Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Saying Yes To Life

Roxane Salonen (Peace Garden Mama) makes similar points about the life giving choices made by her parents and grandparents as I did in my Assumption Homily in her posting about their anniversary celebration. Among these points are:

- If they had chosen not to go through with it, not to walk down the aisle of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Bismarck, ND, on August 21, 1966...
- If they had not been open to having that child, a daughter, born in 1967...
- And her sister, who followed in 1968...
- And if either Mary Beauclair or Elizabeth Byrne had denied life to any one of their combined 12 children, despite their having come into the world during war times and Depression...
- Or the same with any of their mothers before them...

This (A thriving multi generational family) would not have been possible:

Read her entire posting - click here.

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