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Student adopts homeless pregnant cousin

April 16, 2015 by Faye Sonier 2 Comments

What does love look like?

Australian student Tommy Connolly, 23, worked extra shifts in order to adopt his 17 year old homeless cousin. She was pregnant, and he wanted to help her and her child have a better life.

Tommy Connolly, an aspiring athlete at the University of the Sunshine Coast, said he hadn’t seen his 17-year-old cousin for more than a decade when he moved to resume his studies and decided to get in touch.

He found out that his cousin had been sleeping rough on the Gold Coast, was 32 weeks pregnant, had no shoes or phone and was almost illiterate.

With the baby’s father in jail and her parents not on the scene, Mr Connolly said he took his cousin in “to make sure she’d keep the baby, stay off the streets and have a better life”. […]

Mr Connolly admitted he had taken on “the father role as you’d imagine,” but added: “[My cousin] does 90 per cent of the work – and if it’s one or two years of my life I have to put on hold to make sure two lives are going to be saved it’s nothing at all.”

Was it a sacrifice? Yes. Will his immediate life be harder and more challenging? Yes. In fifty years, is he likely to look back on this period of his life and regret giving of himself to help a girl and her baby make it in this hard world? I doubt it.

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Love and support for women facing unexpected pregnancies can take all kinds of forms. Connolly proved that self-sacrifice and love, even from someone without extraordinary means, can and will change lives. It might even save them.

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Inspiration comes from many different sources

April 15, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

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Jordan Spieth. Apparently he just won the Master’s.

I have never even heard of Jordan Speith before today, not being a golfer, but if he is inspired by his younger sister who has some disabilities, then I like the guy.

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How to maximize profit with your spa abortion service

April 1, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Carafem, the spa abortion experience is about profits. Not service, not women, not activism. Normalizing abortion for them isn’t about normalizing abortion. It’s about making money. Which they will make more of, if abortion is normalized.

As Barbara Kay explains in her column:

There may be a great deal of money to be made in massaging the roiled consciences of those with much to feel roiled about. But that will make Carafem an entrepreneurial success, and nothing more.

One more thing: they don’t do surgical abortions (well why would they, those are more expensive, therefore less profit margin).

Because Carafem will offer only the abortion pill, not vacuum aspiration or other surgical procedures, prospective clients must be no more than 10 weeks pregnant. …

After receiving counseling and some basic tests, Carafem clients will take an initial pill at the clinic. Purdy’s team expects to get them in and out quickly, within about 60 minutes.

 

That’s a super fast spa experience. Relax, ladies. But not too much. Because we need to charge another client.

When my friend took the abortion pill, from her description, there’s no spa or cup of tea that helps when you are throwing up so much that you are concerned the pill didn’t actually work and you have to go back to get it again.

So the question is: Do they hire extra folks to clean up the vomit or do they simply hope that part happens at home?

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Right down to the first detail

March 31, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

This made me laugh:

MANSFIELD, OH—Having proposed that they spend a night out together, the boyfriend of local woman Cassandra Stephenson is said to have planned a magical evening for the two of them down to the very first detail, sources reported Tuesday. “We should do something on Friday,” said boyfriend Bryan Vogel, specifying the day of the week on which they will go out, the sole confirmed aspect of their romantic evening that has actually been planned in advance.

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This dinner has been planned to more than the first detail.

 

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Sunday inspiration

March 29, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

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My sister sent me this. Inspiration, condensed, on steroids. Made me laugh. Enjoy

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The War of Art

March 28, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

A friend passed on this fantastic little book to me, The War of Art. It’s not just about overcoming procrastination, it’s about doing what truly makes you tick.

Esquire calls it “A vital gem . . . a kick in the ass.”

And don’t we all need both (gems, and a kick in the ass) every once in a while? I highly recommend.

PS I wrote this post while procrastinating from what I was really supposed to be doing.

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Living simply

February 27, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

This looks interesting to me.

The former family doctor turned environmentalist turned filmmaker spent most of a year off the grid as an experiment and filmed the whole thing.
Her documentary All the Time in the World has received much praise from critics and has won several awards.
Lent is a season of fasting for many Christians–not to deprive ourselves of something but rather to engage with God more by stripping away unnecessary things, to be unencumbered by the busy-ness of life. It occurs to me that in fasting we can become rich in other areas and this woman appears to have achieved this wealth for her family. Not possible for everyone, of course. But perhaps there are elements from which we can learn.
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Suzanne Crocker: doctor, turned environmentalist, turned documentary maker

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“Welcome to the world” coin

January 18, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

A friend sent me this link to a “welcome to the world” coin, new from the Canadian Mint, and pointed out it looks a lot like the little feet lapel pin many people who are against abortion wear.  This is not, of course, what the Canadian Mint intends. I take it as a sign of how those who are pro-choice are fighting a losing battle, because at the end of the day, the feet you celebrate and the feet whose life ends look very, very similar.

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Good perspective

January 15, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

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Am I really living?

January 1, 2015 by Andrea Mrozek 3 Comments

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It’s a question I’m asking myself since my friend and fellow blogger Faye sent me a link to this blog. I didn’t read too much but I gather a beautiful young woman who is also a mother has terminal cancer. This may not appear to be the best Happy New Year! link but I think it just could be.

She made me think about whether I am really, really living while I am alive. As I drove home tonight, was I thankful for the fact that I was able to drive? That I could listen to the news? That it wasn’t hard for me to drive, and that I got home safely? Simple questions, raised by her blog:

And now, now I’m learning what it is to die by degrees. Parts of my body failing, parts of my abilities vanishing, and what then? Yesterday, I kept thinking- I drove for the last time and didn’t realize it was the last time. I don’t remember the last time in the drivers seat or the music we played.  I just realized I will likely never again drive. It’s this weird event that marks the fading of a life, and I have no feeling other than wonder over the fact that it’s over. That chapter. All the driving my body can no longer do will now be captured by my community, my loves, my people. And there will be other strengths that will languish, and my people will press into love and provide us the needed strength and support to manage that new edge.

Read to the end. It’s sad but not depressing. She puts her faith in Jesus. You might not do so, but there is something in her blog posts even for non-Christians. The question is how to press into living, how to make the most of each moment. It is hard to write about these things without sounding trite. But the questions are worth asking.

I am pro-life. So am I really living?

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