My thoughts today

As we are standing in front of Planned Parenthood in Pittsburgh...

1. Got flipped off by a man in a cool silver car with loud music (remind sister not to date any man who would flip off pro-lifers --doesn't make for a good father one day)

2. Same woman as last time passes by and delicately says "God bless you" to me and Jon (thank you Jesus for this woman and her meaningful support just in saying hello to us, i.e. not everyone wants to burn us with their cigarettes as they walk by)

3. Drunken man decides to come up and chat with us about our intentions and how he believes women should have a choice. I respond that the baby is already alive, the choice is whether the baby is born. He tells us that he has three children but wants to drink himself to death, and I remind him that he is special and that there is no one else like him. He says that we have an answer for everything, little does he know it is God who uses the weak and puts mercy in their hearts and the necessary words in their mouths. We asked him to come back and join us sometime at our vigil. He laughs and walks away....I do expect him back. After all, he did say that we had 'all the answers.'

There is so much that goes on when you are praying for the unborn and praying for each woman who enters and leaves these clinics. I am very grateful for these moments when we can get close to the cross and hold on tight. I even delight in being flipped off or figuratively spat on. It is wonderful to suffer for our unborn babies. I am also encouraged just knowing that there are so many others uniting their prayers to the 40 Days for Life.
Okay, time to make cookies for my husband so he has paper-writing food.