We are all made to be a part of a community. Strong people with God-given identities, unique gifts, and talents are a part of vital families and those families make up communities. To realize the richness of that, being in a community connecting to so many diversely gifted people, the potential is staggering and limited only by our unawareness.
Read MorePeople process grief in many ways and all ways must be fully honored. It takes an emotionally healthy person/environment to let people express and process those emotions in healthy ways. Grief over life’s difficult decisions generates many hard emotions. It is sometimes like a raging storm that will never end. Processing through them is tricky as it is not healthy to stuff them regularly and it is not healthy to deflect them on someone else in anger.
Read MoreHow easy it is for women who are under so much pressure to buy into this lie about “Women’s Liberation”. From the stories of our clients and volunteers who have gone through healing from an abortion loss, they share how degrading an abortion experience truly is for women and even men. Not only does it degrade a woman’s body physically, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as well.
Read MoreHow do we show value for human life? On the quality of resources or the projected success of labor? Some say if a baby has a disability, or is born into illegitimacy or poverty, they have a right to end that precious life. That is a misguided set of criteria for making a decision with such eternal impact! In our limited human understanding, we have a tendency to look through a prism of finite thinking - we cannot know for certain of our next breath let alone the future - or the great contribution that one life has to give our generation. In our mere humanness, we are not capable of truly understanding the consequences of that decision.
Read MoreWe hear a lot of pushback from the world that we should mind our own business and not intercede for these women - that this is a private matter between the woman and her doctor. Our advocates know that these women are in trauma and crisis and would never choose this if not for these pressures and lies. For the benefit of these mothers and their precious babies, we continue to take a stand and intercede on their behalf.
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