Posted on 01/21/2016 12:36:45 PM PST by Morgana
Every January, I usually see the same faces coming to the local and national Marches for Life happening across our country. I long to see more people I donât know participate, even people to whom I live next door. There may be a myriad of reasons why not everyone comes.
You may think you donât want to attend because that isnât your thingâyou are involved in other ministries and the pro-life stand is great, but not your battle. Or you may not come because you donât think anything is wrong with abortion. You may not come because you arenât a Christian and you leave that up to the Christians.
But what if? What if you came just to see what it was like to attend? What if you came just to see what the people were like? Here are 7 reasons I think everyone should experience the March for Life, whether in Washington, DC or other locations nationwide.
1. Come and see for yourself
I donât know about you, but I tire from just hearing about things. There are rumors and so much confusion that media and culture puts on the pro-life movement. The best way to know about something is to experience it.
You should come once and for all, seeing for yourself what itâs like to be at a pro-life gathering. Come and meet the people and ask them why they are there. Their stories and their hearts just might warm yours.
2. Open your eyes
Most people agree about animal rights or laws that ensure basic land conservation and protection. But somehow, not everyone agrees about the rights of the baby in the womb.
If you havenât heard in person why a pro-life advocate believes the right to be born is the most sacred right of all (and I mean really listened with eyes wide open), then you should. Open your eyes to seeing this perspective for the very first time. Speakers at pro-life gatherings and marches explain in their own personal stories why every human lifeâbefore or after birthâis irreplaceable.
3. Act on compassion
Your attending can be an act of compassion. You may not think of it that way, but it is. Attending a pro-life gathering is seen as an act of compassion for those that are defenseless against their choice to live.
You are gathering on their behalf and Heaven sees you there. You are having compassion for life and taking an action step of being there to participate and listen about the next steps to help the unborn.
4. Speak up for those who canât speak for themselves
You have a life and you have a voice. But there are those who cannot be heard yet. We carry authority to speak up for the ones who canât speak.
A lot of people are afraid to take a side on any causeânot wanting to offend or seem radical. Is it so radical to stand up for a defenseless baby? Is it so radical to adopt? Is it so radical to be a foster parent? Is it so radical to pray for Life?
The world will say âThatâs a personal matter; itâs up to the mom or dad.â And it is personal; itâs personal to that tiny human who has no voice or say-so for their own life. Our job is to make sure the world knows their lives do matterâthat we defend their cause, the cause of the defenseless.
5. Learn something new
Iâve been praying for Life since I was 7 years old. Iâve been to countless gatherings, marches and conferences in my life. But after each one, I come away learning something new, something fresh that inspires me.
Who doesnât want to be inspired? I always want to push myself to see things better, to listen more and take in the stories. I hear stories of abortion survivors and Iâm in awe that they lived. Iâm in awe of the passion and voice they bring to the world. I hear personal accounts of moms and dads who aborted their babies and I grieve with them as they cry retelling their journey.
I hear stories about families who changed their minds and now they canât imagine their life without their child. Every story is different in its own situationâbut I learn. I learn from their stories and I walk away different every single time.
6. Learn to pray
In my experience, Iâve learned how to really let go of distractions, let go of the world around me and talk to Jesus with the most humility when I am praying for life. When life and death are on the line, and God says you have a say so in itâyou learn to get on your knees and pray with everything in your body.
At a March for Life when you are hearing the speakers and their firsthand accounts, your response flows most genuinely out of prayer. I seriously credit the growth of my prayer life to the times I was praying for innocent life before God. The greatest part of the March for Life is when we silently march and pray around the city. There is a presence of peace and of hope that comes as you pray.
7. Be a difference maker
Every morning, my mom and dad would drop us off at school and say this phrase to my sisters and me: âBe a difference maker.â And now, I say it to our foster son each time I drop him off. I want to empower everyone I know that they, too, are a difference maker.
You can make a difference for good every single day if you want toâitâs the doing that makes it true. So I ask you, what more of a difference can you make than saving a life? Today, 125,000 babies worldwide will die in an abortion. That means that in a single year, the world count of babies dying from abortion is 40-50 million abortions. Come to a pro-life march and learn how you can be a part of making that number smaller.
There are so many first steps you can take for the ending of these innocent deaths. Let gathering with people whoâve experienced it and their storiesâbeautiful and heartbreakingâbe your first experience toward making a difference for life.
John Maxwell says, âSuccess is all about me, but significance is about other people. Valuing people, believing in people, and unconditionally loving them is the key to significance.â
Want to lead a life of significance? Be a difference maker in other peopleâs lives. I ask you to think of the people most at risk: the baby in the womb. Be a difference maker for them, their children and their childrenâs children.
More hypocrisy from Conservatives.
They are pro-life but you can’t get them to turn out to protest. There’s too much good reality tv apparently.
Even after the Baby Parts Scandal the PP protests should have been overwhelming but they weren’t.
I was there and can tell you it was disappointing.
I have begun to think that true Conservatives with principles are a dying breed.
Don’t count on them to support even a protest of the 60,000,000 American lives taken by abortion.
In fact many are busy supporting a pres. candidate who actually spoke in the not-too-distant past in support of partial birth abortion.
The dream appears to be gone.
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