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We are little stars of eternity... O, please do not abort us!

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ANGELS UNLIMITED

Waiting to Be Born

Deslie McClellan

Playhouse Books

Playhouse Books

Emmaus, Pennsylvania iv

Angels Unlimited: Waiting to Be Born Copyright @ 2015 by Deslie McClellan All rights reserved

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2018 Second Edition v

To all souls who have been aborted vi

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Abridged Shakespeare Adaptations for Children A Midsummer Night’s Dream As You Like It The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night

The Golden Treasury of Acting Scenes

Antique Picture Books Christmas of Long Ago Book 1: A Child's Wonder Christmas of Long Ago Book 2: A Season of Joy Christmas of Long Ago Book 3: Dreams of Love vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

With deepest gratitude, I would like to thank those who brought their exceptional skills and loving hearts to this work: My husband, Jim, who never lost faith in what I was doing and was there with his unfailing love, editorial and graphics support every step of the way. My mother, whose pure love for God set the course of my own life. Elizabeth Sage, our contributing editor, whose research skills and astute insights on the current political and social issues have enlightened this work. With the exception of a few illustrations, the artwork used in this book is copyright free. Since most of the images are over one hundred years old, we took the liberty of colorizing and brightening them up. Many are taken from paintings by some of the most famous illustrators of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These artists include Harrison Fisher, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Frances Brundage, and Alfred Mailick. Their depictions of angels, women and children were pure and reverent, and filled the pages of such leading publishers as Raphael Tuck, Ernest Nister and E. P. Dutton. We also included devotional pictures taken from antique French and Bavarian holy cards. This was a time in our history when beautiful art dominated children’s books, magazines, and an inexhaustible series of postcards, stationery, and greeting card offerings. It was an age that promoted innocence, virtue and beauty—an age indeed when little children were venerated and the family unit considered sacrosanct. The book is set forth in three parts: Faith, Hope and Charity. Part One is told in image and poetry by the angels waiting to be born. Part Two discusses the abortion issue in America today. In Part Three, we return to hear more stories by the angels—this time from those who have been aborted. viii

Most of the poetic verses accompanying the angel images are original. Words borrowed from other authors have been cited on the book page itself or in the Notes section at the back. Many of my articles on abortion include quotes by others. In almost every case, I have provided the hyperlink to the original article from which a quote was excerpted, so that the reader has access to the full context and intent of that author. I would like to acknowledge the influence of the stories of the saints that filled up so much of my Catholic childhood. The deep love they instilled in my heart for God and the heavenly hosts are the ever-present inspiration for this book. The beautiful teachings on the unborn by spiritual author Elizabeth Clare Prophet, published by The Summit Lighthouse as Pearls of Wisdom, were also a significant source of integrating the Word of Christ with the great truths of the world’s religions regarding abortion. They gloriously dovetailed all that I wanted to say about the wonder and majesty of these angels unlimited just waiting to be born! Ebook copies of this book will be offered at no cost to the public. Printed paperback, Kindle and Apple iBooks formats will be sold free or at the minimum charge. All profits from sales will be donated to charity. ix

TO THE READER

Once upon a time a child was born in a manger, in the little town of Bethlehem in Judea. The story of this child who became the Christ is the most beautiful story ever told. It is a story of moral beauty—that is, the beauty of the divine. We know that the star over Bethlehem represented the appearing of the Christ or the Divine Man over the newborn child, Jesus. It was his personal star of eternal promise. But each of us also has a star of destiny. We are not merely human flesh but born in the image and likeness of God. That makes us divine as well as human. It is why we address God as “Our Father.” God is the origin and First Cause of our life. The sperm and egg are but the means God has wrought to bring forth a little creature made out of Himself. The story of man reaching for his star of destiny is the great drama of life. And when he realizes that star by fulfilling his divine labor, we have something of heaven on earth distilled into one drop, one human heart. And the world is a better place for that one life that glowed with holy purpose while it walked this earth. Each heart is different, as each color of the rainbow is different, but we all emanate from the same source. God is the mosaic of all virtue the world has ever known or outpictured. In the single diamond of His being there are infinite, diamond-proof facets—each reflecting a different angle or angel of God’s consciousness. We are those angels on earth, those individual facets, originating in Him and belonging to Him forever. Just as we need different colors of the prism of light to reflect the different radiances of Nature’s beauty, so God would have us exhibit our own unique radiance that reflects some facet of His beautiful, transcendent nature. When we look at the lives of the prophet Abraham, of Gautama Buddha, Mohandas Gandhi, Mother Teresa, George Washington, the Greek Spartan Leonidas, and countless other mystics, saints, scientists, philosophers and warriors who have distinguished their lives in virtue, we see different personalities of God, but each heart willing to suffer and die for love of the Christ, whether that Christ be the person of our Lord Jesus, or a principle of moral beauty—like freedom, justice, truth, honor, purity—for which that soul consecrated his or her life. Those whose lives take on the brilliance of such consecration become the “great Lights” of history to guide the rest of us home. x

The newborn babe is a thing of grace. Stamped with the divine imprimatur, it is the holiest and purest essence of God on this earth, and surely comes to us as heaven’s richest treasure. Of all God’s creatures the little child is closest to Him, and He is closest to the child. Sometimes when I nursed my babies in their first few months, I had the profound sense that they were not fully with me but still partly in heaven, and wrapped withal in their protective veils of grace. In 1973 the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton that a mother can kill her unborn child. This decision to legalize abortion nationwide was based on an implied constitutional right of privacy and declared that the unborn child is not included in the definition of a “person” as protected under the Constitution. Over 60 million American babies have been aborted since that infamous decision and over one trillion worldwide. These souls are not here with us today to hold our hands, to share their joy and happiness and contribute their unique presence to our families, communities, societies and nations, and so fulfill their destiny. Such a loss is incalculable. It is an ultimate loss. And yet there is no outrage, no aching sorrow in the hearts of our people. With the legalization of the death drug, R-486, and the eight-year tenure of a President who could not spare a drop of mercy for the tiny survivor of a botched abortion, the number of babies lost to us keeps escalating. We may well ask, “Is nothing sacred on earth?” America’s culture is in a state of moral crisis. Sex, pornography, drugs, homosexuality, foul language, blasphemy, tattooed flesh, vulgar reality shows, a corrupt press, treasonous politicians, massive voting fraud, irresponsible spending—all these make up the new perverted “normal” America. Indeed, to what intolerable heights can wickedness rise? 1 Abortion, however, is the stand-alone evil. We haven’t seen this kind of heinous slaughter of infants since the time of Herod. Those who perform abortions, who actively promote or enable it, have cast a foul spirit over this once blessed land. It is a contagion of mind and heart that is devouring our honor as Americans and leaving behind a scorched and seared conscience. In the Book of Hosea from the Hebrew Bible we read, “They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” If this nation does not stop the practice of abortion—legalized, government sponsored and tax-supported abortion— then we are vulnerable, as a people, to the inevitable return of that very evil we have not stood against with all of our might and main. Abortion is the fatal weakness or fault line running through our civil society. It is a fault line that augurs the death of our virtue not only as individuals but also as a people. For as 17th century poet John Donne reminded us in his Meditation XVII: “No man is an island, entire of itself; xi every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” I wonder at what point our virtue is terminal—when more than half of the people are no longer living virtuous lives and the majority of the rest of us are silent... Of all victims, the unborn baby is the most powerless and the most helpless, with no ability to defend itself in its plea for life. From the point of view of the aborted soul, the mother is a tyrant of the first order. And yet, without diminishing the weight of her sin, she is just as much a victim as her child. For our society has adopted a narrative written by the medical establishment and the feminists that defines an unplanned pregnancy as a health problem requiring a quick fix. That rhetoric, given infallible rooting in the Supreme Court’s legalization of abortion, is institutionalized in our school system, on social media sites, and promoted by a leftist Hollywood and media cabal. Our youth cannot escape—at least not entirely—such fierce indoctrination. Once these authoritarian entities can convince enough of us that personal conscience is not a viable part of decision making in our lives, then they have struck a mortal blow to our virtue as a people. Benjamin Franklin stated, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”2 The need to debate whether an unborn child is really human or merely fetal tissue is long past. Life as a human being begins at conception. The continuum is apparent: the seed becomes the bud; the bud becomes the fully blossomed flower. The abortion of a fetus at any age is an act of discontinuing that human life. As such it is an act of murder. When a woman chooses to abort her unborn child, therefore, she is choosing to kill. This choice constitutes a fundamental departure from goodness—from that Spirit of God within her that some call the divine spark, the higher self, or simply, conscience. What replaces conscience at the point of her decision is the spirit of evil—for murder or the murderous intent is of evil. And yet the mother is rarely the agent of that evil; in nearly every case she is the victim of those who have taken control of her pregnancy and checkmated any ability on her part to make an informed choice for life. It is only after the abortion that she clearly understands that an evil was committed and that she, and she alone, will have to carry that cross for the rest of her life. The lie of abortion is multi-pronged: firstly, the unborn child is not a real human being yet, but merely fetal material. Secondly, an unplanned pregnancy is a medical problem that can only be rectified by recognized authorities; thirdly, a woman has the right to control her own body and thus put her own needs first over the baby’s right to life. Fourthly, God has nothing xii to say about it. For a woman to buy into any part of this cunning patchwork of deceit necessitates the numbing of her heart and the closing off of her soul to both the natural law of her being and to God’s first commandment: Thou shalt not kill. Though her consent to abort is rarely born of malice, she will yet pay a terrible price. For the act of abortion is nothing less than the murder of her own soul—the knife being taken to the mother and child in one action. Through this diabolical culture of abortion, the mother is, like her unborn child, brought as the lamb to the slaughter. But hope, forgiveness and healing await her, though the journey be arduous and long. Once claimed, it is her rightful victory over those who pillaged her soul and stole its very innocence. It is because of her great suffering that the post abortive mother is the one person in our society who finally does understand that we have to develop the heart of perfect love for the unborn if we are to stop their collective murder. Abortion is a fatal reality not only because of the needless loss of millions of lives, but also, and most disturbingly, because it has morphed into a tyranny of the people, by the people and for the people. The consciousness of abortion—that is, the way a vast majority of people have justified and accepted it as part of their normal living—has become the soft underbelly of our society. That our society has been seduced to accept abortion as a legally sanctioned and emotionally acceptable option to motherhood is nothing less than catastrophic. When tyranny is imposed upon an unwilling, moral populace by an elite of powerfully-placed ideologues, the people can rise up and refuse to go along with it. They can “cling to their God and their guns” and make a difference. That’s the way America was birthed and sustained in Liberty. But when that tyranny is self-imposed—that is, given the consent of one’s very own heart and soul—the cure is a lot harder to effect because the serpentine logic and sinuous emotion behind the decision to abort has been made common. And in the process, God has been made common. How then do we make God’s heart our own, as our Founders intended, and save the lives of our once precious, and now expendable little citizens? I believe we have to work diligently to change the hearts and minds of young men and women who have simply been duped by this cunning lie of abortion. They need to know the truth. They need to understand that the battle between absolute good and absolute evil is taking place in their very own body temples; that abortion is “the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, that standeth in the holy place.” [Matt 24:15] And who better to help them come to terms with the tragic pathos of innocent life murdered, and of the holy obligation of motherhood than the unborn themselves? xiii

This book celebrates the beauty and joy of new life by providing a voice for the precious unborn: both the souls waiting to be born and the souls who have already been aborted. Their voice has never been heard before. This is their story! One thing is certain: unless this nation reverses its course of murdering life in the womb, we will not only lose our Republic, as Benjamin Franklin feared, but also our very souls. Abortion is the killing of holy innocence; it is the killing of wonder, the very wonder and miracle of God’s creation. Every time a child is aborted, our hearts ache with a sorrow that is a sorrow for each of us, and not alone for the child lost. These unborn dead who are given no honored grave are indeed, to borrow Mother Teresa’s words, “the poorest of the poor.” Deslie McClellan

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” ­­—Mother Teresa of Calcutta 1

Prologue

I am an aborted soul.

My little body was despised and discarded—O most cruelly—before it could breathe in the fragrance of dear life. Condemned to this sorrow and suffering, I returned to God’s heart that he might restore this blighted blossom. 2

O mankind, call back to this now desolate garden you call earth the fairest flowers that God did send to you. Their tender forms you did kill, without mercy, like Herod’s henchmen of old—even Satan’s own. Now these fair forms are gone, and their blessings, too, of never failing joy.

Listen to their pleas. Listen to their voices blessing you still, even after you did destroy the hopes and dreams they bore in their beating hearts full of love. O receive them into your homes! Let the light of their love fall softly on your hearts and turn each darkened heart once again, like the sunflower, to her God.

For only then will earth come into her full beauty and perfection—and the love of grateful hearts be yours. Have pity on these blessed of our Father, for they are gentle spirits. Do not doom them to an early death when they might bloom in all their radiance, brightening the earth by their loving presence.

The prayer of each fair flower, and all of heaven, I lay before you: “O do not send me away again. Do not blight the sweet life of one who so gladly loves you, and who comes in holy innocence to share God’s heart of joy!” THE HOLY CHILD 3

Part One

THE HOLY CHILD THE HOLY CHILD 4 5 THE HOLY CHILD 6

We come on wings of Hope To endow with a holy kiss Our Life that is God’s— O mankind, keep tryst! THE HOLY CHILD 7

We are the glorious angel throng Singing to thee our love’s sweet song In these wondrous realms so bright— But earth is dark and needs our Light. And thus we come on love’s true errand To be your children on earth from heaven. THE HOLY CHILD 8

I bring thee nothing but love— Naught else have I to give. THE HOLY CHILD 9 1 For the heart yearns to attain its plan divine. divine. plan its attain to the heart yearns For THE HOLY CHILD 10

I am not a mere fetus But a heavenly soul– A spirit, immortal God hath made me so! THE HOLY CHILD 11

I shall be the sunshine’s brightest ray. THE HOLY CHILD 12

We wear many faces, of varied races The quest is clear to those who will hear In nations across this wide earth. Though the journey be long and hard. Whether Christian or Jewish, It is Christ we seek, Hindu or Buddhist Within us He speaks We adore God with our special worth. As our very own Saviour and Bard.

The lessons we learn help us make our return Our true Life—immortal, awaits at the portal To our God undivided in heaven. When the soul becomes God at long last. Faith is the key There is no greater wisdom When the heart’s pure and free Than knowing his kingdom And becomes for each seeker the leaven. Lies hidden within each dear heart. THE HOLY CHILD 13

I bring a precious gift to the world. Protect it, O God. THE HOLY CHILD 14

We go everywhere together Inseparable our wings— Mother, would you mind twins? THE HOLY CHILD 15

All packed and ready to go! THE HOLY CHILD 16

If I come to you early, mother, it is only because God has so much for me to do. THE HOLY CHILD 17

Just preparing our “To Do” list! THE HOLY CHILD 18

I am an angel of Charity. I carry the fragrance of love. Can you not feel that pink flame in my heart? THE HOLY CHILD 19 The birds are teaching me to sing for you! for to sing me teaching are birds The THE HOLY CHILD 20 Just learning my lessons ahead of time. time. ahead of lessons my learning Just THE HOLY CHILD 21

With God all things are possible No matter the pain or strife. So have faith in His love and His great joy For this precious gift of life!2 THE HOLY CHILD 22

A long time ago I chose you— Oh, do not refuse me… THE HOLY CHILD 23

Ready for the world! THE HOLY CHILD 24

This is my dream: to be the bride of Christ! THE HOLY CHILD 25

O, I tremble with joy at the first sight of thee Dear mommy and daddy, my parents to be! THE HOLY CHILD 26

It’s Christmas here in heaven When a child is born on earth. A throng of angel voices Rejoice at each new birth.

For it is our Father’s gift above To send a shining, lovely One To leave her footsteps of holy love In the image dear of Christ, His Son. THE HOLY CHILD 27

We are sisters three— We come to you joyously. A heavenly melody we sing to thee Composing a love symphony. For love, precious love, is the magic key That unlocks the heart to all it can be. THE HOLY CHILD 28

I’m a Navy man! That’s the Word on high… THE HOLY CHILD 29 This is the hero I want to be! I want hero is This the me. God for has planned honor greater No the free! of in the land Peace of A warrior be to a Marine! I’ll be proud THE HOLY CHILD 30

I am coming, mother, in my little red wagon of love. THE HOLY CHILD 31 We come perfumed with the fragrance of roses, and the distillation of their love… of the distillation perfumed and roses, come of the fragrance with We THE HOLY CHILD 32 THE HOLY CHILD 33

I sleep in the peace of heaven And my prayer goes silently to thee— O mother, my mother, Do not forsake me! THE HOLY CHILD 34

We’re winter babies—four in number Waiting to be called to slumber In the womb of our chosen mother— Oh, we shall be Christmas dears— One after the other! THE HOLY CHILD 35

We are lowering our own little Christmas tree For every little newborn on earth that we see. THE HOLY CHILD 36 We are springtime babies, don’t you see? you don’t babies, springtime are We THE HOLY CHILD 37

My name is Purity. Imprimatur: God THE HOLY CHILD 38 I light my candle from our tree above— tree our from candle my I light of love. Christmas bring I a flame is It THE HOLY CHILD 39

I hear thy whispering, welcome voice— Heaven’s gates open wide. And I rejoice to come to thee Your little angel child. THE HOLY CHILD 40

O mother, help me make God’s dreams come true. THE HOLY CHILD 41

A song of the Christ Child to each aborning soul on earth: “I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the judgment book unfold.” 3 THE HOLY CHILD 42

If you would but hear our prayers, and receive us… THE HOLY CHILD 43

What beats in this heart Is the yearning for freedom To live, to love— To be of life a real part. Oh mother, I am born of God’s heart! THE HOLY CHILD 44

I come fresh from heaven—a universe within me. THE HOLY CHILD 45

Oh, the sweetness of His loving heart! If you could know Him on earth as we know Him in heaven, you would never refuse our God nor the sacred gift of Himself in these littlest of our angel bands. THE HOLY CHILD 46

It is not a sad life to suffer. For to hide in the wounds of Christ’s passion is the way of love. It is this Little Way that I would follow. THE HOLY CHILD 47

Won’t you make me your New Year’s resolution? THE HOLY CHILD 48 THE HOLY CHILD 49

Here I am and ready for flight Dressed in my shimmering robe of light. A child of golden wisdom bright— I’m coming to earth this very night.

My eyes are brown and very large­— Grave and wondering eyes they are That see to the earth and up to the stars. A vision I bring as God’s holy charge.

A wreath of lilies rests upon my locks Like sunshine’s rays in little frocks. Time’s hands move slowly on the clock As angel bands about me flock.

With tender sighs of a love untold They bid farewell with tears that flow Like crystal shafts of starlight glow— But I am merry—O eloquently so!

Long it seems I will be gone From this blessed realm, my happy home. But life awaits where I shall roam In God’s dear heart, my destiny known. THE HOLY CHILD 50

I’ll be the apple of your eye. THE HOLY CHILD 51

Every angel isn’t perfect, you know! But, mother, you can make me so… THE HOLY CHILD 52

Oh daddy, I’ve missed you so much! At last you’ve called me to your heart of love. THE HOLY CHILD 53

I’m going to be a teacher when I grow up. THE HOLY CHILD 54

A fisherman’s life for me­— It’s the best kind of life at sea. THE HOLY CHILD 55

Holiness unto the Lord! THE HOLY CHILD 56

I’m praying that she’ll hear me whisper In the secret place of her heart, The name my Jesus did call me— His little Marie Bouchard. THE HOLY CHILD 57

I’m practicing to be a beautician. THE HOLY CHILD 58

We know how to make the nicest friends! THE HOLY CHILD 59

I shall reach for the highest star— And hope, truest love, you will not be far. THE HOLY CHILD 60

Just give us a story book and we’ll be as good as gold. THE HOLY CHILD 61

I’m really quite old-fashioned Not a modern Millie at all But I have a heart that’s warm and true So please give me a call… THE HOLY CHILD 62 I’m Picture Perfect! Picture I’m THE HOLY CHILD 63

I’ll be fair and blonde With eyes of pure blue— You’ll know me, daddy For I’ll look just like you! THE HOLY CHILD 64

Chums in heaven, chums on earth! THE HOLY CHILD 65

These are the sweetest of Purity’s flowers, I’ll bring them to thee—an angel’s dower. THE HOLY CHILD 66

I’m just irresistible! THE HOLY CHILD 67

Just because you can’t see our wings doesn’t mean we’re not angels! THE HOLY CHILD 68 No matter the season—spring, summer or fall or summer the season—spring, matter No morn. Christmas first that of the joy with I shall come THE HOLY CHILD 69

It’s an actor I want to be! Shakespeare’s the man for me— I’m not interested in Academy Awards Just playing Hamlet on those hallowed boards. THE HOLY CHILD 70

I have a great love flame that God did impart And a great divine plan that sings in my heart.

