Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

"The love that triumphs does not run from the Garden of betrayal,
nor escape from the verbal scourging. It does not dispense with the
crown of mental anguish, nor resist the purple robe of mockery. The
love that triumphs takes up the heavy load, and walks each step under
the crushing weight of trial. It does not run away from the Mount of
Abandonment, but rather mounts the Cross. The love that triumphs
receives the nails of anger, the thorns of jeers, and embraces the
harsh wood of misunderstanding. It does not hang upon the beams of
humiliation for only a minute, or even an hour… but endures the poverty
of the moment until the bitter end—drinking the gall it is offered,
enduring the rejection of its company, and the injustice of it
all—until the heart itself is pierced with the wound of love."