Category Archives: Abortion

Days 14 & 15 – October 9-10, 2012

I’m once again writing for two days since I did not have the chance to write anything yesterday.  Sometimes our prayer times are just not that exciting and we do not always receiving exciting revelations or pray exciting prayers.  Yesterday was that kind of day.  I showed up on time, I prayed through the Luminous mysteries of the Rosary and tried to meditate on them as best I could, but I will admit that my mind wandered quite often and I had to keep trying to re-focus myself and stay on track.  Yesterday was a day that I will have to believe that something was still accomplished in the heavenlies simply because I chose to keep a commitment because it is the Lord who is faithful and according to 2 Thessalonians 3 it is the Lord who will establish me and guard me from the evil one!

Today, I’m happy to say, was quite different.  I felt encouraged, almost energized during my prayer time this morning.  As I prayed this morning I had a real sense of expectation today; a sense that there has been a spiritual break-through in Germantown.  The Lord was giving me wonderful prayers to pray this morning for the clinic workers.  While reflecting on Jesus as the Light of the World, I prayed earnestly that as each individual, who works at the Germantown clinic, arrives for work today and encounters someone on the sidewalk from 40 Days for Life, that they will be overwhelmed with the light of Christ in that person.  I don’t know how many people work at the abortion clinic in Germantown.  It may be only a couple of people or it may be 10 people, but, one thing I do know is that beginning today, those individuals can no longer ignore the people praying on sidewalk in front of the clinic because the light will be too bright!  I asked the Lord for a miracle today.  I asked that at least one person would receive the courage needed to turn away from the abortion industry forever. 

 

“It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer;

he enables me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great.

You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.”
(Psalm 18:32-36)

Day 13 – October 8, 2012

Today is the start of a new week and a new focus for prayer.  This week I will meditate on the Luminous mysteries of the Rosary.  This set of mysteries is somewhat new for the Catholic church.  I’m not sure exactly when they were added but they were not part of the standard set of mysteries that existed when I was a child.  These mysteries are meant to reveal Christ as the Light of World and indeed He is!  His light is so greatly needed in the dark places of the abortion clinic.  It is only His light that allows us to see in those hidden places as the Lord reveals to us how we should pray.  The mysteries are:

  • The Baptism of our Lord
  • The Wedding Feast at Cana
  • The Proclamation of the gospel
  • The Transfiguration
  • The Institution of the Eucharist

These are all significant moments in the Lord’s life on earth.  The proclamation of the gospel obviously being more than one moment in His life.  My focus for prayer this week is on the clinic worker. I was reflecting on the strategy that the pro-life movement has used since the mid 1980’s when the first crisis pregnancy centers opened their doors.  The focus has been on the moms and saving the babies, which is certainly a right strategy and an effective one.  But I believe a new strategy is beginning to emerge that will also be instrumental in bringing down abortion and that is to focus on the clinic worker.  The clinic worker, the person on the inside with the first hand knowledge of exactly what is going on behind the closed doors is the very person who will be able to effectively and convincingly change the minds of all those who are so entrenched in the culture of death.  The clinic worker whose life has been touched by the light of Christ is the very person who will be able to talk to women who so staunchly believe that their right to choose must be maintained at all costs.  It is the clinic worker who has walked away from the abortion industry who can tell the real truth behind this industry.

I was reminded this morning during prayer of Abby Johnson, a very brave and courageous woman who was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas.  As the light of Christ touched her life and opened her eyes to horrors of abortion, she walked away from it all.  Now as she walks with the Lord, she has a ministry specifically to those clinic workers who want to leave the industry – And Then There Were None .

Pray this week with me for the clinic workers in Germantown, that the light of Christ will touch their lives and that they will walk away from the abortion industry forever.  Pray also for Abby Johnson and her ministry to those seeking to leave the abortion industry.

Day 12 – October 7, 2012

Sunday, October 7, 2012, day 12 of the 40 days campaign and also the restarting of the abortion process all over again at the Germantown clinic.  I was remembering this morning that Dr. Carhart starts the 4 day process on Sunday with the women who come to the clinic today.  Sunday is not only the first day of the week it also marked the day of our Lord’s resurrection.  Sunday is a day to remember that the One who died for us, who died willingly to save us, is now raised from death to life everlasting.  But, in Germantown it is a day that signals death for the innocents who go unknowingly to their demise.

Part of the gospel reading for today was taken from Mark 10:13-14 – “Then they brought little children to Him, that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked those who brought them. But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.”  I was reflecting on these verses in this context today and just prayed that there would be children to come to Him.  I prayed that there would be many more survivors of the abortion holocaust who would have the chance to live and know the Lord.  This January will mark 40 years since the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision and since that time over 50,000,000 children have succumb to this holocaust.

Lord Jesus, may this be the year that we see an end to abortion.

Day 11 – October 6, 2012

Today started out as I had planned.  I woke up early to go and pray before the clinic but enemy had other plans. He thought that he could thwart prayer to end abortion and for the salvation of souls simply by causing a small mishap with a vehicle.  He is not very bright, nor is he very creative.  I was on my way to the clinic and I blew a tire on the highway – I was fine, the car was fine, just a bit inconvenienced.  I was able to pull off the road safely and figure out what I needed to do and then just wait where I was for someone to come and change my tire.  But, what the enemy hadn’t realized was I COULD STILL PRAY!  It didn’t matter that I wasn’t physically in front of the clinic – prayer can happen anywhere.

I will go off topic slightly today because something is on my heart that I would like to write about.  I was reading this morning in The Message out Luke’s gospel and Jesus said “Get ready for trouble. Look to what you’ll need; there are difficult times ahead. Pawn your coat and get a sword. What was written in Scripture, ‘He was lumped in with the criminals,’ gets its final meaning in me. Everything written about me is now coming to a conclusion.”  I believe we may need to consider taking this scripture to heart given the times we live in.  If things in this country do not turn around we will be looking at difficult times ahead.  If the church remains complacent too much longer about the abortion issue it will see other unwanted invasions.  Right now our religious liberty is at stake with the current HHS mandate as it is written which provides for tax payer funded contraception, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization.  By virtue of the fact that ALL employers, including those religious convictions go against such things, must provide these must provide these at no cost to their employees, they believe they would be forced to go against their conscience.  Many Christian employers have already filed law suits against the government. If these employers hold fast to their convictions and do provide their employees with insurance they will be fined and the fines will bankrupt the companies.  This kind of government coercion in America is unheard of.  Last weekend a movement began in Washington DC that I pray will continue, no matter the outcome of the election.  That movement is known as ActsFive29, which taken from the scripture is referring to Peter standing before the Jewish Council and declaring that they will obey God rather than men when it comes to unjust laws.  The church of Jesus Christ can no longer sit by idly while these things happen.  We will be like the frogs in the slowly boiling water, never aware of how hot the water is getting until we are suddenly cooked.  I would challenge anyone reading this blog today to watch the movie For Greater Glory.  Here is what is posted on the movie’s website:

What price would you pay for freedom?

In the exhilarating action epic FOR GREATER GLORY an impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film’s adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War ­the daring people¹s revolt that rocked 20th Century North America.

This movie is based on a true story on something that happened virtually overnight less than 100 years ago!