Secrets and Healing

I don't usually do "giveaway entry" posts. I don't know why, really, I just feel awkward about it. But this is different. Not because of the giveaway, but because of the passion this particular subject stirs up in my heart. Melinda explains the study best in her post. I can't even begin to express how valuable and necessary something like this is for our lost and dying world.



Abortion is the secret that no one wants to talk about. So many Christians view it as an unforgivable sin. Chief among them are those who have had one.

It is time for the church to step up and offer the healing hand of God. Because who better to be a voice for the unborn than those who know intimately the cost of ignoring them? Because God redeems even the ashes of abortion and uses them for His glory.

I don't want to think about where I would be if He didn't.

I have a secret - one I don't talk about in polite Christian circles, one I don't talk about at all really. I may have mentioned it in passing on my blog, but in "real life" I can count the number of people I've told on one hand and have fingers left over.

And that doesn't give my God the glory He's due, does it?

I've shared before about the life God gave to my oldest son, and to me. And to God be the glory for what He prevented me from doing! It is easier to talk about the miracles isn't it? To talk about the times when God intervened on our behalf and stopped us from jumping off a cliff head-long into disaster.

It is harder to talk about those things God allowed us to do, as He gave us over to our sin and rebellion.

I had an abortion. I was very young and very dumb and more than one life ended with that "choice." The person I was, and all the potential I might have had, died that day with my child. It is no exaggeration to say that God didn't save a dying soul when He made me His four years later - He brought the dead back to life.

The timing of this giveaway could not be more appropriate. October is a month of many anniversaries for me... birth, abortion and re-birth. To God be the glory, truly great things He hath done!