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Anxiety.
High levels of anxiety occur when people are watching
helplessly another's acute or tragic situation.
It appears they would sooner deal with their anxiety
than with guilt, so they try to shut up those who
are suffering.
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Hope.
Real hope drives people together. False hope
drives them apart.
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Pursuing
real hope. There are no roses without thorns.
Pursuing real hopes can also have some painful consequences
like becoming God's child.
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Marriage.
Marriage is created by God, therefore in this life
it is permanent.
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Becoming
vs. achievement. God is much less interested
in what you achieve than who you become. After
all, you cannot take your achievements to heaven,
but who you are becoming in this world is who you
will always be.
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Ambivalence
of abortion survivors. The deep ambivalence
toward education arises principally in abortion
survivors. They are curious about what happened
to their sibling, but they don't want to know the
truth. It is too frightening to know your
parents are capable of killing innocent children.
So students are eager to learn, but they couldn't
stand knowing anything that comes too close to knowing
their parents are baby killers and the state isn't
interested in protecting them.
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Talking
to abortion survivors. Parents of abortion
survivors should show a readiness to talk about
anything. They should use forbidden words
like kill, murder, etc. so their child can ask any
question and express any feeling. Although it is
traumatic for abortion survivors to learn the terrifying
truth, they suspect it all along. The small,
innocent sibling was murdered. They end up
recognizing two vitally important truths-- 1) If
my parents can talk about the abortion they contributed
too, I can talk about anything else. 2) If
God can forgive my parents for killing an innocent
child, surely He can forgive me for anything.
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Christian
courage. For far too many Christians the
bottom line is convenience and comfort rather than
conviction and courage.
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Constricting
commitment. Commitment is a restricting
boundary, but you are freer within that boundary
than you are outside of it.
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Naturally
occuring chaos. If you drop something it
will quite naturally and with no hesitation roll
into the most inaccessible corner.
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North Americans. What can I say
about North Americans? They love images more
than the real thing. With equal ease they
glorify their villains while alive and their heros
when they are dead.
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Prayer.
Jesus taught His disciples to pray so that they
could pray with and for Him. The time was
when they were with Him in Gethsemane. That
is when they should have been urgently praying for
and with Him to God, "Thy kingdom come, Thy
will be done."
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Abortion survivors and faith. The
amount of faith we have is seen in how soon we start
thanking and rejoicing for those issues for which
we have prayed. Even before we have stepped
onto the bridge, we thank God for providing the
passage over troubled water. We shouldn't
have to wait until we successfully cross over.
Post abortion survivors have difficulty seeing Christ
on the cross suffering and dying for them.
It is too clearly a reminder that their siblings
died when they might have or should have.
They rejoice when they see the glorious, risen Saviour.
The one that will come in power.
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Human
existence. Humans have always jumped off
branches from the tree of living, but now they are
cutting at the roots of human existence.
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Jesus
Christ as holocaust survivor. Jesus Christ
understands abortion survivors. He is Himself
a survivor of a catastrophic killing of children
in His town.
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Windows
of opportunity.
There are three windows of opportunity that are
rapidly moving by us. 1) Getting people's
attention from the emotional impact by recognizing
the humanity of the disabled, unborn or the handicapped
child. 2) The impact of scientific truth.
3) A knowledge that abortion damages each human
and each human relationship. It is becoming
increasingly apparent that people can know all these
things and not be affected by them at all because
their comfort and convenience is more important.
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Love.
One of the most wonderful things about love is that
someone else teaches you who you really are.
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Stomachaches.
There are 3 kinds of stomach ache. 1) The
gnawing sensation from anger. 2) The knot from fear.
3) The nausea from revulsion
