I guess you could say I've always been a bit of a dreamer. Growing up, I'd sometimes daydream about what it might be like to save a life and be a hero. From a doctor successfully performing an emergency surgery to firefighters rushing up the stairs of the crumbling World Trade Center, what must it be like to know that your actions kept a human being alive?
My friends, this question is one we no longer have to ask ourselves. Over the last week, we received two separate reports from our prayer warriors that babies have been saved right here in Madison.
On Thursday, a middle-aged woman drove by the vigil site. As she passed, she honked the horn and proclaimed, "God Bless your efforts, we saved a baby today!" We don't have any more information about this particular encounter, but we ask you to please keep the mother and baby in your prayers.
Then, this morning, another one of you sent us this incredibly touching exchange about two women who entered Planned Parenthood before stopping to talk:
They had lots of questions. What was I doing? Why was I doing it? God provided all the answers....Maria* (20 years old) said "I'm pregnant". She and her sister don't have jobs, are not citizens and have to find a new place to live in one week. I [referred them to] CareNet, and they agreed to go there to get help. So I treated them to lunch and drove them to CareNet. I told Maria to please come by next week and let me know how she is doing. She also wanted my phone number and said that I'm her mom now.
*Name changed for the sake of privacy.
What a beautiful testimony! So we thank and praise God for these two lives that have been spared death. And two more lives that have been spared the emotional and physical scars that come with abortion. And countless more lives that will be touched somehow, some way because two mothers made the heroic decision to bring a child into the world in a difficult situation.
We also thank all of you. For each hour you spent outside the abortion center, for your fasting, for your willingness to pray from home in solidarity we thank you. While you could undoubtedly be pursuing activities more fun, more profitable, or more convenient to your busy schedules, you chose to act as tools of God's grace.
Sometimes this struggle for life seems a bit abstract. In the face of 3,000 abortions every day, it might be easy to lose sight of the human face of this issue. But this week, we continue with the knowledge that the world will be irreversibly changed by two women's choice of life. Two children will be born. And, God willing, they will go to kindergarten, sit on Santa's lap, bring friends home from school, and all the other things little boys and girls do. Perhaps they will play Little League, perform in the high school musical, go to college, get married and raise children of their own.
And without your efforts, none of this might have happened. Well done.
God Bless you, and please continue to pray for these women and all women who find themselves in crisis pregnancies.
Week in Review
Pro-Life Memorial Day is today
40 Days for Life Sioux City recounts a touching story
Planned Parenthood caught covering up statutory rape
Pending legislation would eliminate all abortion restrictions
A look back at Bishop Robert Morlino's 2007 Respect Life Sunday statement
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