Reclaiming Our Children

This Memorial Day...Remembering

our fallen today..especially those I came to know from my son Mikes service in the Marines...

Mike Glover

Byron Norwood

Robert Mininger

May they rest in peace..please pray for their families....

Feeling Alone in your abortion Regret?

You're not..there are countless people out there who feel the same way:

http://www.abort73.com/testimony/P0/index.php

In the Midst of Temptations

Sometimes during the healing journey we can be assailed with thoughts of unforgivness and self hatred.

These thoughts can be intrusive, leaving little room for anything else going through our heads.

In times of attack like this what is the answer?

Pick up the phone and call someone who can help you in your healing journey, a friend who knows PA, a clergy member or a professional counselor...especially if youare involved in a post abortion program, PICK UP THE PHONE.

My number one rule..when I do not want to do something and have to cause violence to myself to do it..it is a sure sign I am definitely suppose to do it!

Recognize that even if you feel like you are going backwards you most likely you are not, you are just working through another layer of healing. Sometimes we feel better for a while then we feel like we are beginning all over again when in fact we are just going a little deeper into our healing because God wants to get to the core!

Most importantly pray and entrust yourself to God, who longs for your healing. Every time a crazy "stinking thinking" thought of abortion comes into your mind, say a prayer and offer it up for good(someone you know who is suffering...someone thinking of abortion etc etc)...turning it into a positive will most times cause the thoughts to flee.... remember..you are loved and forgiven..claim it! It is yours.....

Remember,He cannot come in if you do not open the door, but He is right there!

Coerced/forced abortion

Where is the outrage from Planned Parenthood, NARAL etc ? Lots of prayers....

More than 1,000 under 15s had an abortion last year

More than 1,000 children under 15 had an abortion last year, raising fears they could be using terminations as form of contraception.

 

By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
Published: 7:30AM BST 26 May 2010

In total 1,047 young people aged either 14 or younger had an abortion in 2009 the figures show, a slight drop on the previous year

The figures were released just a day after the first advert for abortion was shown on British television.

read the rest here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7764994/More-than-1000-under-15s-had-an-abortion-last-year.html

It all makes me wonder if hearts are getting so hard abortion is truly becoming destigmatized as the pro abortion lobby wants it to be. These kids grew up thinking abortion is ok...I fear the sin is on our hands for allowing it to be so....what a great injustice we have done to the unborn, women and society

Jordanian 'murdered his daughter in abortion bid'

This is beyond terrible...

A man in Jordan is reported to have been charged with murdering his teenage daughter after he cut an unborn baby he had fathered from her body.

The man confessed to raping his 19-year-old daughter for five years, judicial sources told the Jordan Times.

Police said the man, who has not been identified, handed himself in to police in the Zarqa region on Sunday.

The charges have shocked Jordanian officials who told reporters they had never seen anything like it.

In his testimony to police in the region north-east of Amman, the 46-year-old man said after he discovered that his daughter was pregnant with his child, he took a carpet-cutter and cut her open with it.

He then removed thefoetus and threw it away, reports said.

"The 19-year-old woman died on Sunday morning of severe internal bleeding after her father performed an abortion to get rid of a five-month-old foetus to hide his crime," a police spokesman told the Agence France Presse news agency.

He stitched up the wound, but he could not stop her bleeding and she died soon after.

here is the rest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/10149552.stm

crazy but all I kept thinking about when I was reading this horrific story  was if they were here, he probably could have taken his daughter to Planned Parenthood, no questions asked. Makes you wonder how many victims of rape and incest get covered up in our country...

In Praise of His Grace

In Praise of His Grace

 

 Years of living in a great abyss

Denial shielding from the child I miss

No freedom ever, to know loving bliss

For fear of finding the emptiness

 

A shell of a person, I acted out a part

In order to cover my deadened heart

I searched for peace, but I found none

Peace left my life with the death of my son

 

But You God, loved me more in this loveless place

And you sought me out to instill your grace

You invited me to trust you in my misery

And you promised me mercy to set me free

 

Fully aware of my faults and the sins that were there

You came to me in my darkest despair

You showed me your love helping me to break through

No human could do it, it had to be You

 

For only your love could mend the distortion

The shame, grief and lies that come with abortion

Yes, only Your loves deep enough to break through

And replace all the pain with the love that is you

 

My life is in praise of Your life now within

That has caused me to flee from occasions of sin

I shutter to think where my life now would be

If You had not given your mercy to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woman Dies From Botched Abortion at Marie Stopes Clinic as British Ads Run

Not that we did not know this already, but so much for "safe" abortions....

Woman Dies From Botched Abortion at Marie Stopes Clinic as British Ads Run

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor

May 24, 2010

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- As the Marie Stopes International abortion business begins running abortion ads on television in England tonight, news surfaces that a woman in India died from a botched legal abortion at an MSI abortion center. She is one of several women to have died recently in India from failed abortions.

