Stacy, our litany includes the names of the six very little ones we lost to miscarriage. The adoption of our daughter eased the pain of loss but the scars had their effect...and COVID ripped us apart.
Monica, Madeline, Emily Ann, Miriam Rosa, Oliva Marie, and James Clarence...pray for us!
Love this. Whenever a child is lost there is a missing. We don’t always know what it is and we all deal with that loss differently. As a post abortive woman (I am just recently able to say that🙏🏻) the loss was the deepest after I had healed some and could understand the existence of my child separate from my personal shame and guilt. I can imagine this is is what a woman feels after a miscarriage. It is a mourning like no other.
I have been thinking lately about all of the parents who have used IVF and the healing that will one day be needed. And what would that look like? Being forgiven and coming to terms with possibly having 10+ IVF abortions… it’s a very heavy thought. And Catholics are not immune to this lie of IVF. They are scared, desperate… they believe it will make it all better.
How well the enemy plays on our emotions and weaknesses to wound us so we give up and reject God.
This is a keeper. To be shared often. Thank you. It feels like anti IVF puts us in a smaller group than anti abortion and anti euthanasia people. The groups, of course should all be of equal size…life is sacred from conception to natural deaths. No exceptions because, as you say eloquently here, we don’t own anyone. We are all gifts from God.
It is a gift to be able to make more people and God really does mature us as we parent and see He still has more to teach us about being a child of God. His wisdom is beyond searching out Rom 11:33, thanks for bringing a difficult issue to the light.
Stacy, our litany includes the names of the six very little ones we lost to miscarriage. The adoption of our daughter eased the pain of loss but the scars had their effect...and COVID ripped us apart.
Monica, Madeline, Emily Ann, Miriam Rosa, Oliva Marie, and James Clarence...pray for us!
Love this. Whenever a child is lost there is a missing. We don’t always know what it is and we all deal with that loss differently. As a post abortive woman (I am just recently able to say that🙏🏻) the loss was the deepest after I had healed some and could understand the existence of my child separate from my personal shame and guilt. I can imagine this is is what a woman feels after a miscarriage. It is a mourning like no other.
I have been thinking lately about all of the parents who have used IVF and the healing that will one day be needed. And what would that look like? Being forgiven and coming to terms with possibly having 10+ IVF abortions… it’s a very heavy thought. And Catholics are not immune to this lie of IVF. They are scared, desperate… they believe it will make it all better.
How well the enemy plays on our emotions and weaknesses to wound us so we give up and reject God.
So many thoughts about this….
This is a keeper. To be shared often. Thank you. It feels like anti IVF puts us in a smaller group than anti abortion and anti euthanasia people. The groups, of course should all be of equal size…life is sacred from conception to natural deaths. No exceptions because, as you say eloquently here, we don’t own anyone. We are all gifts from God.
It is a gift to be able to make more people and God really does mature us as we parent and see He still has more to teach us about being a child of God. His wisdom is beyond searching out Rom 11:33, thanks for bringing a difficult issue to the light.
You might like Elizabeth Harman’s Uehiro lectures! (She discusses love for foetuses, though she draws a rather different set of conclusions https://youtu.be/qMicnyyH8xI?si=F5-jI0tJp_us6U_j)