Choosing Life

(me as a baby!)

Our first home is in the Lord's house, and in turn after birth God asks for a home in each of us. My dad sends me daily scriptures in the mail. I receive them almost every day, and it's my favorite part of opening the mailbox. Usually it is my only piece of personal mail. Sometimes he writes a quote from the bible on the back of the envelope and I imagine a postal worker reading it, and wondering over it. Stamped on the 19th of May, dad wrote "The Lord knows you and seeks to have a relationship with you. He examines your attitude toward him. Faith is the key to our answer back to God. Allowing Christ to dwell in us and be our guide back to him." This passage sparked my blog today. We lived in God's house and he lives in us during our time on earth, so that he can help us to find our way back home.

Our second home is in our mother's womb. This is the most sacred of all homes we will live in on earth. A mother's womb should be safe, comforting, and the beginning of an understanding that we are loved and cared for. In today's world for many little spirits this is not the case. Activists have waged war on the womb, causing 1/3 of my generation to perish for being unwanted, like a gift someone didn't want to receive and instead of re-gifting it she throws it away. Catholicvote.org has recently been creating these videos entitled Life...Imagine the Potential. They are inspiring, and hopefully will sing with a loud voice. It is our duty to protect the house of the unborn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBZ-kJ6XAc

Our first home on earth is in our mother's womb.

My grandmother's mother found herself pregnant with my grandmother at 17 years old in the 30s. At that time it was very unacceptable to be an unwed mother,much more so than even today. I'm sure she was very much afraid of the child inside her. Still, she chose life and gave birth to my grandmother in mid January. My grandmother was then adopted from an orphanage into a loving home. I think about all of the people who wouldn't be here today if that woman so many years ago had aborted her baby. My mother, her siblings, my siblings, myself, my cousins, our future children are all here because ONE woman CHOSE LIFE.