hi all
jsut wanted to share this with you. there is an author by the name of matthew kelly. he is roman catholic like i am but he is an amazing writter. anyway a friend sent me a book and when i read the first 3 pages i was so overwhelmed that i called my husband into the room to read it also. he felt the same way and i thought you would jsut all enjoy it. it will also convince you that even though we have had abortions God has forgiven us.
sorry for the typos and my grammer. as you can see from the following i did fail english grammar all through out school
marieelena


Imagine this...
you're driving home from work next Monday after a long day. You tune in your radio. your hear a blurb about a little village in India where some villagers have died suddenly strangely of a flu that has never been seen before. It's not influenza but three or four people are dead and it's kind of interesting, and they are sending some doctors over there to investigate it.. you don't think much about it. but coming home from church on Sunday you hear another radio spot. only theory say its not three villagers. its 30,000 villagers in the back hills of this particular are of India and its on TV that night .. CNN runs a little blurb people are heading there from the disease center in Atlanta because this disease strain has never been seen before..

by Monday morning when you get up its the lead story. its not just India its Pakistan Afghanistan Iran and before you know it you're;re hearing this story everywhere.. and they have now coined it as "the mystery flu" the president has made some comment that he and his family are praying and hoping that all will go well over there . but everyone is wondering.. how are we going to contain it?
That's when the preside t of France makes an announcement that shocks Europe.. he is closing their boarders.. no flights from India Pakistan or any of the countries where this thing has been seen.. and that's why that night you are watching a little bit of CNN before going to bed.. your jaw hits your chest when a weeping woman is translated into English from a french news program . there's a m man lying in a hospital in Paris dying of the mystery flu. it ha come to Europe..
panic strikes . as best they can tell after contracting this disease yo have it for a week before you even know it.. then you have four days of unbelievable symptoms.. an they you die.. Britain closes its boarders, but its too late.. south Hampton , Liverpool north Hampton and its Tuesday morning when the president of the united states makes the following announcement.. due to a national security risk all flights to and from Europe and Asia have been canceled. if your loved ones are overseas I'm sorry. they6 cannot come back until we find a cure for this thing.within four days our nation has been plunged into an unbelievable fear. people are wondering ... what if it comes to this country.... and preachers on Tuesday are saying its the scourge of God. its Wednesday night and you are at a church prayer meeting when somebody runs in from the parking lot and yells... turn on a radio. turn on a radio" and while everyone in church listens to a little transistor radio with a microphone stuck up to it.. the announcement is made.. two women are lying in a long island hospital, dying for the mystery flu.. within hours it seems the disease envelops the country.

people are working around the clock trying to find a antidote, nothing is working. California Oregon Arizona Florida Massachusetts. its as thought its just sweeping in fro the boarders.
and then all of a sudden the news comes out. the code has been broken. a cure can be found. a vaccine can be made... its going to take the blood of somebody who hasn't been infected and so sure enough , all through the Midwest through all those channels of emergency broadcasting everyone is asked to do one simple thing..... go to your downtown hospital and have your blood analyzed... that's all we ask of you. when yo hear the sirens go off in your neighborhood please make your way quickly quietly and safely to the hospitals.
sure enough when you and your family get down there late on that Friday night. there is a long line ad they've got nurses and doctors coming out and pricking fingers and taking blood and putting labels on it. your spouse ad your kids are out there and they take your blood and say,.... wait here in the parking lot. and if we call your name you can be dismissed and go home.. you stand around scared with your neighbors wondering what on earth is going on and if this is the end of the world..
suddenly a young man comes running out of the hospital screaming .. hes yelling a name and waving a clipboard. what? he yells it again! and your son tugs on your jacket and says... daddy that's me... before you now it, they have grabbed your boy ... wait a minute. hold on and they say.. its okay he is blood is clean. his blood is pure. we want to make sure he doesn't have the disease. we think he has the right blood type..

five tense minutes later out come the doctors and nurses crying and hugging one another.. some are even laughing.. its the first time yo have seen anybody laugh in a week and an old doctor walks up to you and says.... Thank you sir. Your sons blood is perfect. . its clean it is pure and we can make the vaccine...
as the word begins to spread all across that parking lot full of folks people are screaming an d praying and laughing and crying.. but then the gray-haired doctor pulls you and your wife aside and says... may we see yo for a moment? we didn't realize that the donor would be a minor and we..... we need you to sign a consent form.

you begin to sign and then you see that the box for he number of pints of blood to be taken is empty.... h-h-hhow many pints? and that is when the old doctors smiles fades and he says.... we had no idea it would be a little child . we weren't prepared .. we need it all.... but... but... I don't understand. hes my only son! we are talking about the whole world here. please sign... we.... we.... need to hurry!
but cant you give him a transfusion? it we had clean blood we would. leas will you please sign?.
in numb silence you do.. then they say.. would yo like to have a moment with him before we begin?

could you walk back? could you walk back to that room where he sits on a table saying. "daddy Mommy? what going on? could you take his hands and say. Son your Mommy and i love you.and we would never ever let anything happen to yo that didn't just have to be. Would you understand that? could you walk out while he is saying..
dad? mom? dad? Why... why have you abandoned me?
and then next week when they have the ceremony to honor your son and some folks sleep through it and some fools don't even bother to come because they have better things to do and some folks come with pretentious smile and just pretend to care, would you want to jump up and say... EXCUSE ME! my son died for you! don't you even care? does it mean nothing to you?
I wonder is that what God wants to say... MY SON DIED FOR YOU! DOES IT MEAN NOTHING? don't you know how much i care..

Father, seeing it from your eyes should break our hearts. maybe now we can begin to comprehend the great love you have for us.

hi all
i know alotof you are reading this i can see by the number of readers that this thing has. please just drop a line to let me know if you liked it or not.i think it is wicked cool.
marieelena