This morning I was walking laps around the abortion clinic, calling out Satan and abolishing him in the name of Jesus. I said, “Even though I am a sinner, I know that I am His instrument. I speak with His authorty. God’s grace overcomes.”

I have seen so many people stand outside the abortion mill on business days feeling disdain and anger toward the women who are arriving. I strongly believe that when we refuse mercy, we refuse grace. Grace is our lifeline, the victory that has already been secured.

Thank you for sharing your inspiring story. God’s grace overcomes in ways that we cannot begin to fathom. What an amazing testament to your faith that when it was presented to you, you accepted and claimed it without hesitating.

And, if only any of us would run away from home only to look and search to be brought Home forever. Can any doubt the relieved if humored chuckles if they found he’d been a cloistered Trappist all these years? That he had found grace transcendent instead of earthly tragedy given an even more tragic mask?

Nothing shatters any illusions within me of being ‘better than’ than such as your story, ma’am, about your cousins. There seemed always such distance as made by being adopted and so very different. But, he is a model of me, and I am model to yet others’ need for God. All merely human differences dissolve in God’s love, and God’s love is my need above all other needs.

Do commend yourself for having your cousin, his sister, on your cell phonebook. Take that comfort that you did give some means of staying connected when you could not know if you wanted any connection. I don’t know that I would give myself to THAT much.

So, now I weep as I pray for you and yours. I have to question myself: who out there should I have embraced rather than shunned? So, as well, do I weep and pray for them and for me. And, God’s love and mercy reach me, and them, and you and all of us.