So, because today was the march for life in Washington DC
We thought we'd talk a little bit about
our hearts on abortion and foster care and adoption
The whole issue of abortion was why we started doing what we do.
I was at a Onething conference
And Corey Russell was talking about how we are made to have emotions and to feel what God feels
and how it's our right to feel things the way he feels them, good or bad
And all we need to do is ask about his heart on certain things, good or bad
and he would express his heart to us. We can be close to him in that way and feel what he feels
I though that was a really cool concept. I never really thought about it like that.
That God...the Creator would want to share his feelings with me.
Later on in the conference Lou Engle came and did a session with The Call
He was talking about abortion...everything!
How it makes the Lord feel...how the blood is on our hands as the church if we don't stand and pray
and take action
I knew abortion was wrong...if you're a Christian...well...I can't really say that anymore...
But we grew up knowing it's wrong
That's really as far as it went in my mind
I didn't really get too deep into it
But I knew that if I thought about it for a while it kinda made my heart hurt
But I would just be like, "Yeah that sucks I wish something would change"
After the conference I went home and sat in my room
and put the two that I learned together and was like, "Lord, I want to feel what you feel.
Tell me how you feel about abortion. Hoe does abortion make you feel?"
I just closed my eyes and sat there and started crying.
It was like I could hear babies crying in the womb... I could just hear....
crying children.
Crying out to the Lord. I could hear their voices crying out to the Lord
I hesitate to tell this publicly but...it is what it is.
Then the Lord whispered to me and he said, "Nobody hears them but me.
No body hears their cries but me. I hear this everyday. They don't have a voice"
I'm balling. Usually when I'm praying my eyes are open.
I like to look around and just see what the Lord is doing
Sometimes thats bad because I get distracted
But my eyes were closed during this encounter with him
and that wasn't normal for me.
I'm crying and snotting and wiping my nose and waiting for the Lord to tell me more
I could kind of feel his presence lift off of me. I opened my eyes
and my hands were covered in blood.
what I thought was snot was my nose bleeding
they were covered in blood and the Lord spoke again and he said
"Their blood is on your hands until you do something about it. Until you stand until you pray
Until you take action
I called my mom and she came running up and I told her everything
That's an experience that I'll never forget
So believers
It hurts my hear that there is so much tension between us of this issue.
The biggest thing that gets thrown at me with this issue is
"If abortion becomes illegal, they're just going to do it anyway
wouldn't you rather have a professional do it than somebody in an alley?"
It's not about where they get their abortions...that's not the issue
My focus is on the wrath of God
As a country, if we say this is ok
If we support abortion, God's wrath is upon us as a nation...as a whole
What I want, as well as the safety of these unborn children and the well-being of the birth parents
and mercy for the abortionists...I want all of that
but we have to take it step by step.
I believe that if we as a nation can turn away from that...from "ok-ing" that
the wrath of the Lord will also be turned away from our country as a whole
Then we can deal with the smaller problems
I don't me small like importance but
I don't think that making abortion illegal will solve the problem right away
I don't think it'll go away over night obviously it won't
The big picture here is us as a nation saying
"Yes. Let's stop a beating heart every 1.8 seconds. Thats fine.
That's the problem
That's what I feel like the Lord was trying to tell me
He was trying to get me on board with praying.
And that is why I fully support movements like Bound 4 Life.
They don't hate. It's not about condemning. It's not about making anybody feel bad or ashamed.
Another example. I was able to share my heart with a woman that I love very much.
I was just talking about it and she asked me to tell her more about why I feel the way I do
I told her and after I was finished she said "wow. you know I've had 2 abortions"
And I was like....Oh crap
She said that she had never heard it expressed that way. She talked about how it [the abortion] made her feel
I don't want to say to much
In a nutshell, it was awesome that she felt that she could talk to me about it
She didn't feel condemned or ashamed. That's not what God is about
That is my heart on abortion.
We as a nation just need to turn from it
Right now all these things are happening and t looks like they are going to start limiting
either legally or just by default of how many providers there are or whatever
It's gonna start scaling back how many abortions are performed per year in this country
whether by law or availability of providers
With all of the policy stuff going forward in the government, we are going to see more babies being born
Statistically....it's hard to say this politely...
But if you look at the population segment that is the main consumers of abortions
It's like the lower income chunk of people
Us, being involved in children services
we see that it's that same chunk of people
The population that's already involved with children services for whatever reason
Is generally the same population that are the main consumers of abortion
So we are going to have more children being born in this segment of the population
which already has a heightened involvement with children services
What that says to me is that in the coming years are going to see an influx of kids
either into the child welfare system or into the private adoption system
Think of it like this...there is going to be an excessive flow of children who need parents.
When you see the availability of abortions scale back
I want it scaled back. Don't get me wrong.
You are going to see more children who are put in compromising position
whether it's through abuse or neglect or whatever
Here is my big fear.
Have you seen where its en vogue now to call prolife people pro birth?
Because they only wanna fight to get the kid born then after that, they don't fight for anything
for the mom, for the families or for the kid after their born. That's the very en vogue thing right now
my fear is, that characterization of the prolife movement will be shown to be generally true
My fear is that people who have been very vocal proponents of antiabortion legislation
or scaling back funding to planned parenthood
the people who have been very vocal proponents of these things
Are gonna now saw "Wahoo! Yay! We won!" and then go about there normal lives
Meanwhile these kids that are being born, instead of being killed in the womb
they are going to suffer more slowly and for longer when they're born
Because nobody is going to be taking care of them.
I'm saying it's going to be every kid or it's like a one to one ratio
But generally you will see more kids born into high need, high risk situations
And unless all of us who have been very loudly, or maybe not loudly....
If we don't....there's a lot of this...
And that's fine and good to advocate. But if you don't get your hands in it, those kids are just going to suffer in life.
Unless we get the same power, grit and gut behind a movement that says
Yes, I will be a mentor. Yes, I will support XYZ program to help people
Not just kids but families who need it. People to foster. People to adopt.
People who will befriend and share their lives with people who are in high risk situations
If we don't get that stuff...it's just gonna be a giant pile of...
It's gonna be a mess.
That is my fear. That we're gonna fight so hard for this legislative victory and then go
Woohoo and throw our hands up and then go "Alright that was awesome. So what are we doing now?"
No! Now we still need to fight just as hard but we need to bring it into our lives
Now we need to bring it into our homes
I'm not saying everybody needs to be a foster parent or adoptive parent
If you support the whole ProLife deal at all, you need to figure out where the next battle ground is, right?
If it looks like the tide of the legislative battle is starting to turn, you need to look at where it's going next.
The fight is not over
A human's life is just as valuable after it's born as it is in utero.
You can't just fight for it when they're in momma's belly.
You gotta fight for it afterwards.
That's what I see right now and what I'm really encouraging people to do
Is just to find that grit in there that says I will support life this way or that way
If you feel called to take in a child or two...or a young mom...there are a thousand different ways you could do it.
Or even be a mentor for Boy and Girls Club. I don't know there is so much stuff out there
If you don't think foster care is your thing, that's fine.
We're basically "lifers".
That's the way I like it.
But that's because that is who we are called to be.
We're not knocking any body who is not that way.
But if you're out there and you are vocally supporting it, it's time to start thinking about how you can get your hands dirty.
And they're gonna get real dirty!
And that's a good thing. It's the most wonderful fulfilling thing there ever is.
That's all we have.
I got nothing else
Bye.
Kick rocks. Duces!
