Moncton Right To Life held its seventh Focus On Life Benefit Dinner tonight. Guests were plenty (well over 200); we even had to add two extra tables at the very last moment. The food was delicious. And we had a couple of guest speakers to deliver the pro-life message. 
Our first speaker was Pam Chase, a mother of 7 adopted children. All of them were discarded by their biological parents because they were disabled. All of them were regarded as write-offs by the doctors who refused to believe those children could ever live a normal life. But Pam listened to her heart, not to the skeptics. Her love and her dedication made not just one but seven miracles happen. Pam raised 7 disabled children - all of them ended up achieving much more than anybody ever hoped. Her oldest children have already graduated from high school, one is now serving in the military... Every life is a masterpiece - that was Pam's message. A message to which Pam and her children are a living proof.
Our next speaker was David MacDonald. He used to have a great career in music. He was the Rock & Roll Cat in the First U.S. National tour of Cats. He was on Broadway, produced rap music in Harlem and for CBS... Then he made a terrible choice. He convinced his girlfriend to abort. Abortion didn't solve their problem; it didn't turn back time, making the baby disappear; it made David and his girlfriend parents of a dead baby. David told us how he lost everything he was hoping to maintain once the baby was aborted. His girlfriend left him. He fell into addiction and ruined his voice. His singing career was ruined. None of his friends and admirers was willing to help. David spent years trying to rebuild his life - with no success - until God showed him the way. David had a powerful Christian experience and became Catholic. His voice came back and he tells people through songs about what happened to him. Life is the only choice - that's the message David wants to share with everyone, urging people not to make the same mistake he did...
Finally - there were door prizes. One of which - the X-Box 360, was contributed by yours truly. Too bad my digital camera glitched so the picture of the lucky winner passing the X-Box to one of our young volunteers didn't turn out well. Today was also the day I turned 31. And I can tell you - there's nothing better than having over 200 of your pro-life friends wishing you a happy birthday.
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