Happy Mother's Day!!!

Happy Mother's Day!

There's a lot of pro-life news to cover which I am sorely behind in sharing.  However, Mother's Day is now upon us here in the U.S.A.  In celebration, here is a video that may touch your heart and inspire you to share with others!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!! 

Thoughts, anyone? 

Perspectives

Has anyone seen "Schindler's List"?  

I haven't seen it in a long time but I am thinking maybe it's time to see it again. The first time I saw it was when it came out.  Given that it was about the Holocaust, I knew that it was going to be difficult to watch but felt that it was an important subject.   I wasn't really a practicing Christian back then, but  knew from reading books and seeing newsreels that it was an atrocious and horrific event of history.  Who could treat human beings that way? 

Holocaust-deniers excepting, and of course, those who are completely ignorant of the Holocaust (because it's not taught to everyone anymore), we could agree that the Holocaust was a shameful period and that Adolph Hitler was a monster of heinous proportion.  Hollywood strangely ignores Stalin, Lenin and Castro (they have a baffling love affair with Castro and Che too), but we can somehow all agree that Hitler is an acceptable movie villain and the Holocaust is still a subject that can be filmed that we all agree that it is the penultimate evil.  Look at all the political mudslinging ....each side compares the other to Hitler and His regime.  Yet, when it comes to abortion, the ones who use Hitler as their comparison of evil, conveniently forget that Hitler's ideas are exactly like their own ideas when it comes to abortion. 

It goes something like this:
Pro-abortion proponent.   "Oh yes, Hitler was evil.   He ordered millions to be killed those who he didn't think measured up to his ideal of a perfect human being."  BUT (same person), yes, the baby in the womb with Down syndrome doesn't match up to our ideal of a perfect human being so we need to "end that pregnancy".   "Oh yes, Hitler was evil and we are appalled that he wanted certain types to be annihilated, BUT you see this baby in the womb  who belongs to a woman who is "unfit or of a very poor neighborhood?  We want that certain type to be annihlated in the womb".    Watch this take place in "Maafa 21".  Check it out.

So I mention this as a perspective:  
Put yourself in this scenario.   It's WWII and you have heard of reports of Jews detained in "workcamps" and may have even heard of Jews exterminated in ovens.   You are understandably horrified to hear that such things are taking place and you start sharing this with people you know.   Most of your circles agree that these are horrible events and you all want to find ways to see if any action to help these people.   In the midst of your actions, a person comes to you and says, "My son just got a promotion!"   All proud and puffed, "He's an officer at Buchenwald and he just pinned on colonel!"  Your reaction is ..."I will pray that God finds a way to get him out of that!".   The facial reaction is replaced with "He's a Christian and Hitler's regime has done a LOT of good for Germany!"   You question, "Do you realize that there are people who are murdered every day?" 

A few years ago, I found out that a family member worked for Planned Parenthood.   This family member could have worked for this organization before the name change took place.  Planned Parenthood was the "kinder and gentler"  moniker given after the Holocaust atrocities were reported worldwide.  Before that, the organization was "The Birth Control League" and "controlling" sounded too harsh to advertise.  "Planning" is the new "controlling". 

When I found out, there was no source of pride obviously, only deep sadness.   This distant family member had high position in society and lived in a time and place in history where this was a rampant kind of mentality in these particular circles (well, it's still rampant now but now it's not just certain elite groups that hold this position).   Even though many people claim to be Christians, there's an indoctrination of many to accept eugenics as an acceptable .

 It was like the "new fashion"...the height of sophisticated thought.  Anyone who watches "Maafa 21" knows that there were (and still are) elite groups implementing eugenics.  I do not condone this family member's involvement.....but all the dots connect in what I do know about this family.  It is an indoctrination of eugenics that gets passed down to many.  I was taught this mindset as well (refer to blog entry "I am Number 11 or "I am 44")

It's what I fight against as a Christian though.  I wouldn't love this family member any less (although long passed on now) but I would not be proud of the person's mentality or involvement.  Praying for family members who are so deceived is what we need to do.  Maybe you have family members who are enslaved to false ideologies.....which make for the shallowest of relationships. 

