Shining The Light

My sister’s scar is front and center. You can’t miss it. Right there, sitting on her forehead. It’s been there forever. It’s a part of her. It’s funny though, when I look at her face to face, I don’t see it anymore. But, there are times, when she’s hot, or angry, and her face turns red, the wide white scar stands out to be noticed. And then I remember. I remember the day. And every time I remember, I want to take her in my arms and hug her up and comfort her.

Have you ever been involved in someone’s scar? What happened that day, when someone you love went through that inescapable pain? Do you wish you could have prevented it, done more, rescued them?

We were outside playing; she was 4 years old and cute as cute could be. Such a sweet little angel face, without a scar. She and her friend, the boy next door, were playing with their toys, one being a heavy metal truck. That was back when toys weren’t made of plastic. I guess the manufacturer didn’t have a clue that their toy was going to be used as a lethal weapon.

The six-year old me was away from the scene of the crime, playing at a distance, but there was no mistaking something was seriously wrong when my little sister, wailing and bleeding with a gaping gash in her forehead, managed to find me. I wanted to cry too and even more so when we couldn’t get into the house. Memories are foggy, but the horror of not being able to open the stuck door to the house was unforgettable. It was so frightening not to be able to get her to safety.

So, in some ways, her scar is my scar.

To this day, when I see that someone has a scar, I get curious and wonder what the story is behind it.  I want to comfort them and say, “Oh, you poor thing, I’m sure that hurt.” But for those of us who carry hidden scars like the emotional scar of abortion, no one will come up to us and say,  “You poor thing.” How could they, they can’t see the scar in our heart from the loss of a child at our own hands. There is hope for forgiveness from the sin of abortion, but the scars and memories remain.

If you advocate for abortion, if you take your friend, your girlfriend, or your sister to have an abortion, you will be sharing their scar. It will damage you, hidden under your mistaken belief that abortion is a good answer. Then some day, the scar will surface, the pain will haunt you and remind you that you condoned a horrific thing.  Don’t let someone hit you in the head with a truck before you come to the realization that abortion is painful and leaves a scar.

Most people know who the actor Mark Ruffalo is: cute, so utterly watchable on screen in romantic comedies, and plays a Super Hero character…well sort of…the Hulk has his anger issues, but nonetheless, Mark Ruffalo is fun to watch. So I was sad to hear that he is using his voice for a less than chivalrous purpose…he speaks to protect and defend abortion. He brought up the issue and talked about his mother whom he says was “forced” to illegally have an abortion. Abortion was illegal in her state, and apparently she crossed to another state and had an abortion in a so-called cheap hotel room. He says, “When I heard the story I was aghast by the lowliness of a society that would make a woman do that. I could not understand its lack of humanity; today is no different.”

I’m so sad to know that he sides with those who are obviously blind to their own inhumanity. So sad that he, and they, can’t see the incongruity of their thoughts and statements. He speaks of the “lowliness of a society,” referring to those who would make laws to protect the life of an innocent child. And in so saying, that those who want the right to take the life of their child, are the pillars of society? Something is amiss here.

I’m so sad to hear him say, “What happened to my mother was a relic of an America that was not free nor equal nor very kind.” I know he, and they, will never get this, but my heart breaks for those who think like this. They just can’t see that they are free, free to say no to sex, which pretty much everyone realizes leads to pregnancy. He’s saying we are not kind when we put laws in place to protect the lives of babies? We are not kind when we work to protect women from abortion because we know how many thousands of women are broken and never forget the hole in their heart that abortion leaves with them?

I’m so sad to lose the voice of a public persona who could advocate for saving lives instead of taking them. Mr. Ruffalo concludes by saying that he trusts women with their choices, he trusts them with their bodies and he trusts them with their children. He has decided to speak for women and mothers; I guess he’s saying that he trusts mothers to make the right choice for their children, that they would have their best interest at heart. Which children? The ones they are going to deny life to? I just wonder if the children who are about to be ripped from their safe place in the womb and  denied their right to live trust their mothers?

Laws are good. Laws help society keep order. Laws give parameters to those of us who don’t seem to grasp, or care, about right and wrong.

But do laws only change our actions, and not our heart?

In reading about the controversy in Texas regarding this recent abortion bill, I  rejoice that we have legislators who work diligently to protect life. And I’m all on board to see laws passed that will keep us from taking the lives of our pre-born children.

But do laws change the heart?

We can put a bundle of laws in place to impede abortion, even make it illegal, but we know that there will always be a way to circumvent the law. I’ve read articles where some are already conceiving ways to get abortive medications outside of Texas, in Mexico.

