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Hello it is Show and Tell with Canada Girl
And since it is Super Bowl weekend, I thought I would Share this with you!
Ok...This made me kind of sad...
But than I thought, hey we can share the Super Bowl ad no one will see http://www.catholicvote.com/
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Here is the story about the ad....
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=404492
Funny...I thought NBC liked Promoting Obama!
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This Sunday is Sanctity of Life Sunday in many churches around the country. January 22 is the National March for Life in Washington D.C.. I don't know if you have ever attended this March for Life. I have with my children in the 80's. this includes the week Pres. Reagan Inauguration was moved indoors because of freezing temperatures. I discovered a few things about this day and this week-end over the years.
1) The media will saturate the airwaves with Pro-Abortion news and programs. These programs will include showing the following movies "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", "Dirty Dancing" and "Cider House Rules", to name a few. It will not include "Listen to Me" starring Kirk Cameron.
2) The News broadcast will be bias. I know this from experience. I stood in a crowd at the National Mall surrounded by thousands of Pro-life Supporters. I heard the reporter on the platform above my head say the following, "While Pro-lifers March on Capitol Hill, THOUSANDS of Pro-Choice Supporters are gathering at State capitols around the nation." When they aired this local news report, The Pro-Life signs the Marchers were holding were blurred out and the report sounded as if he were standing in the midst of Pro-Abortion groups. This is typical. You can count on it. Truth in Broadcasting now means "Their Truth" not "The Truth"!
3)Churches for the most part will discuss the evils of abortion (which it is and should be exposed as such) but most will fail the 40% of the women in their congregations that are broken by their legacy of Abortion. 40% of the women in church will be reminded of the sin that breaks their hearts but few will hear the message of the Savior's Love and forgiveness for this sin. This sin in most churches is not only silent, but treated as the unforgivable sin not only in the hearts of the women that have had them, but in the judgments of those who have not. It is not unforgivable, nor should it be unmentionable. This portion of the flock is hurting and needs healing and compassion.
4) As Broken and bleeding as these women are, the Men that paid for, pushed for, and in some instances ordered, are never confronted and thus never brought to the Throne of Grace to be delivered from their sins. They consider this "the Woman's Problem" and thus never seek the Lord's mercy for their part in the death of their child. Oh how wounded they are!
5) Lastly, I know we can, voice by voice, hand in hand, prayer by prayer make a difference. I watched my very young children hand even the police officers on duty tracts to explain to them the horrors of Abortion and the Love of a Forgiving Savior. They were touched by the innocents and compassion of my children. I watched our church pray for the women entering local clinics and EXITING these same clinics. The woman that exits the clinic empty in body and heart needs compassion not condemnation. Changed lives make for changed laws.
So this year let this be THE YEAR We stand on these scriptures "
The Spirit of God, the Master, is on me because God anointed me. He sent me to preach good news to the poor, heal the heartbroken, Announce freedom to all captives, pardon all prisoners. 2 God sent me to announce the year of his grace - a celebration of God's destruction of our enemies - and to comfort all who mourn, 3 To care for the needs of all who mourn in Zion, give them bouquets of roses instead of ashes, Messages of joy instead of news of doom, a praising heart instead of a languid spirit. Rename them "Oaks of Righteousness" planted by God to display his glory. 4 They'll rebuild the old ruins, raise a new city out of the wreckage. They'll start over on the ruined cities, take the rubble left behind and make it new. Isaiah 61
Because of Jesus, Bobbie
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Have you ever been afraid of a book? This week I conquered that fear! For years now, my daughter Heather Lee, has wanted me to read a book. For years I have said...not now! She has bought four copies of this book because every time she loans it, it doesn't find its way home. It is passed from woman to woman. Last week she bought it again and handed it to me. It was time. I knew it was time. I had told her it was time, and she didn't have it any more. So she went out and bought it.
How powerful it is. How heart wrenching and Holy Spirit inspired it is. How thankful I am to have a daughter that listens to Jesus, and makes sure she follows His leading. A work of fiction can make your truth come alive. And that is what this book did. I love Francine Rivers and have read so many of her books. Until this week, Leota's Garden was my favorite. It is about family relationships (great reading to prepare for holiday family gatherings). But now, my favorite is The Atonement Child. I have been so blessed through the pages of this book. My heart has been stirred and the dross surfaced so my loving Savior could reach down and skim it off. There is always dross to skim off.
When I began this blog, Abortion as a topic in Homeschooling circles was never my intention.(Thanks Scott!) But if statistics are true, 40% of the women in church with you have experienced this pain first hand. Countless others experience it second hand like cigarette smoke. So if you are in either of those categories. Don't wait six years and four copies later to read this book. The Atonement Child does exactly what the Title says it will do. There is not a circumstance or argument that this work does not cover. And there is not a heart it won't touch in the most unexpected places.