ALL people are created equal in God's eyes.  He created each one uniquely in His image. 

Recently, a person came up to me and crowed about a child's promotion at Planned Parenthood (I say "child" but this person is an adult and I am keeping this general).  Now as a parent, I would be pretty proud of any promotion my children would receive so it's understandable that this person would be proud of the family member.  However, in the perspective of this organization and their shared goals of Hitler's Third Reich,  the words were equivalent to "MY child just got promoted to full bird colonel (or the corollary) in Hitler's regime at Buchenwald."    My response?   "I will pray that family member of yours will leave the Buchenwald establisment."    Surprised look!  "Well, Buchenwald kills 999 Jews every day.   By the way, those are Buchenwald's  numbers they claim, not mine."   The reaction is defend, defend, defend...."after all, Buchenwald has done a lot of good.". 

I am not having any of it, especially trying to inject a moral equivalency of our own Armed Forces to Hitler's regime.  Yeah, I am not receiving that!  Sadly, this person defends Planned Parenthood, defends abortion and population control and is completely indoctrinated in a deep eugenics ideology.  I will pray for these people who call themselves Christian yet don't actually believe the Christian tenants that we are all created equal and that we are created in His image.  It's not easy to hear a non-Christian defend the purposeful dismemberment of an infant in the womb but it's really hard to hear someone claim they are Christian and do the same thing. 

In all my years of talking to pro-aborts, it doesn't take very long before the inevitable question...."what if your daughter were raped/attacked?"   Sigh.  She has been in this scenario with every kind of possible attacker (always revealing the mind of the inquisitor.....HIV guy, minority guy, minority HIV guy, Martian, Creature of the Black Lagoon guy, and the baby is always conceived with some kind of IMPOSSIBLE-to-cure syndrome.  And always, they think they are the first one to ever think of this scenario because they are so sophisticated in cutting-edge .  What would I do?    Hmmmmmm?  Let's see.  

I SERVE A MIGHTY, MERCIFUL, SOVEREIGN LORD AND SAVIOR. 
God, in His infinite wisdom and power, knew this would happen.  He has opened the womb.  He has given my daughter a blessing out of an atrocious act of violence.  God loves my daughter more than I love her.  God loves me.   God is GOOD.   Through every challenge and atrocity, God is GOOD.   God is our Creator and He is enough. I need no one else. He will give us everything we need to get through anything we face in our lives. 

The amazing thing is I get reactions sometimes from "Christians" who just look at me in disbelief and say, "OH, REALLY!!!"   Yeah, really.   Don't you know our God who is faithful 100% and who loves us so much His own Son went willingly to the cross for my sins, my daughter's sins, my son's sins, my husband's sins and even the sins of a would-be HIV-infected, rapist?  

Please pray for me because while I am deadly serious about my trust in the Lord on the big things like HIV-infected Creatures of the Black Lagoon attacking my daughter in attack scenarios, I still trip up on little pebbles like "fears" of .....well, the littler things we face every day.....I'll just leave it at that.  ;)    God is working on me on those things. 

I am grateful He loves me where I am at right now.....He meets me there and yet, keeps pruning.  I know I grieve Him with my thought life, my distrust in the small things and many other things but I am grateful I don't have to earn my way to Heaven. There is not one thing I can do to get into Heaven.  I can't be a good person and I can't do works for my Heaven visa.    His Son paid my fine and He sees me as I am....cleansed of all iniquity.  He has blotted it all and chooses to forget.  I am loved and forgiven.  :D <3   Are you forgiven?  

October Baby

March 23, 2012  is the premier for the pro-life film "October Baby".  

My husband and I were fortunate to be able to attend a sneak preview a little while back.  OF COURSE, I am not going to give any spoilers.  I have included a trailer for you all!  
http://www.octoberbabymovie.net/

John Schneider (I am dating myself when I mention his early fame in "Dukes of Hazzard") portrays the father and Jasmine Guy (once again, I am dating myself when I admit that  we watched "A Different World" and "The Cosby Show" when it was brand-new) has a cameo as the nurse.   She delivers a very powerful scene which is my favorite part of the movie.  Again, no spoilers but the movie is sensitively- written and directed given the subject matter.  It's obvious I don't write movie reviews for a living but one theme that was addressed in "October Baby" is forgiveness.  This was a healing film for one of the actors and I do not have doubt that it will offer that to many of the audience  members as well.  

