40 Days For Life Day 32

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DAY 32 INTENTION
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May we come to know that divine life, in relationship, creates human life. God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit worked together in the work of creation.
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SCRIPTURE
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.-- John 1:1-3
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REFLECTION
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"In the beginning" was God. Always, before all times, there was God. This particular God -- the God of the Bible, the God of St. John's Gospel -- is different from all other gods. This God is alive and full of life. This God is not the picture of deadness and death, aloneness and isolation. This God is the picture of life, relationship, and unity. For within this God, within this one God, there are three divine persons who live, who love, and who work -- together. This is the glorious mystery of the Trinity. The Trinity means divine life. The Trinity means three, living Persons -- Father, Son, and HolySpirit -- who relate to each other. The Trinity means mutual love and service among three Persons. The Word was always with God the Father. This Word was, is, and will be the Trinity's second person. The Word is also the Son of God or, as revealed in time, Jesus Christ. God the Father and God the Son live, love, and work for each other. As one, they create "all things" together: the Father creates all things, including all human life, through the Son. So the Father, through the Son, creates all human lives. The little one swimming in his mother's womb, the infant smiling in his father's arms, the child crying in pain in a hospital bed, the energetic teen running another mile, the old man gasping for his last breath -- all were created, at their beginning, by the Father through the Son. No exceptions. Divine life creates human life.
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PRAYER
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[O, Father, although we were created in Your image, because of sin that image was ruined. It took Jesus' death on the cross to make a way for us to call You Father again. And when we call you Father, let your Spirit remind us that even though You gave each one of us physical life, we are Your people only because we have received Jesus as our Savior and received the spiritual life purchased by His shed blood. We praise you, Father, that you sent your Son to pay the price of our sin. Now everyone who receives Jesus is saved because He shed His innocent blood and fully paid the price for our sins. May all people receive Jesus and become Your spiritual children and our spiritual brothers and sisters. Thank you, Father. In Jesus our blessed Savior's name we pray, Amen.] This prayer is from the NYFPC and not the original prayer in the email.
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Please pray today for the continued safe travels of Shawn Carney, who is on the national 40 Days for Life team. Shawn is nearing the end of a whirlwind West Coast tour of ten 40 Days for Life locations in five days, that began in Northern Washington, and concludes in Southern California. I'm hearing great reports from Shawn's stops, and hope to have a report from him to share with you over the next few days!

Yours for Life,
David Bereit
National Campaign Director
40 Days for Life
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Shalom~~