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Last week a very dear friend of a very dear friend, went into acute liver failure and almost died. Doctors discovered a brain tumor. Friends gathered around her bedside praying for a miracle, but preparing for a funeral.
Doctors acted immediately. And the Lord was gracious in delivering a miracle.
After successfully removing the tumor, my friend’s friend is home.
I followed this story closely. So encouraged by the outpouring of faith. Hands up, hands-on praying over and around and through and believing that there is healing in the name of Jesus.
Also last week, I saw a Facebook post following the Florida shooting, that said, “Now is not the time for this discussion. People are mourning.”
And I thought about my friend’s friend. And I thought, what if the doctors had said,
“She’s very ill. Now is not the time for this discussion. The time for surgery. The time for healing.”
If you don’t talk about healing during the sickness, then when?
This morning, I read a rambling, random post about loving and not hating and can’t we all just get along and I thought, well.
Duh.
But what about actions over opinions?
If you don’t want to limit access to assault weapons, then what are you doing to care for the mentally ill?
If you are in favor of gun-control, then what are you doing to make that happen? Are you calling your representatives? Or shouting on Facebook?
We have a right to bear arms, yes-and-but, God gave us dominion over animals.
Not people.
Recently I joked about the empty chairs at my empty table during my book signing in Omaha. A lady walked by and said that she was opposite of me.
I knew exactly what she meant, but it’s way more fun to pretend that I didn’t.
To pretend that she was Mrs. Nebraska instead of Miss or that she never honks in the carpool line (liar!) or that she never forgets to pick up her children from school.
“Pearl” has been out for almost 6 months and for the first time, a friend asked me what I meant by being “politically liberal, socially conservative” as my subtitle reads.
I suspect the reason I wasn’t asked sooner, is a) my friends already understand or b) my friends think that I don’t really understand.
What that means.
But I do.
Mostly.
It means that I’m pro-life.
For all of one’s life.
For every life.
For the entirety of life.
From womb to grave. For. Life.
Neither party, if you align yourself fully supports this idea.
So I don’t.
Is pro-life just about having a baby or caring for all babies.
Is pro-life just anti-abortion or is it ensuring that hate-filled, mentally-ill people don’t have access to assault weapons created for military combat?
Is life only valuable at the point of conception or is being pro-life supporting programs that offer assistance to the under-resourced, supporting single-mothers and inviting them to sit next to us at church.
Valuing their life.
For all of their life.
God’s Word says that we were knit together in the womb, created in His likeness.
I took fertility drugs to conceive Coulter and we had an ultra-sound at 8 weeks.
I heard his heartbeat.
Of all the music, and theatre and laughter and stories and all the beautiful sounds that my ears have known, nothing.
Nothing.
Compares.
To the sound of life.
But being a one-issue voter will never work unless the candidate is pro-life for all lives, for all of their lives.
I fall into the socially conservative because I believe that pregnancies are not about a women’s body, but rather about a Mother’s baby. And I fall in the politically liberal because I believe gun-control is not about a hunter’s right to hunt or a man’s right to protect himself, rather it’s about a Mother’s baby. It’s about her right to send her baby to school without fear of being hunted.
Like an animal.
Conception is life. Babies have a right to be born. That is pro-life. So don’t those same babies have the right to feel safe at school? Isn’t that, too, pro-life?
So see, I don’t fit.
And I’m tired of trying.
And I’m tired of explaining hate to my children.
I’m running for President on the pro-life-for-all-of-their-life-for-every-life-because-we-are-all-created-in-the-image-of-the-most-high-God platform.
For what does the Lord require of us, but to do justly, and love mercy and to walk humbly with our God.
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