My wife and I thank God that a woman named Olga scraped together enough faith through her crisis pregnancy, in a nation where 70% of pregnancies end in abortion, to give the gift of life to our son.
Thanks for sharing that. It’s truly inspirational.
What a beautiful story. Thank you so much for posting.
Ya, I’ve been there and done that too. My daughter is 2 years old and is severely disabled. It’s very tough. Abortion was never the answer though. I wish your daughter the best.
Thanks for posting the link to a moving article. Your daughter and her husband (and probably you as well) really endured a lot of anguish over that pregnancy. I am forwarding it to my wife to share with her bible study class.
Thank you for sharing. I was moved to tears!
Thanks for sharing. God bless your daughter and her family. I love pro-life stories with happy endings.
I read the article before I read your comment......
I was thinking what a powerful testimony this family has to share and here it is your family.....you have raised a wonderful women....
Beautifully written. She is definitely a moving writer!
This line cracked me up, though ... at 39 and 33, Joe and I felt too old for new-baby all-nighters again. , since I've had four additional children since I was 33.
My wife and I thank God that a woman named Olga scraped together enough faith through her crisis pregnancy, in a nation where 70% of pregnancies end in abortion, to give the gift of life to our son.
My Wife and I had an unexpected pregnancy when she was 41 and I was 44. We already had two children, a boy and a girl, who were teenagers by then. Frankly, it scared the crap out of the both of us.
Neither one of us ever considered aborting her, despite the hardships that would follow. That ‘mistake’ is now a beautiful three year-old girl who has put a new spark back into my life. I simply cannot imagine life without her.
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Why on earth would any married couple get an abortion? Unreal.
Thank you for posting this, it is one of the most powerful pro-life pieces I’ve read in a long time (and I read several dozen a week).
Great story! I have noticed myself that as my faith gets stronger I don’t think of the possibility of having a special needs child as being a horrible thing. When I had my second child at 35, I was scared to death of the possiblity. Now I know that God is in charge, and we have no idea of what he has in store for us. The current national obsession with killing potentially imperfect children is a symptom of so many having lost their faith and thus needing to imagine that we mere humans can control every last detail of life.
Our daughter had a 2-1/2 lb baby girl 2 months early due to complications...
..and today she's the cutest 4 yr old you ever did see :))
Thank you for posting this article.
I think the counselor exaggerated the percentage chance of a birth defect. They often pile on lots of extras in favor of the abortion decision.
It's very well written and personal. In fact, it's so personal that I wonder if Faith should have the opportunity to read it . . .
Thank you for sharing this deeply intimate story.
Some declare that Americans have “lost” their moral compasses. Not so! They took them from their pockets and THREW them away! The prevailing attitude of many American citizens is “Leave me alone so that I may sin in peace.” This explains how Bill Clinton’s poll numbers (or is that “pole” numbers?) rose after it was learned that he was banging an intern — and God knows who or what else — in the White House. That philosophy explains the entire Clinton administration – and goes a long way toward explaining how we just put a grossly pro-abort in the White House.
My position on abortion has changed somewhat: I participated in a number of anti-abortion rallies and, when I was doing the radio show, had folks like Randall Terry, Mary Boyert and others on for long interviews. I would continue to do so were I still on the air.
I have, however, come to realize that it is neigh unto impossible to deflect those who are set on killing their babies in the former sanctity of the womb from the course they have set for themselves. I have reconciled myself to an understanding that they will have to answer to a Higher Authority for their actions. I would NOT want to be in their shoes when they close their eyes for the last time. We’re talking unrelenting, eternal, soul-grinding PAIN here. One trifles with HIS law at great peril! And “murder” (which was, as I understand it, the original Greek text of that Commandment) — especially of the innocent — is about as perilous as it gets. Many of the women who submit to abortion can be repentant and be spared the express car to hell. The “doctors” and others who facilitate and profit from the act are in BIG trouble and I doubt that He will listen to ANYTHING they have to say about how remorseful they might be at the end.
And most of these women DO suffer for killing their babies.
My pastor used to tell the story of a black pharmacist friend who could nearly always tell which of his customers had had an abortion. They had this incredible sadness about them and were emotionally very tight when they came in to get their tranquilizer scripts filled. He was also a strong pro-lifer and on more than one occasion, he gently probed to ask some of those he got to know why they were on these medications for such long periods. Almost without exception, they “broke” right there in the store and wept as they told him that they’d killed their baby. You see, all but the hardest cases KNOW in their heart of hearts (where God lives) that they’d done a terrible thing.
I’m about as staunch a libertarian as you’ll meet and don’t want government messin’ with me and mine. But I also understand that if the civil government (which IS, when things are in proper order “...ordained of God...” according to the Bible I read) can not only countenance but ENCOURAGE us to defy God’s laws in ANY way, THERE WILL BE NO FREEDOM! PERIOD!! We shall come to learn that painful lesson as the Obama years unfold.
The NEXT step in this pernicious process of cheapening life is to begin to rid society of the old and the infirm (what Hitler called the “useless eaters”). You and I are old enough to soon qualify for this new state “service” and could, unless we come to our senses, one day be taken to a nearby Euthanasia Center for “treatment.”
SOME of us are old enough to remember a time when American women DIDN’T kill over a million babies each and every year those who did were viewed as pariahs.
Then consider that the MTV Generation — the one that helped elect the reprobate now infesting the White House — DOESN’T remember ANY of that and, if not already, will soon be the majority.
And THAT scares me — maybe to death!
What I love about this story is that your daughter realized that having her baby was a question of trusting God. So many of us don’t think of this questions when facing tough decisions where we know the right thing to do but we are afraid of the consequences of actually doing it.
Her agony following her submission to God and His will for her life and that of her child, not to mention the rest of her family, reminds me of Jesus in the garden before his passion. He was afraid, he even asked for a reprieve, but in the end he submitted to God’s will.
I commend your daughter for her faith. Jesus said it would not always be easy, but to let him shoulder the burden and he would make it light. This experience should remind those who read it not only that God is good but also that we, like Jesus are called to do His will and not our own.
God has blessed you, may He continue to do so and may all who read this affirmation of life ask themselves the same question when life throws them a curve.