Reclaiming Our Children

Student revival

 

 

Ah..great hope...wonderful!Same message as each post abortive person needs..we are ALL sinners in need of His mercy. We are told our faith shames us but those who truly know the faith know it frees us!

Press Conference 2

More coverage of yesterdays press conference, 2 with video. It is interesting to note the women for Cuomo keeps bringing up the life of the mother but does not say why it is necessary in those circumstances to kill the baby.

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S2946096.shtml?cat=300

 

http://www.news10.com/story/21415186/doctors-claim-ny-abortion-bill-would-hurt-women

 

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/New-York-Abortion-Bill-Doctors-Protest-Governor-Andrew-Cuomo-Proposal-193709411.html

 

Back to that Place of Abortion

Just found a video where I totally enter my abortion experience as a teenager...the interviewer, Julie Woodley, really took me back to that place....

http://s3.amazonaws.com/videos.vimeo.com/748/941/74894137.mov?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJCX4YKY455TWB7MQ&Expires=1362057170&Signature=am64vozoek%2FulJVl8suuWJgwg18%3D

 

Albany Trip-Abortion expansion Bill

I will be writing more about this later, but for now I thought I would just send the articles from the press conference we did yesterday in Albany on the Abortion Expansion Bill at the request of the Catholic Conference.

 

Drs Anne Notle, Kyle Beiler, Miram Grossman, Ali Ko Tsai and myself, at their request, went to Albany to speak against Cuomo's bill. We had a great turnout from the press, and I thought everyone was totally awesome, but reading just a few of the articles will tell you how totally biased most were.

 

Anne of course works at the Gianna center in NYC,  Kyle and Ali are og-gyn's and, Miram Grossman is a psychiatrist. Of course, I spoke from the perspective of being post abortive and serving women who had suffered from abortion. I seem to have been totally ignored. No surprised. I am coming to recognize our voices are drowned out in this debate, because we speak the truth from experience and there is nothing they can to do alter that, so they ignore it.

 

I will be posting some video etc at some point.

we did what He asked..it is in His hands....God's will be done.

 

 

http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Drs-claim-NY-govs-abortion-bill-would-hurt-women/xw_D2ndtLEu2xnYpYZVt2w.cspx

 

http://www.stargazette.com/article/20130227/NEWS10/302270084/Doctors-warn-against-expanding-abortion-rights-in-New-York

 

http://statepolitics.lohudblogs.com/2013/02/27/doctors-warn-against-expanding-abortion-rights-in-new-york/

 

http://www.lohud.com/article/20130227/NEWS/302270066/Doctors-warn-against-expanding-abortion-rights-New-York?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|News

 

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/21414992/doctors-claim-ny-govs-abortion-bill-would-hurt-women

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50979318/ns/local_news-albany_ny/#.US9B3TeczTo

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP5f3a74cbe1a847c9b38074f3f0a090d5.html

 

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20130227/NEWS01/302270068

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/341688/doctors-against-andrew-cuomo-s-radical-abortion-expansion-bill-kathryn-jean-lopez

New Orleans "Entering Canaan" Retreat

Albany Press Conference

Will be doing a press conference tomorrow in Albany regarding Governor Cuomo's extreme abortion bill.

Please keep us in your prayers...

Judas & Me

Judas and Me

 

I can always remember thinking as a kid that I never would have betrayed Jesus like Judas had done. I couldn’t understand how he could have made that choice. It all seemed so obvious.

Now, years later and hopefully wiser, I see that I am not so different than Judas. We both thought we knew better than Jesus.

Instead of trusting in the love Jesus had for him and believing Jesus had his best interest at heart, Judas took the situation at hand on himself. Jesus was not doing things the way Judas thought He should be and the Scribes and Pharisees were looking for someone to sell Jesus out. Judas fell right into their hands, betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

After the arrest, Judas felt instant remorse. The light went on and he realized what a grave mistake he had made. He realized he had sinned, “betraying innocent life.” Judas returned to the Scribes and Pharisees and gave them back the 30 pieces of silver, but they wanted no part of him anymore. They had accomplished what they had set out to do and now told him in his despair, “What do we care about that? It is your business.”

