So yesterday when I was praying in front of Planned Parenthood, several cars that were exiting PP waited several hundreds of feet away from intersection so as not to have direct/close vision with Pro Life Prayer Warriors. They were well aware of our presence there and were trying to avoid us. Are we having an affect on PP visitors/ employees? I think so. 40days for Life Campaign is in its last 2 weeks...please consider praying before your local PP this next week in order to END abortion. And if you can't, just keep praying to protect life and end abortion.
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"It was an abortion day in Kalamazoo," a third prayer volunteer wrote. "I was new to the sidewalk."
She had prayed at home during several campaigns, but she said the daily 40 Days for Life emails -- plus God's prompting -- convinced her she had to do more.
As she and several others prayed outside Planned Parenthood, a large truck pulled up and a man got out. "He thanked us for being there and for praying,"
she said. "He explained that his oldest child was aborted. All these years later he still carried that pain and loss. He lived the tragedy."
He thanked the volunteers again, then drove away.
"If I had any doubts of my need to be there, they were instantly gone," she wrote. "God sent the guy in the big truck to tell me that my presence mattered. God keeps showing me that our presence on the sidewalk matters."
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We had a call from a prayer volunteer ... a gentleman stopped to thank her
and US for our prayers ... saying he has always wondered about his daughter that
his girlfriend aborted many years ago. And today a young woman stopped and asked
for our prayers ... she and her husband are trying to adopt.
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in Kalamazoo. As I walked my route from one side of the driveway entrance to the
other, I held a sign which read "Men Regret Lost Fatherhood". The sign states
something that I believe very deeply.
I was lost in thought and prayer,
but my attention was drawn to a truck which had just pulled into the entrance. A
man rolled his window down and summoned me. He was in his mid-fifties. He was
well dressed and he drove a nice truck. I thought perhaps he was asking for
directions. I wasn't prepared for what came next.
He asked why I was
alone, why there weren't others there with me. I explained that I was just one
of MANY and this was simply "my shift" to pray and give witness. With
grief-stricken eyes, he then shared with me that he had witnessed the life of
his first born son be ended through the gruesome methods of abortion. I looked
down at the words on my sign. He said "I know. I saw it. That's why I stopped".
He went on to applaud the work of 40 Days for LIFE and thanked me, thanked all
of us, for standing praying for an end to abortion.
It is for this man,
and the millions like him, that we stand on the sidewalk. We are imploring the
women, who feel they have "no choice", to have hope. We pray for their hope, for
their courage. We pray that those who contemplate abortion will turn away from
it, that they and their babies will be spared from the plague of abortion.