Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

• The
  shepherds were in darkness when the “Glory of the Lord shone over them”
  and they were bathed in light. This made them fearful. In what ways are
  you still afraid to look at your abortion? What behaviors still have you
  locked in ? Are you still punishing yourself in some way?

• The
  angels told the shepherds “Don’t be afraid”, (which is echoed by Pope John
  Paul II in our day).They are told of the birth that will bring “joy to ALL
  the people”. Are beginning to look through the darkness of your abortion
  with Christ to a new full life. Do you think you are included in “ALL” the
  people?  If not, why? If so, what
  has changed for you that you can share with the others?

• We are
  told the shepherds left everything and went to Bethlehem, a movement of
  trust in spite of their fears, to “see what the Lord has told them”. Do
  you find yourself moving forward to spite your feelings as you are growing
  in knowledge of the dynamics of abortion and your relationship with God?
  Have you been able to identify any of your own abortion connectors and if
  so, how are you reacting differently to situations? People?

• In the
  humility of a child the shepherds recognized their salvation. He is not
  clothed in riches or in a palace, but found in a manger in poverty. Are
  you able to recognize the progress you have made even if it is not earth
  shattering.Can you see God at work in you in the little things and trust
  Him with your healing knowing He will heal you. Are you
  relinquishing control to God even though it is frightening to you as a
  post abortive person? Do you ask for help in your struggles from God and
  others who understand what you are going through?

• Mary
  remembered all these things and thought deeply about them. She recognized
  God’s greatness in spite of  what
  she saw and whatever struggles she had gone through to give birth to
  Christ. Do ask her to help me to trust as she did and to lead me to Jesus?

•  The shepherds went back “singing praises
  to God for all they had heard and seen”. We often become hung up in our
  post abortive thinking and base our lives on emotions rather than reality.
  Do you thank Him for everything, even the pain of healing, knowing He
  loves you? Do you “sing praises for all you have seen and heard?”

“It had been just as
the angel had told them.”

May we, like the
shepherds, seek out and find Christ in the poverty of our hearts this
Christmas.