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Monday, January 13, 2014

Missing From The Picture Frames by Bluebird

                                                                                               Photo Credit: Iris Hanlin "Country Girl's Daybook"  Click Here        

Over 50,000,000 missing lives
Will never be,
Don't you see?
No mind will ever comprehend
All the missing futures, 
Of lives that truly had an aim, 
The world will never be the same.
Millions of unknown faces and names,
Missing from the picture frames.
Now empty of the lives
That should have been.
Abortion does not destroy just one,
Not even two.
The hurt spreads on from me to you.
And continues through eternity,
Stealing all tranquility,
From a world now reaping what it has sown.
With eyes half open it perceives,
A past, present, and a future,
In innocent blood it is
Drown.
-Bluebird

      Abortion has killed roughly 57 million innocent children in the United States alone since 1973 in the passing of Roe v. Wade. 
57 million. 

     Last year, as the time for the March was drawing nearer, I sat down at my desk to ponder the reality of abortion. Letting the sin of this bloodshed truly sink in not only boggled my mind, but physically hurt my heart. I began to imagine each life that was taken... 
Who was that baby? 
What purpose did God have for him or her? 
What could have she done? 
Whom would he have loved? 

     All of the missing lives that were supposed to touch ours, in a way we will never know, are gone. Of all the people you have seen in different picture frames, that contained pictures of families, or group shots of friends or sport teams, who might be missing from those picture frames due to abortion? Abortion does not just destroy the life inside the mother's womb, it destroys the life of the mother, father, entire families, you, me, everyone. In doing so, our peace between one another is stolen. 
Our Nation, and our world, is
 drowning 
in the blood of the innocent.

     There are nine days left until the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the annual March For Life in Washington D.C. This will be my third year attending, and first time going on a red-eye bus. Once again, I will join hundreds of thousands of others to be a voice for the millions of voiceless human beings. As we march we will pray that there will be no 42nd March. My heart is becoming more and more on fire! I hope my thoughts and the following interview will provide food for thought and set the hearts of others on fire for this cause as well. 

      A dear friend of mine, Iris Hanlin, kindly agreed to be interviewed for this post.  Some of you may know her from Country Girl's Daybook. I highly encourage you to take a minute to look at her inspiring blog. Iris has been a fellow marcher in the March For Life for seven years, and this will be her eighth year. I am very blessed to say I have marched with her two times before.
      Iris is a fellow Abortion Survivor and a very passionate Pro-Life Activist. Below is the following interview I had with her. 

(Emphasis added by Iris)
Which was your favorite year and why? In what way were you especially touched because of that year?
     I'd have to say my favorite year was last year (2013).  I drove up with one of my best friend, Emily, and we stayed in town a few extra days.  That year, I noticed in a special way just how many of the marchers were young people, genuinely on fire for the pro-life cause.  The pro-life community often times has an image of being retired older folks who have nothing better to do, but no.  That couldn't be farther from the truth.

What does the March For Life mean to you? Why do you believe it is important?
       It’s the voice of the people of America, speaking up for something they believe in,  “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are inalienable rights for all human beings, born and unborn.  It’s the people of America speaking in a strong but peaceful voice for the most vulnerable in our society on whom is laid the gravest injustice.  The March is SO important.  It’s one of the largest, most consistent, most peaceful organized protests of history, and fittingly so, because the thing it’s trying to end is one of the largest, most consistent, most violent organized attacks in history, and it goes against those who cannot protest it for themselves.  So, we do it for them.  And we'll continue do it for them until that attack is ended.

Why are you pro-life? 
I am pro-life for many reasons, but one of them is that I was born to a very young, very naïve, single girl, after 1973 (when abortion was made legal).  She had every “right” to have an abortion, and I had every chance of being aborted, but she chose life over death, adoption over abortion, and that is why I'm here today.  Women deserve better than abortion.  Children and families deserve better than abortion, and the babies who are killed deserve to be remembered.

What would you like to say to our pro-life generation if you could say anything?
To those who aren't yet involved: Those babies need your voice.  They don't have one yet, and they can’t say anything to protect themselves from this heartless slaughter.  YOU have to do it for them.
To those who are: Don't give up.  Don't ever give up.  The “fruits of your labors” may not be apparent just yet, but you never know how many hearts you touch by your witness.  You just don't know.

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      Around the country so many individual people in the Pro-Life Movement are hard at work to end abortion every day. Through personal prayer, praying together outside of abortion clinics, volunteering at pregnancy crisis centers, side-walk counseling, attending Pro-Life conferences and events, donating, and standing firm in the fight against the injustice of Abortion in a blinded and confused world, we are making progress. Last year between 500,000 and 650,000 marched together in the streets of D.C. In nine short days, we will march together again. We must keep fighting the good fight and keep the faith. 

                                                                                                                                          (TheBlaze.com March For Life 2013)





  Let us never forget that life is beautiful. Every life is beautiful, no matter what. We are all called to protect the least of our brethren.


"When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God -- and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world -- and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, 'Spare him, because he loved us!"
- Congressman Henry Hyde


Con amore in Cristo,
Bluebird

4 comments:

  1. So excited and honored to be marching with you again, mia cara! :D

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  2. thank You

    God bless

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  3. Love this post and Iris's interview - almost all of the young Catholics I know (and many young Christians) are the ones who are most on fire for Pro-Life and the March for Life. My 9 year old brother got to march in Washington last year and it made such an impact on him, even at his age.

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    1. Thank you! That's amazing that your brother could experience it so young! Our generation will end abortion!(:

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