My own inner being’s as free as a dove— 4 O let me live to share His great love. THE HOLY CHILD 71

I am a little Rose of Light! I love to paint my flowers bright With a message that is true­— The love I send to both of you. THE HOLY CHILD 72

Texas is my destination. Liberty’s flame I’ll be— Heart of Alamo, patriot heroes Where a boy can grow up free! Freedom For All! Freedom Above All! No other place for me! THE HOLY CHILD 73

When I get big enough I’m going to find my own Treasure Island. THE HOLY CHILD 74

Mother, this heart is thine. O say, “I will have you, sweet daughter mine.” THE HOLY CHILD 75

I’m the little sea sweetheart. Its world is all my heart. THE HOLY CHILD 76

My name is Sturdy John, And I’m as honest as the day. THE HOLY CHILD 77

God gave me a loving heart and true. If you will have me I’ll love you, too! THE HOLY CHILD 78

I’m growing and growing and soon will appear As your wee blue-eyed baby of Easter morn cheer! THE HOLY CHILD 79

I’m a gallant cavalier— My fingertips I put to my lips And blow you a kiss mother dear— Like this— THE HOLY CHILD 80

Under the mistletoe I’ll be waiting for my first baby kiss, And every year till I’m as big as this… THE HOLY CHILD 81

In heaven they call me, “dear little queen of May,” because, you see, my name is May. THE HOLY CHILD 82

We’ll do everything together, and he’ll be glad I’m a girl, after all. THE HOLY CHILD 83

An unborn child to her mother:

God’s love in my heart burns clear and bright As the sun shining down from her noonday height. I bring no burden—I am here heart-whole With Light’s pure essence to bless thy soul. THE HOLY CHILD 84

We’ll take up the tiniest bit of room For we are just a tiny pair. On tiny shoulders our capes will sit, And tiny bonnets for our heads to fit, And tiny shoes on our tiny feet, While tiny muffs will make us complete. THE HOLY CHILD 85

Kindness is the gift I bring. THE HOLY CHILD 86

I expect to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. THE HOLY CHILD 87

As Mary stands in the clouds above Her hands outstretched to bless with love— I’ll catch her shining image bright And draw her beauty into sight By holy inspiration’s might. My blessed purpose – God’s delight! THE HOLY CHILD 88

I am the holy fire of innocence That God has drenched me in– The pure sunlight of heaven That nothing on earth can dim. THE HOLY CHILD 89

I am a child unborn Made in God’s pure likeness— All else is naught. THE HOLY CHILD 90

To live my life beautifully and fully given is my holy purpose. THE HOLY CHILD 91

O the wonders of God in Nature! They shall be my life’s great work! THE HOLY CHILD 92

“My soul doth magnify the Lord And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.” 5 THE HOLY CHILD 93

I’m just a little shy, but as grateful as can be To be your little girl on earth, forever loving thee THE HOLY CHILD 94

I’m going to Russia when I come down to earth It won’t be long now—Christmas Day is my birth! THE HOLY CHILD 95

We are Faith, Hope and Charity Our hearts burning bright For love of the Saviour Our Lord, Jesus Christ. His sacred presence Our joy to bestow— A threefold flame Of blue, pink and gold. A triune of Light All rainbow-hued We come from God’s heights Heaven bedewed. Our gift–love’s pure essence Our gift–wholly thine If you will but welcome Your children divine. THE HOLY CHILD 96

I am no frail child of dust But a soul immortal—a Christ in trust! THE HOLY CHILD 97

I bring you light and beauty, and unchanging love. My heart is meek and mild, as gentle as a dove. THE HOLY CHILD 98

We spring from a love divine That entwines our hearts with thine. O Christ, our light and true vine— It is God’s holy design. THE HOLY CHILD 99

I want to love Jesus And from him ne’er part. O Mother of Heaven Won’t you give him my heart? THE HOLY CHILD 100

I have my own Star of Bethlehem In the soft wintry sky. O look for it mother Shining up high. To herald the birth Of your own angel child. And gazing upon it So radiant and clear Our hearts may meet E’er you hold me near. THE HOLY CHILD 101

I’m the tiniest of the angels And wear a tiny suit. I play and swim and dance and fly And play a tiny flute.

The notes you’ll hear are tiny, too But sweetly played and true. You’ll dearly love my melody— You see, I made it just for you! THE HOLY CHILD 102

I shall listen always to my guardian angel, and never forget my God. THE HOLY CHILD 103

Do not fear my birth, ma mère As a burden too great for you to bear. O have faith in His love That pours down from above. God has made me your Light to see! THE HOLY CHILD 104

I shall be the heart of my family— For Love is my calling. THE HOLY CHILD 105

Though I am a little child— A newborn babe so meek and mild, I wear a golden crown of light Just like the Saviour, Jesus Christ. A sun of splendor shining bright A beacon blazing through the night To all who walk His path of right. THE HOLY CHILD 106

Our hearts are filled with love that’s true A holy love sanctified through— Hearts made pure in God for you… THE HOLY CHILD 107

Mary my mother, this is all I ask: To live with Jesus in his loving heart. THE HOLY CHILD 108

She’s the one dear Rose In mercy He sends her The soldier knows His flower supernal The bravest of our angel bands. To heal the heart’s burden of woe. Mid the war’s great curse This rose ever fair Stands the ministering nurse— With the fragrance rare— She’s the work of the Master’s hand. 6 Her grace from God’s heart to bestow.

If God should ordain it By his Holy Spirit In her loving footsteps I’d follow In the battlefield tent I’ll find my content Bringing comfort, heartsease for their sorrow. THE HOLY CHILD 109

I will be a priest and follow the Cross! THE HOLY CHILD 110

I am the Son of God. Each child our Father sends to earth is my very own body and blood. THE HOLY CHILD 111

We bring you a priceless gift of grace, crowned with wreaths of God’s love. Treasure him, O mothers and fathers. THE HOLY CHILD 112

It is the music of the angels you hear whenever a child is born. THE HOLY CHILD 113

O gentle Christ, defend me from the foe malign. Teach me your peace that conquers all evil. THE HOLY CHILD 114 THE HOLY CHILD 115

“The world, my child, hides the thorns underneath the flowers. My son hides the flowers underneath the thorns. It is the sweet mystery of love.” 7 THE HOLY CHILD 116

I AM the Light of the World! My glory descends with the birth of each child. Let not its light be extinguished. THE HOLY CHILD 117

O my guardian angel, keep me holy all the days of my life. THE HOLY CHILD 118

Heart of Jesus, I give thee my heart. Keep it, I entreat thee, so that no one may take it, nor possess it, but thee only. Evening Prayer of Saint Margaret Mary THE HOLY CHILD 119

O my loving Father, never let me forget thee but draw all hearts to thine. THE HOLY CHILD 120

I shall follow thee mother as I follow the Light, For it is God’s will, and His holy delight! THE HOLY CHILD 121 THE HOLY CHILD 122

Among the bowers, gathering flowers You’ll find me, mother dear. With the playful gnomes and fairies In the vales and forests near.

I’ll plant you a little garden Full of fragrant rare delights— Of Beauty’s loveliest garlands Ablaze with radiant new life.

I am Nature’s little guardian Her glory to impart. This is the gift God gave me: To carry springtime in my heart. THE HOLY CHILD 123

We’re children of the dawning age— A radiant, lovely golden age When every man can walk the stage By wisdom’s light and be a sage.

And truth shall conquer Serpent’s lie And beauty’s rose can never die 8 And love can each soul’s heart inspire To reach for heaven by God desire. THE HOLY CHILD 124

In the spirit of the old adage We have, each one, a part to play A part that God cannot delay! Receive us now—it is all we pray. THE HOLY CHILD 125

"I VOW MYSELF TO THEE!" THE HOLY CHILD 126

I shall God’s watchman be Guarding the flame of Liberty With a heart of one who dares To face the tyrant in his lair. O with a courage heavenly rare! For I am an angel who’ll fight the good fight Till earth becomes Freedom’s Star of Light! THE HOLY CHILD 127

I’m loving and tender With a heart that’s true— A child divine Made just for you. THE HOLY CHILD 128

Will you teach me to say my own little prayer? O how lovely to speak to God from down there. THE HOLY CHILD 129

I’ll be the most loving little sister a big brother ever had. THE HOLY CHILD 130

I wait and I pray that you soon will remember The vow that you gave to call me from heaven. THE HOLY CHILD 131

I’ll ride ’em high And ride ’em home. Kentucky Derby Here I come! THE HOLY CHILD 132

I’m waiting and waiting With Christmas good cheer For the day when you call me Your own little dear. THE HOLY CHILD 133

I shall tend His sweet lambs in that country Down Under Where sunshine is plenty, and winter is summer THE HOLY CHILD 134

I chart my course to immortality— His path, Holy Christhood, I see. THE HOLY CHILD 135

Humility shall be God’s chosen Way for me. THE HOLY CHILD 136

We come with lamps trimmed and burning. It will be sweet to live for Jesus. THE HOLY CHILD 137

Credit: Ephemera Archive for American Studies, Brattleboro, Vermont USA

I’m a warrior from Saint Michael’s band— A patriot’s fire I’ll bring to this land By hearts united in God and man In our holy and just cause for Uncle Sam.

With my armor of Light, helmet and shield And a sword of blue flame I so handily wield­— Evil will nevermore go unconcealed When I strike the blow with my mighty zeal.

Tyrants, Dragons, Fallen Angels beware! Your lies and your wickedness no more will ensnare. I give you this warning and loudly declare— Stand in my way if you dare! 9 THE HOLY CHILD 138

A great big smile I have for you— And a heart that loves you through and through. THE HOLY CHILD 139

There’s only one life for me: it’s the real deal— In three words I’ll say it: a Navy Seal! THE HOLY CHILD 140

Just a little farm for me­— And I’ll be happy as a boy can be. THE HOLY CHILD 141

There is a great darkness that’s over our land— Her people made joyless by Tyranny’s hand. And so we would go there to help them resist The powers of evil that raise their iron first.

Mother Russia, don’t cry with such tears forlorn Though dreams be lost, and your grandeur no more. God’s love that dwells in us we’ll nobly impart To endear all thy people again to His heart. THE HOLY CHILD 142

Just dreaming of my storybook life with you. THE HOLY CHILD 143

Our grand-battements and grand-pliés flow With fairylike grace and hearts all aglow. No vision so lovely, no beauty so rare As the glorious flight of an angel en l’air. THE HOLY CHILD 144

I’ll be a busy little girl, just you wait and see— I can sew and wash dishes, and keep my clothes clean. O, hurry up mother, it is my loving plea... THE HOLY CHILD 145

I come to bring my gift of gladness. THE HOLY CHILD 146

I’m on my way, just as fast as I can fly. THE HOLY CHILD 147

Christ shall come again In glorious rebirth In each little child Who is born on earth. THE HOLY CHILD 148

The kingdom of heaven is within me. Christ’s promise and design— All beauty waits to greet thee God’s hope of Love divine. THE HOLY CHILD 149

Lovingly I wait to come to you. THE HOLY CHILD 150

To become the Christ is our purpose divine— The universal truth for all mankind. THE HOLY CHILD 151

Field and forest, vale and mountain Flowering meadow, shining sea. Glorious birdsong, splashing fountains— I am Nature’s child, you see. THE HOLY CHILD 152

We are happy—the happiest angels tonight Looking down to earth from our starry heights. Watching and waiting with purest delight For the world’s most wondrous sight!

A child of our band you will surely behold The pattern of Love for her we will uphold. And though we’ll be parted, her life to unfold, We are one, all one in God’s heart of gold! THE HOLY CHILD 153

In love’s sweet dream I’ll come to you With all my happiness Shining through— THE HOLY CHILD 154

I have come, dearest mother, my true love to find He has sailed far from me, to the Light he is blind. O help me to shine as the star pure and bright To lead him back home through his soul’s long dark night.

In His mercy God gave me this life to restore The dear one I have loved and shall love evermore. My one wish eternal upon the Love Star: To be twin flames together in God’s loving heart. THE HOLY CHILD 155

I have a heart so full of love for you To be your own is my dream come true THE HOLY CHILD 156

I will defend Liberty And resist Tyranny! Nuf Sed! THE HOLY CHILD 157

I shall be the beauty of holiness. THE HOLY CHILD 158

Je t’aime, ma mere, je t’aime beaucoup Ces pétales d’amour que je t’envoie THE HOLY CHILD 159

O receive me with faith Let go of all fear. Look through my heart And see God here! THE HOLY CHILD 160

I vow to serve O Mother Teresa The poorest of the poor— Sweet saint from above— Each precious soul I come to be That God cares for. Your Missionary of Love! THE HOLY CHILD 161

I will walk in the footsteps Of Jesus the Christ. My skin will be black, My heart full of light. I will bear his honor, Do all that is good. And unite all the races In holy brotherhood. THE HOLY CHILD 162

There is no greater goal for me Than to defend her honor: Sweet Liberty! THE HOLY CHILD 163

I am an unborn baby– New life from above Like a rose opening It’s first tiny bud. My fragrance releases All of God’s love. THE HOLY CHILD 164

I’m arriving in Sweden on New Year’s Day Look for my smile with the dawn’s first ray! THE HOLY CHILD 165

It’s an Aussie girl that I want to be On the farm with my grandpa down by the sea. THE HOLY CHILD 166

I will guard the honor of thy Cross, my sweet Jesus. THE HOLY CHILD 167

I come from a shining world of beauty. God’s love has led me to thee— Our lot is cast, This bond made fast, O, do not despise me! THE HOLY CHILD 168

Take the soul and heart of me, Take my spirit, pure and free. For love is all I bring to thee. I am Love’s opportunity. THE HOLY CHILD 169

Child of Thy love, child of Thy heart! O God, how beautiful thou art! THE HOLY CHILD 170

A messenger of peace I’ll be By the light within I see. I am His holy prophecy– It is the life God chose for me. THE HOLY CHILD 171

George Washington is the man that I want to be— By his courage and virtue he made us all free. I’ll give him my reverence, I’ll pledge him my all With a heart that loves honor And duty’s sweet thrall. His gentle obedience to God is the key— In that Spirit divine, I’ll uphold Liberty. THE HOLY CHILD 172

Don’t forget me, mother dear, I am waiting, O so patiently! THE HOLY CHILD 173

This my song shall be: “Honor to those who with valor have won! Laud we their names for deeds nobly done. Sound the trumpets, beat the drums Lo, now the Conquering hero comes!” 10 THE HOLY CHILD 174

I AM my birthday gift to you— God’s living joy, all loving true. THE HOLY CHILD 175

I will be Strong! I will stand up and speak out bravely! I will not shun the fight! Like a true soldier, I’ll watch through the night! THE HOLY CHILD 176

Our kiss of love we send to thee Our mother sweet, soon to be. THE HOLY CHILD 177

I’ll be your perfect little girl in pink. THE HOLY CHILD 178

And he said to me, “My Presence shall go with thee.” EXODUS 33:14 THE HOLY CHILD 179

I come from the angels into your care As innocent as the incense of prayer. O keep me close and free from all harms Till I’m safe and secure in your loving arms. THE HOLY CHILD 180

Ready for the Olympics! THE HOLY CHILD 181

Our angel faces peep right through From sunlight shaft of glory’s hue.11 We wait with joyful hearts on fire To be your own, our grand desire. THE HOLY CHILD 182

When you take my little hand And hear my cry so glad— When you enfold me in your arms To keep me from all harms— Gone will be your sorrows, Gone will be your tears, For only love can follow A mother’s love so dear. THE HOLY CHILD 183

I’m practicing to write my very first brief— I’m finding out early from the Master-in-Chief That prosecuting evil is no easy feat— For Justice has many false faces and cheats.

My mission is simple: to stand up for truth! To explain and expose, to unravel, refute. I’ll reverence the law if derived from God right. I’ll argue that tyrants bring forth only blight.

Francis Bacon, John Locke, the Baron de Montesquieu, Thomas Paine, Thomas Hobbes, Alexis de Tocqueville. Natural Law, God’s Law, the separation of powers— With these I can zealously climb Reason’s tower.

To graduate cum laude from this University of the Spirit Their knowledge and passion I must surely inherit. And if there be one I must reverence above these It is Christ, holy Truth, incarnate in me.

There’s work to be done, as above so below— Our Republic in peril—her flame burning low. To those who are patriots with hearts set afire We give you this warning: amend what is dire! THE HOLY CHILD 184

O Father in heaven, be thou my guide To see our loving Christ abide In these whom all the world derides— I would be your heart of Charity! THE HOLY CHILD 185

The Little Monk they call me— And thus my life was forfeit My home’s the Himalayan heights. In the womb of her I loved— A Buddha’s love pours serenely And all that God had planned for me From this humble heart of Light. If Freedom she had won.

My mother was cruelly killed I wait here at heaven’s portal In our homeland of Tibet. With a love so meek and mild. The Chinese guards who shot her I wait for another mother— Had not even the smallest regret. Opportunity’s hopeful child. THE HOLY CHILD 186

For Love Alone! THE HOLY CHILD 187

In God’s mind I AM divine… THE HOLY CHILD 188

God’s Real in me I know it’s true. And that same God Is in you, too! 12 THE HOLY CHILD 189

I held aloft the colors of the thirteen states And kept the flame of freedom for a nation’s fate. I watched the army suffer for their noble cause In the icy wintry snows at Valley Forge.

It was there that he prayed with a heart bowed low That God might send aid—divine grace to bestow. A prayer so humble, yet it struck heaven through— Washington beat the British in a holy coup.

I am coming again to this land of the free— A keeper of the flame of sweet Liberty. To stir up the yearning for freedom’s dear light And the need to defend it against human blight.

I am coming again with a heart full of fire To save our Republic from tyrannies dire. Not as an angel aloft in the sky But a child of your own full of God desire. THE HOLY CHILD 190

O Love’s Opportunity— To do God’s Will In all humility. THE HOLY CHILD 191

May a gentle breeze waft to thee A loving kiss and my sweetest dream. THE HOLY CHILD 192

The Austrian Alps shall my favorite ground be Where I can pick flowers in summer for thee THE HOLY CHILD 193

A child pure and holy is my hope to be O, give me this life, ’tis my loving plea! THE HOLY CHILD 194

All that Beauty and Love can be Is God’s great hope for thee and me THE HOLY CHILD 195

I’m the loveliest little angel From Victory’s golden band, I soar on wings of eagles To Freedom’s holy land.

The gift I bring with sweetest cheer Is Victory’s flame that binds all fear. Always Victory!13 our watchword dear— O, aren’t you glad that I am here? THE HOLY CHILD 196

We are angel fairies from heaven’s bowers— We come to you sweetly with garlands of flowers THE HOLY CHILD 197

Father Enoch, you have said to me, “Let truth be your companion, Be attached to integrity.” 14 This my life and soul shall be! THE HOLY CHILD 198

Even though we’ll be poor, I am going to study my lessons very hard, and you’ll be proud of me. THE HOLY CHILD 199

The song of the angels to each newborn baby:

You are a child of the Light! You were created in the image Divine! You are a child of infinity, You dwell in the veils of time. You are a son of the Most High! 15 THE HOLY CHILD 200

Music is our gift for all mankind. THE HOLY CHILD 201

I come from the garden of Krishna Bestowing all life with his bliss. Listen to the flute that he plays, Its music—pure happiness!

