Opening Mouths for the Mute

I went for my first day of training as a pro-life sidewalk counselor. After our class, we all headed out to the busiest abortion mill in Charlotte -- the Preferred Woman's Health Center on Latrobe Ave. I wrote a political article on my experience there, and I would encourage everyone to read it. If you are one of those who believe abortion should be legal to make it "safe", I strongly encourage you to read my article. http://northcarolinaconservative.net/the-gates-of-hell/

But for my blog today, I just want to give you a taste of who on earth these wacky sidewalk counselors are. I sat down behind a deaf woman in our first training class. There was an interpreter in the front of the room, and since I was early, I got to hear their conversation. The deaf woman was concerned that she might not be of any use. After all, she could not hear what the people she hoped to counsel would be saying.

"Can you pray?" signed the interpreter.
"Yes," signed the deaf woman.
"Prayer is powerful at that place of death," signed the interpreter, "And can you speak? You seem to voice words fairly well."
"Yes, a few," signed the deaf woman.
"Then you can say, 'Please don't kill your baby!'"
"Yes," signed the deaf woman.

That was only the first of many moments when my eyes filled with tears that day.

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Proverbs 31: 8-9
8 Open your mouth for the mute,
for the rights of all who are destitute.
9 Open your mouth, judge righteously,
 defend the rights of the poor and needy.