Day 26 - March 18, 2012

Eight of us gathered for our 6:00 p.m. prayer vigil tonight -- Kathy, Nick, Carmen, Susan, Paul, Ann, Jenny, and I.  Again, the weather was wonderful and we were thankful.  A young man, who admitted to having a drinking problem, stopped by to share his approval and said he wanted to come and join us in prayer.  We do hope that one day he comes back our way and stays for a bit.  We lifted up in prayer all the abortionists and their staffs, those friends that think they are doing a good deed in bringing someone to an abortion clinic, our apathetic brothers and sisters in Christ, and all prayer warriors at all the sites and those who are home bound.  We began with the song On Eagle's Wings...and the verse "He will hold you in the palm of His Hands," brought tears to my eyes as I reflected on the picture that I received from prayer warriors holding a little 10-week old baby-in-the-womb model in their hands (picture on the Tidbits and Picture post).  To think that God has all of us...at every stage of our life...right there, smack dab in the middle of His tender palm.  Thank You God for Your protection!  We continued with our prayers for the unborn, our pro-life Beatitude Blessed are They Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness,  and words of wisdom that  Mother Teresa endorsed.  Our reflection was on the Nativity, reminding us that God is with us in all our trials, tribulations, joys, and dreams!  (And we were given that example in last night's gift of Emmanuel and Amar.)  We lifted up our prayer intentions for life, family, parents, governments, our President, our upcoming Election, and our Clergy. We ended our vigil gathering praying for the conversion of abortionists and asking God to send His angels to protect this ground where we pray.  As we were gathering for our group picture, we noticed a feather on the ground...hmmmm, I guess God did send His angels -- Thank You God!  (Maribeth)

Kathy, Susan, Ann, Maureen, Jenny, and I finished out the hour of prayer with the Rosary while walking in a single file on the sidewalk, so as not to block any of the people who went by us.  We had mostly thumbs up (and one man in his truck was very passionate with giving us his approval!).  Our hour was almost over when we were approached by a very, very, very (yes, three very's) angry and frustrated man!  He was walking from the pizza place, carrying two pizzas, two bottles of pop, and two bags stuffed with carryout containers.  Before he opened his mouth, several prayer warriors thought this was going to be a "good" encounter; ending in the sharing pizza!  Boy, was that a wrong assumption!!  Satan must have been mighty perturbed over last night's wonderful blessing from God because this man was just filled with evil anger. His first words were:  "Can I be totally blunt with all of you?"  After our agreeing to his requeset, this man's floodgates opened and we were inundated with accusations of being a hypocrite for not adopting black crack babies (I have no idea where this thought process came from!).  We tried to explain that we were out there to help women make a better choice and to be a public witness for life.  He would not hear the truth.  His words grew louder as we remained quiet, but offering loving reasons for our presence.  After five minutes he gathered his stuff and told us we were all going to hell because of our wasted effort and our hypocrisy.  When we told him about Jesus, he rebutted that Jesus was only a prophet.  As he haphazardly crossed 15 Mile Road, he glared at us and gave us his final two-word blessing.  We prayed earnestly for God to change his heart.  With anger like that, we can only assume that he has been hurt by abortion or is carrying around some heavy-duty guilt.  Whateve the case, we know that God knows the reason for his anger and we ask that he finds peace and healing.  (Maribeth)

Angel feather?