Mother’s Day from the Other Side of Parenting | Part 4, Festivus

And sometimes, it’s Festivus for the rest of us.

Many times I do not post on Mother’s Day. It came be a sad and depressing day for me, and many other moms who are on the other side of parenting.

Maybe you are estranged from your kids.
Maybe your pregnancy loss from miscarriage or abortion is too overwhelming.
Maybe your mom just passed away.

And that’s just one side of the other side of parenting.

Some moms gave their child up for adoption.
Some moms are in prison.
Some moms are still in recovery.
Some moms are still reeling from their kids taken away to foster care.
Some moms are dealing with a bad divorce.
Some moms are dealing with the death of her husband.
Some moms were abandoned.
Some moms feel they don’t deserve to be mothers and can’t get past the guilt.

There are so many sides to the other side of parenting. Mother’s Day can be a grim reminder of a past you can’t fix.

Why can’t moms just love life enough to let it spill over to their children? Because moms in crisis don’t have the luxury of being optimistic. It’s survival.

Mother’s Day is not a hallmark holiday for the rest of us. WE CANNOT CHANGE THE PAST but we can be more forward thinking for our future whether others in your life or family believe we deserve it or not.

Be kind to moms on Mother’s Day. You don’t know the grief they may be going through. I know for me, besides a bunch of other stuff I mentioned before, I lost my mom just last month. Even when your childhood wasn’t the best, or even at least ‘normal’, I still mourn her loss, knowing I cannot see her again on this side of heaven. But my hope still resides with Jesus, and eternity with Him, and seeing her again renewed and young and healthy again. I am forever thankful she chose life for me.

So set up the pole. Air your grievances. Show your feats of strength. YOU ARE A MOM. Society cannot take that away from you.

God bless all of you on this Mother’s Day. You are worthy of love and respect. Make this day a day of renewal and greater Love.

WOMEN & CHILDREN IN CRISIS: Where is the Abortion Cartel?

Another child was murdered by a parent, this time an infant was decapitated. And while you may spew  “she should have aborted the kid and this wouldn’t have happened”, abortion would not have cured this woman’s mental illness to have done such a horrific and evil thing to her own  three month old baby. Read the story here.

Women in crisis are overlooked every day. Women are being beaten, trafficked, prostituted, and murdered. The woman who decapitated this tiny baby is just the tip of the iceberg. If there is a war on women, it because the Abortion Cartel – who claims to be 100% pro-woman – pushes abortion, not counseling or shelter.

But let’s look at this story with both eyes:

  • Where was Planned Parenthood? Where was NARAL? Where was NOW? Certainly they claim to help women and girls in crisis! I mean, what about all that wonderful counseling they say they ‘provide’? They are only there for women to hand out condoms, contraceptives and abortion. Planned Parenthood, NARAL, NOW and the Abortion Cartel DO NOT support the whole woman, just her ‘lady parts’. The Abortion Cartel has once again FAILED WOMEN. Where is the outcry?
  • Many abortion procedures do decapitate the baby’s head ON PURPOSE. Where is the outcry for the thousands of babies that will die a painful and horrific death of disarticulation, decapitation and dismemberment….TODAY?

KEEPLIFELEGALI asked a young proabort woman, who was protesting the protesters, a question regarding this very subject. I said, “If she aborts, will you still be there when she still can’t pay her rent or keep her electric on? Give her a ride to the store for food? Help her find a job, or a better one? Be there when her boyfriend beats her again? WHERE WILL YOU BE?”

Crickets. She had no answer because she didn’t think this through. Proaborts and prochoicers really believe that abortion and contraception fixes everything for women. And interestingly, proaborts say prolifers are just pro-birthers, never around when it gets tough. On our sidewalk, we offer everything that ANY mom needs to help with her pregnancy and after her baby is born, adoption or post-abortive counseling.

Prolifers not supporting women in crisis is the BIG FAT LIE of the Abortion Cartel…because women in crisis need real women to give her shelter in a storm she can’t get out of. And if they did, perhaps that 3 month old baby would be alive today.

Surviving the Abortion Agenda & Misogyny

A blogger wrote: “The prochoice movement has failed women. The prolife movement has failed women. We have all failed women.” Everyone has failed being a friend, boyfriend, spouse, parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle to women in crisis. But what really hurts me is that as a woman we are totally dependent on other’s opinions and decisions regarding our own lives. And what happens? Their decisions become our decisions. Their agendas become our agendas. Then, it’s easy to see who created the so-called war on women.

Women are miserable failures. Just ask the Samaritan Woman.

KEEPLIFELEGALConsidering there are over 60 MILLION abortion deaths since 1973 [that we know of], I’d say that we are leaving the decision making to people that feel we are not worthy enough to be a mother or a girlfriend or a wife.

The truth is that women have failed themselves by listening to an agenda rather than God, “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” [John 4:29]

The enemy seeks women because God made us life-bearers. The Messiah would come from a woman and the devil tried for thousands of years to keep that from happening: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel,” [Gen 3:15]

Knowing is half the battle? It should be. But we are so self-willed and gullible of what others want that we cave…badly. It goes back to the constant affirmation that women and girls feed on to survive. It’s like the air we need to breathe; “Abort? Okay, if YOU think it’s the right thing for ME to do.” Women and girls secretly believe that if we do what everyone else wants, they’ll be our best friends forever. But all we really did was CAVE to their selfish personal agenda and we are left to deal with the mess for the rest of OUR lives.

Yes, KNOWING is half the battle to win the WAR:

v2 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
From the rebellion of the workers of iniquity,
v3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword,
And bend their bows to shoot their arrows—bitter words,
v4 That they may shoot in secret at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

It’s so obvious that the world seeks our submission to their agenda:

v5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter;
They talk of laying snares secretly; they say, “Who will see them?”
v6 They devise iniquities: We have perfected a shrewd scheme.”
Both the inward thought and the heart of man are deep.

Agenda is not what we need when in crisis, we need GOD:

v7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they shall be wounded.
v8 So He will make them stumble over their own tongue;
All who see them shall flee away.
v9 All men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God;
For they shall wisely consider His doing.

But God is GOOD; He warns us and protects us:

v10 The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and trust in Him.
And all the upright in heart shall glory. [Psalm 64:2-10]

Abortion is never the answer to crisis. Women are better than that but first we have to BELIEVE we are better than that. Regardless if you are a Christian or not, agnostic or spiritual, the Word of God is what will strengthen women from the inside out REGARDLESS of what her past is.