34 more days

 began this last week.  I hope you pray and fast to stop abortions in our country and around the world.  

“The poor expose their children, the rich kill the fruit of their own bodies in the womb, lest their property be divided up, and they destroy their own children in the womb with murderous poisons, and before life has been passed on, it is annihilated.” 

St. Ambrose exposes the selfishness of abortion.  Lest their property be divided up.  wow.  Lest my plans be thwarted.  Lest I be embarrass my family.  Lord, have mercy.  Christ, have mercy.  Lord, have mercy. 

Christ does have mercy.  He offers life to any who call on his name and repent.  Let’s remember and proclaim that as we pray for any girl considering an abortion, the doctors who abort babies, and those who violently condemn abortion.

e.e. cummings makes me happy

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands