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Praying for life to prevail.
Please let us know how she is doing if you see her today!I will see her again on Friday.
God bless,
Maggie
I am, although the balance between not contributing to her sin and loving her is perhaps most difficult in this situation than in any other issue in my life.Father
no matter what the daughter decides please love her and show her mercy.Please bless the child she carries and help her mother who is trying her hardest to prevent this tragedy.
Our Father who art in heaven
hallowed br thy name
thy kingdom come
thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven
give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses
as we frogive those who trespass against us
lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil
Amen
Liza, I’m sorry for the delay in responding, I didn’t know that I had a new message.Please let us know how she is doing if you see her today!
God bless you all,
~Liza
O Lord, Holy Father, omnipotent and eternal God, I give You thanks and I bless Your holy name. I know I’m a poor miserable sinner but hear a cause that is just, pay heed to my cry, turn your ear to my prayer, no deceit is on my lips. AmenLiza, I’m sorry for the delay in responding, I didn’t know that I had a new message.
I did spend the day with her and we did not talk about her pregnancy, since I knew she wasn’t able to do anything yet and browbeating her would not help at all. It was depressing, as this has put distance between us.
This past week we talked about how we have this distance because just as a part of her has shut down emotionally in order to consider what she is planning and, in the same way, a part of me has to shut down in horror of what she is planning.
I had to decide what I was willing to do and not willing to do. For example, she was told that night that she will not be studying in Italy this Spring as planned, regardless of what she chooses. This is because she is an alcoholic/addict who is not in recovery and not attending meetings, not as punishment for her decision about the pregnancy. She has always known that I will support recovery and I listed all the examples of how she is clearly relapsing.
Katherine did thank me for loving her enough to tell her these things and acknowledged how hard this is for me to do. She has not changed her mind about the pregnancy, though.
She did agree that this was relapse behavior even if she is not using and said that she would be going to an AA meeting this past Friday. I don’t know if she made it, though she slept until 2pm (got a facebook message). She was supposed to come over to our house on Friday to watch movies with my step-daughter after oral surgery and flaked. Not a good sign, just more of the same behavior. She’s out dancing a lot, smoking cigarettes and staying up all night. : She posts pictures on facebook and it breaks my heart, she’s clearly such an unhappy, lost young woman right now.
So, thank you from the bottom of my heart for continued prayers. Each day brings Hope. I pray she feels the baby move soon and I pray, mostly for the Grace to allow God to use me however he sees fit. I keep hoping, also that the fact that this is happening during the 40 days for life is no accident. We just ended in our area with an all-vigil last night.
Please pray for all women struggling with this. I know that my daughter is no more precious than any of these millions of others, except (of course) to me.
Still hoping and praying,
Maggie

Ask her to pray the rosary with you for at least a week. She will change her mind.I have told her that I love her no matter what, but that she can’t un-ring the bell. It’s not like you are sitting around trying to decide if you want to have one, the baby is here.
We just left the Life Center for counseling and an ultrasound is scheduled for next week. She agreed to go when I told her that I do not want her at planned parenthood in the hands of physicians assistants who preform medical procedures instead of a medical doctor. Girls become sterile and some die from their ‘treatment’. I need to know that she’s safe and well-cared for. I’ve prayed at clinics and knew that, through her choices she may end up there one day, I hoped that this day would never come. I feel so ill-equipped.
I’m so afraid for her and for this baby. I’m also afraid that if I’m too loving and supportive, she’ll somehow think I’m endorsing her decision. I’m not. I already feel as though I am mourning a child that will never be born and want to save a child when it seems that there is no hope. I am trying everything that I can, but I can’t force her to have this child.
I am trying to focus on Truth and Love. We just need prayers, please pray for God to guide my words. I am really all she has, aside from her ‘friends’ who have spent a month telling her to get an abortion. Her best friend is even offering to pay half.
Thank you for your compassion, advice and mostly for your prayers. We need that more than anything.
Maggie
A novena prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe which was recited for the unborn at the end of all Masses in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception of the March for Life on January 22, 1999.My daughter just told me that she is pregnant and has already decided she is going to have an abortion. She is afraid I will reject her and I don’t know what to say.
Please pray for her, for the baby, adn for me to find the words God wants me to use and PLEASE post if you have any advice or suggestions or ideas.
Amen
sancta.org/patr-unb.htmlMy daughter just told me that she is pregnant and has already decided she is going to have an abortion. She is afraid I will reject her and I don’t know what to say.
Please pray for her, for the baby, adn for me to find the words God wants me to use and PLEASE post if you have any advice or suggestions or ideas.
Amen
wouldn’t that be nice?Ask her to pray the rosary with you for at least a week. She will change her mind.