A small hand held booklet had hurt in my hands and it was about abortion. The small Christian gift shop had many items to sell like rosary beads, statues of reverence and lots of media like cassettes, videos and books. I bought this little booklet and wanted to find out why people abort their unborn babies.
As much as I recall, it talks about spiritual beings wanting to serve on earth with a choice to live as humans and start out their lives with bio-units. There are those who remember their past lives while others live in blissful amnesia to start over and make their current lifetime better.
Some have been dismayed for not being able to fulfill their missions and may return in other forms in a later life as another bio-unit or relative. Abortion is considered a sin according to this Christian booklet and the cover showed an up close face of an angry person. Other organizations believe that abortion is justified if the mother’s health is in danger; the fetus has medical problems or has been conceived out of unwanted incidences.
Today, I live not to dwell on my near death experience at birth (due to medical problems) but to celebrate my conception as a sovereign being born as a loving human and a funny blogger with novice writing skills. Today is my bio-unit’s 38th wedding anniversary. So this means Happy Birthday to me. For Asian, we give ourselves an extra year so this would make me 39. I need another year to join the forty something crowd.
The blessed event occurred some thirty eight years ago when my parents made their vows to each other by getting married in St. Vincent de Paul Church on San Marcelino in the Philippines on March 10, 1968. There are some old newspaper clippings showing my parents smiling while each held in their hands two snow white doves. The newspaper clipping said that they would make their homes in Naples, Italy where Paw would have been stationed. Those times were truly innocent and happy moments.
Their intentions to marry each other and raise bio-units together were made with love. Paw worked very hard and saved enough money (without the help from his siblings) to get married because Maw came from dirt poor bio-units. It’s inconceivable to think that nothing could result without love in the first place. They were in love then and still love each other much like older couples do in their special ways now. I am impressed with couples that stick together through tough times and stay married together for this long like my bio-units.
Those who don’t stay long in any relationship are equally blessed for cherishing their new found freedom. They may not always come out of the old ones without some bitterness but once again there are always opportunities for the conception of love in many forms. From out of the old antiquated thinking of eternal marriage vows comes the birth of eternal spiritual families full of life and love, a new beginning.
Copyright © FVDF. All rights reserved.
Friday March 10, 2006 – 08:50am (PST) Edit | Delete | Permanent Link | 0 Comments