Trial

Brian Burch shared this in a postscript to his email letter:

I’ve shared this before, and you may have read it many times. 

But these powerful words by the late Henry Hyde are always fitting for days like this:

“When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God — and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there’ll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world — and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, “Spare him, because he loved us,” — and God will look at you and say not, “Did you succeed?” but “Did you try?”

I look forward to meeting my third child, who died of miscarriage, on that blessed day.