Behold his dear consort, sweet Radha Her dance—sacred love’s divine art! O beautiful flames of pure youth Open your highway of love to my heart. THE HOLY CHILD 202

Beloved Kuan Yin, O Mother of Mercy, sweet saint of the East, let me be your little Lotus flower on earth. Make my heart wise like yours, and grow in mercy unending. THE HOLY CHILD 203

I come in the name of Lord Shiva! I come in divine love to purge the earth of the evil of abortion. Oh, I shall be a pillar of fire of His love! I shall walk with the rod of Shiva and dispel death and hell where’er it stalks. I will not deafen my ears to the screams of the tortured unborn that are heard across the heavens. God in each soul does cry out to me, and I cannot rest in heaven. And thus I enter the portal of life. I shall be their guardian light and keep the flame of holy love. THE HOLY CHILD 204

When my life is done and the battle fought And all that was honor so dearly bought— And I ask Him, “My Lord, was it all for naught?” I pray my dear Lord will say at His court: “No greater love hath this man wrought!” THE HOLY CHILD 205 16 The Vigil The Our destiny, ’tis “Destiny not Dust.” Dust.” not “Destiny ’tis Our destiny, THE HOLY CHILD 206

The Quest Begun THE HOLY CHILD 207 The JourneyThe THE HOLY CHILD 208

The Quest Won “I see the perfect beauty of the Holy Grail!” MOTHERHOOD 209 Part Two

MOTHERHOOD MOTHERHOOD 210 MOTHERHOOD 203

“Hail, thou that art highly favored, The Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women And blessed is the fruit of thy womb.” [Luke: 1:28] MOTHERHOOD 204

Sacred Motherhood

Three weeks after I married the love of my life, I conceived our first child. I know exactly the day and hour because an angel confirmed it. As a child growing up Catholic, I knew only too well the story of Archangel Gabriel appearing to Mary and announcing the conception in her womb of the child who would be called Jesus. Not even Protestant reformist John Calvin could deny the heavenly annunciation. It never occurred to me that an angel might greet other women when they conceived—at least not until it happened to me. My husband and I had just returned from our honeymoon in Montana. It was our first night of conjugal love in our Virginia apartment. It was exactly 2 am when I was startled awake by a great brightness. An angel of exquisite beauty appeared in the air above me. His robe was gleaming white, and his eyes—brilliant and blue—were filled with the most wondrous love. He carried a scroll that seemed to be made of light, or some glorious airy essence. It literally shimmered. Though the angel held it in his hands, it seemed to float in the air, as though buffeted by a gentle breeze. Fragrant roses fell all about and they seemed to glow with a life of their own. As the scroll unfolded in graceful ripples, I saw a child’s name on it—a girl’s name, written in radiant letters that appeared to rise off the page. I felt such an indescribable presence of love that I thought my heart would burst. The angel looked at the name and then smiled at me with ineffable sweetness. And then I understood. I woke up my husband and told him that an angel had just appeared to me to let me know I had conceived a girl. He actually didn’t laugh… My daughter was born nine months later (less a few days) and she bears the name that was written on that divine scroll. To bring forth a child is the greatest privilege on earth and the purest bliss for a woman. Even if a mother does not recognize the baby in her arms as a divine little creature, she cannot help but appreciate the wonder of its creation. Motherhood should inspire such deep joy because giving birth is nothing less than a sacred adventure. Up until the 1960s our society viewed motherhood with reverence. The advertising industry used it as a dominant theme to sell soap, baby diapers, talcum powder, toilet paper, shampoo, face cream, toys, baby food, MOTHERHOODSACRED MOTHERHOOD 213 breakfast cereal, cosmetics, and any number of homemaking accessories. The years following World War II saw a celebration of family values—loving examples of moms and dads willing to sacrifice their personal needs to meet responsibilities of family, church and community. Sometimes we are lucky to see this family-centered society portrayed in re-runs of old classic television shows on TV Land. Sadly, it seems like a golden age long past. A baby commercial, let alone one showing a newborn in the arms of a rapturous mother, is a rarity on television these days. Going back even further in time to the early twentieth century, we observe that motherhood was venerated. It was even considered heroic. The highest calling of a woman was to bear children. It is why a pregnant wife those days was treated by her husband like a porcelain doll. Before antibiotics or the option of surgical caesarian births, childbirth was a life and death encounter for the mother and the child. In that equation, it was the child who was given precedence over the life of the mother. The mother willed it so. The doctor willed it so. And society willed it so. A child was sacrosanct—a precious, inviolable gift from God. Today, pro-abortion advocates get very angry if anything or anyone threatens to limit a woman’s ability to kill her unborn. The right of abortion is not only their battle cry but also their very religion. Indeed, legal abortion is their holy grail, and they will not easily relinquish possession. Thus their voices are very shrill, amplified by leftist politicians and an equally progressive media. Add to this the prevalence of activist judges serving in key federal and state courts, and it becomes almost impossible to push through the most modest bill protecting the unborn, let alone confirm constitutional justices to the highest courts. Moreover, if you go to an abortion clinic to pray, you are restricted to a certain distance, or your presence is prohibited altogether. It took a saint of this modern age—it often takes a saint—to remind us that a child still matters. On May 16, 2004, Pope John Paul II named Gianna Beretta Molla a canonized saint in the Catholic Church. She became a powerful symbol for pro-lifers because she refused to end her pregnancy despite the knowledge that giving birth to her child would kill her. Gianna was an Italian pediatrician who died in 1962 at the age of 39—a week after giving birth to her fourth child. Suffering with a tumor in the uterus, the doctors warned her to abort the child. She insisted on carrying the baby to term, knowing full well that she would be sacrificing her life. She made the choice with the consent of her husband and her three other children. In his homily at her canonization Mass, Pope John Paul II called Gianna “a simple, but more than ever, significant messenger of divine love. Following the example of Christ, MOTHERHOODSACRED MOTHERHOOD 214 who ‘having loved his own, he loved them to the end,’ this holy mother of a family remained heroically faithful to the commitment she made on the day of her marriage. The extreme sacrifice she sealed her life with testifies that only those who have the courage to give of themselves totally to God and to others are able to fulfill themselves. Through [her] example, may our age rediscover the pure, chaste and fruitful beauty of conjugal love, lived as a response to the divine call!” In June of 2012, 28 year-old Chiara Corbella also gave her life for her unborn child. She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer not long after getting pregnant with her third child. Her previous two children had died of birth defects. Her doctors advised her to abort the child and start treatment immediately. An article from the Catholic News Agency tells her story: “Chiara decided to protect her baby—[whom she] named Francisco— and opted to forgo treatment until after his birth, which took place on May 30, 2011. Her cancer quickly progressed and eventually she lost sight in one eye. After a year-long battle Chiara died on June 13, surrounded by her loved ones and convinced that she would be reunited with her two children in heaven. ‘I am going to heaven to take care of Maria and David. You stay here with Dad. I will pray for you,’ Chiara said in a letter for Francisco that she wrote one week before her death. “Chiara’s husband, Enrico, said he experienced ‘a story of love on the cross.’ Speaking to Vatican Radio, he said that they learned from their three children that there is no difference in a life that lasts 30 minutes or 100 years. ‘It was wonderful to discover this love that grew more and more in the face of so many problems,’ he said. ‘We grew more and more in love with each other and Jesus. We were never disappointed by this love, and for this reason, we never lost time, even though those around us said, Wait, don’t be in a hurry to have another child,’ Enrico said. “‘The world today encourages people to make wrong choices about the unborn, the sick and the elderly,’ he noted. ‘We confuse ourselves in wanting to become the owners of life and to escape from the cross the Lord gives us. The truth is that this cross – if you embrace it with Christ – ceases to be as ugly as it looks. If you trust in him, you discover that this fire, this cross, does not burn, and that peace can be found in suffering, and joy in death,’ Enrico explained. ‘I spent a lot of time this year reflecting on this phrase from the Gospel that says the Lord gives a cross that is sweet and a burden that is light. When I would look at Chiara when she was about to die, I obviously became very upset. But I mustered the courage and a few hours before – it was about eight in the morning, Chiara died at noon – I asked her: But Chiara, my love, is this cross really sweet, like the Lord says? She looked at me MOTHERHOODSACRED MOTHERHOOD 215

and she smiled, and in a soft voice she said, Yes, Enrico, it is very sweet. In this sense, the entire family didn’t see Chiara die peacefully, but happily, which is totally different,’ Enrico said. “When his son grows up, he added, he will tell him ‘how beautiful it is to let oneself be loved by God, because if you feel loved you can do anything,’ and this is ‘the most important thing in life: to let yourself be loved in order to love and die happy. I will tell him that this is what his mother, Chiara, did. She allowed herself to be loved, and in a certain sense, I think she loved everyone in this way. I feel her more alive than ever. To be able to see her die happy was to me a challenge to death.’” Full article: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/emotional- goodbye-for-young-italian-mother-who-died-for-unborn-child/ The newborn baby is a gift of grace. It is not just a little body. It is a holy soul come fresh from the inner planes of heaven, where it has prepared for its sojourn on earth. Life is the opportunity for every soul to fulfill his or her divine plan. And that plan, custom designed for each one, is the highest promise that God holds in His heart. St. Therese of the Child Jesus—also known as The Little Flower—was a Carmelite nun who entered a cloistered convent in Lisieux, France as a young girl of 15. After a long struggle with tuberculosis, she died in 1897 at the age of 24. She lived a life of childlike trust and absolute surrender to God’s will. Her beautiful thoughts are recorded in her autobiography, The Story of a Soul. Her path was later described as The Little Way of Spiritual Childhood—the way that Jesus himself desired us to follow when he said, “Verily I say unto you, except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” [Matt 18:3] And again, “Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” [Matt 18:4] And elsewhere: “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.” [Mark 10:14-15] Jesus is describing what the spiritual life should be. He is schooling us in the graces or arts of the Spirit verses the arts of the flesh. His words are a beatitude of that true life, and he couldn’t speak more plainly. He was not asking us to be childlike, for the kingdom of heaven is not childlike.1 He was referring to the spiritual qualities of the child—essential qualities of wonder, of hope, of trust, of purity, and of the humble determination to be virtuous. Children have a natural sense that God is very special and very near to them. And that He loves them. Jesus was talking about the faith of the little child—a faith, without alloy, in the ultimate yet ever-present goodness of God. MOTHERHOODSACRED MOTHERHOOD 216

Where is this spiritual life in our society today? It is no longer a part of our communities, our government, our laws, our economy, our media, our entertainment or educational institutions. Indeed, there is every effort to eradicate Christ and his holy principles both in the public arena and in our personal lives. The spiritual life is all but absent in modern literature, art, music, dance and drama, and in many cases mocked when it is on display. Rarely do our young people take time in their busy lives to even consider spiritual values, let alone pray or think of God. And so not having the principles or beatitudes of God-good firmly anchored in their lives, more and more remain untethered to the divine. And the fact is, none of us can recognize evil if we have no standard of the divine to compare it with. And what is that divine standard we call God-good? St. Paul tells us: “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” [1 Corinthians 13:13] Faith, Hope and Charity are not just theological virtues; they are the golden rule of the spiritual life—a rule that every true religion should preach and embody. This same majestic rule also abides in our hearts as an eternal flame. Author and teacher Elizabeth Clare Prophet refers to it as a threefold flame in her lecture,Life Begets Life.* This inner flame is our very own online connection to God that begins at our birth and continues for the rest of our lives. Without it, we would have no guide to heaven and certainly no understanding of our own divinity. If a religion does not bind the soul to God through reverence for that golden trinity within us, then God has no part of that religion or house of worship. God does not go against Himself. His tenets of Being are immutable. That is why He invests us with a threefold flame so that we can become “the lively stones” [1 Peter 2:5] of the living church where we are! If we have no divine co-measurement and base our judgments solely on secular reason, which asserts its freedom from religious principles, evil will only be perceived as a lesser good. And thus in our spiritual ignorance we give evil a pass, or at least a mask to hide behind as it continues its mischief in the name of politically correct benignities, such as reproductive rights and social justice. Once these “rights” become the law of the land, as has happened with abortion and same-sex marriage, they are used like sledgehammers to dismantle and destroy “the laws of nature and of nature’s God,” which are the eternal laws enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. And that is exactly what we are up against today. Political correctness is verily the new morality or the conscience of our society, and the basis for new federal laws and regulations.

*The seven-part discourse on the spiritual life of the unborn and is available on YouTube for download. MOTHERHOODSACRED MOTHERHOOD 217

Under the presidency of Barack Obama, benignities flourished like weeds in the neglected and now defiled garden of our constitutional Republic, no more so than in the advancement of abortion and same-sex marriage—the crown jewels of his radical leftist agenda. What follows, and has followed, is the malignancy of double-mindedness. As the apostle James tells us, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” [James 1:8] And that describes the current state of our multicultural nation with its fast growing racial and ethnic groups that have not been integrated with our history and character, nor educated in the Constitution. Sadly, even if you just state the obvious, you are branded a racist, a homophobe and/or a hater of women! And so goes our nation if we continue to allow the venom of political correctness to infect our political life. Without the gold standard of the Constitution as the only guiding basis for law; without the gold standard of God’s law ignited in our hearts, we will not long be able to maintain a society that is civil, and a people who are righteous. As of a March, 2018 Pew Research Center poll, 55% of Americans (compared to 46% in October, 2016) believe the Supreme Court should interpret the Constitution according to what it “means in current times,” while 41% say rulings should be based on what it “meant as originally written.” In other words, a majority now believe we have a living Constitution, or one that should evolve with the changing values of our society. Over three-quarters of conservative Republicans adhere to the Constitution’s original intent, while moderate and liberal Republicans were more divided. Among Democrats, 78% approved a progressive understanding. And while Republicans in all age groups want an originalist court, only 61% of younger Republicans (aged 18 to 49), hold an originalist view. Since our Republican youth are our highest hope to overturn Roe, this trend does not bode well. If the majority of our citizenry have no loyalty to our founding principles and the morality those principles uphold, how can we expect that same citizenry to revere motherhood and the virtue of the traditional family? Moral ambiguity is the sinuous backdrop of our social interactions across all generations today. The precious life-force is squandered in all manner of sexual misqualifications and perversions. And these perversions, as in the case of homosexuality and transgenderism, are being accorded an honored place by politicians and social justice groups. Meanwhile, our youth are borne upon this tide come again of the old Sodom and Gomorrah, and few are able to compass the certitudes of life even as their hearts yearn for them. They are not encouraged to guard the sacred fire within their temples. Indeed, they are encouraged to experiment with new and edgier frontiers of erotic sex. Nor do they comprehend the high calling of motherhood. Inevitably, faced MOTHERHOODSACRED MOTHERHOOD 218 with an unplanned pregnancy, our young mothers find themselves at the doorstep of Planned Parenthood, and not before the altar of God. Even in the crusty Old Testament, God’s message regarding the little child is the same: “Whoever is a little one, let him come to me.” [Proverbs 9:4] And in Psalms: “The Lord is the keeper of little ones.” [Psalm 116:6] But the most emphatic statement on this subject was Christ’s warning to the apostles that they reverence the little children: “But whoso offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea!” [Matt 18:6] Jesus used the word “offend” in the sense of violating or sinning against. Could there be any greater offense against “these little ones” than the deliberate murder of the unborn and newborn? At the least, abortion is an abominable manifestation of cruelty. Sixty million murders is nothing less than a holocaust. Conversely, pro-choice feminists get “offended” when they are called out for their sin against the little child. Not accepting accountability by God or man, they ferociously stand upon the holy authority of reproductive choice, and control the gates of birth. It is as though they have declared themselves to be little gods, replacing the Almighty God. In her Letter to the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995, Mother Teresa wrote the following: “That special power of loving that belongs to a woman is seen most clearly when she becomes a mother. Motherhood is a gift of God to women. How grateful we must be to God for this wonderful gift that brings such joy to the whole world, women and men alike! Yet we can destroy this gift of motherhood, especially by the evil of abortion, but also by thinking that other things like jobs or positions are more important than loving, than giving oneself to others. No job, no plans, no possessions, no idea of ‘freedom’ can take the place of love. So anything that destroys God’s gift of motherhood destroys His most precious gift to women--the ability to love as a woman.” What a beautiful thought! There is so little understanding of how motherhood can teach a woman how to love—deeply, fully, unselfishly. I am reminded of a woman I shared a hospital ward with a few years ago. Doreen was 79 years old. I was astounded at the number of people who visited her, even during non-visiting hours! Her 60 year-old corporate CEO son arrived early, before breakfast. He stayed over an hour, discussing business, market trends, world events, or simply his doings of the day. Then her daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren would filter in throughout the rest of the day, providing their additional sunlight of high spirits, happiness and laughter. This was the case every day for the entire time I was there. Another lady in the ward complained incessantly to her MOTHERHOODSACRED MOTHERHOOD 219 only visitor--her husband--that none of her children or grandchildren had taken the time to come visit, though she had been there over a week. (And the day she was discharged, that fact was still true.) She would spend the entire visiting time with him complaining about anything or anyone, to include myself and my habit of praying quietly behind my curtain! The day I left the hospital and was saying my goodbyes, I told Doreen what an inspiration she was to me. She looked with sweet astonishment and said, “How could I be your inspiration? I haven’t done anything important in my life. All I am is a mother and a grandmother.” “Yes,” I responded. “And that is why it has been a joy to know you.” It was apparent to me that Doreen’s life was a living example of sacred motherhood—that is, of love given purely, intelligently and unselfishly, from which everyone in her family, young and old, could gratefully partake. “Every man’s life is a plan of God,” said 19th century theologian and pastor Horace Bushnell. In his Apostolic visit to Valencia, Spain, July 9, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI concurred: “...at the origin of every human being there is not something haphazard or chance, but a loving plan of God.” Every child conceived has a reason for living, even if that conception had not been voluntary. Each tiny fertilized seed contains the spark of divinity. It is the chalice for a soul trying to be born. The soul begins its life at conception as a growing human being, and God’s loving presence is with that soul every step of the way. In the same address in Valencia, Pope Benedict said it beautifully: “God’s love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother’s womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.” The whole concept of “viability” is a lie to justify the decision to abort. If you can convince yourself that it is not a human baby until it reaches some imaginary age in the womb, say 20 weeks (or somewhere between 24 and 28 weeks, as the Supreme Court majority decided in 1973), then somehow it’s okay to exterminate it, especially since those superior men in black said it was legal to do so. Every life in Nature, whether it be a flower, a vegetable, a bird or a crocodile, starts off as a tiny little seed or egg and grows up to be fully developed. Our life as a human being is above that of Nature, as we are born in the image and likeness of God. In other words, we are immortal souls! Yet even if we were only human and not divine in our natures, surely unborn life deserves as much respect as a flower or a vegetable or a baby crocodile. Abortion uproots the tiny bud and discards that life. It’s an indisputable fact. Abortion is an act of abject brutality. We are all responsible for its prevalence. As a nation we were not vigilant; we did not fight hard enough for the rights of the unborn. It took seven justices to legally decide that any MOTHERHOODSACRED MOTHERHOOD 220 child could be aborted up to seven months in the womb. It was a lawless decision that defied not only God’s laws engraven in our hearts, but also the Constitution and its sacred intent. We didn’t stand up then against the ruling, and 45 years later we still haven’t overturned it, to our national shame. But we can reverse this perilous course, if we love God, America and our children enough. We must act if this nation is to hold onto the magnificent heritage of freedom that so many of our forefathers bequeathed to us at the cost of their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. These words have been quoted a lot, and perhaps have lost something of their gravity in this unserious world. Nevertheless, they describe the sacrifice that our Founders had to make to birth this nation, and that all generations must make to sustain it in liberty. The United States was their dream for us: one nation, undivided, under God—secure in the faith of His living presence with us. Legalized abortion was not part of that dream! Having said that, it is not easy to figure out just what we can do to make things right again. Do we demonstrate, petition, write letters, make phone calls? How much weight will any of these actions carry? It is clear that money and power get the attention of Congress far more than the ‘little’ people. It’s a conundrum. But if we believe in the power of truth, as our Founders did and all patriots who ever loved or fought for freedom, we must also believe that we can and ultimately will be effective! For there is nothing more liberating than truth, nothing more transformative of men’s hearts. And the most important truth we can carry to every young woman is that motherhood is sacred! The question we need to ask ourselves, however, is this: Am I willing to make an absolute stand for motherhood against the absolute evil of abortion? Because that day may come, and much sooner than we think. Pope John Paul II eloquently summed up our sacred obligation as Americans:

