Day 1 Forget Us

This video was from the first day walking with the Back to Life Movement.  We were walking through a 'bad' area of Houston's city and we had met many people along the way who were curious why 39 women would be wearing the same shirts, and walking in a line through the streets of their neighborhood.  Some of the ladies would tell them, "We are walking from Houston to Dallas, praying for the ending of abortion!"  When the onlookers would hear that they would sometimes not be able to get past the walking from Houston to Dallas part, saying, "What?! Really?! Wow! Ok?"  Other women would have a shock to their soul, as they would hear the word abortion, and suddenly remember their own.  I bet they were surprised that a group of women were taking such a stand to say, "Abortion is wrong, and it hurts women."  Maybe some of the women we passed by had never had anyone ever give the argument that abortion was not the best thing for women, and maybe they were never allowed to feel remorse for what they secretly regretted and grieved over in their hearts.  

Laura Allred, Doug Stringer, Leah Nelson pep talk

Losing a child is an obvious tragedy, but think about losing your child because you paid $400 dollars to have them killed.  Are you allowed to have sorrow for a choice you made?  Even if society says that you should not grieve the loss of an aborted child because it was your decision, the fact is that the way a women was created automatically demands sorrow for loss of her child.  A woman cannot conceive a baby, know it's inside of her, ready to grow and live, and then after it's aborted forget completely about what should have been.  God made woman to bring forth children, and be the protector, nurturer, and Mother for the baby.  When we fail to carry out this purpose it disrupts the divine balance of human nature, and causes disruption within the soul of woman.  

Dr. Alveda King encouraging us

How can this be?  How can our world stand by accepting the fact that 1 out of every 5 pregnancies end in abortion?  Is God surprised by this innocent bloodshed?  Is there any hope for the people of this modern world to turn and be reconciled to God?  Do we even want to change and become right with God?  We have killed God's children, created in His image, and called it a 'good' thing.  In the name of convenience and 'better off' decisions we have taken lives into our own hands, making ourselves out to be our own gods, giving and taking lives for social reasons...how can a society that does not protect their children be 'better off'?  Bloodguilt has now come upon 1 out of every 5 women, and there could not be the aborted child without the man who impregnated the woman...so there are actually 3 people affected by abortion, 2 continue to live affected by their choice, responsible for innocent bloodshed.  Can we ever be free again?  Is the punishment for the shedding of innocent blood irreconcilable?  How can God forget all the evil we have done?

Sing, O heavens!
Be joyful, O earth!
And break out in singing, O mountains!
For the Lord has comforted His people,
And will have mercy on His afflicted.

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,
And my Lord has forgotten me.”

“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
Yet I will not forget you.

Isaiah 49:13-15

There is only one way our world can be saved: the Lord's mercy.  I do not know how God could be so merciful to such evil people.  Being a post-abortive woman I speak from experience.  I know the pain, the shame, the sad regrets, the hopeless, worthless feelings that come after having an abortion.  I know that God sees everything plainly, and that He is holy.  I ran from Him, not believing in His mercy.  When finally I could not live with the darkness anymore, I stumbled across the bible, God's word.  It is truly living and active, and the truth of His love penetrates the darkness with light, and God's word becomes a new life filled with bright promises of good future.  

Our first of many, group photos: 39 walkers

God is not surprised by our sin; we usually have so much pride that we are surprised at our own sins.  The Lord is grieved by our sin, but He never forsakes us, and will not leave us as hopeless orphans.  He created us for a purpose, and to be in His family forever.  The depth of His mercy is that He allows us to choose our paths in life.  We can follow Him unto eternal life, or we can go the way of deception unto death by sin.  

Please hold onto His word, and study these truths diligently.  They alone can keep us steady and safe from falling into temptation.  God's mercy endures throughout our growing up into maturity and holiness.  By His Holy Spirit we can learn to walk in the spirit, and not in the flesh.  We have to be familiar with what God has promised us, and what a great inheritance we have as co-heirs with Christ.  

Papa Lou Engle

We are invited into a great treasure hunt of the knowledge of God.  This hunt will not only pay off in the end, but it now has great rewards: our minds renewed, our vision restored and enlarged, we become a new creation, and our destiny is secured for all eternity!   The only way to true freedom, is to be where the Spirit of the Lord is.  God, our Father, has loved us beyond what words can describe in giving His only Son to bleed and die on the cross for our sins.  He gave Jesus 2000+ years before I ever even killed my child!  His love breaks the boundaries of past, present, and future; and God's love is worthy of honor and respect.  I cannot imagine shunning such an intense love; and I know that no person could cause me to experience so great a love.  Humans forget one another, and have not compassion on each other, but God has never forgotten us!  The Lord our God is our Redeemer, who is Jesus, who always lives to make sure we live forever with Him.  Thank You Jesus

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. 

Hebrews 7:25