“Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been’.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
It Might Have Been
- 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.
Here’s another soul who’s broken hearted because of the choices that he made when he was younger. I heard this repeated yesterday on Relevant Radio;
https://aleteia.org/2019/05/18/the-moving-poem-a-repentant-italian-playboy-wrote-for-the-son-he-had-aborted
Hopefully this song will be arranged for hip hop and Gospel music. Just might save some black babies’ lives.
A plug for WMAL 105.9 near Washington DC. This station has four conservative daytime hosts, Larry O’Connor, Chris Plante, Dan Bongino, Vince Coglianese. During shows each host reads an ad for supporting Pre Born which provides sonograph machines to pro-life pregnancy centers. A mother hearing the sound of her baby’s heart beats can often change a mother’s choice from abortion to letting her baby live to full term. Incidentally all hosts are Catholics. Two night time show hosts both Jewish, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro, also read the Pre-Born ad.
Philip thanks for the link. The Italian playboy is now 80 and childless. His quote from an interview, “I think that children are the only true wealth that a man can give the world. You can give good movies, beautiful poetry, money, whatever you want, but I believe that giving a child is the most beautiful thing a man can do.”,
Amen CAM.
He is right.
“I wish I had wanted you, that time when I didn’t want you …”
Wow! Andrea Roncato wrote a powerful poem.
Sorry Don for posting this on here- I didn’t know how else to share:
Please pray for this brave mum of five – Dr Joanna Howe. She is a law professor – a Rhodes Scholar- who resides in Adelaide Australia who is being harassed and persecuted at the University she works at for her pro-life work.
Rita Panahi had her in her Sky News show recently:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8rBp8jvUtE/?igsh=ZmwzeDRrb3R1eDBs