A Question for My Daughters

Who will you give your body to?

Yourself?

Men?

Or God?

Abortion is an outlook that gives your body to yourself. Your body is only for yourself, you refuse all claims on it. It is like hiding your wealth in a tree so you cannot risk losing it and can keep it only for yourself. It is barren. It cannot take root. It is safe, but cannot be exchanged, cannot grow or bear fruit. It is a treasure behind glass, anoxic.

Giving yourself to men is the life of the gambler. Your wealth is for trading and for giving away, treating it lightly, failing to appreciate the risks. The fool and her wealth are soon parted. What is gambled lightly is received without care. What is left to chance lives by chance, and is lost by it.

What you give to God isn’t lost. God keeps your body and gives it back to you to keep in his care. He may give you the gift of men, and a man to give your body to, and children to share it. When you trust your body to God you also get to keep it for yourself and give it to men, in Him. God turns both keeping yourself and giving yourself into chastity. He is the good banker who ensures that your investment stays safe and increases and bears fruit. He restores it and guarantees it and guard it. He helps you spends it and gives you a return. In Him you lose your body and keep it forever. Generosity becomes chastity, and chastity becomes generosity. You can freely keep yourself, because you are kept. You can freely give yourself, because you are given.