“You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies...You are called to work and pray against abortion...That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.” —Homily at Central Park, Visit of Pope John Paul II to the United Nations and the United States, October 7, 1995. MOTHERHOOD 221

Mother: How did such beauty come to be you? Child: God thought about me, and so I grew. Mother: But how did you come to us, you dear? Child: God thought about you, and so I am here. Adapted from Where Did You Come From, Baby Dear? ~George MacDonald MOTHERHOOD 222

No Greater Evil

Killing an unborn child is the ultimate act of moral evil. Is there anything worse that one human being could do to another? When a child is born, surely choirs of angels sing in holy celebration. Just as surely, when a child is aborted, the sound of gong and drum as in the ancient rite of child sacrifice resounds from the very bowels of Hell. In his January 5, 2012 article, titled, Abortion and the Ancient Practice of Child Sacrifice, Boston practitioner Andrew White, M.D. writes: “There was in the city [of Carthage] a bronze image of Cronus extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire. “Plutarch, a first and second century A.D. Greek author, adds to the description: ‘The whole area before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums so that the cries of wailing should not reach the ears of the people.’” In the land of Canaan the people followed the god Molech (sometimes spelled Moloch), who demanded the sacrifice of newborns. Dr. White reminds us of God’s warning to the Israelites if they did the same: MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 223

“The Lord said to Moses: ‘Any Israelite or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech, the people of the community are to stone him. I will set my face against that man and I will cut him off from his people; for by giving his children to Molech he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. If the people of the community close their eyes when that man gives one of his children to Molech and they fail to put him to death, then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.’” (Leviticus 20:1-5; see also 18:21) Dr. White goes on to compare the ancient practice of child sacrifice with modern abortion. The parallels, he says, have been recognized for centuries: “Tertullian, commenting on the Roman practice of infanticide by comparing it to the Carthaginian practice of child sacrifice, admonishes: ‘There is no difference as to baby killing whether you do it as a sacred rite or just because you choose to do it.’ In the same context Tertullian describes the Christian attitude towards both abortion and infanticide saying: ‘For us, murder is once and for all forbidden; so even the child in the womb, while yet the mother’s blood is still being drawn on to form the human being, it is not lawful to destroy. To forbid birth is only quicker murder. It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born or destroy it as it comes to birth. He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.’ “Even the actual rite of child sacrifice has modern parallels in the medical techniques used to perform abortions. In the saline abortion the dying infant is chemically burned as it thrashes about for minutes to hours before finally succumbing. In the suction abortion the loud whir of the vacuum pump muffles the sound of the mother crying out in pain and sadness and the ripping and gushing sound of the infant being torn piecemeal from the womb.” The author concludes: “Scarcely is the power and divinity of God more clearly seen than in His creative power bringing to life each human being, everyone made in His own divine image. No man-made technology has the power to create life, much less a human life stamped with the divine. Rather, through the medical technology of abortion mankind rebels against the creative power of the Almighty by destroying the divine image-bearers. No, abortion is not acceptable as practiced by Christians or non-Christians and must not be tolerated by this or any other society…. “Both the Israelite who sacrificed his child to Molech and those who closed their eyes to the sin faced the judgment of God. And if a society as a whole persistently rejects God’s laws [that are written on the hearts of men and women to which their conscience bears witness] it will surely corporately face God’s judgment. The city of Carthage and the nation of Israel are but MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 224

two of many historical testimonies to the outpouring of God’s wrath against unrelenting sin.” Full article: http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2012/01/05/Abortion- and-the-Ancient-Practice-of-Child-Sacrifice.aspx In ancient Carthage and in the land of Canaan, the sacrifice of the newborn was offered up to gain the favor of the gods. Today, abortion is performed merely to escape the inconvenience of nurturing and giving life to a child. There is no altruistic purpose; the justification is abjectly selfish. The sanctity of life has so eroded in America that any mother, with or without the consent of the father, may legally abort her child. And she does so without even weighing the right or wrong, or consequences of such an act. It is as if our society, and societies across the world, are being seduced into believing the virtue of a leftist social agenda, of which abortion is the centerpiece, especially when it is dressed in broad feminist appeals like “the dignity of women and girls” or “women’s rights.” Progressives are very adept at marketing malignancies as benignities. The young people buy into it, which is why the polls are showing a generational divide over this issue of abortion. A recent vote in Ireland, a predominantly Catholic country, approved an amendment to their constitution that would repeal its near-total ban on abortion. Mexico, home to the second-largest Catholic community in the world, recently elected committed leftist Andrés Obrador to be their President. And he won in a landslide. In the short time he has held the office, he has introduced a measure to make abortion legal up to 12 weeks. Coincident to this, Argentina’s lower house of Congress passed a similar bill legalizing abortion before 14 weeks of pregnancy. And though the President of Argentina is pro-life, he stated that he would not veto the bill if the Senate approved it. Fortunately, the Senate rejected the bill, though narrowly, mainly because the Catholic Church spoke out forcefully against it, and held special masses and prayer vigils during the final debate and vote. It is hard to get one’s head around the idea of faith-filled people deliberately giving power to corrupt and/or cowardly politicians to institutionalize the murder of our unborn life. But that is what the American people did when we elected and re-elected Obama, and what the Irish and Mexican people have now done. Leftist leaders trample upon tradition in order to advance their revolutionary goals of destroying everything a free society is built upon. In the process, they undermine and ultimately tear from the young people the precious heritage of their faith, and thus their covenant with God. In the mode of radical leftists like Obama, Obrador is willingly sacrificing the unborn to the god of lust, which translates in modern terms to promoting sex without borders—that is, sex without any ethical or moral framework MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 225

whatsoever. And that is exactly what Roe v. Wade has licensed and enabled since 1973. Likewise, the inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem and Judah sacrificed their children not only to Molech but also to Baal, the god of fertility, in the valley of Benhinnom (also known as the Valley of Gehenna). 1 And we read in Jeremiah 19 from the New Jerusalem Bible what the Lord said to the prophet Jeremiah on this issue: “Go and buy an earthenware jug. Take some of the elders of the people and some priests with you. “Go out toward the Valley of Ben-hinnom, as far as the entry of the Gate of the Potsherds. There proclaim the words I shall speak to you. “You are to say, ‘Kings of Judah, citizens of Jerusalem! Listen to the word of Yahweh! Yahweh Sabaoth, the God of Israel, says this: I am bringing down such a disaster on this place that the ears of every one who hears of it will ring. This is because they have abandoned me, have profaned this place, have offered incense here to alien gods which neither they, nor their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah, ever knew before.’ “‘They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. They have built high places for Baal to burn their sons there, which I had never ordered or decreed, which had never entered my thoughts.’ “‘So now the days are coming--it is Yahweh who speaks--when people will no longer call this place Topheth, or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but Valley of Slaughter.’ “‘Because of this place, I mean to drain Judah and Jerusalem of sound advice; I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, fall by the hand of people determined to kill them; I will give their corpses as food to the birds of heaven and the beasts of earth. And I will make this city a desolation, a derision; every passer-by will be appalled at it, and whistle in amazement at such calamity. I will make them eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters: they shall eat each other during the siege, in the shortage to which their enemies, in their determination to kill them, will reduce them.’ “You are to break this jug in front of the men who are with you, “And say to them, ‘Yahweh Sabaoth says this: I am going to break this people and this city just as one breaks a potter’s pot, irreparably. Topheth will become a burial ground, for lack of other space. That is how I will treat this place--it is Yahweh who speaks. And I mean to make this city like Topheth. The houses of Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be unclean, like this place Topheth: all these houses on the roofs of which they offered incense to the whole array of heaven and poured their libations to alien gods.’ “When Jeremiah came back from Topheth where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, he went and stood in the court of the Temple of Yahweh and addressed all the people. MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 226

“Yahweh Sabaoth, the God of Israel, says this, ‘Yes, I am going to bring down every disaster I have threatened on this city and on all its outlying towns, since they have grown so stubborn and refused to listen to my words.’” God’s meaning is clear: Great is the penalty of those who practice abortion. Americans have always been a caring and righteous people. When faced with the choice of right or wrong, they choose the right. If they believe that the warnings of the prophets are old-fashioned and irrelevant, or that somehow the Holy Spirit who spoke these things through the prophets is no longer a living presence with us, then they have been artfully hoodwinked. And we know by whom. The constellation of evildoers and enablers of abortion continues to spread like a contagion: the doctors who perform the abortions, pro-abortion politicians, progressive justices, reproductive rights and social justice activists, the mainstream media, social media, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the medical establishment in general, which is becoming more and more authoritarian in its surveillance of and directives to younger doctors and nurses. And finally the cabal of “pro- choice” organizations like Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and NOW. None of the above have heeded or intend to heed the warnings of God. With a united voice they have rejected God’s laws and the Constitution that enshrines those laws. Moreover, they act just like the fallen angels who followed Lucifer in the Great Rebellion and were “cast out into the earth” by Archangel Michael. Enoch spoke of them in the Book of Enoch, proving that God’s Word is prophetic, and for all ages. In other words, these fallen angels are still with us. And they need to be judged. Who can forget Obama’s infamous “benediction” at the Planned Parenthood conference in April 26, 2013? The first sitting president to deliver an address to the abortion giant, he railed against proposed legislative actions to limit abortion and criticized state legislatures that have already enacted stricter laws. He ended his speech with these words: “As long as we’ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we’ve got to fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way,” said the messianic Obama. “Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.” The “God” he invoked is certainly not the same God I pray to. His God is closer to the god Molech or the god Baal—indeed of the lineage of Peshu Alga, Lucifer and Beelzebub...who himself was known, according to the Hebrew Bible, as the prince of demons or the lord of the flies. Needless to say, Planned Parenthood saw Obama as a prince among them, and still do, MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 227 while Senator Ted Cruz was right on the mark when he made his comment on both the Mark Levin radio show and in an interview with Glenn Beck in October of 2015 that the remaining 15 months of Obama’s governance “will be akin to a scene from Lord of the Flies.” A very accurate and intuitive analogy, and one that clearly exposed the nature and character of Obama’s deep-souled godlessness toward the unborn. But we who love and honor God are not of his ilk. Life is God. And this life in the womb that is God is governed by His immutable Laws. Our Founders secured for all future generations a Republic that was based on the highest understanding of those immutable Laws. Our Constitution is not only the guarantor of our personal liberties, God- given; it also enshrines the lawful constraints that check any encroachment of treason or tyranny upon the exercise of those inalienable liberties. But men and women who have no God in them, nor a breath of truth, have penetrated to the within of our political institutions, across all branches of our government, and are acting in contempt of those hallowed constraints. In other words, they are defiling the very holy of holies of our Republic. Roe v. Wade is the most egregious example of how immutable Law has degenerated into human reasoning and willful, subjective interpretation of the law. It has achieved an unprecedented authority in our society and has stultified the commandment of God: Thou Shalt Not Kill, as well as the literal transmission of His sacred Word through the patriarchs and prophets.2 By now we should have reversed the direction that Roe v. Wade has been heading us in. We are supposed to be a holy people, an honorable people who cherish the flame of liberty and the empowerment it brings to all men. Until 1973, that right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, so enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and derived from God, extended to the unborn. In this new open borders political Babylon, sans God, sans the laws of God, the unborn have now been excluded. Motherhood must elevate; it must not degrade. Under the present citadel of moral chaos and confusion, the standard of motherhood has descended to its lowest downward spiral. Those in positions of authority who promote abortion are the very embodiment of “spiritual wickedness in high places.” And as we are told in Ephesians: “...we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12] All laws must uphold a standard of righteousness (or right use of the law) if society is to remain civil. A government and its laws must be in touch with God. A nation’s people must be in touch with God, or we become castaways. And that is just about what we have become. There is a perverse ignoring of God’s holy precepts by both our leadership and the American people, who are MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 228 just drifting along hypnotically. Only where the will of God is honored and communion with Him sought can a true civil society prosper. The Founders understood this supremely. For society is held together by the faithfulness of the people, by their trust in God, their trust in their leaders, and in the faithful execution by those leaders of the laws of the land. All of these trusts are breaking down in America.3 And the root of the evil can be found in the practice of abortion. Every abortion is a tragedy of neglect and is a disgrace upon every American. The murder of the unborn is a heavy weight upon the heart of heaven and a heavy burden of “karma” upon our people. There is no greater evil than abortion. It is absolute evil. And only absolute good, which is God, can quench absolute evil. Recall that Lucifer had the same standing in heaven as Archangel Michael when he was traduced by Peshu Alga (also known as the Accuser of the Brethren) and followed Peshu Alga in his rebellion, bringing along with him many other angels under him. And thus Enoch referred to them as fallen angels. Once cast out of heaven, Lucifer created his diabolical strategies to ensnare the children of light on earth, using his high attainment to sustain these strategies of darkness over the centuries. His evil has become more of a contagion today than in any age gone before. Indeed, the state of our union and of the nations as a whole is a perfect storm for the worst to befall us, if we are to believe the Word of God. Fortunately, our fate is not set in stone. Prayer may procure mitigation. The cabal of abortionists, masquerading as caring individuals, know only too well that they are destroying children. And thus the prophecy of Revelation does come to pass: “Woe to you inhabiters of the earth and of the sea, for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” [Rev 12:12] And this devil and his fallen angels do go forth to make war against the seed of the Divine Mother (who is the archetype of all women who become co-creators with God and bring forth the Christ child, as the mother of Jesus did.) For in God’s mind, every child is a Christ or a potential Christ. Every child is God’s very own son or daughter. It is up to the mother to give birth to and nurture that Christ in all of her children. That is why motherhood is a sacred office. To defeat this Luciferian evil of abortion, we must rise to the level of the Christ mind, as Jesus commanded us, through oneness with his divine heart or by internalizing those holy and just principles which make up a virtuous consciousness. This is the equation of light and darkness before us: only God in us (as that mind of Christ) can successfully navigate evil and ultimately overcome it. We have to be that Christ where we are! How many times must we be told that we are made in the image and likeness of God? As Americans we have outpictured throughout our history the very character of Christed virtue in our integrity, our optimism, our MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 229 heroism, our courage, our faith, our truthfulness, and our determination to hold fast to our freedom, even if we have to pay the ultimate price. When we look in the mirror of our past, we should weep tears of gratitude that God has given us this holy land with its infinite opportunities to realize His hopes for us, both individually and as a people. It is gratitude for his blessings that assures our self-worth and greatness as a nation, and which provides that drive, creativity and genius to fulfill our destinies. After all, Moses wrote the script for the American Dream when he proclaimed, “I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are sons of the most High.” [Psalm 82]. We have two choices: expose and impeach our corrupt and faithless leaders and so restore America to what God and the Founders intended, or give in to them and give up our freedoms as we watch these betrayers wholesale the American Dream, our livelihood and our abundance to those who have not earned any part of it. And this includes every laggard and potentially hostile alien who has illegally or under fraudulent guise crossed over our borders. That is not to say that everyone who comes to this nation illegally is an evil person. But let them prove their yearnings to share in our country’s blessings by reverencing our laws first and foremost, and waiting upon the Lord to enter in by His good will and grace. As with the issue of abortion, in the right hand is life and the perfect law of liberty; in the left is death. “Choose you this day whom ye will serve.” [Joshua 25:15] Our lot shall be as we deserve. The reality is that too many Americans are comatose with the help of drugs, alcohol, incessant entertainment, and every possible chemical palliative to dull the mind so that it can no longer discern what is true and rightful. A July, 2017 Pew Research Center poll revealed that public support for legal abortion remains as high as it has been in the last two decades. Currently, 57% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 40% say it should be illegal in all or most cases. Polled by gender, 59% of women say it should be legal in all or most cases, while 55% of men think the same. Among the under 30-year olds, 65% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 59% of adults in their 30s and 40s also agree. Our young people lack the clearness of mind and heart that earlier generations possessed. A huge portion of them are living only for economic prosperity instead of the prosperity of the soul. Without moral absolutes, and beguiled by every indulgent allure under the sun, they are barely holding onto their souls. Not whole enough to be the vessel of the Christ mind, they have forsaken that priceless spiritual magnet of God’s presence within. Little wonder that so many young women would rather not take responsibility for their own “unplanned” child, let alone for the millions of children already aborted and the millions that will continue to be aborted. MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 230

Life is meant to be lived fully and beautifully. Whether we are highly intelligent or not, whether we have great and tender hearts or hearts in sore need of the lessons of love, whether we have one humble gift to offer this world or a kaleidoscope of talents, whether we touch the lives of one or many millions, whether we come endowed with mental and emotional bodies intact or enter life disabled of such faculties—all souls have the right to live and to fulfill their destiny. And every child is holy until his actions prove otherwise. That has been the paradigm, the very premise of life for all enlightened societies since time began. Roe v. Wade obliterated that premise and set forth a new paradigm—one of Lucifer’s, without question. Abortion is man’s ultimate inhumanity to man; it is man’s ultimate defiance of God. With so much advancement in living, with so much life- extending and life-enhancing technologies in science and medicine, the spirit of this present age should be moving toward a closer union with God, and a deepening appreciation of the sanctity of life. Instead, we are massacring our unborn, without even the justification of primitive ritual. That so many believe the insane lie that an expectant mother has the right to kill her own unborn child proves just how strong this witch’s brew of pro-choice indoctrination has become, and how deep the funding goes for it. No woman in her right mind would consent to the violent invasion of her womb and the tearing from her of the most precious gift God could ever give her—a part of herself, a part of the father, and a part of a world that is waiting to crown the conqueror. Only the powers of darkness could numb her heart and make her shun that gift of heaven that comes to her with naught save love, singing the songs of the angels. If unrecognized or unchallenged, evil grows up in its sophistication and cunning. The abortionists today are more thorough and organized than those who promoted and thrived by child sacrifice. The idolators of Moloch and Baal killed the babies after they were born, just as Herod slaughtered all male infants up to two years of age in his attempt to kill the baby Jesus, whom he feared would threaten his throne as the prophesied King of the Jews. Our modern-day henchmen, who are the pro-choice legislators, justices, scientists, doctors and women’s rights activists, put the holy innocents to the sword before they even draw their first breath. That is nothing less than the infernal guile of Hell! Partial-birth abortion—the killing of a child mature enough to live outside the womb—is more barbaric than the slashing and slaying of infants by Indians in their raids on white settlers in early America. Why? Because it is executed with a conscious civilized mind-set. And our society, no longer bound by the constraints of natural law or God’s law or holy conscience, has become immune to its hellishness. MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 231

Under President Bush, Congress passed and signed into law the ban against partial-birth abortion. Unbelievably, the law was struck down as unconstitutional by a leftist activist judge. This is how abortion groups achieve their ends. They locate ideologically friendly judges who can be counted on to make the murder, even of a fully-grown fetus, appear to be legal. Fortunately, the federal ban was upheld in 2007 by the Supreme Court—though only by the stingiest majority of 5-4. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood continues to push ahead to expand its surgery facilities in the major cities so that they can be licensed to carry out late-term abortions. And despite a Republican president in Donald Trump and a Republican leadership in both houses of Congress, the omnibus spending bill that passed in March of 2018 included half a billion dollars in Planned Parenthood funding. And so it matters not at all who sits in the high chair of politics if our elected representatives do not have the solemn will to stand against the abortion industry. Even in the face of the horrific selling of fetal organs by Planned Parenthood, exposed in the 2015 undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress, the Senate was not able at that time to muster enough votes to move a bill out of committee that would have defunded the organization. Feeling overwhelmed by such opposition, even philosophically pro-life Americans are giving in or giving up. But we who know the truth cannot turn our backs on the unborn, for life may well turn its back on us. To look upon this worldwide atrocity and not do something about it; to continue like mindless robots on the treadmill of the status quo is to be fully complicit. Is it so difficult to resurrect what we know in our hearts to be the true and enduring premise of life, and to use that eternal truth as our weapon to overturn Roe v. Wade? For that is what Mother Teresa did when she stood, diminutive in presence but fearless in love, before the great and powerful of this world, and pleaded: “Please don’t destroy the child; we will take the child....Please don’t kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child... Give me the children. I will take them. I will not allow them to be aborted. I will place them in good homes. Just give them to me. Do not abort them. I will take them.” These words kindled the fire of holy conscience, and galvanized a world. Can we not also do the same? Abortion must be stopped. And it can be stopped because it is God’s will to stop it! With its present composition, the Supreme Court continues to make new rulings outside its constitutional mandate, while sustaining previous rulings that were flawed, such as Roe v. Wade. Five justices forming a majority have the all-power to override the will of the states, and thus the will of the people, and nationalize law on almost every issue. MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 232

