Linda For Life Stories From the Sidewalk

  Faith is as faith does Yesterday I talked with a young mother for several hours. Neither one of us seemed like we wanted the conversation to end. It seemed we both knew the line between life and death was fragile. We talked about every single thing we could think of. We looked at the present and we looked at the future and we re-visited the past.  We`ve met at least once before. She reminded me of this. We both remarked that our meetings were not coincidental. She said, eventually, that she “knew” when she saw me. She knew what her “choice” should be. She knows God. She mentioned that Jesus would not want her to choose abortion for her baby. She just did not want to disappoint everyone in her life. She had plans. They had plans for her. She thought everyone would pressure her to abort. After talking to her sister on Facetime who was so obviously angry, I knew it would be hard. I knew it would be really hard.  We talked about how people can love you and still be wrong in the way that