Prayables | Illuminating the World

Published: Tue, 08/02/22

Tuesday August 2, 2022

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

When you look back at your life you should not be remembering the disappointments or despair. Instead, be blessed to remember the kindness and the love.

Blessed are You, dear God, who illuminates the world, who allows me to distinguish between light and darkness and good and evil. You are with
me, showing me the way, steering me from temptation, urging me to make good choices. Praise to You, Creator of all I see.

Proverbs 28:13 People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

THESE ADOPTEES REFUSE TO BE POSTER KIDS

They're challenging the often-religious argument that adoption is a simple, sacred and mutually beneficial solution to abortion.

Born just three months after the watershed Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, John Gregg has early memories of being led around more than one National Right to Life conference as a toddler by his Catholic adoptive parents, who were enthusiastically anti-abortion.

“I’d walk around where people were tabling, and I’d see photo albums of aborted fetuses,” Gregg recalled. “People would say, ‘You were adopted? That’s great! This is what would have happened to you if you hadn’t been adopted.’”

Gregg, 49, said his adoptive parents struggled with infertility but also adopted him to make a point. “My experience growing up is that I was adopted, in large part, as a protest against abortion,” he said in a recent interview.

For the last five decades, many adoptees say, they’ve been pawns in the national abortion debate. That debate has been reignited this spring as the Supreme Court moved to overturn Roe, and adoption has played its customary role as an alternative in TikToks; in posts of couples on Instagram holding protest signs announcing “We will adopt your baby;” even in a footnote in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling itself citing a severely limited “domestic supply of infants...READ MORE

LIFE PLANS

Please bring my future husband and I together very soon. I pray he is a wonderful, handsome, very successful, smart, kind, funny, responsible, polite, patient and Catholic man, with a lovely and welcoming family and group of friends.

I pray he is also athletic, clean cut, charming, loyal, faithful, honorable and generous.

I pray we are best friends and truly made for each other. That we are engaged within the next year, then happily married and that I give birth to our healthy, beautiful babies soon after.

-Erin

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