Constitutional conservatives hope that Donald Trump will fill several Supreme Court vacancies during his tenure as President, and that he will nominate proven originalists—that is, justices who will make rulings consistent with what the Framers of the Constitution meant when they wrote it, irrespective of the issue. But the addition of such nominees to the highest court of the land must do more than merely ensure a conservative advantage; they must make possible the overturning of Roe. v Wade. To date, Trump has appointed Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. During the confirmation hearings for Gorsuch in 2017, Senator Grassley asked: “Can you tell me whether Roe was decided correctly?” Gorsuch answered: “Roe vs. Wade, decided in 1973, is a precedent of the United States Supreme Court....It was reaffirmed in Casey in 1992. And in several other cases. So a good judge will consider it as precedent of the United States Supreme Court, worthy as treatment of precedent like any other.” Let us hope that the justice was being wisely discreet, given the narrow Republican majority in the Senate to confirm him. Unlike Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh is not an originalist according to constitutional scholar Mark Levin. On his July 10, 2018 radio show, he shared with his audience the oral arguments Kavanaugh made in a case brought to his D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in September, 2011, several months before Obamacare was argued before the Supreme Court. Levin pointed out that Kavanaugh offered the identical reasoning that Chief Justice Roberts would later adopt to legalize Obamacare—namely, that it is constitutional for the government to fine American citizens who refuse to buy private health insurance because that mandate is a tax and not a penalty. It may be more accurate to say that Kavanaugh’s arguments became the precedent for Robert’s ruling, which the four dissenting originalists on the Court at the time vehemently disagreed with. Indeed, they accused Roberts of re-writing the mandate, since Congress had clearly stated in the bill that the fine was not a tax. As Levin has stated, if a judge is not consistently an originalist, he is a risky choice on any issue. Journalist Bonne Chernin agrees. In her July 11, 2018 article for Renew America, she writes: “As a pro-life voter who believes that Roe v. Wade is the worst Supreme Court decision in U.S. history...there is reason to be concerned that once he is confirmed, Judge Kavanaugh will not shift the High Court to the right. He is Beltway and mainstream. Judge Kavanaugh may evolve and become more liberal on social issues. Rather than vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, he may consider placing restrictions on the law. That’s not enough. And we won’t know anytime soon. MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 233

“Judge Barrett would have been a likely vote to overturn Roe v. Wade should the case come up on the High Court. She is, to borrow a phrase from radio host Mark Levin, the Gold Standard of judges.” It is possible that Donald Trump never intended to nominate a justice committed to overturn Roe. Nominating well-credentialed, even originalist, justices gives him an image of stature, intelligence and statesmanship, as well as securing the hopes (and votes) of pro-life conservatives. But nominating justices who unquestionably oppose Roe is another kettle of fish, and might lose him substantially more votes than what he could gain. Given the fact that Trump has been pro-choice all of his public life, and was even in favor of partial birth abortion not too many years ago, it is clear that the man is not pro-life by principle; he is a deal maker. We can only hope and pray that these two justices will meet the standard. Prayer should always be part of any assertive action plan because prayer is the most powerful weapon we have—infinite in its capability to provide divine help. It is also the one weapon that our enemy does not employ, fearing the power of God far more than they fear us. And so I never miss an opportunity to pray. A prayer only takes a minute or two—and it just may save a life in the womb. That is my humble hope. That which is not of God has no power to stay the hand of the Almighty through us. It is the faith that makes the battle victorious. So I urge you to say this prayer with me or make up your own, as your own heart commends:

Almighty God, stop abortion! Expose and consume the lie that a woman has the right to kill her unborn child. Raise up the true sons and daughters of God who will take their rightful place on the Supreme Court and vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. We call in the name of Jesus Christ for the judgment of those who legislate for or make judicial rulings in favor of legalized abortion. We call for the judgment upon the doctors, scientists, politicians, and pro-choice groups that perpetuate abortion. Bind these fallen angels in our midst and the devils out of Hell that work through them to physically abort or promote the murder of the unborn. Come forth, O mighty seraphim and cherubim, and consume all that is the culture of Death. Archangel Michael, protect the conception and gestation of every child in the womb. Consume the forces of anti-love that oppose their birth. We ask it by all that is righteous and holy. Awaken the American people! Intensify in their hearts the impelling desire to fight the good fight on behalf of the unborn. Take complete dominion over Planned Parenthood and every pro-abortion entity. Bind their wickedness and expose the cover-up of all they are doing secretly to profit from the distribution of baby body parts. MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 234

Almighty God, we call for your holy judgment upon those who are using their public office in the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of our government to promote or enable abortion, or to conceal illegal activities. We give you and your heavenly hosts carte blanche to act in our names and to seal these little ones in the womb in your sphere of protection, mercy, and divine love. Let the armor, the shield, the sword, and the invincible protection of the legions of the Archangels go forth now to set Life free! O light of God that never fails, let God’s will be done in the hearts of mothers and fathers of incoming souls. Melt away all selfishness, self- concern, fear and doubt that would incline them to abort. Thy will is ever holy. Thy will is ever fair. Touch them with the light of your Love, that they might comprehend the beauty and wonder of life aborning in the womb, and so know the fullness of joy! Amen.

God with us is a majority. Our hearts in God’s and His heart in ours can change the earth! And when we pray with absolute belief in what is right, God can multiply that light and that fervor of our hearts and give us a power untold, a power that our Founders understood and endowed this nation with so that we might also and forevermore cherish the sacred fire of Freedom. This is our divine inheritance as Americans—to send forth the fire of God into the earth for the saving of every precious unborn from the hand of the abortionist, and to thus secure for them their precious life and liberty. For they are the future and destiny of our nation. And God needs every one of them here with us to fulfill that destiny! David, who would become King of Israel, understood the great joy of calling upon the Lord to affirm the judgment of the seed of the wicked and to proclaim the happy state of the godly. His Psalm 91 is our certain guide midst this battle for the unborn:

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. MOTHERHOODNO GREATER EVIL 235

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

If we stay close to God and serve Him, we will feel His mighty protection and the empowerment that protection gives us to come through everything victoriously in the healing of our nation of the craven sin of abortion. These holy innocents do cry out for deliverance, for their right to live. Let us be instruments of God’s answer to their cries, and know that where there is the love of liberty that is true, and the willingness to defend that liberty at all costs, there is God and the ongoingness of his perfect Love.

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” [Romans 8:31] MOTHERHOOD 236

Because God made thee mine I’ll cherish thee, Through light and darkness, through all time to be, And pray His love may make our love divine, Because God made thee mine. —Original words by Edward Teschemacher MOTHERHOOD 237

The Killing of Wonder…

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“Please don’t kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child.”1 Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Jesus spoke as the child’s advocate when he said: “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” [Matt 18:6] A newborn child is the fragile gift of wonder. Killing wonder must surely be a high crime in heaven’s court. And by every religious and moral standard the killing of the unborn, who embody all that wonder is, should be the most grievous sin against life—indeed against love itself—in our earthly courts. Shockingly, it is not. Younger generations of Americans are not educated about our divinely wrought Constitution and its carefully crafted defense of all human life. God’s laws are eternal. The Constitution, as a reflection of those eternal understandings, is our only safeguard against the destruction of our Republic and of the conscience of a people. No society or nation can long endure if its government does not govern against the backdrop of the eternal. MOTHERHOODTHE KILLING OF WONDER… 238

“One of the first principles behind the design of the Constitution,” says Elizabeth Sage in her article, Overt Acts of Treason, “was that rights come from God, not government. The Founders unanimously believed this. It was a bedrock principle of our Declaration of Independence: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’ The primary purpose, then, of America’s government is to defend both life and liberty for every citizen. The killing of our most vulnerable citizens makes us, the people of this nation, vulnerable to destruction by America’s self-proclaimed enemies. Why so harsh a prophecy? Because we have broken faith not only with the spirit and letter of the law our Founders put in place so emphatically but also with God Himself.” To download the full article, click here. George Washington stated that “the constitution, which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.” [Faarewell Address, 19th September, 1796] Ultimately it is up to the people to hold their government accountable if it breaches its covenant with or “sacred obligation” to God. Such a breach has already happened in America, largely due to the legalization of abortion in 1973 and the industry's continued promotion and funding by Democrat presidents, legislators, justices, the media, and the Hollywood cabal. In the 1966 Academy-Award winning film, A Man For All Seasons, there is a wonderful conversation between Sir Thomas More, the High Chancellor, and his prospective son-in-law regarding the need to adhere to and respect the rule of law:

“William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that! Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”

In other words, when you let go of the law, then the law does not protect you when you need the law. No end justifies violating or usurping the law. MOTHERHOODTHE KILLING OF WONDER… 239

In a speech that he gave as the prosecuting Attorney General in 1615 in the Overbury murder case, English statesman (and later High Chancellor) Francis Bacon made the same point: “If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.” Whether you read the Bible or not, it’s the closest thing we have to God’s opinion on the sacredness of life. In Chapter 1 of Genesis we read that God created man in his own image and likeness. In Psalm 139, David clearly implies the all knowing presence of God over and within us, even as we grew in the womb: “Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance [both body and soul essence] was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth [the secret place of the womb]. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect [unformed]; and in thy book [my Book of Life] all my members [all that composed the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wholeness of my being] were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them [yet being unborn].” In a letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul states: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” [1 Cor 3:16] He also said: “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” [1 Cor 6: 19-20] When Paul tells us that “ye are not your own,” he is stating that our body temple does not belong to us. We didn’t create ourselves; God did. We are therefore not our own, for we are God’s own, being sons and daughters of Elohim. Our bodies are not our own and nor are our souls. Following this logic, the woman also does not own the body or soul that has been conceived in her womb. The unborn child does not belong to her. This argument alone refutes the lie that a woman has the right to control her own body and thus do with it whatever she wants. Although God has ordained us to be co-creators with Him, that co- creation must be within His will. When we create outside of that will, we act as though we are above God, as Lucifer and his fallen angels did, and still do. God has “set eternity in the hearts of men.” [Ecclesiastes 3:11] And in the gospel of Luke, Jesus proclaims, “The kingdom of God is within you.” He was telling us that the consciousness of God is inside of us, too, and that we have the example of his life, his perfected Christhood, to “grow” that Christ consciousness in our own unique way, for we all represent a different facet, a different personality of God’s being. The more we become that Christ, the more “treasure in heaven” we accrue. Similarly, as co-creators with God, we MOTHERHOODTHE KILLING OF WONDER… 240 have to honor that seed of divinity which all embryonic life contains from the moment of conception. We must never lose sight of the holy truth that the child in the womb, being made of God, has the potential to become a living Christ and ascend back to God, as Jesus did. Even Lucifer and his fallen angels had that same “treasure in heaven.” By free will, however, they chose and still choose to squander it. But when we multiply that inheritance of God’s genes within us by love and good works, we become what St. Paul called, “joint heirs with Christ.” And that is the Holy Grail of life! Because becoming God, as the Christ, is the highest calling and attainment of any son or daughter of God. It is also the only solution to the abortion problem, or any of the problems besetting us. A leader must have an awareness of evil and not be its proponent. His character must have neither the composition nor the appearance of evil. Only the man who loves truth and integrity can be relied upon to retain the power of divine discernment, which is the state of seeing evil for what it is through the focus of the Christ mind, and having no part, no compromise with that evil. Only then can he be a safe mediator between good and evil, for evil will not then cling to him. Evil finds its own black filings within a man or woman whose soul is not integrated with God, even though that person may be successful or popular— saying all the right things, but never truly holding to principle or giving God any recognition. And that is the key issue here. A political figure or judge who thinks he is above the laws of God or the Constitution, can become a willing surrogate of the forces of spiritual evil. So the only truth there is, is the truth of God. Our founding institutions, as they were written, faithfully uphold the truth of God. It is why we must defend them at all costs. Too many Americans have become enamored with personalities and not principles. It is the state of our present culture, unfortunately. Until we reverse that trend, until truth and integrity become our companions once again, as the prophet Enoch entreated, we will not have the wherewithal to elect leaders who can lead us back to our once great nation, under God. Eastern religious thought also supports the concept of man’s origins in God. It teaches that we are God in our true natures, born of His very essence, and that we are given many lifetimes to “grow” that divine essence until we become a master, like Jesus or Buddha or Krishna was, and enter the heaven world for eternity as saints or ascended masters, having earned by faith and good works that mind of Christ, one with Jesus and with the Cosmic Christ of all saints East and West. The goal for each soul is the transmutation of karma (sins) and the fulfillment of dharma (the unique mission for each soul). Once these are accomplished, we are free from the rounds of rebirth. MOTHERHOODTHE KILLING OF WONDER… 241

Whether we follow Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or Jewish faith, it is clearly set forth that abortion is not just the killing of the body; it is the killing of the soul’s opportunity to live and work out its fiery destiny, whether we believe it to be over one lifetime or many. And that opportunity is given by God to every soul trying to be born. God honors sovereign free will. And by free will we can choose to fulfill the exquisite plan God tailored for each of us, or we can create our own hell on earth. The record must be played out. It must be written in our Book of Life. Life is opportunity, after all. Do we honestly think that God doesn’t care if we abort a child? His child? For we are truly His sons and daughters. And surely He weeps as greatly for these little ones that are exhumed violently from the womb as he wept for Jesus on the cross. There is a soul inside every human body and a heart that yearns to attain its plan divine. Each soul has a unique treasure of gifts to contribute to this world. Look through the history books and see what one soul can accomplish in a single lifetime! Look at your own family! Only God knows if we have aborted a Ludwig Beethoven or a George Washington, a Louis Pasteur or a Mother Teresa among that 60 million lost. An unfathomable loss! For mankind and for each soul aborted. Every time we abort a child we put Christ—once again—through the agony of his Passion and Crucifixion. St. Athanasius, an early church father who died in 373 A.D., wrote this: “The son of God became a son of man so sons of men could become sons of God.” The words in Philippians 2 confirm the same: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” If we see each child in the womb as a soul bearing the seed of God and having the potential to become that son of God in the image of Christ, as Jesus embodied that archetype of the Christ, then how great is the sin of abortion—aye, and how very great its evil. For abortion then takes on the magnitude of murdering Christ incarnate! Christians believe that there is only one Christ and Jesus is that Christ. Jesus disagreed wholeheartedly. Our Lord expected us to become a Christ on earth when he charged us, as John recorded: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” [John 14: 12] Many souls took up his challenge, their hearts on fire to work those works of love in imitation of Christ. St. Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, Catherine of Sienna, Therese of the Little Flower, and St. Thomas More come to mind. Let us apply this to abortion. Each time a child is born, each time the Holy Spirit breathes its first breath of life in that child, the Word is made flesh; the Word incarnates. Yes, the birth of each one of us is a holy event. It fills up the heart of heaven with hope. Who is this Word but the Christ of each soul, born MOTHERHOODTHE KILLING OF WONDER… 242

to fulfill his fiery destiny in and as God. When life is aborted, it is not a mere matter of aborting a physical cycle of a human being. To abort life is to abort the Light that is that Word coming into incarnation. The unborn represent God’s hope with us. Because of legalized abortion, we find little expression among mankind today of the great hope of God. And that won’t change until we change—until we see the newborn as a pure sunbeam of God, a sun (son) of fire, a star of eternal radiance. If the American people had this understanding of selfhood as God, they would never accept in all the world the lies of abortion. They would reverence the tiniest baby as the realization of God’s hope for mankind. This affirmation of our personal Christhood is consistent with Christ’s promise to us in the gospels and can also be applied to men of all religions and modes of faith. For the highest and best of human nature is of the Christ. Our human trials and sorrows and heroic challenges provide the crucible through which the Christ must appear. Jesus demonstrated this when he suffered and died on the cross as the path to Christhood. Life is a refiner’s fire if we live it with courage and faith and are not afraid to endure suffering. And thus our sacred Constitution appeals to and provides the legal framework for each individual citizen to be the highest and best he can be, no matter his race or denomination, his profession or calling. Which is why we need to devoutly defend our Constitution. It empowers the people—all the people. It is the bedrock of every man’s freedom and opportunity to be God here on earth, and so fulfill his reason for being! Our American history is replete with great men and women who embodied that consciousness of righteousness and virtue. George Washington was all that a military leader, a President and Commander-in-Chief should be. He demonstrated the integrity of the Christ consciousness. It was his spiritual vision, his sense of holy purpose, his personal honor and self-sacrifice, his loving obedience to God’s laws, his command over his emotions, and his gratitude and humility before the Lord God that brought our armies and our nation to freedom—a freedom in which all men who love liberty can share. He realized his fiery destiny as a Christ, and we are the blessed beneficiaries. Sadly, we no longer provide a culture that nourishes such virtue of character. Our leaders are without soul substance or the integrated identity in Christ. Very few of our politicians can be trusted to act with honor toward the Constitution and toward God. Nor is there a divine standard for our young women to follow. Hillary Clinton and her feminist compatriots in Congress, former Planned Parenthood President and CEO Cecile Richards, comedian Ellen DeGeneres and the modern line up of celebrity pro- choicers are the embodiment of all that is not of Christ. Dare we call them anti-Christs? In their ultimate insensitivity to the life of the unborn, they MOTHERHOODTHE KILLING OF WONDER… 243 have abdicated their identity as standard bearers of the Christ, and of the Divine Mother. By their words and works, they appear more like vacated temples wearing masks of benign intent. They are full of sympathetic feeling or wailing, but without any core of God-good in them. Politics aside, their single stand on abortion reveals a selfhood alienated from God and given over to the forces and principalities of anti love or perverted love. And it is only true love—a selfless, giving love conjoined with God’s heart—that can unwind the coils of abortion. Love is a natural and inevitable expression of holiness. The sense of holiness, the practice of holiness is absent in our society. People no longer measure their life’s purpose by how much they have loved truly and been loved truly—that is, by divine standards or ideals. They think of themselves only as mortal beings with mortal thoughts and mortal feelings. The pursuit of divine happiness is replaced by the material pursuit. There is a divine drama to be fulfilled for each one of us if we would but follow the star of the Christ. But too many are ignorant of its radiance, immersed as they are in the miasma of outer doings and yearnings. The eyes need to be lifted heavenward to see that star of hope, and not slanted toward the earth with its whirlpools of carnal wishing and willing.1 It is the Christ in Jesus that will lead us to the Christ in ourselves. And when we complete life’s journey and behold that Grail of holy purpose with a pure heart and a pure mind, then that Christ in us becomes God’s hope for the world. Whenever a child is born, a little bit of eternity slips into time and space, and it is as if the stars themselves are fixed in their courses to look upon the wonder of it.2 Too many of our youth are simply unresponsive to the supreme beauty, glory and grace of bearing a child. That still, small voice of conscience has been silenced by the cacophony of feminist voices shrilling to kill. These voices have become like the fever of witches around their cauldron—mounting, ever mounting their crusade in the name of that benignity, “reproductive choice.” They propagate the lie that life does not begin at conception, that what grows in the womb is merely fetal tissue, and that it is a woman’s lawful right to choose to abort that unwanted fetal tissue. What the woman is not told by Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice, and the NOW organization is that when she aborts her child she is not only destroying that soul’s opportunity for life; she is also allowing weeds of rank selfishness to take root in her own soul. The story of Amy Richards who was pregnant with triplets and aborted two of her perfectly healthy babies, against her boyfriend’s wishes, is stark testimony of the menace of this lie. A July 18, 2004 New York Times article by Amy Barrett explains in Ms. Richard’s own words what her reasons were MOTHERHOODTHE KILLING OF WONDER… 244

