Use your imagination to see what abortion really is! Fight against the kind of social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany – the feeling that the problem is so huge and so horrendous and so out of our control that I just can't be wrong to let it be. Use your imagination to see and feel what is really happening behind those sterile clinic doors. If you could see each little handiwork of God and what it looks like when it is being crushed or poisoned or starved, you would say, this can’t be happening. Civilized people do not do this! The children will not be saved and God’s work will not be reverenced without an act of sustained sympathetic imagination. Otherwise it is out of sight out of mind – just like Dachau, Buchenwald, Belsen, and Auschwitz. It just couldn't be happening and so we act as if it isn't.
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#1 · February 5, 2018, 8:01 am

Posted by: al <al@...>

The Look of Despair


“…all joy is darkened…” —Isaiah 24:11

    I recently took my wife to the hospital for an out-patient surgery.  While I waited in the designated waiting area, a family came in with their grayed haired mother on a wheel chair.  She was about 60 years old and waited to be taken to surgery.   While the family casually chatted amongst themselves, this dear mother just sat with a very gloomy look on her face.  She did not say a word. She only stared blankly out the window.  She was obviously depressed.
    After a few minutes her son had to leave to go to work.   He knelt next to his mother and asked his wife to take a picture of them with her cell phone.  He wanted one more picture of him with his Mom, in case she didn’t make it through the surgery.  He smiled but his mother continued to stare with a blank expression. Other family members tried to coax her, “Come on, Mom… Smile!”  But, she would not smile or say a word.  She didn’t see anything to smile about! It was a very sad scene. 
    As I reflect on that scene now, I wish I would have interrupted that family’s conversation to offer a word of hope.  They certainly needed it. 
    We who are saved have the word of hope that can cheer a sorrowful spirit if they will receive it.  If you see someone who looks like their world is coming to an end, offer them a word of hope and something to smile about.

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