The event, Life Is Sweet, was the latest of Life Choices’ annual fundraising dinners and Claire and I had a terrific time. The crowd of a few hundred enjoyed with us an informal and fun event -- raffles going on, both a silent and fast-paced live auction, engaging conversations, and profoundly important messages from two dedicated pro-life champions, Angelina Giles and Michelle Witt.
Angelina, an experienced nurse practitioner with her own practice shared both her personal testimony and her involvement with “abortion pill rescue” procedures. It was a fascinating and wonderfully enlightening look at how pro-life activists are saving the lives of preborn kids...even after their moms have taken the poisonous abortion drug mifepristone. It was definitely a “wow” presentation. Wow. And then Michelle, the new director of Life Choices gave a stirring call for the audience’s support for the center’s staff to engage in bold new approaches to combat chemical abortion -- now the mechanism for over 80% of the abortions performed in Nebraska. Both ladies gave us plenty to think, converse, plan, and pray about in their very, very important messages.
Plus, we couldn’t help but note that this soul-stirring event occurred just one day after the tragic results of the midterm elections had come in, thus signifying the willingness (no, make that the earnest conviction) of this handful of Christians to keep fighting the devil’s dastardly agenda to steal, kill, and destroy -- the victims being not only moms and dads tempted into abortion and the preborn boys and girls thus slain, but also the very moral fabric of Western civilization.
No, the Life Is Sweet activities do not minimize the damage done to the American ideal by abortionists and their duped cheerleaders; it doesn’t negate the abhorrent effects which will come from Tuesday’s elections as the pagan agenda of the left plays out further; and it doesn’t make up for the long years of indifference and cowardice shown by most of America’s Christian clergy who yet fail to speak plainly and persistently to their congregations regarding the Bible’s teaching on Creation, the sanctity of human life (even at its most early stages), sexual morality, and the responsibilities of Christ’s disciples to light up the darkness of our crooked and perverse generation.
However, Thursday’s event there in Fremont underscored to Claire and I that not all have bowed the knee to the carnal cosmos. No, there remain Christians dedicated to the call of the Master, ready to call things by their right name, to fervently pray, and to sacrificially serve in the strength God provides -- whatever the political weather. They will answer the Lord with wholehearted and conscientious commitment, with confidence in God’s direction and empowerment, and with thanksgiving and joy. So congratulations to our fellow pro-lifers of the Fremont area. We are honored to stand with you for moms, babies, families, the reputation of the Church, the moral sanity of our nation, and, in and over all, for our Lord Jesus Christ.