for committing the act of genocide (Planned Parenthood calls it “selective pregnancy reduction”) against two of her eight-week old unborn: “I found out I was having triplets when I went to my obstetrician....My immediate response was, I cannot have triplets. I was not married; I lived in a five-story walk-up in the East Village; I worked freelance; and I would have to go on bed rest in March. I lecture at colleges, and my biggest months are March and April. I would have to give up my main income for the rest of the year. There was a part of me that was sure I could work around that. But it was a matter of, Do I want to? “I looked at Peter and asked the doctor: ‘Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?’ The obstetrician wasn’t an expert in selective reduction, but she knew that with a shot of potassium chloride you could eliminate one or more.... “On the subway, Peter asked, ‘Shouldn’t we consider having triplets?’ And I had this adverse reaction: ‘This is why they say it’s the woman’s choice, because you think I could just carry triplets. That’s easy for you to say, but I’d have to give up my life.’ “Not only would I have to be on bed rest at 20 weeks, I wouldn’t be able to fly after 15 [weeks]. I was already at eight weeks. When I found out about the triplets, I felt like...now I’m going to have to move to Staten Island. I’ll never leave my house because I’ll have to care for these children. I’ll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise...” So with heartless detachment and wanton selfishness, she made the faithless choice to “get rid” of two innocent lives, two souls who had every right to be born and to live a full life. She just didn’t want to put up with adjusting to the greater or smaller sacrifices of being a mother, to include the inconvenience of “shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise.” See full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/magazine/lives-when-one- is-enough.html During his July 24, 2004 monologue on Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto had this to say about Amy Richards: “I don’t believe I’ve ever read anything so chilling or dismissive. And yet it’s freely placed in a prominent column spot in one of the world’s most prominent newspapers as if this were just the way it is. Sadly, I guess, it is. But it troubles me deeply, and worries me even more deeply. Not just for the callous indifference to life, but to the very essence of what we might call ‘convenient life.’ It wasn’t convenient for this woman to have those two other kids. So obliterate them. Remove them. Kill them. “I’m thinking about all the couples out there, desperate for a kid, any kid, in any manner of health, who would gladly walk into that delivery room and take those two burdens off Amy’s shoulders. But no, Amy didn’t give them a chance, just like she never gave those two babies a chance….She aborted two MOTHERHOODTHE KILLING OF WONDER… 245 beings, and kept one…almost as if she were sifting through stalks of corn at the grocery store, throwing in her cart the ears she wanted, passing over the ears she did not. The difference there, of course, is other shoppers can choose from those other ears. But Amy didn’t give those other shoppers the choice or the chance. She scorched the earth. She scorched the possibilities. She scorched…us. “I know in this day and age abortion is the law of the land. Some swear by it. Others at it. I’m just shocked when I see in black and white how some parse it, select it, even extol it. As if it were a good thing. Am I the only one in the country who can fathom this is a sick thing—a very sick thing?” Fortunately, Mr. Cavuto, there are other Americans who also believe that Ms. Richard’s action was a very sick thing! My husband asks, “Why would a man marry a woman who is willing to kill his child?” Amy Richards not only destroyed the right of two of her babies to live but also their soul’s opportunity—their divine inheritance—to become little Christs on this earth. And in the process of carrying out her act of murder and grand theft, she killed off something of her own soul. Abortion is the most tragic case of double indemnity whereby the mother earns the double face value of her sin. The killing of a child in the womb is an abomination in any society; in a society that calls itself Christian, as America does, the act is nothing less than barbaric—and yes, satanic. Abortion is the killing of holy innocence; it is the killing of wonder, the very wonder and miracle of God’s creation. And when wonder is killed, there can be no heaven on earth.

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish....Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti- women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all of the mothers.” —Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Notable and Quotable, Wall Street Journal, February 25, 1994, p. A14 MOTHERHOOD 246

“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahlil Gibran MOTHERHOOD 247

“So what if abortion ends life?”

“So what if abortion ends life?” This question was asked, if rhetorically, by Salon blogger Mary Elizabeth Williams in her January 23, 2013 article of the same title. The subtitle read, “I believe that life starts at conception. And it’s never stopped me from being pro-choice.” Shockingly callous? Unquestionably. But also shockingly revealing of the real mindset behind what columnist Mark Barber called in his January 25, 2013 article, All Life Is Not Equal, “the pro-choice house of mirrors.” As a pro-abortion feminist with raw-to-the-bone instincts, Ms. Williams has no tolerance for the propaganda euphemisms “choice” and “reproductive freedom.” Such language, she argues, is forced on her abortion colleagues by the “sneaky, dirty tricks of the anti-choice lobby.” And what are these dirty tricks? The pro-lifers, she says resentfully, have appropriated the concept of “life,” leaving her side with nothing but the concept of “death.” Enough of this unfairness, she says. She is going to be the game-changer by acknowledging her belief that a fetus is a human life—yes, a living human being, after all. And she further proclaims that abortion ends this human life. She won’t deny it. Then dredging to the bottom of her angst, she provides us with the kernel of her logic: “So what if abortion ends life?” She then proudly boasts that she knew she was carrying a human life inside her womb when she was pregnant, but it didn’t make her “one-iota less solidly pro-choice.” Indeed, she roundly suggests that the abortion movement get rid of the “pro-choice” moniker and replace it with the more candorous “pro-death.” How’s that in your face, you nasty, dirty pro-lifer! But her militant line of reasoning doesn’t end there. (Pause to take another breath.) She writes: “Here’s the complicated reality in which we live. All life is not equal.” (I hear the rumblings of Margaret Sangor rising from her grave, not as our Lord and Savior did in glory’s sight, but as the wraith of old that ever wills to spoil our fair dreams—you know, like the one our Founding Fathers bequeathed us, “All men are created equal.”) She continues: “Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.” MOTHERHOOD“SO WHAT IF ABORTION ENDS LIFE?” 248

Her closing gem is worthy of Lucifer himself: “If by some random fluke I learned today I was pregnant, you bet your ass I’d have an abortion. I’d have the World’s Greatest Abortion….I would put the life of a mother over the life of a fetus every single time—even if I still need to acknowledge my conviction that the fetus is indeed a life. A life worth sacrificing.” (My italics) Such a seared conscience, such a soulless pride on display is breathtaking. Mark Barber had this to say about her final reflections: “In other words: ‘Me no likey? You die.’ Or, as Hitler really did say: ‘We shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew.’ Old Adolf, of course, defined ‘health’ to mean exactly what feminists mean by it. ‘Health: Any reason at all.’ “Maybe I’ve been at this too long, but I love it when liberals mistake sociopathy for conviction—candor for courage. I revel in those rare moments when left-wing extremists, nestled warm inside the foul bowels of their ‘progressive’ echo chamber—pull back the wizard’s curtain just far enough to expose, if only for an instant, the wicked sty in which they roll, splash and play. ‘The World’s Greatest Abortion.’ ‘A life worth sacrificing.’ Submitted without comment.” Well, Ms. Williams, I have some comments. And I have an answer to your question, So what if abortion ends life? Because I don’t have your knack for vomiting out deep thoughts so glibly, you will need to be patient with me: The blueprint of life is the same for all of us. Everything grows from promise to fulfillment, as easily and as inevitably as a seed ripens to a bud and a bud ripens to the perfect rose. It is a perfectly divine design. And that is the point that you seem to miss in your proud admissions. When you kill a human life before it even takes its first breath, you kill God. Because, you see, each little being in the womb is not only human, which you generously admit to, but it is also made of diviner stuff. I heard a Christian minister express it this way: Abortion is first-degree murder of God. You proudly boast to be a realist. Did you know that realism is the micro- study of man and his society without reference to God? The realist, you see, discards the Eternal. He is the executioner of all that represents the Ideal. Like a dark curtain closing off a beautiful sunrise, realism blocks out the light of all that is a revelation of God and the ideal image in which God clothes himself. And though we can discover God in Nature, in beautiful paintings, music and literature, the highest divinity comes in the form of the precious child waiting to be born. MOTHERHOOD“SO WHAT IF ABORTION ENDS LIFE?” 249

Every soul that is conceived has been given an invitation by God to live greatly and beautifully—and make of his time on earth something splendid, whether that soul is born with a perfect body and mind, or is physically and mentally disabled. By honoring that invitation, a soul can become a holy pilgrim on this earth and a saint in heaven, gaining for himself a kind of eternal biography in the legacy of example he or she leaves to others. It is like the multiplication of the loaves and fishes. We receive spiritual residuals every time the original commercial of our soul’s virtue is revisited upon the screen and consciousness of other people’s awareness. That is why everything we say and everything we do has infinite consequences—well beyond our death. Once our life has accomplished its labor of love, perfected as a divine facet, then it can become a diamond in and of itself, and ready for a heavenly setting to shine upon others for eternity. You see, it’s not about human fairness or even social fairness; life is all about cosmic fairness. It is just to let a soul claim his first breath and use his sovereign gift of free will to climb the highest mountain…all the way to heaven. That’s why life matters, Ms. Williams. Every life. MOTHERHOOD 250

A SOLDIER’S VALENTINE By Mary Carolyn Davies Unknown maiden across the sea Back in the homeland far from me. Maiden whose face I have never seen Small hand’s whiteness, or bright hair’s sheen— Unknown maiden, my dream delighting Here in the foe’s land after the fighting. I send you home from my post by the Rhine A lonesome sentry’s valentine.

A penciled heart and a smudgy dart Drawn on an envelope with a line Written beneath: “Though we’re far apart Dear, will you be my Valentine?”

In the little while I’ve been over here, I have thought of you often and longed for you, dear. How do you look, and speak—and cry? I shall know when I see you by and by. When the cheering troops sail over the water— Dear little unknown wee new daughter! MOTHERHOOD 251

Creatures of Hate

A child in the womb is the precious essence of God waiting to be born. Civilized men and women understand this. Abortionists, however, have subverted all that is moral, humane, ethical and reasonable. They have reduced the unborn child to a laboratory animal whose tissue, bones and body parts are to be discarded for the convenience of the mother, or sold for profit by the corporate moneychangers. In the minds of our leftist progressives there is a deliberate inversion of word meanings: barbaric is the new civilized (even enlightened) behavior, while protesting barbarism is the new uncivilized (even hateful) behavior. And thus those pro-life organizations and state Republican legislatures that are fighting to restrict abortion are accused of conducting a “war on women.” When a people no longer know right from wrong, or good from evil, they are ripe for being controlled. And that is the strategy of leftists—to force us to toe the line and live obediently under their growing tyrannies and insanities, and so fashion us in their own image and likeness. In July and August of 2015, a series of undercover videos was released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), headed by David Daleiden. These videos, providing clear evidence of illegal trafficking of fetal body parts by Planned Parenthood, elicited national outrage—that is, until the media redirected the public’s anger toward the group that did the undercover work. The Justice Department followed with an investigation— not of Planned Parenthood but of the reporters. In addition, the National Abortion Federation finagled a Superior Court judge in California to issue a restraining order on the release of the secretly recorded footage. In March of 2018, the CMP filed an appeal at the Supreme Court seeking to overturn Judge William Orrick’s gag order enforcement ruling. In April, the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, thus leaving in place the ruling by the lower Court that prohibited the publishing of any more videos. The first video showed Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Senior Director of Medical Services at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, discussing in graphic detail the sale of aborted fetal organs to the undercover people she thought were potential buyers. The second video showed another Planned Parenthood executive bargaining over the price of baby organs and musing that she wanted “a Lamborghini” in exchange for the money MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 252 that they would bring. In a third video, Holly O’Donnell talks about her former job at StemExpress—a California-based company that buys pieces of unborn babies from Planned Parenthood and distributes them to interested researchers. Holly was hired as a procurement technician—that is, someone who profiles pregnant women whose fetal body parts could be harvested after their abortions. On her first day on the job she was asked to dissect what she called a “freshly aborted” baby. She recounted how when she took up the tweezers and touched the fetal tissue, “pain and death” shot up her arm and her body. She fell to the floor, unconscious. A July 28, 2015 breitbart.com article by Austin Ruse continues the story: “Concerning Planned Parenthood’s repeated denials that they make any money from the exchange of body parts for cash, something that would be illegal under federal law, O’Donnell said, ‘For whatever we could procure, they would get a certain percentage. The main nurse was always trying to make sure we got our specimens. No one else really cared, but the main nurse did because she knew that Planned Parenthood was getting compensated.’ “The video also shows undercover footage of Dr. Savita Ginde, vice- president and medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains...She was secretly videotaped in the Planned Parenthood pathology lab, where babies are taken after being aborted. She also talks about making money for body parts: ‘I think a per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.’ “Dr. Katherine Sheehan, medical director emerita of Planned Parenthood in San Diego, talks about their relationship with Advanced Bioscience Resources, a company that allegedly buys and sells baby parts into the abortion aftermarket. ‘We’ve been using them for over 10 years, really a long time, you know, just kind of renegotiated the contract. They’re doing the big government-level collections and things like that.’” The fourth video reveals the coordinated cover-up that’s going on at Planned Parenthood. “They try to get away from the fact that they’re selling the body parts of aborted babies—and that that’s illegal,” said Daleiden on the July 30 FOX Hannity show. He stated that Dr. Ginde expresses no concern about following the law. “You hear her say that she’s concerned about not getting caught and about not getting called on selling body parts.” Daleiden later told CNN’s “New Day” that the video includes an admission that Planned Parenthood “sometimes get fully intact fetuses shipped to their laboratory from the abortion clinics that they work with,” which Daleiden pointed out “could be prima facie evidence of born-alive infants”—a violation of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act that was passed into law in 2002. That’s what “they’re very scared of,” he said. MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 253

His fifth video documented Planned Parenthood’s deliberate evasion of federal law in their trafficking of baby organs taken from infants as late as 22 weeks in the womb and even from fully matured, or what Planned Parenthood refers to as “intact cadavers.” Additionally, according to an August 6, 2015 Politico article, the Obama administration (both the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration) had been purchasing fetal parts from Advanced Bioscience Resources since 2009, which in turn had purchased them from Planned Parenthood. At the time, Health and Human Services spokesman Kevin Griffis defended the purchase of the aborted body parts, claiming that the fetal tissue for research was responsible for treating and curing a number of diseases affecting Americans, and that the voluntary donation of such tissue enjoyed bipartisan support in addition to the support of leading scientists and medical groups. He was meticulous in stating that his department made it very clear to their grantees and researchers the legal obligations they were under and as of that date he knew of no violations of laws in connection with the research being done at his agencies. Every word of his statement formed the snakeskin of a lie. The sixth video recorded Holly O’Donnell’s eyewitness account of Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of fetal body parts without securing the patient’s permission, which, O’Donnell states, is a violation of federal law. She revealed that she was instructed to approach pregnant women at Planned Parenthood for fetal tissue “donations,” but StemExpress technicians working in the Planned Parenthood clinics sometimes harvested fetal parts without obtaining the consent: “If there was a higher gestation, and the technicians needed it, there were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.” Where is the outrage? On August 3rd, 2015, Obama told a group of young African leaders that he decried the practice of “harvesting organs from humans that are killed as part of an African ritual.” He called it “craziness” and a “cruel” tradition that needed to stop. He warned of dehumanizing marginal groups of humans and of the problems that arise when “you are not able to see someone else as a human being.” He said that other “civilized” people would agree with him. And yet, even as he instructs the rest of us on this issue, all the while he is blind—and virulently so—to seeing and upholding the unborn child as a human being. On August 18, a LifeNews.com article by Steven Ertelt revealed the most horrifying of all acts by Planned Parenthood: “Dr. Theresa Deisher is a world-renowned scientist in the field of stem cell research who holds patents after discovering adult stem cells in human hearts. Deisher helped the pro-life activists who spent three years recording undercover videos and MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 254

capturing documents and information showing the Planned Parenthood abortion business selling aborted babies and their body parts. Now, in a new interview, Deisher says she has reviewed the information the activists collected and she is making a shocking claim that Planned Parenthood may be keeping some babies alive after the abortion procedure in order to better collect their organs for harvesting — such as their hearts. “Here is what she told Breitbart News: “‘If you read scientific publications, in which they use the fetal material for some indications, particularly, cardiovascular, or nerve cell research, they discuss the necessity of having tissue in the digesting buffer solution within five minutes for optimal yields,’ she explains. ‘So, within five minutes of death, you would have to have the heart removed, and flushed of all blood, cleaned of any extra tissue that might be there, and the heart put into a liquid with enzymes that would digest the connective tissue and release the muscle cells.’ “‘Sometimes, they use an apparatus where they hook the heart up and they would flush fluid through it to keep it alive and beating,’ she continues. ‘And you can’t have a dead heart that’s going to work in that kind of process.’ “Deisher states that, in these cases, in order for the organs of aborted babies to be viable for research, the baby must be kept alive with a beating heart in order to get it through the harvest. ‘Biomedical companies prefer gestational ages of greater than 20 weeks for heart muscle,’ she adds. ‘This is from reading their publications; so, I have always suspected that the babies in some of these cases were alive until their hearts were cut out.’” In the seventh video, Holly O’Donnell describes a technician who uses scissors to cut open and through the face of a newly aborted and almost fully mature baby boy at a Planned Parenthood clinic. The purpose of this was to extract the baby’s intact brain. O’Donnell also stated that the technician could make the little heart beat—meaning, the heart of the aborted baby. In David Daleiden’s eighth video, CEO of StemExpress Cate Dyer laughs about her company’s purchases of fully intact aborted babies from Planned Parenthood, and how shippers would give a warning to lab workers to expect such a baby. “Oh yeah, if you have intact cases—which we’ve done a lot—we sometimes ship those back to our lab in its entirety,” she says. “Tell the lab it’s coming,” she laughs, “They don’t want to open the box and go ‘Oh my God.’” The ninth video continues the same interview. Dyer describes her relationship with Planned Parenthood as a profitable one because Planned Parenthood provides the volume StemExpress needs to fill the demand. She expresses her desire to the undercover buyers to increase her supply, in particular, of fetal livers. “What would make your lab happy?” the buyer asks. “Another fifty livers a week,” Dyer responds matter-of-factly. MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 255

During his July 30, 2015 radio show, and after viewing only the first few undercover videos, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh rightly accused Planned Parenthood of butchery. He then went on to express what every American should be feeling in the wake of these revelations. “What are we talking about here? We’re talking about infants at a stage in the womb that were they to be born they would be considered babies and they would be alive, and they would be able to open their eyes and laugh and cry and pee and poop and smile and exhibit every aspect of the complete total innocence that they are. “We would be embracing them and cuddling them and showing them off to our family and talking about the miracle of life. We would be thanking God. But there is a group of people that just days, seconds, hours before that miracle occurs are inserting forceps into the womb of the mother where this little angel of innocence is awaiting birth, and that little bundle of joy and love -- that little miracle -- is extracted while it’s capable of knowing what pain is. “The forceps are inserted in such a way as to extract a full functioning brain, and then, in order to extract the remainder of what used to be what everybody who experiences it calls a miracle, a gift of God, the skull is crushed so that the remainder can be easily removed, and from there, an organization in the academician of Josef Mengele takes over. Actually, they start the whole process. They then salvage (or try to) that which was moments ago -- was in moments going to be a baby. “A bundle of love. A miracle of God. “Smiling, laughing, crying…Just moments, days, weeks from being shown off proudly to members of family, the liver, the lungs, other body parts, are attempted to be taken whole, and then those items -- the heart, the liver, whatever they can get -- are sold….Planned Parenthood…a great, compassionate organization. Selling these body parts -- the life -- for medical research. And yet, there isn’t one medical advancement that any of the people responsible for this can point to and say, ‘Look what we’ve done! Look at the advances that we’ve made!’ It’s purely for money and profits. It’s barbaric beyond any ability I have to describe it. There’s no room for equivocation on this….This is clear-cut depravity, murder…. “Everything about this is not only upside down and inside out, it is literally sick. And because there are no pictures, actual pictures of what these people are doing, it is hard for a society which is conditioned to be shocked only by what they see, to really understand it. Because it’s been so successfully portrayed as women’s rights, freedom, liberty, equality, or what have you. We learned just yesterday that some of what I just described happens after, if somebody at Planned Parenthood makes a ‘mistake’ and the baby is born. MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 256

