RABBONI...which is to say, Master

Yesterday I went with a group from Madison and had a prayer vigil outside an abortion clinic in Nashville. Kathy Hardin, one of our ladies at Madison, has made this a part of her mission for Christ. At one time she went every Saturday, but home duties to her eight children have limited her to one Saturday each month. I got there a little after they opened their doors and Kathy said there was a long line waiting to go in when she arrived at about 6:30 A. M. There were eleven of us from Madison and during the two hours I was there another 15 or so, not with our group came and went. A Catholic group was there, a Priest and a group from the college where he teaches come every week and stay for about two hours.

This was not a sign waving shouting protest, it was a prayer vigil. Some of the ladies passed our literature to any who would take it as they came and went from the clinic. The rest of us prayed. For about two hours as little lives were being snuffed out, we prayed.  That is all we could do. I have never felt so helpless in all my life. A travesty of heavenly justice was taking place and all we could do was pray. I don’t mean to belittle the power of prayer when I say that is all we could do. It is just that in our country we have allowed our hands to be tied while life is taken in the name of a person’s rights, and it is a sad, sad day.

So I would like to ask you to also pray. Pray for innocent lives that are being taken. Pray for these no longer mothers to be who will have to live with this decision long after the event is over and their bodies have healed. Pray for sanity to once again reign in our land and that the laws that allow this to happen be over turned. As Daniel did, pray for forgiveness of our own sin and the sin of our nation, and ask God to heal our nation. Oh Father forgive us and heal our nation.