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And a Child Shall Lead Them...
I asked Our Lady to tell me if she wanted our family to do anything more for the prolife cause, and the answer was spoken through my 7 year old daughter, Grace- about the prayer pillows. Our Lady always speaks first to the children - like at Fatima and at Lourdes. For the children have the purity to receive God's truth and to lead us all closer to the Lord.
Think for a moment about the truths that Grace received. First, she said, "Those babies may be small, but they are people too." She understood that no matter how small the unborn babies may be, they are still people who should be cherished and loved, not killed.
The second truth that she received was that the babies suffer. She said, "Those babies suffer like Jesus suffered on the cross." Through this statement God shines a light on the reality of their suffering and aligns it with the redemptive suffering of Jesus Christ.
Lastly, Grace said that she wanted to put a heart on the baby with rays of light shining from the heart. This speaks about the brightness of the heart of a child. For it is to such as these that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to... Matthew 14. Jesus is saying here that children have the keys to the Kingdom and that they are bright lights for all of us as to how to get there. Children have the humilty, dependence, purity, joy, love and trust needed to enter into the Kingdom and to experience the Kingdom in their hearts here on earth. Their hearts truly are most like the heart of Jesus - and if we are wise, we will embrace that light and let them lead us.
For whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.” Mark 9:37
And a Child Shall Lead Them...
I asked Our Lady to tell me if she wanted our family to do anything more for the prolife cause, and the answer was spoken through my 7 year old daughter, Grace- about the prayer pillows. Our Lady always speaks first to the children - like at Fatima and at Lourdes. For the children have the purity to receive God's truth and to lead us all closer to the Lord.
Think for a moment about the truths that Grace received. First, she said, "Those babies may be small, but they are people too." She understood that no matter how small the unborn babies may be, they are still people who should be cherished and loved, not killed.
The second truth that she received was that the babies suffer. She said, "Those babies suffer like Jesus suffered on the cross." Through this statement God shines a light on the reality of their suffering and aligns it with the redemptive suffering of Jesus Christ.
Lastly, Grace said that she wanted to put a heart on the baby with rays of light shining from the heart. This speaks about the brightness of the heart of a child. For it is to such as these that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to... Matthew 14. Jesus is saying here that children have the keys to the Kingdom and that they are bright lights for all of us as to how to get there. Children have the humilty, dependence, purity, joy, love and trust needed to enter into the Kingdom and to experience the Kingdom in their hearts here on earth. Their hearts truly are most like the heart of Jesus - and if we are wise, we will embrace that light and let them lead us.
For whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.” Mark 9:37