not dwell on the faults of others.
7. Accept censures even if unmerited.
8. Give in to the will of others.
9. Accept insults and injuries.
10. Accept contempt, being forgotten and disregarded.
11. Be courteous and delicate even when provoked by someone.
12. Do not seek to be admired and loved.
13. Do not protect yourself behind your own dignity.
14. Give in, in discussions, even when you are right.
15. Choose always the more difficult task.
These are also shared in the Litany of Humility!
I am yours, Lord, may we save a life one at a time! Working for Birthright... we work one on one with the girls!
#Today we pray for all victims of #abortion, especially the 60+ million babies in the U.S. aborted since 1973 and the tens of millions worldwide who die each day. We also pray for healing for women who have had abortions and those contemplating it. #prolife #whywemarch #defundPP
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