Rachel's Hope
After Abortion Healing and
Reconciliation for Catholic Women
(or Catholic friendly)
How Rachel's Hope Began
God's Plan is Bigger Than Our Own
by Rosemary Benefield RN, MA & MPC
It seems that whatever God has a job for
me, he first puts the desire in my heart. It was while working in the
Pregnancy Counseling Office at
As of
Sept. 2004, there has been 10 years of successful retreats, with over 400 women and about
50 men who have attended. In 1998 I had
a desire to do more. I wanted to write about abortion aftermath. I
have a good number of books on the subject, so I couldn't see myself writing a
book. As this desire was percolating in my mind, I saw an ad in the Journal
of Christian Nursing asking for authors to write courses for nurses Continuing
Education Units. This immediately gave me a vision of reaching out to a
couple thousand nurses. When I finished writing the
course it was given to the editor to determine if it was acceptable for
publication. Well, God had an intervention for the editor in His
plan. The editor was personally touched and received healing through the
course because her mother had had an abortion before she was born. It was
on the mother's death bed that she told the whole family about her abortion,
upsetting everyone in the family. Now, she and the whole family may be
able to better understand their mother. In the past ten years my
husband and I have written a number of articles in journals and many newspaper articles
have been written about the retreats and workshops, as well as a Spanish
program was developed to reach out to the Spanish population.
God has a plan bigger than my own. I will only be privileged to hear a
small portion of His plan of healing for women and men through the women’s
retreats, the men’s workshops and the Nursing Course.
The course Beyond Grief: Abortion Aftermath may be purchased by contacting the National Center of Continuing Education at www.nursece.com or by calling 1-800-824-1254
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