According to the Republica newspaper, a woman identified as Durga Devi Khadka went to a Marie Stopes center for an abortion of her 10-week-old unborn child.

She died at the MSI facility located in Damak Municipality-15 of Jhapa district on Sunday night.

Her family members told the newspaper they blame the "shoddy" practices and abortion practitioner at the Marie Stopes abortion business. Police have detained Chitra Bahadur Karki, the owner of the abortion center, for an investigation.

The abortion death comes as MSI is running new abortion commercials on Channel 4, despite criticism from pro-life groups and a potential legal challenge.

the rest is here:http://www.lifenews.com/int1552.html

An act of love?

"We believe that an abortion can be an act of love."Wow! That is one of the statements on the site "45 million Voices", "What we Believe" section.

Here is their litany of beliefs:

Values and Beliefs

 

• We believe in the transformative power of speaking our abortion stories 
      
  We believe every woman has the right to choose abortion without judgment   
  
  We believe abortion is a normal choice that women make   
  
  We believe in supporting women who have had abortions, no questions asked  
  
  We believe when a woman decides to have an abortion she is doing the very best she can  
   
  We believe “pro-choice” and “anti-choice” do not always speak to a woman’s experience, that there should simply be CHOICE   
  
  We believe in honesty, truth-telling, and heart-to-heart communication   
  
  We believe in the power of voice to heal wounds, and to give other women the courage to act and speak   
  
  We believe abortion providers must be protected and supported by communities   
  
  We believe the stigma and shame associated with abortion extends to abortion clinic staff, and these women and men are included in our story telling   
  
  We believe in the ability of women to make decisions for themselves and their family
     
  We believe that women have been terminating unintended pregnancies for thousands of years and will continue to do so with or with out the support of their family and society
    
  We believe that an abortion can be an act of love

 

It is interesting to note that the more they attempt to make abortion normal and remove the stigma, the more things seem to be turning in the other direction.
It is so sad to think that they can actually believe abortion is an act of love for anyone, including themselves.

In reading about the founders, one, Kate gives as a positive the fact that she worked for George Tiller and states she "has held the hands of thousands of women before, during, and after their abortion

 

I have held some of those same hands  who have gone to Tiller, but way after their abortion, when they have been filled with remorse, and have been so distraught when they realized what they had done and how they had been lied to.

I wonder if she has held any hands then?

The Name "Entering Canaan"

What’s In a Name?

 

So much of “Entering Canaan” has been a miracle to me. I feel like a bystander who God has richly blessed to reveal His desire for this ministry. So much of its inception flowed from His grace, and although The Sisters and I brought it materially into being, it was truly born of His Spirit.

 

Perhaps one of the biggest evidences of His grace was in naming the ministry. We had been asked to write a manual for the post abortive work we were doing, but we had no name for it, so we began to pray for God to reveal to us what it was He wanted the ministry to be called. As so often has been the case in this work, our name was revealed in the same way many other aspects of the ministry were; while in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

 

While doing a Holy Hour and thinking about everything but a name for the ministry, I suddenly was hit in a very clear way with “Entering Canaan”. I remember thinking, “What the heck is that suppose to mean God? How would this fit in with post abortion healing?” I knew Canaan was the Promised Land, but I had no clue as to how this would fit into the ministry.  I decided I would go home and read the story of the Israelites journey.

 

As I moved through the books of the bible relating their journey, it began to make so much sense that this would be the name. For the Israelites, the journey into Canaan was filled with much trial and tribulation. So many times they wanted to quit because they could not handle the temptations and the many battles they had to fight. Some abandoned the journey, some worshipped false gods, but others persevered and trusted in the promise of God, that they should not fear, that He would be with them always, even if they did not feel or see His presence, and that they would reach the Promised Land. These bibles verses were so reminiscent of the journey to post abortion healing I had to smile…of course “Entering Canaan”! Like the Israelites, so many times we who are post abortive are tempted to quit our healing journey. We want to turn back into denial, to worship false gods and believe the lies of the devil. We do not trust the Lord being with us, but if we preserve, like the promise to the Israelites His promises hold true to us.

 

But my amazement with God did not stop there. As I finished reading I was overcome with awe when I noticed which book of the bible it was that the Israelites actually entered Canaan. The book of Joshua. The same name I had given my aborted son over twenty year before. It was as if God had it planned from the beginning, and there was no doubt as to what the ministry would be named.

 

“And so, the Lord gave to Israel the land He had sworn to their fathers He would give them. Once they had conquered and occupied it, the Lord gave them peace on every side, just as He has promised their fathers. Not one of their enemies could withstand them; the Lord brought all their enemies under their power. Not a single promise that the Lord made to the house of Israel was broken; every one was fulfilled.” Joshua 21: 43-45

 

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