SAAAAAAAAVE!

Ever since Monday, I’ve had this little miniature soccer player running around in my head doing that silly airplane thing that soccer players do after they score a goal.

Wheeeee!

Why’s that? Because we had a SAVE on Monday! Some of us have been going out there for a couple of years now, and this is our second 40 Days for Life campaign, but this was our first known save! Right smack dab at the midpoint of this spring’s 40 Days for Life vigil, we were treated to a behind the scenes look at what our prayers are, aligned with God’s will, bringing about!

When I arrived for my afternoon shift, I found that one of the leadership team members, her friend, and one other woman (the latter two were out at the vigil for the first time!) were speaking with a woman who had stopped to talk. She’d come up to them and said, “Are you guys always here or something?" She told them she was pregnant and she’d been passing by Planned Parenthood for the last three days, hoping that there would be no prayer volunteers around when she finally went in for her abortion. She said she saw people even at night and it made her think, “What the h--- are they doing?” Well, she finally stopped to ask.

She told us about how she’d lost both her husband and her three-year-old son to violence and that she was afraid to have another baby only to lose someone again. She had worked up the determination to go for an abortion that day, but she really didn’t want one. She was open to the idea of adoption, but worried that her baby would grow up to hate her for it. Two of the volunteers shared their stories of how adoption had positively impacted their families and after hearing their stories, she decided against abortion! She exchanged phone numbers with them and we gave her information about the local pregnancy resource center, which can help her get medical care and put her in touch with several adoption agencies. Hugs were exchanged, and then we all huddled together and prayed in thanksgiving.

It was truly a beautiful moment and I thank God for saving this baby and mother, for allowing us to be a part of His work, and for letting us know that being out there 24 hours a day really does make a difference! I can’t think of a better way to mark the halfway point of the vigil! We are so blessed!

Not a thankless occupation!

I’d like to ask those of you reading to please keep this mother in your prayers! She has been through a lot and still has a difficult road ahead of her. Pray that God gives her the strength to carry this child and that, by turning to God and trusting in Him, she finds healing for her past sorrows.