Posted on 04/02/2014 2:40:27 PM PDT by Borges
It was a day she’ll never forget.
An 11-year-old girl from California walked down the aisle with her dying dad in a tear-jerking ceremony that pronounced the pair “daddy and daughter.”
“It was not easy to do, let me tell you, but I wouldn’t change it for the world,” said Jim Zetz, 62, who has stage-4 pancreatic cancer and is expected to live only a few more months.
“In twenty years, when she really gets married, she’s going to be happy that happened," he said.
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Don’t know nor do I care about the whys and hows...all I see is lotsa love in that photo...
“Heartbreaking”? Maybe, but I see 11 years of joy, love and laughter rolled into one poignant and intimate moment shared by a dad and his little girl...
May God bless them both as only He can.
Do you see anything selfish about having a child later in life?
There is a difference between the guy who is 55 and his wife is 44 and she has a late pregnancy, and the guy who at age 65 says: "I've spent my whole life partying and now I have no heir, no legacy! I need a cocktail waitress and prenup, stat!"
There is also the guy who legitimately does not meet a compatible person until he is older.
” People live into their nineties now.”
Not really. The average age has been going down with the baby boomers. People always have lived into their 90’s, that is nothing new. I will stand that it is selfish to treat children as something you want and not consider the child’s needs later in life. Birth defects of late pregnancies are also as they were, very high. Placing children at risk for defects because you suddenly find you want a child is again selfish.
My mom was 42, my dad 53 when I was born. My siblings were 20, 18, and 13. I was not a planned baby and I was blessed to have two wonderful parents who decided my life was more important than the sacrifices they would have to make to raise me. They did everything to make my life happy and vibrant. My dad died when I was 22 and my mom lived to 83, I was her caretaker and can not tell you how many times she called me her blessing.
May he smile in heaven when she gets married for real.
Nice post and I agree with you totally.
Wow. So happy to be here. My daddy was 53 when I was born. I was so blessed to have him for 20 years. He was a WWII veteran, a child of the Depression, a later in life Christian. He was an entrepreneur. He was a missionary. He was a pharmacist without ever stepping foot in college. He graduated from high school two years early. He worked until a few weeks before cancer took him. I think he would have said the same thing about men having children later in life, but my mother wanted children. So here I am. And so very blessed. Thank you for the reminder. :)
It doesn’t look to me as though this little girl has a birth defect. Or as if she was conceived as some sort of whim. Or as though she wishes she was never born because she’s losing her father at 11.
Life is precious. Children are a gift from God. If God allowed her to be born, He wanted her on this earth, whether she has a father or not, even if you think she and my children should never have been born. Take it up with God: He started her.
One of the consequences of the “choice” ideology is that many people believe they have the right to pass judgment on the worth of someone else’s life ... and the presumption is always against life - someone else’s life, of course - not for it.
So true. One of the insidious aspects of the Culture of Death is that it's so easy to get drawn from using contraception and sterilization to thinking that any inconvenient pregnancy can be disposed of, because it's so small, it isn't as important as us, it doesn't have feelings or a sense of loss, etc. From there it is a downward logical spiral to saying that the life of any person whose life doesn't seem valuable and wonderful to us can permissibly be put to sleep, and it's not long before you have euthanasia of sick babies, and then euthanasia of Grandma when she becomes too annoying.
Funny how Paul VI saw this logical sequence so many years ago and warned us.
I was thinking that, too. Pope Paul VI saw it all ... from the option to contracept, to the “right to contraception,” to the “duty” to have contracepted, posted backward once some disruption in life occurred. People actually think the young girl in this story should never have been born, because her father is dying while she’s young. Just eliminating her life, from conception to natural death, as if she had no value.
That’s “choice.” If your child has Down Syndrome, you failed in your duty to contracept or abort. If your child is a pain when he’s 17, you failed in your duty to keep him from annoying others. If your child is paralyzed in an accident when he’s 30, you failed in your duty to preemptively eliminate him before he became a burden on the public.
Everyone’s life is subject to post-hoc revisionism, and most of us, by this reasoning, should never have been conceived. Our parents failed in their duty to be sterilized in advance of us.
Sweet. I love adoption.
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