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Today's email:

I'm home -- for a few hours, anyway -- following a
whirlwind trip to visit 40 Days for Life locations
in Arkansas and Wisconsin.

I've posted photos on the 40 Days for Life blog ...
so to look at the enthusiastic and dedicated folks at
the campaigns in Fayetteville, Arkansas as well as
Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay and Appleton, Wisconsin,
please go to:

http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=1031

I'll be on the road again starting tomorrow, with
stops in Nevada and California. David Bereit, our
national director, is visiting Minnesota today. More
pictures and stories will follow!

Today, of course, is Saturday -- the busiest day for
abortions at many of the facilities where 40 Days for
Life vigils are being conducted. If that's the case
in your city, and you have an opportunity to join
the prayer vigil, please do so.

Your prayers are needed -- urgently!

We're all human and we want to know if our prayers
are being heard. I'd like to tell you a couple of
stories that I hope will offer you proof that our
merciful God is listening to every word.

It had been a long day for Eileen at the 40 Days
for Life vigil in Beaumont, Texas. As she was about
ready to go home, she looked up over the roof of the
abortion center and noticed a rainbow beginning to
form. "There was no rain anywhere," she said.

Eileen and the other volunteers had been praying for
the conversion of the abortion facility staff. "As
we stood there in awe looking and beholding a sign
from God that He would protect us," she said,
"another rainbow formed on top of that one."

The rainbows remained for about five minutes, "and the
color seemed to get darker instead of lighter."

40 Days for Life participants in Chandler, Arizona
received a sign as well.

One of the local coordinators has a van with a "pray
to end abortion" sign on the side. The owner watched
from a distance as a woman drove up to the van, got
out, scribbled a note, and stuck it on the windshield.

They wondered if the sign on the van had prompted a
"nastygram," but that was not the case at all. The
message simply said, "Thank You! Never grow weary!
May God be glorified in the excellence of your work."

"That message was not just for us," said Anita in
Chandler. "That message is for everyone who is out
there praying right now. It's for every person who has
taken the time to stand in the rain, the snow, the
heat or on a very beautiful day, simply to peacefully
pray for an end to abortion."

The bottom line? Keep doing what you're doing!

"You are making a difference," Anita said, "even if
you never see any results. God sees them, and that
is what really matters!