Month: January 2017
19 Beautiful Reminders Why Americans March for Life Today – Reblog
- By Kelsey Harris, blog.heritage.org
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- January 22nd, 2014
Today, tens of thousands of people from around the country will gather in Washington to brave the cold for a cause they believe in. Some are marching for the first time, and others have been traveling to the nation’s capital since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. For the 41st year, they’ll meet again for the same reason — the sanctity of life.
We’re also celebrating life today, and we hope you will, too. Here are 19 moving reminders of the beauty of new life:
>>> Learn more: “How to Speak Up for Life,” produced by Heritage in collaboration with Alliance Defending Freedom, Americans United for Life, Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family, March for Life Education and Defense Fund, and the Susan B. Anthony List Education Fund
Morning Prayer: Fri, 27 Jan – Psalm 42:1-2; Isaiah 26:9; 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 ~ godly sorrow has its reward
Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
+ In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
Opening Sentence
Create a clean heart within me, O God,
so that it may become Your chosen shelter
and the resting place of the Holy Spirit.
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Reading: Psalm 42:1-2 (NLT)
As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?
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Reading: Isaiah 26:9 (NLT)
In the night I search for you; in the morning I earnestly seek you. For only when you come to judge the earth will people learn what is right.
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Reading: 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (NLT)
For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.
Just see what this godly sorrow produced in you! Such earnestness, such concern to clear yourselves, such indignation, such alarm, such longing to see me, such zeal, and such a readiness to punish wrong. You showed that you have done everything necessary to make things right.
__________ Continue reading “Morning Prayer: Fri, 27 Jan – Psalm 42:1-2; Isaiah 26:9; 2 Corinthians 7:10-11 ~ godly sorrow has its reward”
Throwback: Whose crazy now? – 2013 March for Life – 40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade
And now, 3 years later, hundreds of thousands of men women and children will March For Life in Washington, DC. It’s a new day for Life in America!
Peanut Gallery: Since 1973 when the US Supreme Court legalized abortion, over 55 million babies have been killed. The numbers are staggering and continue to grow. Maybe this will help you get a handle on it –
Time: If you counted 1 baby per second, it would take you 1 yr and 9 months to get to 55 million, and by then an additional 2,400,000 babies would have been aborted. In fact, 3 more babies will be aborted in the time it takes for you to read this post.
Population: 55 million abortions is the approxomate equivalent of eliminating everyone living in the States of Califonia and New York… or wiping out everyone who lives in the United Kingdom, or Italy. It would cut Mexico’s population in half… or eliminate every Canadian with 20 million deaths to spare.
Deadly comparisons: The Atomic Bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima…
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Morning Prayer: Thu, 26 Jan – Psalm 22:1-2, 7-11; Deuteronomy 31:8; Mark 15:33-39 ~ feeling God-forsaken?
Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
+ In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
Opening Sentence
Create a clean heart within me, O God,
so that it may become Your chosen shelter
and the resting place of the Holy Spirit.
__________
Reading: Psalm 22:1-2, 7-11 (NLT)
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far away when I groan for help? Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer. Every night I lift my voice, but I find no relief.
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The Peanut Gallery 