If Judas had gone to Jesus even then, if he had asked forgiveness and trusted in His love and mercy, things would have turned out differently for him. Jesus no doubt would have forgiven him and we probably would be reading the book of Judas in the Bible, speaking about the unfathomable mercy and love Jesus had shown him.

But Judas did not do that; his pride and continued lack of trust held him back. Instead of admitting what he had done and seeking forgiveness he gave in to despair and went and hanged himself.

When I think of my abortion, I realize I too sold Jesus out. I did not trust in the love and mercy of God or His divine providence enough to know He would have taken care of both me and my unborn child. I decided to give in to pressure, to trust that others knew better than God. I decided to allow my abortion to happen.

the rest is here: http://afterabortion.org/2003/judas-and-me/

Entering Canaan-the Journey to the Promised Land

of post abortive healing...totally awesome retreat weekend with 28 totally awesome women and Fr Fidelis, CFR...great blessings and graces!

 

Friday night, the desert journey where God allurs us to speak tenderly to our hearts.

"Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert andspeak tenderly to her"

Hosea 2 :14

Sunday-reaching the Promised Land - Entering Canaan

Remembering Joshua

Remembering Joshua – The Gift of Our Faith

 

When I was a teenager I was pressured into an abortion by my dad.  Having hidden my pregnancy for over 4 months my baby was fully formed by the time I underwent a 2nd trimester saline abortion, alone in a hospital room.

 With no information about my baby’s development or what I was going to go through, I spent hours in labor before giving birth to a burnt dead baby boy lying in the bed next to me. To say it was a life altering experience is an understatement. My life was taken away with that of my son. I will always remember looking down at him, seeing his tiny fingers and toes, and wondering how in the world it was possible to do something like this.

 I don’t know why, but I named my son Joshua. It just seemed fitting, that even though I participated in his death, I should name him. My relationship with Joshua, however, was anything but peaceful. Just the thought of him caused me to become overwhelmed with terror. Every reminder condemned me to hell, and I would have visions of him accusing me before God, pointing his finger at me as he pointed out who was responsible for his death. Having done post abortion work for years now, I know that is the experience of countless women and men. There is a terror that exists at the thought of forming a relationship with their unborn children.

 I am not sure when this changed for me; although I know it was once I knew the love of God. It made sense that if my child was “living in the Lord” (The Gospel of Life; John Paul II), he would desire my salvation, and instead of condemning me would be praying for my conversion.

 Little by little I forged a relationship with him through prayer. It took time to develop and overcome the guilt and shame, but I knew inside I needed to repair the relationship. I needed to allow myself to love my son and for him to love me in spite of my human feelings of being unforgivable. Most importantly, I knew that was God's desire.

 In time, I learned to meet Joshua in the Blessed Sacrament where Jesus united us through His body and blood. Joshua soon became as alive as my sons here on earth.

 Years later, God showed his their guidance in my work. Having developed a post abortion ministry with The Sisters of Life, we were praying for a name for it. Before the Blessed Sacrament one day, I felt Jesus telling me “Entering Canaan” would be the name. As I went home and read the story of the Israelites journey into Canaan, The Promised Land, I recognized the parallels to healing from abortion, but most striking was that they reached the Promised Land in the book of Joshua.

 I know Joshua is leading many into Canaan these days. I know he has an army of aborted babies up in heaven interceding for their parents healing. We are united in our work and each day I still share my heart with him and Jesus in my daily communion praying for those who come to us.

 Now, I never remember Joshua as that dead baby lying in the bed next to me, but as a soul living in the Lord who taught me what true love is.

 A living soul totally united to Christ, interceding for me. An advocate before the throne. A gift of our faith. Through my worst sin, I have come to know God and He has shown me His unfathomable mercy. No one can take that away.

All Things New