“They don’t call it that. They call it ‘arrives intact’…. “Where do you compromise with this kind of evil? … How do you compromise with evil? That’s what this is…The death of innocent babies! Rush then references the reprobate ways those on the Left try to justify what Planned Parenthood is doing, caring so little that “they don’t even shrug….These are the people that tell us they have the biggest hearts; they are the most compassionate among us. They are the ones to be trusted with caring for people because people are not able to do that for themselves. Well, you can’t get a more striking example of helplessness than a child in a womb. “And here come the forceps of Planned Parenthood. “I know this makes a lot of people nervous, and damn it, it should! This is a nation losing its soul, and this is not happening in a vacuum. We’ve got single-digit kids -- nine years old, eight years old -- killing five-year-olds with guns in Chicago, and around the country. We have a crime rate that is out of control involving murder, violence. And the root of it -- I guarantee you at the root of it -- is the loss of appreciation for the sanctity, the uniqueness, the value of life, because it’s cheap now…. “My conscience…I just can’t sit here and act like everything’s normal. I’m infuriated…I know it’s uncomfortable…You can’t avoid it with this subject. I’m not trying to guilt-trip anybody….But this says too much about us. What’s happening in these clinics that we’ve learned is it says too much about where our culture is, and it’s got to stop.” In a January 2, 2018 article on lifesitenews.com, writer Claire Chretien summarizes a Detriot December 28, 2017 Reuters report: “A black market human body parts dealer about to stand trial had the bodies of four preborn babies in his warehouse in 2013...The intact bodies of the babies were found during a federal raid of businessman Arthur Rathburn’s warehouse...Rathburn and his wife are accused of selling and renting diseased cadavers. “‘The fetuses, which appear to have been in their second trimester, were submerged in a liquid that included human brain tissue,’” according to Reuters. The preborn babies’ remains indicate that they may have been born alive during botched abortions, according to a top pro-life advocate. “‘These babies’ bodies seem to be virtually intact,’ said Lila Rose, President and Founder of Live Action. ‘If they were obtained through abortion, there’s a strong possibility that the babies were actually born alive and then killed or left to die before they were sold for parts....’ “According to the state of Michigan’s case against the Rathburns, they obtained diseased bodies and body parts that had been donated. Rathburn apparently used a chainsaw to cut up some of the bodies and received a MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 257

‘bucket full of human heads’ in the mail while his wife ‘took orders from customers,’ the Washington Post wrote of the case in 2016. “It seems that Rathburn’s possession of these remains of unborn children only came to light thanks to the Reuters report. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, who chaired the U.S. House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, said this case needs to be ‘reviewed.’ “It does not seem that the Select Panel, which was formed in response to the undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood’s participation in the baby body parts trade, was aware of Rathburn’s possession of dead preborn children. “‘Why did it take a leak to a news reporter to get this information into the hands of Rep. Marsha Blackburn, one of Congress’s leading investigators into the baby parts trade?’ asked Rose. ‘And why did this evidence get to her four years after its discovery and an entire year after her investigation concluded?’ she continued. ‘Was this evidence suppressed by the Obama administration because of the administration’s close ties to Planned Parenthood and Planned Parenthood’s own participation in the barbaric baby parts trade?’ “Rathburn and his wife ‘sometimes obtained diseased remains from their suppliers at a reduced cost, due to the fact that end users of human remains generally reject infectious bodies and body parts for use in medical or dental training,’ the prosecution maintains. ‘It was part of the scheme that the Rathburns would provide human remains to [their] customers, falsely representing to those customers that the remains were free of certain infectious diseases. How Rathburn acquired the fetuses and what he intended to do with them is unclear,’ the Reuters report said. ‘Rathburn’s lawyers did not respond to requests for comment, and neither the indictment nor other documents made public in his case mention the fetuses.’” Full article: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/federal-agents-found-aborted-babies- in-body-parts-dealers-warehouse This black market in fetal parts is not new. In 1997, Life Dynamics published the results of their undercover investigation. The Marketing of Aborted Babies, a book later released by them, explicitly lays out the baby parts money trail, including exact copies of body parts orders and price lists, and provides irrefutable evidence that abortions—including the late-term ones—are being done on perfectly healthy babies. In her March 2004 article titled, Baby Body Parts For Sale, Mona Charen wrote that although federal and many state laws prohibit the sale of fetal tissue or body parts, abortion industry profiteers have been successful in circumventing these laws, in order to capitalize on the growing market. The most horrifying fact found out was that one baby can be chopped up and the MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 258 parts sold to many buyers, resulting in increased profits for the traffickers. In other words, the marketing of fetal material begins with the intentional destruction of a living human being. This investigation by Life Dynamics led ABC to do a story on it in their “20/20” program. It was followed by a congressional House hearing. Special interests lobbied to bury this issue and the evidence was never considered. In her 1999 article, Harvesting Fetal Body Parts, Kelly Patricia O’Meara called the distribution of fetal body parts a “million-dollar industry.” The writer explains the business protocol of the scientists requesting how body parts are to be dissected: “The men and women who perform these tasks [of dissection] are called ‘technicians’ and are employed by companies that retrieve body parts, also known as ‘harvesters,’ such as the Anatomic Gift Foundation of Laurel, MD, and Opening Lines, headquartered in West Frankfort, IL. These companies act as middlemen of sorts between the abortion clinic and the scientist. “Because the sale of human tissue or body parts is prohibited by federal law, the traffickers have worked out an arrangement to expedite the process from which they all benefit and still remain within current interpretations of the law. For instance, the harvesters receive the fetal material as a ‘donation’ from the abortion clinic. In return, the clinic is paid a ‘site fee’ for rental of lab space where technicians, employed by the harvesters, perform as many dissections as necessary to fill researcher manifests. The harvesters then ‘donate’ the body parts to the researchers and, rather than pay the harvesters for the actual body parts, ‘donate’ the cost of the retrieval (a service) via a formal price list. “The fiction is that under this mutually acceptable agreement, no laws are broken: No body parts from aborted fetuses are sold. In nearly all cases, the entire fetus is not needed. Rather, the fetus is dissected and the parts shipped to either the private corporation, university, or government agency where the research is being conducted. Any remaining skin, tissue, bones, or organs are ground up in the sink disposal or incinerated.” The inhumanity of these creatures of hate is made distressingly clear by Ms. O’Meara: “Company pamphlets and paraphernalia from Opening Lines…boast that it is their ‘goal to offer you and your staff the highest quality, most affordable and freshest tissue prepared to your specifications and delivered in the quantities you need when you need it.’ Their advertisements add such sales puffery as: ‘Our specimens vary widely in range including but not limited to those listed below: liver, spleen, pancreas, intestines, kidney, brain, lungs and heart block, spinal column and many more with appropriate discounts MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 259 that apply if specimen is significantly fragmented.’ A veritable smörgåsbord of human body parts is on the menu, and the researcher need only order what he or she wants. “How profitable is all of this? The consulting firm of Frost and Sullivan recently reported that, ‘the worldwide market for cell lines and tissue cultures brought in nearly $428 million in corporate revenues in 1996. It further predicts that between now and 2003, the market will grow at an average annual rate of 13.5 percent and, by 2002, will be worth nearly $1 billion.’ That does not include profits from patents and products that come from tissue research. “National Institutes of Health provides nearly $19 million in grants and awards for fetal-tissue research, an amount that many in the scientific community consider budget dust compared with the $15.6 billion total 1999 appropriations. Of the $19 million, $2 million goes directly to research that is connected with fetal-tissue transplantation.” Full article: http://www.nrlc.org/archive/Baby_Parts/omeara.html Fast forward to Bryan Fischer’s August 8, 2018 article for the Renew America website, titled: Grotesque: US government cannibalizing babies so mice can live. He writes: “In a development that is almost too Nazi-esque to believe, our own government is working with Planned Parenthood to get ‘fresh’ tissue from aborted babies to produce ‘humanized mice’....Dwell on that two-word phrase for a moment. It’s their phrase, not mine. “The FDA is actually contracting with Planned Parenthood to get tissue from freshly aborted babies that they implant in mice, to improve the immune systems of the mice. “In other words, we are killing babies so that mice can live. “Hitler, Joseph Mengele, and the entire Nazi medical experimentation apparatus has got nothing on us. We have become as inhumane, as savage, as morally darkened as the worst of World War II Germany. “David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress did diligent undercover work to expose Planned Parenthood’s ghoulish practice of selling aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder. Now we discover that the chief competitor for aborted baby body parts is our own government. “The reason the FDA is working with Planned Parenthood is that the tissue they seek must come from freshly aborted babies. Tissue from babies which have been miscarried isn’t good enough. So while we have been working diligently to strip taxpayer funding from the baby butchers of Planned Parenthood, our own government has been slipping the equivalent of envelopes filled with cash over the transom. MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 260

“‘Fresh human tissues are required,’ said the FDA, ‘for implantation into severely immune-compromised mice to create chimeric animals that have a human immune system.’ “Harvard University told the House Energy Commerce Committee in 2016 that mice with human immune systems ‘are engineered to this condition only by means of the use of human fetal material,’ and that this material can’t come from miscarriages, it can only come from aborted babies. “So the FDA is cannibalizing unborn babies, some as far along as 24 weeks – two to three weeks after those same babies could survive outside the womb. At something called The New Humanized Rodent Model Workshop back in 2007, attendees were informed that researchers needed ‘livers’ and ‘thymuses’ from unborn babies to develop mice with human immune systems. “The FDA refused to answer when asked if mothers whose babies are aborted are informed that tissue from their aborted babies will be transplanted into mice. The excuse the FDA uses for this obscene experimentation is that it represents ‘a very small fraction’ of their total research. Well, Mengele could defend his work too on the grounds that he was operating on only ‘a very small fraction’ of the Jews they planned to exterminate. We would not accept that excuse then and we should not now. “The FDA is spending... $103 million on fetal tissue research this year after spending $98 million scavenging the bodies of babies in 2017. That's just a $103 million incentive to protect the practice of abortion in America...” Full article: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/180808 And this is happening under the presidency of Donald Trump, who ostensibly has taken a tough pro-life stance to stop abortion and the fetal baby body parts trade! Though directly allied to aborted fetuses, embryonic stem cell research has become its own independent issue because of the medical imperative assigned to it. Like the argument of “choice,” the curing of disease is just as much a red herring for disguising the real issue at stake: the killing of an unborn child. Many want us to believe that because the goal of medical cures is a noble one, the means of such research is justified. In other words, a beneficial outcome excuses any wrongs committed to attain it. The use of fetal tissue from aborted babies to cure diseases, including Alzheimer’s and legal blindness, crosses the sacrosanct line of ethics. No matter how medical universities—even Catholic Georgetown Medical Center—justify their research, it is tampering with the realm of the sacred. When our society no longer frames science within the parameters of the Almighty, we invite our own destruction as a citizenry. MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 261

Elizabeth Bryant of Louisville, Kentucky, was legally blind when fetal tissue was transplanted into her left eye as part of a clinical trial several years ago. She can now see well enough to read large print and sew. An October 28, 2004 New Scientist article considered her improvement “a remarkable transformation.” The retinal tissue used in Bryant’s case came from an aborted unborn baby with a gestational age of 13 weeks. Did the medical end of improving Mrs. Bryant’s eyesight justify the means? Was it necessary to use a human fetus? Even the doctor who performed the surgery said that researchers are also looking into the possibility of transplanting retinal sheets from genetically engineered pigs. Full article: https://www.newscientist. com/article/dn6580-fetal-tissue-graft-restores-lost-sight/ The point is there are other alternatives that do not cross the ethical line. In the last few years, Bionic Vision Australia and Monash University in Melbourne have pioneered the development of bionic eye devices that restore a sense of vision to people with retinitis pigments and age-related macular degeneration. Clinical trials have been ongoing in vision centers across the United States and in Europe, with consistently positive results. Abortionists know that using embryonic stem cells for healing purposes lends legitimacy to abortion, and may add to the incentive for women to abort their babies. The misuse of science, however, is never justified. As 18th- century poet Edward Young wrote, “Humble love, and not proud science, keeps the door of Heaven.” Unfortunately, the pro-abortionists have been effective in blurring moral and ethical judgments in our rapidly de-Christianizing world. In the same article, Mrs. Bryant was asked if she had any personal conflict over the fact that the restoration of her sight came from an aborted fetus. She answered that she did not personally believe in abortion and had thought about the fact a lot. “I realize this is a baby,” she said, “but part of that baby’s eye is in my body, so there’s a part of it that’s still alive.” One is left speechless. The Coalition for the Advancement of Medicine (CAMR) is the main organization, along with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), that has lobbied to fund embryonic stem cell research. President Bush vetoed bills that would have allowed federal funding in 2005 and 2006. Unfortunately, NIH funding for the same purpose was authorized via executive order by Barack Obama as soon as he took office in 2009. By April, 2014 there were 279 embryonic stem cell lines approved for NIH funding. As of July, 2018, the number had increased to 398. Bottom line: Embryonic stem cell research is merely another means to justify the end of abortion. MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 262

In an article from the Right to Life of Michigan website, we learn another dark secret about baby organ trafficking. Tissue from aborted babies is being used—and has been used for many years now—in the development of very common vaccines, both in England and in America. The fetal tissue becomes the medium or “cell culture/cell line” to grow the weakened viral strain. Some of these vaccines include chickenpox, polio, hepatitis, mumps, measles and rabies. “All embryos were obtained from surgical abortions and were of approximately three months’ gestation,” said Dr. Stanley Plotkin, who developed a Rubella vaccine. The article goes on to say that in this particular cell line, as well as in another developed by a different research group,“it is quite clear that the aborted children were presumed to be healthy, and that there was no life-threatening condition or other medically-indicated reason for the abortion of these two babies.” There is a third cell line currently in research, developed in 1985, to treat Ebola and HIV. The fetus used for this vaccine culture was 18 weeks old. Full article: http://www.rtl.org/prolife_ issues/LifeNotes/VaccinesAbortion_FetalTissue.html It is very difficult to fathom such soulless indifference to the life of the unborn. Animal activists care vehemently about endangered species of rats, mice, snakes, toads, beetles, flies, moths, and lizards—and in recent years have even lobbied for certain animals, like monkeys, to be given “human” status—insane as it seems to the rest of us. Pro-choice feminists care vehemently only for the unfettered “right” of women to kill their babies. This kind of fierce animosity toward the innocent unborn cannot be explained on its face value. It has to be understood as the means they choose to express their hostility to any presence of God on this earth—something they cannot control but which they can do their best to tamper with. The unborn child represents God’s presence with us in its purest and most innocent form. Furthermore, since the conception of a child is the creation of the very nucleus of life that is God, the destruction of that life is the most horrendous crime that can be committed by mankind against the backdrop of eternity.1 We only have to observe their desperation in preserving Roe v. Wade to measure how rabidly hateful the pro-abortionists are, especially those who seek shelter and legitimacy in the Democrat Party’s political network. Within that honeycomb of evil, senators and congressmen do whatever they can to ensure their own donor money and power, no matter how many women’s lives are ruined, how many babies are aborted, or how much illegal trafficking there is in the baby body parts underworld. Their actions are no less abhorrent than any accomplice in murder. And for all their desperate hysteria at the thought of a Supreme Court majority overturning Roe v. Wade, such an action would merely return the issue of abortion back to the individual legislatures—in other MOTHERHOODCREATURES OF HATE 263

words, to the people of each state, which is where all power of government and laws should reside. God is not mocked by these alien creatures in our midst—truly, creatures of hate and unremitting evil. The law of accountability is precise: “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.” Do I sound self-righteous? I certainly hope so. As Sophocles wrote, “The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.” Abortion is an industry of death—the death of the precious unborn and the spiritual death of those who are its gruesome operatives. Noblesse oblige, it is imperative that the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. This law that nationalizes child murder weighs heavily on our nation’s soul because it is a law that perpetuates evil, past, present and future, and separates us from God. If abortion is not eliminated as the law of the land, and all of its entrails, to include the trafficking in baby body parts, we invite our destruction as a civil society, and as a moral people.

“When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and preventive medicine, many regard the human content of these practices as implicit. But the contempt for man that underlies it, when man is used and abused, leads--like it or not--to a descent into hell....” —Pope Benedict XVI, while still Cardinal Ratzinger. Part of a Lenten address delivered at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, April 11, 2001.

“If there has been--and there still is--resistance, it was and is against those forms of research that involve the planned suppression of human beings who are already alive, though they may not yet have been born. History has condemned such science in the past, and will condemn it in the future, not only because it is devoid of the light of God, but also because it is devoid of humanity. In the face of the direct suppression of human beings, there can be no compromise or prevarication; it is inconceivable for a society to fight crime effectively when it itself legalizes crime in the field of nascent life.”

