Tag: Life

A Different Way of Living

If there were a magic pill or drug that lengthened your lifespan by eight or nine years, increased your salary by about $15,000 a year, and decreased your chances of ever being divorced from your spouse or estranged from your children, would you be...

To Be Pro-Life in Every Aspect of Our Lives

In 1989 a Christian relief organization named World Vision began an assistance project in the African nation of Ethiopia, building an irrigation system for the impoverished residents of a remote, arid valley.ย The relief workers had to contend not...

It is Not Hard to Find the Truth

One day a man stopped by an apartment building to visit a long-time friend of his, an older woman named Mabel who was a music teacher.ย He greeted her by saying, โ€œHey, Mabel, whatโ€™s the good news today?โ€ย Mabel stood up, silently walked across the...

How Much He Loves Us

Science has proven convincingly how newborn babies, especially those thrust out of the warm coziness of the womb prematurely, need plenty of physical love-filled touching in order to live and to thrive.  I find all this fascinating...

The Fabricated Separation Between Pro-Life and Pro-Family

In an article appearing February 4th 2020, Kyleen Wright, President of Texans for Life, uses the term โ€œpro-lifeโ€ to embrace a position that is emphatically not pro-life.ย Her analysis typifies much of the discourse regarding the appropriateness of...

God’s Wish for Us

Whether we are willing to admit it or not, death is that very mysterious and inescapable reality which, from time to time, gives us pause.ย Actually, it can be so scary that we might want to put off any reflection on it. Why is it so?ย God made us for...

May Wisdom Be Ours

Our first reading for this Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time says, โ€œGod did not make death — He fashioned all things that they might have being.โ€ (Wisdom 1:13-14) Life is a free gift given to us by our Creator God; a gift to be enjoyed...

The Most Beautiful Teaching Torn Asunder

The Lord is beautiful in all His ways. Everything that he does is perfect beyond the imagination of anyone. As He tells us: โ€œFor My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways . . . for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are...