A Day of Recollection Jesuit Juniors

BIRTH AND DEATH

By Bro: Jude Dsj

The UNICEF estimates that an average of 353,000 babies are born each day around the world. The crude birth rate is 18.9 births per 1,000 population or 255 births globally per minute or 4.3 births every second (as of Dec. 2013 estimate)

You're never that far from your mom. During pregnancy, moms and children swap cells via their connection through the placenta. In some cases, these cells persist in mom's body, even for years. Research by Tufts University School of Medicine geneticist Diana Bianchi once revealed a mother with her 27-year-old son's cells still inside her. No one knows whether the cells have any effect on the maternal body, though some researchers suspect they may either contribute to or protect from autoimmune disease.

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• "A Human body can bear only up to 45 del (units) of pain. Yet at time of giving birth, a mother feels up to 57 Del (units) of pain. This is similar to 20 bones getting fractured at the sChildbirth, also known as labour, delivery, birth, partus, or parturition, is the culmination of a period of pregnancy with the expulsion of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and birth of the infant, and the expulsion of the placenta.

• Each year about 0.5 million women die due to pregnancy and childbirth, 7 million have serious long term complications, and 50 million have negative outcomes following delivery. Most of these issues occur in the developing world.

• Some 21,000 children die every day around the world.• That is equivalent to:• 1 child dying every 4 seconds• 14 children dying every minute• A 2011 Libya conflict-scale death toll every day• A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring every 10 days• A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every 11 days• An Iraq-scale death toll every 19–46 days• Just under 7.6 million children dying every year• Some 92 million children dying between 2000 and 2010• The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable

diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. Despite the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.

• John 16:21 ESV / 104 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

• When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

• Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

• “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

• Isaiah 66:7-12 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful • “Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain

came upon her she delivered a son. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?” says the Lord; “shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?” says your God. “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her; that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance.” ...

• What happens when you die? It’s a question that has crossed everyone’s mind, because death happens to everyone, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, or status. It is the unconquerable foe that has taken over the likes of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. Postulates or theories by minds like Einstein or Stephen Hawking can never be proved upon this subject. So what does the Bible say?

• What happens after death? The Bible compares death to sleep more than fifty times. After death we are asleep, we are unconscious; we are not aware of the passing of time or of what is going on around us. That is what death is like as well. The Bible says, “for the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing… their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, NKJV,

• 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 ESV / 150 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

• Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

• John 5:28-29 ESV / 60 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful • Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming

when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

• Revelation 21:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful • But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the

detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

• This is what the apostle Peter had in mind when he wrote to the Christians in Asia Minor, "conduct yourselves in fear [in reverence for our Lord] during the time of your stay upon the earth." (1 Pet. 3:17). We all must give to our Lord an account of our lives, how we used our talents, spiritual gifts and resources, for, as the apostle Paul says in his Ephesian letter, "we are [God's] workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them" (Eph. 2:10). Birthdays, then, are suitable occasions to check and see if we are living a meaningful spiritual life, one that brings praise and honor to the One who has given his life for us so that we could experience eternal life even now.

• Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth.

• The vast majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is undernourished.

• Asia is the continent with the most hungry people - two thirds of the total. The percentage in southern Asia has fallen in recent years but in western Asia it has increased slightly.

• Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest prevalence (percentage of population) of hunger. One person in four there is undernourished.

• Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five - 3.1 million children each year. One out of six children -- roughly 100 million -- in developing countries is underweight. One in four of the world's children are stunted. In developing countries the proportion can rise to one in three. If women farmers had the same access to resources as men, the number of hungry in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million. 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone. WFP calculates that US$3.2 billion is needed per year to reach all 66 million hungry school-age children.

Your Choice We can’t act on our emotional impulses Feelings are always going to be there I can’t run away from that rather we have to use wisely.Discipline the negative feeling. We should know how to control our feelings .Don’t let the flesh to rule.

• It is hard to love the people when they are not nice to us.

• Two kinds of pain are pain of discipline and pain of regrets.

• How many times we have acted on our emotions.• How many of fall into relationship out of our

emotion.• Don’t let the Flesh to have it on its own way. • You find same weakness after ten years. • If you don’t do your duty and if you r doing what

you suppose to do and if you are not good to people you are going.

• When we make the right choices in a difficult time there we will see God s mighty.

• If you make a right choices God will promote you.

• God is not going to change anything around you unless you change yourselves.

• We want everybody to change but not me I am perfect.

Problems and people are like sandpapers to rub a bit that you may become smoother and shining bit more

God wants us to be stable and constant.

Don’t let your feelings run your life don’t take easy way out.

Work hard and discipline your life.