Worth Seeing This at the Abortion Center

It was in the mid 20s when I first stepped out on the sidewalk of the abortion center yesterday. I am here to report that my new hat kept me toasty warm. I do not think it was exactly a compliment when the director of Cities4Life told me, “Not everyone could pull off wearing that hat,” but I will run with it. He mentioned it in the same breath as he talked about my umbrella hat and my 5-gallon belly pack. Honestly, I think this hat is a cut above those items.

My new heated jacket and heated gloves do not arrive for another week. When they do, I am going to be the queeen of hot.

However, it is not for fashion’s sake that I indulge in any of this, in case you are confused.  I do not want to let the frigid winter weather keep me from the place I am certain God has called me. Standing for hours in freezing cold is not for the under-dressed. And I have to stand there. Where else could I meet a man, like I did yesterday, who decided to come talk with me while his girlfriend aborted their child and told me he doesn’t believe in death?  

“Do you believe in God?” I asked.

“Not like you do probably,” he said.

“What is the God you believe in?” I asked.

“A higher power.”

“OK, well my God is a higher power. Who created life?”

He thought a moment, and then said, “That higher power.”

“We are in agreement again!” I said. “And who created the universe?”

At this point the man began walking away. “I don’t want to get into all that. I will tell you, death is not real. I don’t believe in death.”

Well, that was convenient since his baby was about to meet her death. It probably did make it more palatable for him to kill her if he didn’t believe in death. A few minutes later, his girlfriend came out and it was clear she was upset. He hugged her and she looked mournful as she clung to him.

My fellow counselor, Delanie, asked me, “If they don’t believe in death, why are they so sad right now?”

So I will scour the world for warm things to allow me to stand in the cold as long as possible. As the sad women leave, I want to be there to pray with them, offer the hope of Jesus, and offer intervention that may prevent them from returning with the inevitable next pregnancy.

And I want to be there to see what I had the privilege of seeing after a few tearful women drove away.

A woman with a baby in a car seat in the back of her car paused as she drove out of the abortion center.  She was smiling. HUGE smile. Beaming at us and waving.

“Did you change your mind?” I called, as she pulled onto the road.

She could not have smiled any wider as she pointed to the baby in the back seat, then raised two fingers in the air, and repeated the gesture several times. Her excited, overwhelming joy was a blessed contrast to the mournful couple who “didn’t believe in death.”

 Jennifer, the only other counselor still there with me, stared at me as the happy mother drove away.

“She chose life!” I said.

“Twins!” Jennifer said, “She was telling us she has twins!!”

That was worth standing in the cold for hours to see.

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Psalm 127:3-5 

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.