I have seen quite a few pro-life films now.  It's a subject for another day when you think of some movies that weren't meant to have a pro-life message originally.  Most of the films I see are documentaries.  "Blood Money", "Eggsploitation", "Maafa 21" and even "180" all are documentaries.   One dvd I highly recommend is "The Truth Behind Abortion" by Pastor Will Ford via Ex-Ministries.   It's a very different kind of video as it's extremely gripping explanation of the spiritual aspect of  abortion.   It opened my eyes to a whole different level...abortion really is in the spiritual realm.

Of the fictional fare,  "Bella" is a story that highlights the beauty of adoption and family.  I have not seen the movie "Tilly" yet but am going to very soon.  It is fictional as well (by Frank Peretti).   One more I'll mention and that is "22 Weeks".   This short film is based on a true story of a mother who had chosen abortion but was shocked to see her baby survive.  Immediately remorseful for her mistake of choosing abortion, the mother attempts to get help from the abortion staff, who ignores her.  She ends up calling her friend via cellphone who calls authorities.  Actual 911 calls can be heard on YouTube of this tragic event taking place.

Except for the fictional and beautiful "Bella", not one movie comes to mind that addresses this particular subject in "October Baby".    If successful in distribution, this movie could make a huge impact.   It could compel a lot of people to research a subject they could never imagine existed in their wildest dreams.  They could also be made aware of the thousands of pregnancy resource centers which need prayer, volunteer support, encouragement, donations and monetary support.

Of course, no surprise to anyone who knows me or has read this blog long enough......this could lead to even further disapproval of Planned Parenthood.  No, this would not disappoint me in the least.   Pro-choicers do shudder....they are desperate these days thanks to the work of Lila Rose and Live Action.   Whatever comes of this movie, I am sure God will use it for His purposes.  Is it a perfect movie?  No.  I could pick it apart and I wish I could tweak it here and there but really, with the rare exceptions, very few movies escape my desire to fix them.  One of my favorite movies is "Despicable Me". 

As I mentioned this movie "October Baby" could have a wonderful impact for  pregnancy resource centers.   Why not support a local pregnancy resource center now  (if you don't already)???   What can they use or accept?   What can you do?   ALL pregnancy resource centers (aka "crisis pregnancy centers") need prayer.   The spiritual attack is steady and unceasing (remember that "Truth Behind Abortion" documentary several paragraphs above?). 

So many centers face different challenges in various forms.   So please always pray for the staff, the volunteers, their building situation (such as repairs or limited space, security), their finances, their donations (diapers, formula, baby food, maternity clothes, baby clothes, baby furniture, office supplies) and of course, just daily operations!!!  Pray for protection as there is an attack to close them down by way of legal means.  Also, pray for their future plans and visions. 

Make sure you pray for those clients who come in scared, defiant to God's word, confused, uneducated, and indoctrinated by the world's lies.  Many of these girls and women have never been very well-treated and this may be the first place that they experience unconditional love.  Pray for those mommies and the daddies too.  I can't emphasize prayer enough when it comes to pregnancy resource centers.  They start their days in prayer and their operating hours are bathed in it.  They covet your prayers!

All you have to do is look up your area's pregnancy centers (look up Abortion Alternatives or crisis pregnancy centers)  I use  http://www.goodsearch.com/, also you can look up Care Net https://www.care-net.org/ for their affiliates and also for their hotline number  1-800-395-HELP.   When I found the local pregnancy center in my town, my link came from Feminists for Life (Patricia Heaton is their spokeswoman).  http://www.feministsforlife.org/ 

On March 22, 2012, my computer froze up while typing up this blog entry.  I  gave up on it and ended up watching "Tilly" while my family was out.   I highly recommend "Tilly".   It's only 41 minutes long (it's a VHS that I got free with my order from Heritage House 76).   Included with the story is a discussion panel interview as well as an interview with the author.  I haven't completed the whole video but the actual production of "Tilly" is very beautiful.  It is different from "October Baby" in a slight different subject matter.   To point it out here would give too much away.  See how careful I am???

