Listening to a woman describe her life. She spoke of her childhood and how her Grandmother used to tell her that she would grow up to preach because as a child she would always tell her Grandma about what she had learned that day.
She also spoke of her ‘wilderness days’.
She talks of an abortion and how lost she was.
She just brings me back to my life and how lost I’ve been, how lost we all are . . .
I just don’t want anyone to think that they are horrible, terrible people. We are all horrible terrible people and God knows this and He still loves us and offers us a way out of this hole.
I love too. I don’t hold it against anyone for having an abortion. I know how that can happen. I understand. There but for the grace of God - I could have done that too.
Rape, sexual abuse . . . how any of us make it through so that we can see the light is beyond me. No, actually it isn’t beyond me (the understanding of how we make it) we make it because of our God. What we go through makes us who we will be.
So when I ‘like’ a post about abortion or about marriage please know it does not mean anything negative towards you. I love you – regardless of your sexual desires. I love you – regardless of choices you’ve made in the past. I love you and I want to show you what I’ve learned and what I’ve experienced and I want to hear about your and yours.
The love of Christ – how I love Christ and how He is changing me and how He has given me (us) eternal life. Christ loves us. Christ saves us from ourselves and from our past and from our future. He transforms us.
(The woman, Coleen, was speaking on a program from Words To Live By, Our Daily Bread. She founded a center in Detroit for pregnant women. http://words.net/2013/01/18/a-living-stone-colleens-story/ )
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