At the heart of post-abortion healing is the cleansing of a wounded heart. The post-abortive parent must be free of shame, guilt, and grief before he or she can embrace the unborn child with love. Let us hope and pray that this rock star and Idol judge can make peace with his abortion loss and find forgiveness and reconciliation with God and his aborted son — and that he will then use his considerable talent and influence to call other post-abortive fathers to healing.
As it is, he was devastated. I wonder how many drunks are going to kill innocent people on American roads in the net 24 hrs. THAT is premeditated MURDER too!!!!!
When I guy admits he screwed up, reach out to him with compassion just as Christ told us the ‘Good’ Samaritan did way back when.
The first guy coming along the road was a priest. He was in a state of ritual purity at the moment ~ in full adherence to the law. He had to go on his way past the Samaritan lest he violate the law. He could help the man later, but not at that moment.
The next guy along was a Levite, also required to maintain a state of ritual purity and unable to help at that moment. He went ahead down the road. He might help the man later but not at that moment.
Finally, here comes the guy who is outside the law of the Jews ~ the Samaritan ~ and he helps the man.
We all know the rest of the story. No, the Samaritan is not Jesus ~ he is just a man ~ but he's a man who knows that when you sacrifice yourself on behalf of others, you do your best. That's why he pays for the man's care after taking him to a place of rest and safety.
This is just another recitation of the First Fruits Doctrine handed down since the beginning of time. Keeping the law and adhering to its rituals doesn't meet the standard.
When we come to abortion some of us are kept from doing what we must ~ save a life ~ by the law. Others because of our social status ~ who are we, after all, to challenge the great professors of the universities who know all there is to know about everything yet know nothing of love, but we don't challenge them.
Finally, we are put to the test ~ just what are we going to do. Are we going to put ourselves on the line and step around the law and take the risks and save the life.
As everyone knows more than half of those aborted each year would have been among the First Born. And yet we allow them to be murdered by the cannibals and butchers in our midst.
At some time we must put an end to the murder and we'll have to put our own lives, fortunes and sacred honor on the line to get it done.