Abby Johnson

By now most of you have probably heard Abby Johnsons story. Abby is the woman who worked at Planned Parenthood and quit after watching an ultra sound abortion.

Abby was on Huckabee tonight. She told her story. She was the executive director of a clinic. She was asked to assist in an ultra sound guided abortion. She had to hold the ultra sound guide on the womans belly. She saw a full profile of the sweet 13 week old baby. She saw the baby fight to get away from the surgical probe. She said "what I saw was life in that womans womb".

Abby is brave for telling her story. Planned Parenthood has put a restraining order on her. I get that they are doing so under the guise of protecting the patients, but HIPPA already does that. They did it to scare her and I am proud of her for being courageous enough to not be silent.

I wonder how that precious woman who chose abortion is feeling. From the counseling I have done I can tell you that she is sick, she is an emotional wreck. She probably doesn't know why because Planned Parenthood, and society at large says that abortion is her choice and it's her body, etc. She didn't WANT an abortion but she felt like she didn't have a choice. I don't know her story but I know she is broken and hurting and lost. My heart hurts for her and others like her.


If you missed Abby on Huckabee, you can watch it here:



Have a blessed week ya'all...

Hugs,
L

To Trick or Treat or Not?

While I haven’t been writing much, I have been stalking and reading some interesting posts and comments on celebrating Halloween. Until a few years ago I didn’t even know this was a topic of debate.

Seriously, between the health care debate, wars, starving children and everything else going on in the world do we really want to fight about whether or not to let our kids dress up and get candy from some neighbors?

If you don’t celebrate, please understand this is not to bash you. It’s a personal decision and I respect that.


Here is a partial comment that I loved from Pete’s blog:

“We shut off our lights and watched a movie in the dark while neighbors KNOCKED ON OUR DOOR… and we realized that we were NUTS! We were praying for ways to be salt and light and while the whole neighborhood was having a street party that we were invited to… we got religious on them.” http://www.bigearcreations.blogspot.com/


This is a great opportunity to talk to and meet others. Besides, THIS (yes, even Halloween) is the day the Lord has made, let’s rejoice and be glad in it!

We celebrate…
For the past couple of years we have gone to a friend’s house with a few other families and all of our kids go together. It is fantastic and has pretty much become a tradition. Of course we haven’t discussed the plans for this year so I am making an assumption that this will happen again this year. :-)

Whatever you do, have a safe and Happy Halloween! I hope you get to enjoy family and friends too!!!

This time of year is so busy for us, but it's really good. Full of fun with family and friends.

This week my son turned 14. He is such a cool kid. I got him out of school early and surprised him by taking him to Dave & Busters - just the 2 of us. Which is full of games - video, sports, guitar hero...

He totally killed me on every.single.game! We played guitar hero, basketball, racing, etc. I lost - and not on purpose! As he would say "I'm just that good". :-) He also told me that was the best birthday present EVER and that he didn't even need a gift! Seriously, what teenager says that??? I told him I would take his gift back then...but I didn't!

He is a sweet kid and always puts everyone else ahead of himself. Teens today get a bad wrap - I get told often the teen years are horrible and still hear comments like "wait til they turn 15 or 16", "wait til they start driving" and on and on.

I hang with some teenagers, my own and others. They are good kids. They are fun. They have big dreams and goals. They need to be encouraged and believed in! They are history makers and world changers. I am so honored to be parenting 2 teenagers...and a little nervous! :-)

The words we speak have power in them. Lets agree to start speaking words of life and hope!

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Hung with some friends at a Pumpkin Carving Party too. We made designer pumpkins while the kids and dads carved. SO MUCH FUN! Betcha can guess whose idea it was and who was hosting the party!?!?!

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Enjoyed some girl time at the Holiday Mart - OH.MY.GOODNESS - like a large business conference only instead of boring business booths an entire convention hall full of beautiful clothes, jewely, house decor, kids stuff, food - seriously, it doesn't get any better than this! Shauna said we need to plan a girls weekend and stay in a hotel so we can shop multiple days then go to a spa! Sounds good to me girl!!!

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Finally, a personal note to my blogworld friend Girly Stuff...

GS - it's time. Time for you to move to KC. Although we would all rather move to Texas where it is warm, it makes more sense for you to move here than for all of us (me, Jen and Shauna) to move to you. Seriously, designer pumpkins and Holiday Mart - you know you belong here with us. We were destined to live closer.

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Hugs everyone! I hope you are enjoying your fall, having fun with friends and family!

L

Watching My Heart Walk Out the Door

Last night my daughter went to Homecoming. She went last year, and had a sort of boyfriend who she met there but she went with a bunch of girlfriends.



This year she went with her boyfriend, Sean. He's sweet. A good kid. His sister and brother in law are pastors at our church.



Still....seeing her all dressed up...

Then seeing him put the corsage on her wrist...

















Then seeing them stand SO close...

















"She is more valuable than any earthly possession you or I will ever have. We are entrusting her to you tonight. Take good care of her". I said to Sean.

Then they walked out and got in the car (his dad drove them).

It was like watching my heart walk right out the door.

Cheryl my friend, please tell me it gets easier!

Hugs,

L