Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

If there were medals handed out for running from your feelings I would bet those who have had an abortion could take first place!

It is amazing what denial, justification and rationalization can do to protect us from ourselves. Needed defenses, especially if you have not been in contact with or found resources to help you look at your abortion and get through the pain with Gods grace.

It is not unusual to have someone come forward after decades looking for the help they need in order to heal. 

Fiona was a 93 year old woman who had written to Father Benedict Groeschel who then passed her letter on to me. She had three abortions in her thirties that she had told no one about but they had haunted her for over 60 years.

Fiona's husband was an violent alcoholic, and raising three children on her own was already so difficult she honestly believed at the time it was her only option. In her heart Fiona knew what she did was wrong, but she buried her feeling for decades, keeping busy raising her living children and terrified that someone would find out what she had done.

She finally wrote to Father benedict out of desperation wondering if in fact God could forgive her for her sins.. She was searching for Gods forgiveness and healing knowing at 93 she did not have much time left on this earth and finally facing what she had done years before.

Fiona and I communicated for months  as I learned of her hidden grief and years of suffering. Thanks be to God she was able to confess to a priest and come to reconciliation for the unborn babies she had aborted decades before.

Fiona had passed on now, but she left this world in peace having reconciled with God, herself and her unborn children who she was to meetin eternal life.

Are you suffering from a past abortion. Don't wait decades to seek peace and healing. God wants to heal you now and help is available.

Come home to His mercy this Lent!