sanctity of life

I've spent a part of my day beginning to lay out our Sanctity of Life weekend.

I'm completely overwhelmed as I watch video after video, trying to find something that conveys the complete fallenness this act encompasses.

I've only told a couple of people in the past 6 months or so, how completely sure I am that God wants me to be involved in this somehow, and I just can't figure out how.

Maybe just planning an amazing service that speaks of forgiveness and alternative choices?

Maybe physically volunteering at RPS?

That just doesn't feel like it's enough.

An unborn baby is killed every 20 seconds in America.

I don't know how God stands to look at us....

can I really make a difference

I've been wondering lately if I can really make a difference.

Not in a I'm giving up trying sort of way, but kind of a paralyzed sort of way.

Have you ever felt strongly about something but didn't begin doing anything about it because you believe the lie that 'little ole you' can't make a difference with this real big problem?

That's where I am right now with the issue of abortion and the loss of precious, innocent life, lives that belong to the Lord!  What can I do?

I've been praying about it and have been horrified to learn even
more about what happens to the babies.

Although there are endless evils that our country now accepts that we once took a stand against, I wonder if this issue is one of the biggest abominations to the Lord that we've ever embraced as acceptable?

For some reason, I just can't get this issue off my mind, so I'm trying to listen and preparing to obey.

"Lord, I pray for an awakening against this horrible issue - please use me if there is anything you feel I can do!  I pray for mom's so desperate that they feel abortion is their only alternative - bring someone along beside them that can speak truth into their lives!"  Amen

abortion

I've told you before that I often avoid visual things like movies, and reading material that contain images that may occupy my mind.  Even things others may be able to watch without any affect on their lives, I just can't handle.  So I don't.

My mother recently asked me to watch a video while I was at her home which I didn't realize would contain extremely graphic REAL images of abortion at different stages and ending with a partial birth abortion.  I will never forget them although I wish I could.

Many were babies that could have been born and lived on their own with little help.

These are all human children.  How anyone could think otherwise I don't understand.  I don't have a dislike of, or un-forgiveness for any woman who has ever had an abortion, I honestly ache for them and for the babies.  And our God is a God longing to forgive.

I believe with all my heart however, that God is deeply saddened by our apparent disregard for anything that causes us an inconvenience.

I once begged a young lady who wanted an abortion not to have one.  I will never forget that conversation.  It was an inconvenience, embarrassment for her family, and she was young.  I tried to explain that her relationship choice which resulted in an unwanted baby contained no grounds for abortion.  There are opportunities to prevent pregnancy by choosing many forms of birth control.  I went on to explain this baby could fulfill desperate people's longing to adopt, if she would just have the child and give it up for adoption.  I begged her, we prayed, I begged....   3 days later she killed her baby.

This young lady claims the name of Christ - I am not to judge anyone, but how believers could support abortion in anyway is completely outside my ability to understand.

I don't claim to know the answers for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.  Experiencing that may to compare to death itself.

....my guess about babies that are aborted from a rape or incest is that God loves those babies just as much.