{"id":5529,"date":"2006-09-29T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/no-greater-love.html"},"modified":"2006-09-29T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T10:42:11","slug":"no-greater-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/no-greater-love.html","title":{"rendered":"No greater love"},"content":{"rendered":"

A heart-rending story from Arizona, but a story that is about nothing but love:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The couple was faced with considering the doctors\u2019 suggestions of an abortion, which would allow Veronica to undergo chemotherapy, or saving the baby, which would mean taking the chance that the mother herself would die.  When the baby reportedly appeared to Veronica in a dream, Veronica knew she could not have the abortion.  <\/p>\n

Aaron recalled his wife\u2019s decision to save the baby the next morning.  \u201cGod has given this to me and he knows why,\u201d she told him.<\/p>\n

During the months that followed Veronica\u2019s cancer took hold of her body and the couple reached out in faith.  Yuma Sun reporter, Darin Fenger, told CNA that Aaron Celis first contacted the press with the story because he wanted more prayers for the mother and baby. \u201cShe was a very faithful woman,\u201d Fenger recalled.  <\/p>\n

Eventually, however, the cancer proved too strong and Veronica slipped into a coma and eventually succumbed to the cancer, leaving her husband with the last wish that he \u201ctake care of the baby.\u201d  Which is why, when her last chances at life had passed, Celis knew he must keep his wife on life support until the baby could be born.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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