Week 3 In Review (Oct 10 - Oct 16) by Barb

We've had a number of clergy-led prayer vigils during the past week.  We have pictures of these posted on our Facebook (look for 40 Days for Life Southfield and "like" us); We also have some posted to our website (but it's easier to upload to Facebook).

I received a lesson in how to pray from a young family who came out yesterday.  Marie brought her six children to Womancare and the older ones led us in the Divine Mercy Chaplet.  Plus she told me about Praise God prayer and how that should be our first words to the Lord.  My habit in prayer has been to kind of lay down my list of needs to Him and ask Him to take care of them.  However, we should be grateful for His abundant blessings in our lives and honor Him because He is God (and a good One at that).  The false "gods" of our culture are not good and cause a great deal of human misery.  But we are blessed with His peace when we give Him honor and praise.

While I was praying there last Sunday, a woman stopped by and asked if I had ever been in a prison.  She explained that some people would have been better off if they had not been born, since they had such lousy parents and drifted into a life of crime and now were in the pen, languishing, etc.  I suggested that perhaps we should ask these inmates if they would like to die.  She said, of course not.  Why not?  As anyone who watches the police shows on TV knows, you can get anything you want in prison.  I'm sure you could get euthanized.
I wonder why so many people think that killing off "problem" people is a solution.  And she never got the irony of us executing innocent babies who might grow up poorly.
Taking human life is never a solution to social problems, it just causes more.  Abortion is an excellent example.  The justification for it was - every child wanted and loved - yet our children feel unwanted and unloved and many suffer from abuse, physical, sexual or psychological.  Far more than before abortion became legal.  I wonder how long it will take for the social scientists to figure this out.