Among everything that you can do for your family, only children are eternal. Everything else is just, used up, sold or forgotten, but your children from the moment of conception begin to exist forever. Even if your children die their souls will live forever.
What God promised Abram is also at your fingertips: that your descendants will be countless as the stars in the universe. (Gn 15,5) Think about it, the calculations are easy to do, if your children have in turn their own children, and this goes on generation after generation, your descendants after thirty generations can easily be more than a billion and after 60 generations more than a trillion.
Today's reflection is based on a passage from the first book of Samuel, which tells the birth of the prophet Samuel. The passage is in 1 Samuel 1,19-28. I recommend that you pray before you read ahead to ask the Holy Spirit to His light.
Points for reflection.
1. Life is a gift from God. The union of gametes is not enough for life. God intervenes in the moment of conception and adds the soul to form a complete human being with body and soul.
2. Fertility is a blessing. Every blessing is in answer to prayer, so prayer done by the couple favors fertility. The couple can earn the trust of God with good behavior and be blessed with children.
3. Choose names for your children that will remind them of their vocation. Man’s universal vocation is life in the Holy Spirit. (Catechism, paragraph 1699)
Let us ask the Virgin Mary, Queen of families, to teach us to value human life and our role as co-creators with God of future generations of men.
Thank you for making this reflection with me. Yyou are appreciated and loved in Jesus Christ. You are the reason for my blog.
May God bless you.
I'd love to learn what this reflection has meant to you. Do not go without leaving your comments, your purposes, whatever you want.
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