22 Aug One, Two, Three More Souls (Psalm 23:6) by Deborah
Welcome God now with this LIFE Group Devotion (FB), provided by LIFE Runners (FB). Leaders. Guest Authors.
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“Only goodness and kindness will follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for years to come.” ~ Psalm 23:6 (full readings)
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Deborah’s Reflections: In Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, future parents wanting to adopt pray the rosary on the side walk in front of the abortion mills. The founder of Holy Family Adoption Agency, Mary Ball, does sidewalk counseling encouraging the women who are entering the clinics to consider giving their baby up for adoption. Some of the adoptee parents try to talk to the women entering the abortion mills, pleading to adopt their children. Mary, these parents and other sidewalk counselors offer the loving alternative of adoption to women who think they have no choice. By God’s providence, our family was connected with these heroes seven years ago. My husband and I had two children, 11 and 14, when I realized we were missing souls around our dinner table. My husband was not open to adopting children at first but he was open to praying about it. At Mass that Advent season our priest spoke about committing prayer time in benediction. My husband and I decided to pray each week in front of the Blessed Sacrament asking the Lord if we could adopt a child. With His great blessing, the help of Holy Family Adoption Agency and Mary Ball, and a birth mother courageous enough to consider adoption, Michaela was born in September and has been a huge gift to us. The whole adoption cost was less than $800.00. Since then, with the help of homeopathy, we have been able to add two more souls to our family. Michaela is now 6, Philomena is 5, and Gabriel is 3. We are thankful for all of our children, including Michaela, our pro-life baby, whose mother chose life.
* Deborah Wiersma is a mother of five, a proponent of adoption and holds a graduate degree in counseling psychology.
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Faith Challenge: Support and pray for the work of private adoption apostolates such as Holy Family Adoption Agency in St. Paul, MN, whichs help couples who are not able to have children adopt babies from women who are in crisis pregnancies.
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Counter-Culture News: LSN, LifeNews, Priests for Life, AFA,Vatican, Project Rachel.
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Our Prayers: Prayer to end abortion. LIFE Runners Creed. Add Prayers. Pray with meals, bedtime, wake up, etc. Consider mid-week Family Rosary (17 min). Let’s pray now.
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Feast Day: Queenship of Mary.
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Faith Quote: “Let the entire body of the faithful pour forth persevering prayer to the Mother of God and Mother of men.” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 69).
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Through Christ our Lord,
Deborah
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* Pray/Fast: Prayer connects us with God’s will and His miracles, changing us & helping others. Fast from things that take your eyes off Jesus. Those who pray together stay together, and close to God!
* Save Unborn (and families): Abortion (images) is #1 death cause (22% pregnancies). Prov 24:11 and Jer 1:5. “A great poverty that a child must die that you might live as you wish.” Mother Teresa.
* Evangelize: Make room for unbelievers and re-evangelization of self, by way of prayer (relationship) and following Christ’s example of love (service/sacrifice/mercy). Matt 28:19.