If you ever get caught sleeping on the job, slowly raise your head and say, 鈥淚n Jesus name, amen.鈥�
聽聽聽聽聽聽 In a sense we have all been asleep as Christians. Too many decisions in this world are made to be popular and politically correct. Our outrage comes too late.
聽聽聽聽聽聽 A crowd, by definition, is a group of people moving without direction. Jesus came to give us direction. Don鈥檛 follow the crowd on moral issues. Better to be unpopular for a short time and right for all eternity.
聽聽聽聽聽聽 A recent headline read 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Supreme Court Reverses Its Earlier Ruling on Assisted Suicide鈥�. In a related article John Burger cited the following cases:
鈥溾� depressed healthy man who was recently retired, but alone and lonely, died by euthanasia in the Netherlands. In Belgium, a healthy depressed woman died from euthanasia after experiencing the break-up of a long-term relationship. In Switzerland, a man died by assisted suicide after receiving a wrong diagnosis.鈥澛�
聽聽聽聽聽聽 The Saskatchewan Pro Life Association now raises this alarm:
鈥淭he College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (CPSS) have a proposed policy that would require doctors in Saskatchewan to refer for, or in some cases provide, services to which they are morally opposed.
聽聽聽聽聽聽 鈥淭his could include assisted suicide or abortion. Some physicians may leave the province rather than comply with such a policy. Others will suffer moral distress that will compromise their care for their patients. Saskatchewan physicians should be free to engage their consciences and honour their commitment to do no harm [Hippocratic Oath].
聽聽聽聽聽聽 鈥淭his is an URGENT matter. The CPSS wants to control our doctors. Let鈥檚 make it LOUD and clear to them that we demand and appreciate our doctors鈥� freedom of conscience.鈥�
聽聽聽聽聽聽 I favour a practical Christian approach to issues raised about life. To borrow a phrase from Father Miec, 鈥淚 was born at a very young age 鈥� nine months.鈥� I am glad my life was respected during those nine months.
聽聽聽聽聽聽 I recently saw an ultrasound of my new grandchild. The image was beautiful and very recognizable as a baby at twelve weeks. I shudder to think of the painful deaths inflicted on so many innocents even beyond this age. I don鈥檛 mean to sensationalize, only to be moral.
聽聽聽聽聽聽 As a child I faithfully prayed: 鈥渇rom this moment I accept whatsoever death thou shalt send me, and I offer up all the pain and suffering for my salvation.鈥� This suffering is united with the suffering of Christ to save the entire world.
聽聽聽聽聽聽 Pope Francis in his message for World Day of the Sick said, 鈥溾�楺uality of life鈥� proponents who think the gravely ill lead lives not worth living are peddling a great lie鈥� they make people think that lives affected by grave illness are not worth living.鈥�
聽聽聽聽聽聽 Spending time with the sick and infirm, Pope Francis said, 鈥渋s holy time. It is a way of praising God who conforms us to the image of his son, who came not to be served but to serve, and it is a great path to sanctification鈥�.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 As Christians on life鈥檚 journey we have ever before us the model of how Jesus faced suffering and death.
