🏆High Stakes  🏆 

It`s a difficult thing to stay motivated in a mission with such high devastating loss stakes. Some of me thinks that I should be able to go out on the sidewalk and talk to anyone and everyone entering planned parenthood for an abortion and show them the support they need to choose life and then they will. Obviously it doesnt work that way. In fact it doesnt happen often. There are reasons big enough to write a separate blog for each. The reasons aren't what I'm addressing today. I'm writing to celebrate a long time ago. Four years ago my former coworker and I met a young couple experiencing a crisis pregnancy. We were new at our mission/jobs. We were learning. We were really learning how strong the natural instinct is for women to carry their babies to term and also how influential their partner can be. This was the case for this couple. Mom wanted to keep the baby. She wanted to do so to the point where she told us just to let the dad stay in the car. We felt like it would be more effective if he came to hear what needed to be said by all. Ultimately a male volunteer entered the building and had a talk with our young dad and basically told him this was his time to man up and take care of his partner AND his child. Last week we got a message from this family with pictures of their almost school aged little girl. The three of us who were most closely involved admitted the tears we shed for this victory. Stay strong. These victories are unmatchable.