This beautiful neighbor and I were on a walk and I was telling her one of the moms I work with as a Cities4Life volunteer had her baby 5 weeks early. We had just hosted a huge baby shower through Truth and Mercy Pro-life Ministries which provided the full first two years of everything the baby would need. But then the baby threw a curve ball and arrived five weeks early.
Now what? We had gotten the baby no preemie outfits.
My dear neighbor started jumping up and down in the middle of the street. “My baby girl was a preemie!!!” She cried, “I have a whole bag of preemie outfits for little girls!!!!”
We hurried back to her garage where she opened a bin and showed me adorable little tiny baby clothes. I think she was perhaps happier than I was. I had not remembered that her daughter had been a month early.
“What else can we solve!!???”my neighbor said, exuberantly pumping her fist in the air. “God is so good.”
I showed up at the new mama’s house with a big bucket of chicken and a bag of preemie clothes. Her other kids hugged me and told me that KFC was their favorite.
There are a lot of sad and terrible stories that emerge as Cities4Life volunteers speak for the unborn at the abortion center. However, the good FAR outweighs the bad. Every life that is saved is a life saved. Those moms who choose not to abort will not bear the burden of having taken their own child’s life.
This is a priceless gift. How can anyone measure the value of a life?
The glee my neighbor felt as she handed me the bag of preemie clothes to bless a little girl who is being welcomed into the world is what I feel every time a woman decides to turn back to God and flee from the devil’s temptation to kill her unborn child. I can hardly contain my joy. And as we meet the families and help them, there are many struggles, but again, the delight when their world begins to shift towards God is incomparable.
A friend going through a rough time asked me how to keep her focus off of her struggles. I told her that when I was going through one of the darkest periods in my life (including cancer), my happiest moments were when I was on the sidewalk of the abortion center encouraging moms to choose life for their little ones. My focus shifted from my trials to God’s miracles and provision.
This is something I have found to be true over and over again. When we pour ourselves out for God, He fills our soul. Our troubles may not cease. The source of our suffering may remain. We may not find material wealth or even success as the world might measure success, but we do find the promise of eternity when abiding in God’s will...and honestly, that is far more satisfying and lasting than anything the world has to offer.
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Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
1 John 3:17
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
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