From 40 Days for Life…
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DAY 8: Impacting entire families****
March 4th, 2009 by
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Many families have been blessed by the mission of 40 Days for Life — and sometimes in the most surprising ways. Here’s a story about last fall’s campaign that I just learned about this week.
A young man’s mother insisted on two occasions that he drive her to the vigil outside the abortion center as she had signed up for hours in the middle of the night, but did not want to go alone. When they arrived, the mom went to pray, but the young man refused to get out of the car…But the experience still had an impact.
The mother didn’t know it at the time, but her son’s girlfriend was pregnant, and planned to have an abortion — at the very facility where the 40 Days for Life vigil was in progress. But the young man was so touched by what his mother was doing he called his girlfriend shortly afterward. Fortunately, she answered the phone — she was at the abortion center for her appointment. He urged her to get out of that place. And she did. The baby will be born in July. Praise God!
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Finally, Ed told me about two families who drove up to the vigil in Olympia, Washington. In each car, there was a baby in the back seat. “The drivers thanked us profusely for being there, as their children had been slated for abortion,” he said. “What a blessing! It is an example of the result of prayer, presence and fasting. We will never know the full extent of our activities. We pray that more people may experience our joy.”
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DAY 8 INTENTION
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We pray for a renewal of our zeal to offer generous help to the unborn and their families.
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SCRIPTURE
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If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant when they complained against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes, how shall I answer Him? Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?
– Job 31:13-15
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REFLECTION by Rev. Rob Schenck, Faith and Action
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…Read at this Link
40daysforlife.com/blog/
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PRAYER
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God, forgive us when we try to explain away the obligation we have to help others who need help. Enable us to not devalue them because they are in the circumstance that they are in, but to see them for that they are, those, who like us, were formed by your hand in their mother’s womb.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ we pray.
Amen.
May our Lord bless us in all our efforts for the unborn and for those who have no voice. Please remember them as you pray, and remember the “least of these my brethren” as you look for things to do this Lent…
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