Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Passion: A powerful emotion; ardent love; an abandoned
display of emotion; intense driving or overpowering feeling or emotion

I know God loves me! It is not something only in my head, it
is internalized. A belief I know is true in the core of my being. There is
nothing better!

 The amazing thing is that He chose to reveal this truth to
me at the same time that I learned about the depth of my own misery. When I
honestly faced my abortion and the sinful life I had been living at the time.

 This deep truth and knowledge of His love have been life
altering. It has turned me from someone timid and shy, to someone willing to
speak out about her worse sin. It has given me the courage to stand up to
adversity. It has given me the ability to forgive even when the pain is deep.
In it I find perseverance to do this work and the willingness to suffer for
others.

 I don’t always succeed in my desires to serve God. In my
human weakness, I fail a lot and when I do manage to succeed I know my ability is
in itself a gift from God. But, I also know despite my failings He is still passionately in love with me and
forgives me if I am repentant.

 It takes deep love to heal deep wounds. It takes “passion”. Christ’s Passion. Once internalized His  “passion” changes us forever because we
act on His truths, not our own, and we are filled with confidence because we
know what He has done for us, not two thousand 
years ago, but right here, right now.

 I pray this Lenten season to be emptied of self so that I may
love Jesus “passionately” with His
love…I pray the same for each of you.

May you have a blessed Lent.

(reprinted from 2006 newsletter)