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This month begins a New Year and a new United States government. Let us pray that all of us cooperate in welcoming new life into loving families and communities. In the book called The Mozart Effect.¹ Jack Kornfield tells of a tribe in Africa in which music surrounds a baby's conception and birth. When a woman decides to have a child she secludes herself and thinks about the child she is going to bring into the world. She composes a song for the child. She teaches the song to the man that will be the father . . They sing the song as part of their loving embrace in which the child is conceived. All during her pregnancy, the mother sings the song to the baby in her womb and teaches it to the midwives. When the baby is being born, they sing the song. All through it's life, on special occasions, the song is sung. at death, family and friends support the person with the song. What an ennobling practice!
In our modern world could such a thing be possible? Why not? Thought and attitude are powerful energies. One could choose a song that is already written.
My nephew and his wife sang John Denver's "Sunshine On My Shoulder" to celebrate their first son. Today, one might choose Laura Story's "Mighty to Save".
Foster loving care and rid our culture of its dependence on abortion for unwanted pregnancies. As Tom Key sings in the movie, The Cotton Patch gospel, "Turn it around, turn it around, surprise 'em a little, start shakin' the ground. To get right side up, turn upside down, now is the time to turn it around."
To be more responsible in bringing new life into the world there is a program that could prove helpful Natural Family Planning/Couple to Couple League. See, www.raxmedical.com
¹The Mozart Effect by Don Campbell, Avon Books 1997
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En este mes comenzamos un Año Nuevo y un gobiemo nuevo en los EEUU. Oremos que todos cooperamos en dar una bienvenida a una nueva vida en nuestras familias y comunidades. En ellibro con titulo The Mozart Effect, Jack Kornfield cuenta de una tribu en Africa que usa la musica alrededor de la concepción y nacimiento de un bebé. Cuando una mujer decide tener un bebé se aparta de la sociedad y reflexiona sobre el bebé que va a traer al mundo. Ella compone una canción para su bebé y enseña la canción al hombre que será el padre. Juntos cantan la canción durante el abrazamiento del amor. Durante el tiempo de embarazo la madre canta la canción al niño en su vientre y se la enseña alas parteras. Cuando el nene está naciendo juntas cantan la canción. Durante toda su vida, en occasiones especiales, se canta la canción. Al morir, la familia y amigos/amigas apoyan a la persona con la canción. ¡Qué costumbre tan noble!
¿En el mundo modemo de hoy pudiese ser esto posible? ¿Por qué no? El pensamiento y la actitud son poderosas energías. Pudieramos escoger una canción ya escrita. Mi sobrino y su esposa cantaron "Sunshine on my Shoulder," compuesto por John Denver, para celebrar su primer hijo. Hoy día pudieramos escoger "Mighty to Save" por Laura Story.
Debemos promover un cuidado amoroso y librar nuestra cultura de su dependencia en abortos y embarazos no deseados. Así como Tom Key canta en la película, The Cotton Patch Gospel: "Da vueltas, da vueltas, sorprendelos un poco, comienza a sacudir la tierra. Para poner el lado derecho hacia arriba, con la de arriba abajo y al raevés, ahora es tiempo de dar vueltas."
Para ser más responsable en traer nueva vida al mundo hay un programa que será útil: Natural Family Planning/Couple to Couple League. Vea, www.raxmedical.com .
Our Lady of Victory Missonary Sisters is an American Missionary Congregation founded in 1922 — serving the poor and oppressed in a personal, non-institutional way
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