Monday, 25 March 2013
Day Forty-One
This blog is now on hiatus until next Lent. If you wish to reach the blog admin please email me at terrace40daysforlife at gmail dot com.
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Day Forty!
YOU DID IT!
Thank you Lord for giving all the participants in 40 Days For Life the strength, the courage, the boldness and most of all the faith to give of themselves so unselfishly for the lives of others. Thank you Lord for lives saved – the babies, the mothers, the fathers, and the grandparents. For all are partakers of the blessing when the decision for life is made. We pray and look forward to the day when abortion is no longer the mindset of our nation.
Next years 40 DFL Campaign will commence March 5, 2014 unless Dr. Lani Almas has a change of heart and stops committing abortions at Mills Memorial Hospital. Keep fasting and praying for her conversion!
Wishing you all a spiritually profitable Holy Week and a joyous Easter!
Your blog admin/vigil coordinator.
Thank you Lord for giving all the participants in 40 Days For Life the strength, the courage, the boldness and most of all the faith to give of themselves so unselfishly for the lives of others. Thank you Lord for lives saved – the babies, the mothers, the fathers, and the grandparents. For all are partakers of the blessing when the decision for life is made. We pray and look forward to the day when abortion is no longer the mindset of our nation.
Next years 40 DFL Campaign will commence March 5, 2014 unless Dr. Lani Almas has a change of heart and stops committing abortions at Mills Memorial Hospital. Keep fasting and praying for her conversion!
Wishing you all a spiritually profitable Holy Week and a joyous Easter!
Your blog admin/vigil coordinator.
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Friday, 22 March 2013
Day Thirty-Eight
I woke up with a terrible headache this morning. I did not feel well enough to go to work so I called in sick. I was very sad because this meant I was also going to miss what would likely have been my final shift at 40 DFL for this year. I took a Tylenol and rested and in about 2 hours was feeling much better. I headed off to work and went to the hospital at noon!
My prayer today was that people that needed to see 40 DFL would drive by or stop and talk. My prayers were answered.
There are some ladies that drive by every day at noon and wave but today they stopped. They are Pro-Life and it was a pleasure to speak with them. One of them gave me a 'diary of a preborn' child which you can read if you click here.
About half way through my hour who should drive by but my old neighbour - the one I wrote about yesterday! She gave me a half smile.
Towards the end of my shift a woman I knew from a grief support group I attended years ago exited the hospital and got into her car. She drove by me and I waved at her but she only smirked at me. I wish that she had stopped to talk.
A man I am guessing to be in his mid-thirties walked by and yelled across the street, "What's this 40 Days for Life?" I yelled back, "I'm praying for an end to abortion!" He just said "oh" like I'd told him I was standing there advertising Tupperware.
Another lady sat in her car in the parking lot the whole time I was there. She kept looking at me but didn't come over or wave or give me a rude gesture. I wondered if she was waiting for someone who was having an abortion.
There are still two days left to pray at Mills Memorial - please join us.
My prayer today was that people that needed to see 40 DFL would drive by or stop and talk. My prayers were answered.
There are some ladies that drive by every day at noon and wave but today they stopped. They are Pro-Life and it was a pleasure to speak with them. One of them gave me a 'diary of a preborn' child which you can read if you click here.
About half way through my hour who should drive by but my old neighbour - the one I wrote about yesterday! She gave me a half smile.
Towards the end of my shift a woman I knew from a grief support group I attended years ago exited the hospital and got into her car. She drove by me and I waved at her but she only smirked at me. I wish that she had stopped to talk.
A man I am guessing to be in his mid-thirties walked by and yelled across the street, "What's this 40 Days for Life?" I yelled back, "I'm praying for an end to abortion!" He just said "oh" like I'd told him I was standing there advertising Tupperware.
Another lady sat in her car in the parking lot the whole time I was there. She kept looking at me but didn't come over or wave or give me a rude gesture. I wondered if she was waiting for someone who was having an abortion.
There are still two days left to pray at Mills Memorial - please join us.
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Day Thirty-Seven
Quiet day at the hospital today. The lone protester didn't even make much fuss. She rolled down her window as she drove by and said in a low voice, "freedom of choice, freedom of choice."
You know what choice is? It's chocolate or vanilla, it's white bread or brown, it's roses or carnations.