If Encouragement Along the Way is the Title of My book and my blog, Than perhaps that is what this post will do, Encourage You. If you are the Mother of teen-agers, this book should be mandatory reading for them. Have courage and be blessed. There is no fear in Christ and He is all over this one. From Generation to Generation....
Because of Jesus, Bobbie
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Thanks for coming by my blog. It seems like I had a triple threat perfect storm this week. The anniversary of my abortion, a really deep week of Bible Study and Hormonal menopausal moments all wrapped into one. Thankfully it was also filled with Rosh Hashanah, Day of Redemption and Grandchildren. Grief is a process that I welcome. And one I think most Post Abortive Women neglect. After my last post, I had such a wonderful dream with my baby in my arms. I cherish those moments that show God's grace to me. Just a silly little dream can change my whole outlook at times. I have had wonderful healing experiences and was a Post Abortion Syndrome counselor for years. I love the Bible Study "Women in Ramah" it is so healing. And a sad day doesn't mean you are wrestling with your conscience or God's forgiveness, just that today you are missing someone you dearly love, just like any other grieving mother. I like what Somerschool was trying to get out there, in the realm of homeschooling. Abortion and compassion for abortive women is something that needs to be taught. Mostly because Christian teens for fear of what their parents and their church might say, get abortions. The Churches need to embrace pregnant teens, not judge and scorn them. They need to see that we are Christ's disciples by our love for one another. They need to know we are there for them. In action it looks a little like this... when my daughter became pregnant with her sixth child, her greatest concern was what would she wear since she had given all her maternity clothes to the pregnant teens in her husband's youth group. Check out your church's youth group, or even your homeschool group, are pregnant teens welcome? Because you know the local abortion clinics are making them feel very welcome. Do they know that the Love of God includes them and their babies? Or are the same ridicules, stares and judgments they get out in the world also in the church? Do your homeschooled children help at the local crisis center? Just washing donated maternity clothes and baby clothes or scrubbing donated baby furniture frees up a counselor to be with a frightened girl in the waiting room. Do your kids walk for life? Little things mean a lot. And mostly do they know that when they come home and tell you that they are pregnant or that their girlfriend is pregnant that you will hold them, cry with them and stand beside them, labor with them? Unconditional love means just that. If God calls children a blessing, are we teaching our children that all children are blessings? When you hold a grandchild, you will be amazed at how the circumstances of their creation are not even a whisper in your heart. Love truly does cover a multitude of sins and celebrates a multitude of blessings. It is by our love that the world will know that we are Christians. Just something to ponder and perhaps encourage you along the way.
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This week, Scott has been talking about teaching our Homeschoolers about abortion. He mentioned that it is part of health education and also has a link to an essay contest for Homeschoolers. This is a hard topic, because it pulls at our heart strings so much. . As a congregation, our small church long ago would pray at the abortion clinics weekly. Many women just needed a door to open for them, many came home and lived with church families and had their babies. For too many, that door opened after the procedure. The love and grace this body poured out on women of abortion healed so many broken women and broken hearts. There really are no degrees in sin. Divorce isn't worse than lying; stealing isn’t worse than abortion. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. All ....not those that we score higher on our "your sin is bigger than my sin" scorecards. I believe that is the part of abortion we need to teach our children besides the facts and medical procedures. Compassion not disgust and judgment. It is said almost half of the women and men in church have had abortions or contributed to the abortion of their children or grandchildren. They sit beside you every Sunday. Our church in New Hampshire taught me that the pain , tears and grief I felt was not the unforgiveness that I thought it was, it was not unforgivable because that is saying it is too big for God to forgive my sin which is pride. It was simply a mommie grieving for the loss of her child. The difference is, when a women miscarries, the compassion poured out on her allows her to grieve and begin healing. She will grieve her whole life, knowing someone she loves isn't there. And the world understands that. When you have a hand in the execution of your child, there is little compassion and you are instantly told to get over it. So when you don't get over it, you tell yourself, God must not have forgiven me or I would be past this by now. Each tear condemns you. When you hear that you are simply grieving for your precious baby and God's forgiveness is total, each tear is cleansing. God is a God of Compassion and we are to be like him. He has come to bind up the broken hearted, and set captives free. A woman walking into a clinic needs a hand reaching out to them offer a way out; a woman walking out of an abortion clinic needs arms around them. They will know you are a Christian by your love for one another. Even 34 years and 5 days later........ Some topics are hard.......