Laws may lead to a change of heart in some, but probably few. So what would happen if we could get through to abortion advocates to help them see our pre-born children as made in the image of God, and so only He has the right to choose when life starts and when it ends? How do we affect change of heart to show them that their words about taking care of women, are misplaced when they advocate such a non-loving action as abortion? How do we change their hearts to align with what we know to be true: no child is a mistake.

I long for the time when we go from abortion being the law of the land, to a time when each and every person decides with their hearts that abortion is not love.

Learn to do good.  Seek justice. Help the oppressed.  

Defend the cause of orphans.  Fight for the rights of widows.

Isaiah 1:17

An orphan but not even born yet?? Is it possible to be a child growing in the womb, and be an orphan? Oh yes.

Thousands of people every day choose to abort their child, not always realizing what they are doing. These parents disconnect from their baby, they don’t protect their child from danger and they lay it all on choice. They fall for the convenient falsehood that the child growing inside the womb is, “a blob of tissue,” “it’s not human,” or “it’s not a person yet.” Sadly, children slated for abortion have no parents…they are orphans, left to fend for themselves and fight for their own life, but of course, they can’t.

No matter what the reasons, a baby left behind in the abortionist’s office by her mother, and denied the right to life by her father, is the very definition of an orphan—“A child deprived of parental care and has not been adopted.”

 So who will care for these children, who will speak up for the child in the womb? We must help these orphans when parents fail, we must come to their defense when parents won’t, we must do good when parents don’t.

 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:

to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 1:27

You’ve made the difficult decision to abort your baby. You just took the Mifepristone pill, the first step of the 3-day RU 486 chemical abortion procedure. It was the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make. But you feel you had no “choice.” You don’t earn enough to support a family, your partner will leave you if you don’t abort, and your parents will disown you. Oddly enough, abortion is supposed to be all about our freedom of choice, yet we get backed into a corner by our own fear, other people, and circumstances out of our control.

But what if suddenly, after going through with this first step in this abortion procedure, circumstances that caused you to choose abortion, are changed: you find someone to help you financially, or your partner decides to stay, or your parents are welcoming of a grandchild? Or, you just decide abortion is not a loving alternative. You regret taking this deadly medication and you may be convinced it’s too late, there’s no turning back.

Amazingly enough, it may not be too late! According to an article from Life Issues Institute, there’s a good possibility that you could reverse this life-taking procedure:

“A study recently published in The Annals of Pharmacotherapy revealed there’s a window of opportunity that can potentially reverse a chemical abortion. The intervention occurs after the first dose of mifepristone through an injection of progesterone. The progesterone then works to maintain the lining of the uterus, thereby sustaining the pregnancy. In the study, more than half of the women were able to carry their pregnancies to term.”

 If only we could turn around all of our mistakes and make it right again. What a blessing to have this possibility to save our child even after deciding that abortion was the solution to all our problems. Please consider sharing this information so that this life-saving antidote to chemical abortion is widely known.

For more information on this amazing life-saving opportunity, please go to: http://www.abortionpillreversal.com/

Have you ever seen the videos of the quadruplet babies laughing? It’s so adorable and makes you feel good the rest of the day. These little cute baldies are lying on the bed with their mom, and Dad is behind the camera doing something to make all four of these sweet babies laugh in unison. Now if that isn’t something to put a smile on your face, I don’t know what would. Here’s the link so you can put a smile on your face before you continue this article.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxUulGkLu4I. And another link, same family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=zZH0sNsaAz4&feature=fvwp

Ok, now that you’re back, don’t you just love that? Didn’t that warm your heart?

We don’t know how old these munchkins are but we do know that a few months before this video was made, they were in their mother’s womb, growing and waiting to come meet the world. But, their lives, like millions of other babies in the womb, could have been cut short legally by abortion if their parents had decided to do that. Can you imagine the world without these joyful spirits in it?

Yet, over one million of these carriers of love and joy are snuffed out every year before their time. Why? They are the enemy. They endanger the desires of their parents; they cost too much money, they ruin plans, they’re not convenient, they were conceived in the wrong way, and on and on with the damning evidence. We don’t treat the tiny life growing in us as a baby, an amazing gift; we treat him like the enemy is within.

“It’s not a baby, we caught it in time.” This is what an abortionist said to one young girl as she lay on the abortionist’s table having a first trimester abortion.

They caught the enemy and destroyed him before he could spread any of that precious joy. Aren’t they fortunate.