The Good That We Do Echoes in Time and in Eternity
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I’m waiting for those Twitter trends to do the rounds that says “I wish my mum aborted me”. Somehow I don’t think that is going to happen.
I think the above post is appreciated by more people than the author realises. Choosing life os never a regrettable choice.
I was once in a discussion group that brought abortion rights and pro-life people together for respectful discussion. A woman there, an abortion rights supporter, said her natural father had left her mother before she was born, and that her mother considered abortion. She said that was alright with her, because “she would have come into existance some other way”. She was Episcopalian, and somehow had come to believe that souls, conciousness, etc existed before birth. She was very insistent on this, and wouldn’t be dissuaded.
Similarly:
‘He was the biggest miracle’
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/tim-tebow-mom/77-9d258dfe-32e9-41c1-a68b-93606ceebbb4
She said that was alright with her, because “she would have come into existance some other way”.
Interesting. She had an opportunity to state her case in that discussion because her mother chose to have her. It’s interesting that she couldn’t admit that. Pride really does make one stupid.
A wonderful message: “the good that we do echoes in time in eternity.”
And, Deo gratias , even should we participate in evil, hopefully not, but we can spend the rest of our lives correcting it and amending our lives by penance and other well-known Catholic means of doing one’s best at cooperating with grace in restoring things (e.g. Alessandro Serenelli, S. Maria Goretti)
Imagine the self hate that a would be grandmothers holds onto, due to their insistence that their once pregnant daughter must abort the child due to poor timing. Imagine the daughter never being able to have her own baby because of complications due to her abortion. Imagine that lonely nursing home for that aged would be grandmother. Her watching the great grandchildren of other residents parading around giving smiles to all present, except that one elderly lady, who frowns in self-hate.
If only she could of persuaded her daughter to choose Life.
Your influence has great potential on neighbors. Never stop giving hope to the hopeless. Politics and religion.
Two subjects, with love in the heart, that we must speak openly about if we are to finish St. Paul’s race as a champion.
The world loves it when you never bring up politics or religion. Just look around and witness the ramifications of 50 years of silence.