And when people trot out that overused word - choice - we have to ask, "Freedom to choose what?" Randy Alcorn, in his book "Prolife Answers to Prochoice Arguments" says, "We are prochoice in matters of religion, politics and lifestyle, even when people choose beliefs and behaviours we don't agree with. But must of us are decidedly not prochoice when it comes to murder, rape, kidnapping, armed robbery, and child abuse. When we oppose the right to choose rape or child abuse, we aren't opposing a right; we're opposing a wrong."
I was away visiting family last week and had a chilling conversation with an old neighbour while we waited to board our flight out of Terrace. We were catching up on news about our children and I asked her how many children her eldest had. She said three and rolled her eyes and told me with a laugh "but I told her she didn't have to have the last one." I was shocked. Imagine talking that way about your own family member, your own grandchild! I know several couples that are childless due to infertility and this flippant remark made me think of them and their own unsuccessful quest to have a family. I'd always liked this neighbour but this cut me to the core. Pray for her.
Please come to Mills Memorial tomorrow - it's Abortion Day - and we need your prayers and your presence.
You know what choice is? It's chocolate or vanilla, it's white bread or brown, it's roses or carnations.
And when people trot out that overused word - choice - we have to ask, "Freedom to choose what?" Randy Alcorn, in his book "Prolife Answers to Prochoice Arguments" says, "We are prochoice in matters of religion, politics and lifestyle, even when people choose beliefs and behaviours we don't agree with. But must of us are decidedly not prochoice when it comes to murder, rape, kidnapping, armed robbery, and child abuse. When we oppose the right to choose rape or child abuse, we aren't opposing a right; we're opposing a wrong."
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I was away visiting family last week and had a chilling conversation with an old neighbour while we waited to board our flight out of Terrace. We were catching up on news about our children and I asked her how many children her eldest had. She said three and rolled her eyes and told me with a laugh "but I told her she didn't have to have the last one." I was shocked. Imagine talking that way about your own family member, your own grandchild! I know several couples that are childless due to infertility and this flippant remark made me think of them and their own unsuccessful quest to have a family. I'd always liked this neighbour but this cut me to the core. Pray for her.
Please come to Mills Memorial tomorrow - it's Abortion Day - and we need your prayers and your presence.
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Day Thirty-Six
It was a beautiful day today - it's hardly been a sacrifice to stand at the hospital for an hour at a time. Nobody stopped to chat today but the bus driver was happy to see me in my usual spot (I was out of town for a few days) and gave me a big wave. One of his passengers made sure to catch my attention and gave me a thumbs up signal but his face was so fierce I wondered if he had been affected by abortion in some way.
I think the people that express the most emotion when they see any of us standing there with our blue and white signs - whether they are supportive or they think they hate us - are people who have been deeply affected by abortion. Maybe they thought it was a good idea at first but came to realize it was not. Mabye the mother was injured. Maybe the abortion caused a breakdown in a close relationship. Maybe those involved realized too late that they were aborting a baby, not a clump of cells or tissue.
Even as 40 Days for Life Spring 2013 winds down let us continue to pray for anyone affected by abortion. Let us pray our society stops seeing certain segments of the population as 'disposable' or 'inconvenient'. Let us pray especially for a change of heart for abortionists such as Dr. Almas and her nurse Kathy Geurin.
I think the people that express the most emotion when they see any of us standing there with our blue and white signs - whether they are supportive or they think they hate us - are people who have been deeply affected by abortion. Maybe they thought it was a good idea at first but came to realize it was not. Mabye the mother was injured. Maybe the abortion caused a breakdown in a close relationship. Maybe those involved realized too late that they were aborting a baby, not a clump of cells or tissue.
Even as 40 Days for Life Spring 2013 winds down let us continue to pray for anyone affected by abortion. Let us pray our society stops seeing certain segments of the population as 'disposable' or 'inconvenient'. Let us pray especially for a change of heart for abortionists such as Dr. Almas and her nurse Kathy Geurin.
Wash yourselves, make yourselves
clean; Put away the evil of your doings
from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,
Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke
the oppressor; Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:16-17
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Day Twenty-Nine
New pope elected today and he's Pro-Life!
I'm away for a few days and not sure if I will have time to blog.
See you back here on Tuesday.
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