That’s kind of life we should live! Our words should reflect our trust in a God who delights in keeping his word. Since “out of abundance of heart mouth speaks” (Matt. 12: 34b), our words should be a direct reflection of our trust in God’s unshakable ability – and desire – to make good on promises he made to his children.

Paul said it this way to Corinthians: “It is written: ‘I believed; therefore I have spoken.’ With same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak” (2 Cor. 4: 13).

Can you worry about your sickness and praise God for your healing at same time? It’s time to choose one or other.

Can you thank God for your child’s salvation at same time you’re worrying about friends they’ve chosen? Nope, can’t pull that one off either!

Can you stress out about your financial situation while praising God for supplying all your needs? Those two feelings can’t co-exist, can they?

Similarly, this woman was on verge of greatest miracle of her life, and her words reflected that. While she was probably battling that stubborn voice of doubt inside that told her to go back home and get in bed, she had a faith that told her to press on through crowd and declare God’s goodness no matter what doubt and fear said.

So today, no matter what you’re facing, you have a choice.

Will you chose to believe lies assigned to keep you in a rut of mediocrity, lack or sickness? Will you give in to thoughts that keep your God from moving in area of your deepest need? Or, will you declare out loud, just like this woman did, that one touch of Master will change your situation in a heartbeat.

Grab hold of his unchanging truth today. Ignore doubt and fear.

Open your mouth, and keep saying it!

Sadly, many "good" Catholics have jumped aboard this guilt-free cultural bandwagon. In fact, thousands who declare themselves pro-life on abortion issue vehemently defend their "right" to contraception. Their participation is often justified by simple disclaimers like, "I just don't happen to agree with Church on that issue." The more defiant will assert that, "The Church has no business in my bedroom" or ever-popular, "What does pope know about cost of raising kids?"

These fellow Catholics either fail to fully realize, or they simply deny, fact that every chemical method of contraception is abortifacient. Every pill, implant, or injection, whether before or morning after, works to ensure pregnancy does not occur. They all do this by flushing out a fertilized egg if necessary. This is abortion. It is a clinical fact. A completely unique human life is summarily ended in privacy of our own home.

This reality cannot be softened or denied. It cannot be politically corrected. Drug companies even try to mitigate evil by redefining when life begins. They attempt to sell us on notion that life does not begin at conception but at implantation or first sensation. This is a lie. Adopting this notion, however, helps couples assuage any lingering guilt while buying more time for vendor's product to be used. The number of innocent lives brought to an end each day in abortion mills pales in comparison to those ended in American bedroom.

Enter John Kerry, poster boy for disobedience to Church's teachings. He embraces abortion while brazenly accepting Eucharist. How many "good" Catholics join him and "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin?" Some of these same Catholics publicly lambaste Senator Kerry for his abortion stand yet knowingly engage in contraceptive practices themselves. Others quietly support his behavior in order to prolong "legitimacy" of abortion and protect their contraceptive choices. Like our defiant Senator, are any of these folks piously accepting Eucharist each Sunday? Like him, are they fooling themselves by proclaiming that their faith life is separate from their "real" life?

Senator Kerry is most definitely in need of our prayers. He needs to turn in humility to Holy Mother Church. He needs to meet with his bishop to obtain knowledge and guidance he lacks. Most of all, he needs to honor Eucharist.

Many of us must also undertake this same journey. Before wallowing in scandal incited by a politician, each of us must look hard at our own level of Christian obedience. Perhaps we have been duped into participation in culture of death. If so, are we willing to embrace "new morality" at price of our very souls?