No Room In The Inn

J.M.J+
I am posting in regards to our next peaceful prayer vigil which will take place on Saturday, the 20th of December, outside Planned Parenthood (345 Whitney Avenue New Haven) from 8am until 12 pm noon, the hours which the babies are scheduled to be killed by abortion. Please join us to sing Christmas hymns and to take an hour of prayer. Abortions also take place on Wednesday afternoons and Friday mornings form 8-12 noon. If you feel compelled please bring a prayer partner and offer your prayers and fasting then. Thanks be to God and all those who came out to pray, the week prior, there was another woman who changed her mind and decided not to abort her baby.

As we approach the birth of our Savior who chose to come to us as a tiny babe, how can we refuse to acknowledge the importance of the sanctity of human life while these babies at Planned Parenthood and the Children’s Hospital at Yale are being killed right in our own neighborhoods and in front of our very eyes? Jesus said that whatever we do or do not do to the least of His brethren that we do unto Him. I cannot think of “smaller” or needier brethren of Jesus than the tiny babies who are taken into Planned Parenthood to be killed without ever knowing or feeling the love of another human being. We know we cannot save them all, but we can love them all by being there and praying for them. We can let them know the love of Christ by keeping vigil as they are sparred or more importantly as they are left alone to die. We know in consoling them we console the One who will be born on Christmas day, the tiny babe who became so small and vulnerable to save us.

It is easy to get wrapped up in the secular distractions of the Christmas season especially when we live in a world where “things” are depicted as a sure way to happiness. Excessive shopping and gift giving can take our focus off of the true meaning of Advent and Christmas. So many of us are looking for ways to help those in need especially at Christmas time and to celebrate Christ’s birth with authentic joy, that only can be found in the true offering of ourselves. As we draw closer this Advent to our Lord’s birth, we can contemplate on how Jesus, Mary, and Joseph celebrated the first Christmas. They were forced to travel further to a tiny stable because there was no room for them in the Inn. Can you picture the Holy Virgin sensing it was time for the baby Jesus to come, but there was no room, how similar to the tiny babies who have been rejected because there is no room for them in the Inn, of their mothers and family’s hearts. Can you imagine missing the very reality that the Savior whom you have long awaited was with you...the Emmanuel! That is what happened because they were too busy or distracted or tired to see Him.

If you want to grow in holiness and ever closer to Jesus this Christmas, make room for Him in your Inn…in your heart. Join us in peaceful prayer for the babies this Saturday and give the very best Christmas gift…the gift of life and love. Let us make a place for Him and His children in our hearts and pray for the opening of the hearts of others to spare the lives of these tiny and precious babes.

Wishing you and your family a very blessed and holy Christmas,
Mike and Kerry