Recently my husband and I attended the fundraiser banquet for our local pregnancy resource center.   My husband counted that this was our 8th year to attend!  Every year, we have had a wonderful keynote speaker and have been able to invite several people from our church to see what our prc is doing.   It's an eye-opener for many to see so many pro-lifers in one room.  Well, I would say most attendees are very pro-life.  The majority are there for the reason of supporting the center. 

Some, may be there for the first time invited as guests who have no idea what the center does and may come out of curiosity.  Some may be there because it's good to be there for election purposes.  Some may be there because they were dragged there.   No matter if the motive isn't in allegiance to helping the event, the main thing is they heard, maybe for the first time, a message of life.  They see the pro-life community banded together.  Like God's message of the Gospel, it plants seeds deep and at a later time, will mature.   I AM praying for one in particular to really embrace the pro-life message.

Our keynote speaker this year was Governor Mike Huckabee.   Again, I won't give spoilers in case he comes to YOUR event.  He told a particularly powerful account of taking his (then) 11-year old daughter to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Israel.   I understood his concern and vacillation to expose someone that young to something so horrific.  I have faced a similar concern in the past in raising my children.  We don't want our children too insulated so that they are only into themselves.  However, we are saddened when they realize how much evil, and the depth of it, is in the world.  It's only my opinion, but I think he handled that very well.  

The former governor of Arkansas shared, with humor, his background in careers and callings.   He spent time in advertising but then became a minister.  It was the pro-life issues that pressed upon him to become involved in politics.   Many politicians only become "pro-life" when it's politically expedient.  Congressman Tom Tancredo once said, "I trust those conversions when they happen on the road to Damascus and not on the road to Des Moines".    Amen to THAT!  

Please, please, go see "October Baby" if it's in your area!!!   If it's not, then maybe go find a showing in another city.  :)   If that is not feasible, then just wait for it on dvd.   Share the link with others you know who may be able to to go see it.  Urge family, friends and acquaintances!   Pray it stays in the theaters a long time and that word-of-mouth keeps this movie spreading.

Our country is turning the tide for pro-life in the first time since 1996.   We are now seeing a change in attitude and it's with the youth now.  They are picking up the baton and running with it.  Most are recognizing that there IS a baby in the womb (thanks to technology) and it's not a "blob of cells".  They ARE recognizing that most of their generation is missing.  They do see that their mothers and grandmothers who bought into the lie of "choice" were affected emotionally and mentally.   They see the truth and as a result are willing to do something about it.  Thanks to Lila Rose   http://www.liveaction.org/
 and many youths getting involved in pro-life groups and clubs that engage high schools and universities, the issue of abortion is forefront.  Hearts are changing and minds are searching for more information.  

I'll just add this.  One of the people who saw "October Baby" with us went home afterwards and spent  a couple of hours on the internet researching.    That is just the kind of thing that the abortion industry does not want!  Multiply that with how many people will view this film (who may be new to pro-life or even this specific pro-life subject) and then pray for that curiosity and impact.  The abortion industry thrives on ignorance and deception.  This film will knock down some walls of ignorance and deception.

Psalm 73:21-23 
Thus my heart was grieved, And I was vexed in my mind.  I was so foolish ignorant; I was like a beast before You.  

Nevertheless,  I am continually with You;  You hold me by my right hand.

Hearts Changing

Reading a testimony of those who saw "180".   So many hearts changed!! 

“We both voted for a pro-choice president the last election. After watching this documentary he said to me in tears that he was wrong. We have had our minds changed about who we vote for.”

Have You Seen It?

“While making the video I was amazed at how quickly people did a complete 180 after this connection was pointed out to them in a particularly effective way. They changed from being adamantly pro-abortion to being pro-life in a matter of seconds.”

