Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

“Remember you are dust. From dust you come
and to dust you will return. Repent and believe the gospel.”

 I
have always considered these words to be striking, and to be honest, ones I did
not like to hear. Talk about a wake up call! A reminder of my vulnerability and
mortality, and the fact that this life will one day end, and my body will be
placed into the ground to decay.

 Each
year on Ash Wednesday these words echo in my head as the priest makes the sign
of the cross on my forehead. It really can be a downer, if not for the fact
that I know better things, actually the best things, are yet to come on my
demise.

 I
did not always feel this way. For years I shunned the church, terrified, hiding
from my mortality because I thought my death would mean eternity in hell. I
seemed to place all of the focus on me, instead of on Him, Jesus Christ, and
exactly what Lent and His life meant for us.

 Lent
is a time for sacrifice and prayer. A time to reflect on the ultimate act of
love in Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins. It took no act of ours to
get Him to do it. He willingly suffered and died so that we could come to know
His great love and mercy for us. Through the pain and suffering of the cross, I
am now also able to see the tremendous love He has for each one of us.

 A
love that frees us from all of our sins, even the sin of abortion!