33 Minutes

Comfort opens his project with 14 people who do not know the identity of Hitler – lead naturally to a discussion of abortion, which Comfort describes as a horror worse in numbers than the Holocaust.

Mom and Dad Chose Joy!

Jeremiah 32:17 'Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You"

This is the story of Kristal Dahlager.  I was mistaken in sharing with many friends that she was a third year medical student.  She is a third year law student. 

"God's Unmistaken Creation"
http://www.frcblog.com/2012/01/life-after-prenatal-diagnosis/   If the story doesn't start with Kristal's story, it's at the 340:2 mark with Dr. Nadal's introduction.  It looks like if you click on this link it starts at 342 (I recommend backing it up to the introduction by Dr. Nadal).  Kristal's testimony is about 10 minutes.

Jeremiah 32:26-27 "Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,  “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?

I looked up the doctor's quote that Miss Dahlager shared in her talk and it was a doctor of neurology in the 1940's.  His name was Robert Foster Kennedy.  He believed in death for severely retarded children over the age of 5, believed in sterilization and castration. 

"But I am in favor of euthanasia for those hopeless ones who should never have been born – Nature’s mistakes....
So the place for euthanasia, I believe, is for the completely hopeless defective: nature’s mistake; something we hustle out of sight, which should never have been seen at all. These should be relieved the burden of living, because for them the burden of living at no time can produce any good thing at all. . . . For us to allow them to continue such a living is sheer sentimentality, and cruel too; we deny them as much solace as we give our stricken horse. Here we may most kindly kill, and have no fear of error.
...to release the soul from its misshapen body which only defeats in this world the soul’s powers and gifts is surely to exchange, on that soul’s behalf, bondage for freedom."

1. Kennedy, F. The problem of social control of the congenital defective: education, sterilization, euthanasia. Am J Psychiatry 1942;99:13-16.

While perusing for the quote, I came across this quote as well,

"It must be made clear to anyone suffering from an incurable disease that the useless dissipation of costly medications drawn from the public store cannot be justified. Parents who have seen the difficult life of a crippled or feeble-minded child must be convinced that, though they may have a moral obligation to care for the unfortunate creature, the broader public should not be obligated...to assume the enormous costs that long-term institutionalization might entail."   

Pamphlet published by Dr. Heilig, representative of the Nazi Physicians' League. From: Robert N. Proctor, Racial Hygeine: Medicine Under the Nazis, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1989, p. 183

Interesting that we are expected to pay for every female of child-bearing age their contraceptives and abortions, but anyone who is in need of real help (of which these souls have no control) for various physical and mental challenges should  be cast aside (and I get called a "heartless conservative").  And when you read all the stories that are out there of babies with Down Syndrome being aborted or the pressure parents face to abort their babies, you can see we never left the twisted mindset of the eugenics driving the Holocaust.  And it IS important to note that Foster Kennedy was an American and Germany did look to the United States for its eugenic program ideas.  Just look up the case Buck vs. Bell.

It would be very easy to share all of the quotes by the eugenicists (both past and present), but that will be for another time.  The point of this blog is hope.  The point is that Mr. and Mrs. Dahlager chose to trust in Him.  They chose life and joy.  They were blessed because they leaned on His ways and timing.  They knew God was good.  

Ephesians 10:2  "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."

You are His workmanship, Kristal Dahlager is His workmanship and all of those babies (over 3,500 a day) are His workmanship.  As my friend Anna often says of which I wholeheartedly agree, "God doesn't make mistakes".   You are not a mistake.  Those babies aren't mistakes.  God opens the womb and He closes the womb and He is not surprised by any child's conception   ("HOW did THAT one get through?").  

I hope you enjoyed  Kristal's testimony.  It deeply touched me and spurred me to a greater passion for those parents and those babies with poor prenatal diagnoses.  NONE of the physician's diagnoses came true about Baby Kristal.  None.  They didn't even want to be her medical advocate after she was born.   Kristal's story isn't the only one because I have heard countless others.  I will share them here frequently.   I am certain there would be enough for a book.

I'll close with:
Psalm 27:13-14
"I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord  in the land of the living.  Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage,  and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!"