—Pope Benedict XVI. Part of an address delivered September 16, 2006, at a conference in Castelgandolfo, Italy, entitled “Stem cells: what future for therapy?” MOTHERHOOD 264

One lamp—thy mother’s love—amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity— Holy—as it was lit and lent thee here. ~Nathaniel Parker Willis MOTHERHOOD 265

Hollywood and Abortion

Abortion is the subject that nearly every Hollywood celebrity has something to say about. From their high perches, many of our stars feel compelled to take time out of their busy schedules to shine their light upon our benighted souls and set us straight. And they do so with a great mocking zeal because they are convinced we need enlightening. Modern Hollywood’s portrayal of motherhood is consistently degrading and despicable. Any woman who finds herself pregnant is considered a victim, while the “fetus” is anything but innocent. And thus abortion is the only action, in their minds, that can restore the victim to a life uncomplicated and unimpeded by an unwanted baby. Hollywood of today is the new Babylon—a far cry from the heritage of virtuous depictions of motherhood bequeathed from its golden cinema age. In 2004, a sympathetic pro-abortion film called Vera Drake won the Golden Lion award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. The setting is 1950s England. Vera is a middle-aged woman who lives two lives. She is the loving mother and wife who helps support her family by working as a domestic. Unknown to them, Vera has also been aborting the unborn babies of the poor, equipped with a homemade kit that includes her kitchen cheese grater. When one of her patients nearly dies, Vera’s secret is found out. She is arrested and tried as a criminal. The film makes us feel very sorry for this kindly woman who helps out anyone in trouble. She is portrayed as the ultimate victim. The real criminal is the English court system and its puritanical anti-abortion laws. Nowhere in the film is there any mention that this “ministering angel” has murdered hundreds, perhaps thousands of innocent unborn. Needless to say, the woman who played Vera, Imelda Staunton, was named Best Actress. Actress Ellen Barkin (known for her profane twitters to North Carolina Republicans when they pushed through a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks) attended the Venice Film Festival in 2004 not only to promote Vera Drake but also the pro-abortion film, Palindromes, in which she stars. The film deals with a fantasy rape and abortion of a 12 year-old girl who is played (bizarre as it may seem) by a succession of different actors of varying ages and sex. The character, however, is always called Aviva. Ms. Barkin shrilled MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 266 her thoughts on the subject of unwanted pregnancies to a doting group of reporters at a press conference: “I am the mother of a 12-year old girl and I can tell you unequivocally that if my daughter was pregnant, I would take her kicking and screaming to have an abortion.” With few exceptions, this seems to be the common version of motherly love among the celebrity class. I prefer Emmy-award winning Patricia Heaton’s response (taken from her feministsforlife.org website) to such a mindset: “Women who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserve unplanned joy.” The 1999 film The Cider House Rules is set in the 1930s and follows the life of an orphan, Homer, who grows up under the guardianship of a gynecologist, Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch is an abortionist. He believes that he is a good and useful man because he is making sure that women burdened with unwanted infants can find a solution that is both positive and safe. He runs an orphanage but the orphans there are not happy creatures; they are angry with their mothers for making them orphans. And so Dr. Larch, taking their angst into consideration, finds abortion to be the one truly altruistic solution. He has concluded that adoption, keeping the unwanted child, or leaving it in an orphanage are not options that serve the interest of the child or the mother. And thus he tells Homer that though abortion is illegal, he finds he has to “play God” to do what he thinks is right. He even gives Homer the job of carrying the dead fetuses to the incinerator to be burned. Homer is trained to be a doctor but in his natural idealism, and desiring to follow the law, he refuses to do abortions. After arriving at a cider house where migrant workers are employed during the picking season, he discovers that a young woman, Rose, is pregnant by her father. This incest is the stirring stick of confusion in his mind—that, and the fact that he has now lost his innocence in an adulterous relationship with his best friend’s wife. Homer comes to the realization that he must make his own rules, just as Dr. Larch did, and just as the workers do when they defy the ‘petty’ Cider House Rules, such as “Do not operate the grinder or press if you’ve been drinking.” He decides to use his medical skills to perform the abortion on Rose. The film educates us in its “pro-choice” mind-set. Both Dr. Larch and Homer kill unborn babies, but they have good hearts and good intentions. This is the message: by making one’s own rules, one can lead a purposeful life. In other words, to justify abortion, God’s rules have to be either disregarded or derided. The absolutes in life have no place whatsoever. The rule of law has no place. Life is all about living by your own rules and choices. And you are considered courageous for doing so. Indeed, the film implies in its final scene that Homer and Dr. Larch truly embody what they encourage their orphans to be: the “princes of Maine” and the “kings of New England.” MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 267

And what of television shows that promote abortion? We can go back as far as the popular Norman Lear show, Maude. In a 1972 episode, the liberal Maude decides to have an abortion. No particular reason. In a February, 2015 episode of Girls, the character Mimi-Rose announces to boyfriend Adam, “I can’t go for a run because I had an abortion yesterday.” Her steely matter-of-factness elevated pro-choice advocacy to a whole new level of coarseness. Asked what sex the baby was, she responds, “It was a ball of cells. It was smaller than a seed pearl. It didn’t have a p____ or a v______.” In a Grey’s Anatomy episode, Dr. Cristina Yang gets pregnant and decides on an abortion over her husband’s objections. Her reason? She wants to dedicate her life to being a surgeon. Convinced by such a noble motive, her husband accompanies her to the clinic. On Christmas Eve the glorious drama of the Nativity of Bethlehem is celebrated. It is an event the whole world honors. Silent Night is the holiest of our Christmas hymns. The words herald the coming of the Christ Child, the Son of God. In an episode of ABC’s Scandal, a popular hour- long political television show that lasted for seven seasons, Olivia, the wife of the Republican President, undergoes an abortion while Silent Night is playing in the background. The intent is perverse: the baby in her womb, symbolizing the Christ child, is violently made silent by the surgeon’s knife. Such icy cold, in your face hatred of God can only be described as spiritual depravity. The final blasphemy takes place when Olivia returns to the White House following her abortion and serenely sips a glass of red wine against the background music of Ave Maria. They just could not resist digging the knife into the heart of the most sacred figure of motherhood in our Judeo- Christian culture. Meanwhile, female Senator Mellie Grant successfully filibusters a bill that would have defunded Planned Parenthood. The vile inspiration behind this episode belongs to director/writer Shonda Rhimes, who also produced the offending episode of Grey’s Anatomy. How superior she must have felt when they aired nationally. Rhimes just happens to serve on the board of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. We are an entertainment and social media-driven society. Movies and television shows that defend and promote abortion have consequences: they breed a frantic and frenzied mind-set hardwired in selfishness and ignorance. Abortion activists tend to be cold, aggressive and angry and are incapable of presenting their arguments rationally or in measured, heartfelt ways. Read Rebecca M’s response to an article titled, The Best and Worst Depictions of Abortion in TV and Film by Dionne Scott, published April 22, 2015. This is what Rebecca M posted: “Those unborn fetuses can cause a lot of problems... just like any other parasite would. Gestational diabetes, back MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 268

problems, blood problems, shoring up in a woman’s tubes instead of the uterus, they can choke and kill themselves... they aren’t some innocent little baby... those things can be dangerous, deadly, and if they do actually come out - they’re obnoxious, annoying, loud, and make messes for decades. So, with that being said, if a fetus is killing me, then I have every right to fight for my own life….We do live in a relatively free country, and by that, everyone has the right to their own lives…” Yet another poster on the same thread, with the moniker lhl, responded to a previous post that mentioned God’s laws. She fired back: “So much ignorance in this comment thread... It’s truly alarming that at this point in life we’re still being bombarded with comments about abortion that include the word GOD. You’re free to believe in whatever religion you choose to, but that has NO PLACE in this conversation, or in any other conversation that talks about rights. PERIOD.” Full article: http://www.refinery29.com/abortion-in-movies#slide These are the voices of rage. Possibly insanity. And they populate social media sites and YouTube, spreading their contagion of diabolic hatred. Since Donald Trump became President, pro-abortionists have grown increasingly irrational. In a July 11, 2018 Townhall article by conservative Ben Shapiro, titled, When Abortion Becomes a Sacrament, he calls out the consistently contemptible comedian Michelle Wolf: “On her Netflix show on Sunday (the evening before Trump announced his Supreme Court nominee) Wolf dressed up in red, white and blue and shrieked into the camera, ‘God bless abortions, and God bless America!’ She explained: ‘Women, if you need an abortion, get one! If you want an abortion, get one!...And women, don’t forget: You have the power to give life and men will try to control that. Don't let them!’ Along with that inane outburst, she justified abortion itself. ‘Look,’ she stated, ‘access to abortion is good and important. Some people say abortion is killing a baby. It’s not. It’s stopping a baby from happening.’ “Democrats have finally come around: They’re now ‘shouting’ their abortions, proclaiming them from the rooftops, suggesting that there is a moral good achieved by abortion. “Gloria Steinman once remarked, ‘If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.’ But modern-day feminists have determined that abortion is a sacrament specifically because women can get pregnant: Showing that control over your body even extends to the killing of your unborn child is a way of standing up against patriarchal concerns with women as the source of future generations. “For Michelle Wolf, abortion isn’t just another decision. It’s a giant middle finger to the moral establishment. And those who would fight abortion are MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 269 desacralizing the mysterious holiness of a ritual that reinforces women’s control. No wonder Wolf thinks God blesses abortion; abortion is her god.” It is a bitter thing to see activists chanting Hail Satan, with blood painted on their tattooed bodies, and four-letter words oozing out of their twisted mouths. But that’s what happened on July 2, 2013 outside the Texas State Capital. A group of mainly women were protesting a bill by the Republican legislature that banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill also required that the procedure be performed at ambulatory surgical centers, mandating that doctors who perform the abortions obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. The final restriction was that even nonsurgical abortions take place in a surgical center. At the time, Planned Parenthood had only a handful of their 42 clinics in Texas qualified as ambulatory surgical centers. Needless to say, they felt threatened. In short order, they located an abortion-friendly judge, Judge Lee Yeakel of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. She struck down the bill, ruling that its “brutally effective system of abortion regulation” would not likely improve women’s health, would impact poor women the most, and “would operate for a significant number of women in Texas just as drastically as a complete ban on abortion.” Other bills to protect the unborn have also been struck down by the same judge. Similar bills have passed in 20 other state legislatures: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin. To date, laws banning abortion at 20 weeks have been blocked by courts in Arizona, Texas, Idaho and Georgia. And thus the high-handedness of the judiciary is a tyranny that is suppressing and overriding the states’ constitutionally-granted sovereign powers, which directly represent the will of the people. It is a tyranny that can only be overcome by limiting the federal government’s executive, regulatory and judicial reach. In The Liberty Amendments, Mark Levin sets out a clear case to do exactly that through implementing an Article V Convention of the States, whereby state legislators could apply constitutional means to rein in the runaway federal leviathan, not least of all, the judiciary. The American people elected Barack Obama twice, to Hollywood’s euphoria. And although he is no longer president, we are still trying to recover from and undo the evil he did, while many holdovers from his administration are doing all they can to keep the core of his social agenda—abortion and gay rights—intact. Meanwhile, more and more congressional Republicans are going along with the status quo, so that there is little effective judicial or MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 270 legislative opposition to the ongoing “fundamental transformation of the United States of America,” to quote Obama. The Left, Hollywood, the entire Democrat Party and its sycophantic media still idolize Obama. During a June 28, 2018 fundraiser, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez called former President Obama “the real president of the United States.” Needless to say, in the true spirit of cronyism, Obama always rewarded his flatterers and lackeys alike with a payback of favors, such as the hallowed Presidential Medal of Freedom being awarded to Barbara Streisand and Steven Spielberg, two of his most vocal donors and supporters of abortion. In the eight years of his presidency, he spread his nets far and wide and they will yield the rotten fruit, unfortunately, for a long time to come. The course for us who see the evil of abortion still largely unchallenged is to stay in the battle and not lose hope. We need to give our support not only to pro-life groups and their wonderful work in the field, but also to those independent film producers who are fighting back and who are demonstrating far more will and moral clarity than our political leaders in the White House, Capital Building and on the Supreme Court. The 2011 pro-life film October Baby tells the story of Hannah, a vibrant and pretty 19-year-old college freshman who suffers from epilepsy and has disturbing deja-vu experiences that leave her depressed and confused. While trying to unravel the cause of these symptoms, she discovers that she is not only adopted but also the survivor of a failed abortion. Trying to come to terms with this, she decides to go on a road trip with some friends, including a young man, Jason, whom she has grown up with. Jason encourages her to search for her real mother. Conflict soon emerges between Jason’s current girlfriend and Hannah. The result is that she and Jason complete the quest on their own, undergoing in the process deep transformation. October Baby is just a wonderful movie. Everything about it is authentic. It is beautifully crafted cinematically, beautifully acted, and the through- line of the suffering that abortion brings is brought home with tenderness and generosity to all parties involved. Many Christian films, though well- intentioned, tend to be contrived—that is, the storyline and acting are fitted lineally to the message. October Baby is heart-whole. One of the most poignant scenes is the meeting of Hannah and the Black nurse who assisted in the failed abortion of the mother.

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Mary: You do favor her. She was a pretty girl, barely 18. I wasn’t much older….Your mother, she was conflicted. I’m the one that took her into the bathroom; prepped her for the procedure. Hannah: The abortion? Mary: Yes, the abortion. She tried to convince me that she was making the right decision, but you know she was really trying to convince herself. She told me she didn’t even know the fella…didn’t know his name. That they met in a bar and they had a night together and then he was gone. I listened. I listened to her like I did to a hundred other girls before her. I told her I understood… Halfway through, well something must have gone wrong…When I went to see your mother, she was just awakening. And the doctor was telling her that it was a failed attempt. Hannah: Is that normal? Mary: There was things that happened there…terrible things…things they had me do. When you hear something enough times, somehow you start to believe it. It was tissue…that is what they told us. It was tissue that couldn’t survive. Non-viable tissue. Your mother came back the next day. She wanted to finish the procedure. She had to go to school; she had to have a career. She couldn’t do that with the baby, so this was the only way… I took one look at her and knew she was in labor. Too young and naive to know it. But I had two choices. I chose to take her to the hospital. When we got there, she was ready to deliver. She wanted me to stay. I was really the only one she had, so I did. Your brother came first. Hannah: I’m sorry, what are you talking about? Mary: Honey, your mother was carrying twins. And your brother came first. And I will always remember him. He was so teeny. He was less than a pound. He was damaged. His arm was missing; completely gone. Torn off during the failed attempt. And he was just…I saw him shaking there…I saw the pain…and I didn’t see no tissue…I just saw the face of a child…but you were the big surprise. Nobody knew about you, not even your mother. And you came out…big eyes…just beautiful. I never went back to that clinic. And I never nursed again.”

An insightful article by Gabriel Garnica, titled, October Baby: a reminder of Hollywood’s abortion bias was published March 31, 2012 on the renewamerica.com website. I quote from it: “Nowhere is Hollywood’s pathetic and despicable hypocrisy, bias, and cowardice more evident than in its handling of abortion. Films like Cider House Rules and Vera Drake, which both displayed abortion as a noble social good removing the chains of ignorance and oppression from women, had MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 272 no problem getting wide distribution and garnering high praise and awards from all corners of Hollywood. The made for television movie If These Walls Could Talk...depicts two women who choose abortion as thoughtful victims of an ignorant society and a third who decides against abortion as an ignorant and gullible fool with no legitimate clue as to why she has made the choice. That third woman, played by Sissy Spacek, is portrayed as a woman yearning for an education who drops all hope of happiness as she prepares to deal with an unwanted child while shining her husband’s shoes. “The clear message of all three stories is that men are heartless monsters who victimize women with pregnancy, reflecting the Obama message that pregnancy can be a prison and abortion is the get-out-of-jail card that only ignorant, gullible, and backward women reject. “Invariably, Hollywood condemns any pro-life film as blatant propaganda rubbish and any pro-abortion movie as thought-provoking, profound, and insightful. Bella, a beautiful pro-life effort, was criticized this way when it was released a few years ago, and October Baby received the same treatment from the vast majority of the same critics who nearly slipped on their own drivel in excitement over Cider House Rules and Vera Drake. These films, and If These Walls Could Talk, practically depict abortion as a sacrament and abortionists as its most noble and saintly priests. “In Walls, Cher is the smiling, benevolent, comforting, saintly doctor and abortion is the loving, sanitized, practically bloodless salvation from the suffering of an unwanted pregnancy. In the most absurd and truly ridiculous of ironies, this peaceful abortion is cut short by the crazed violence of a bloodthirsty pro-life zealot. Such is the utterly heinous and vile lie sold by Hollywood and the Left. Namely, that abortion is anything near a salvation from violence and harm to women. In the most ironic and detestable of ironies, Cher is practically depicted as an almost Virgin Mary figure gazing over the girl seeking an abortion and, just as suddenly, as a Christ-like sacrificial lamb giving up her life for her noble cause. “If Hollywood portrays abortion and abortionists as a cross between Mother Teresa and Florence Nightingale, what of its depiction of those who oppose this barbaric procedure? In short, they are depicted as stupid, homophobic, sexist, creepy and downright psychotic. From squealing priests and pro-life protestors short a few chromosomes to superstitious dolts with the IQ and common sense of a doorknob, abortion opponents are branded as pathetically evil idiots preventing the enlightened pro-abortion crowd from efficiently and fully dragging society to the modern world. “The Hunger Games has scored box office success while depicting children sadistically enjoying shooting, stabbing, and beating each other to death, and MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 273

is becoming the third most successful opening film of all time after netting $155 million in its opening weekend. [An aside: The Hunger Games reveals the meaninglessness of existence without God. There is no divine destiny… just the toss of the dice and the empty wish, “May the odds be in your favor.” This is the only story that progressives in Hollywood tell.] Although it only opened in 390 theaters, October Baby earned the second-highest-per screen average, bringing in almost $2 million in ticket sales. “One of October Baby’s directors, Jon Erwin, described how no studio wanted to touch the film because it was considered ‘too controversial’ such that, ultimately, he and the film’s other director, his brother Andrew, raised the money themselves, delaying the release. Dr. Ted Baehr, founder of the Christian movie site Movieguide.org, attributes the success of October Baby to a strong Christian and moral world view that touches the heart... “Therein lies the inherent problem...We live in an increasingly anti- Christian, amoral society where a film depicting random, sadistic violence by children against children is gladly accepted and October Baby, which depicts loving forgiveness and a respect for life is bashed as a ‘slickly packaged... essentially ugly...soapy melodrama...which communicates in language of guilt and fear…intended to terrify young women.’ The film is alternately described as dull, amateurish, weepy, unrealistic, indecent propaganda, better off as a bumper sticker, a campaign video, or an endless lecture…. “Try as it might, Hollywood will continue to be blind, deaf, and silent regarding the heinous and despicable evil that is abortion. It will continue to peddle its twisted and absurd version of entertainment and reality, where the murder of young life is whitewashed with flimsy explanations, where the fact that a bunch of teens in October Baby travel cross country without having rampant sex is mocked, and where propaganda from the left is spelled reality and reality from the right is spelled propaganda. “I have long argued that Catholic universities like Georgetown and Fordham have become about as pro-life as Planned Parenthood. Dripping in the social justice drivel which has been used by defiant pro-choice Cafeteria Catholics to defend the woman seeking an abortion over the life of the unborn, these institutions have been far more eager to present rubbish like The Vagina Monologues than beautiful efforts such as October Baby.” October Baby is based on the real-life story of an abortion survivor. In her October 27, 2011 article, Pro-Life Film ‘October Baby’ Seeks to Change Hearts, Hollywood, Eryn Sun of christianpost.com interviews the producers and directors of the film, Andrew and Jon Erwin: “‘We heard a girl named Gianna Jessen speak who is an abortion survivor with cerebral palsy [due to her premature birth from the attempted abortion] MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 274 and we were so arrested by her testimony that we had to do something with the information we had learned,’ [Andrew] Erwin shared. ‘Looking at the issue through the eyes of a victim was a really disarming way to engage a touchy subject,’ he added…. “‘I believe that to change someone’s mind you first have to touch their heart. We want to make the journey compelling and a film gives that opportunity like no other medium today. To be able to allow an audience to connect with compelling, interesting characters. To make that audience laugh with them, cry with them, and heal with them. And to do that with quality is essential. At its core, it has to be a good movie regardless.’ “Jon Erwin, co-director and writer of the film said in a promotional interview: ‘This is our chance to say together, we’re tired of what Hollywood is force feeding us and we’re tired of Hollywood not listening to our voice. This is who we are and this is what we believe in and we want this in the culture. Every movie ticket is someone’s vote, is their voice,’ he added, ‘and I really believe with this particular film and message every movie ticket is a chance to save lives. I think it’s time that the unborn have a voice and I think that’s what this movie gives them.’ “‘October Baby might not be what you expect,’ Andrew Erwin explained. ‘Abortion might be the context or the crisis to set up the story but the movie is about forgiveness and healing. Faith plays an integral part of that as Hannah wrestles with how to find truth and forgiveness. I love how the Gospel of redemption shines forth in an honest way when you deal with very human pain.’ “‘I hope [the movie] is just as healing for those who have had abortions as it is for those wrestling with the issue itself,’ Erwin continued. ‘Our film doesn’t attack anyone but I feel it handles controversy in a humble, sensitive way that I hope inspires rather than divides. The stories of people keep coming!…I hope October Baby brings people to the table who disagree on both sides and raises the value of life, past politics or personal opinions to be seen for what it really is, a human issue. These very real victims like Gianna deserve a voice. I hope our movie plays a part in that bigger picture of engaging hearts through story and helps people remember that life is beautiful,’ he concluded.” The filmmakers of October Baby delivered a powerful pro-life message, on many levels. The healing of the biological mother, however, was the most compelling of all, because it was unexpected. Inevitably, I thought, Hannah will meet her real mother and have a wonderful heart-to-heart talk over many tears and they’ll become friends for life ever after. Hannah did indeed track down her mother, but that mother rejected her—coldly, resolutely. It was a cinematic moment that instructed us in the abject selfishness that MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 275

inclines a career-minded woman to abort because a baby can’t advance her professional ambitions. Hannah was like a ghost from a past life—a life that Cindy Hastings had been able to keep secret for 20 years from her co-workers and from her present husband and family. So out the door went Hannah. But that wasn’t the last scene with the mother. The directors gave us a curve ball. While Cindy Hastings did not come to terms with her 19-year old daughter, she did experience a catharsis of her long-repressed pain and guilt over the attempted abortion. Having gone through a level of resolution herself, Hannah returns to Mobile, Alabama, but not before leaving a hand- written note on her mother’s desk that says, I forgive you. When Cindy comes to work and reads the note, the light shines into the dark pit of her unresolved shame. She slides down the door, her body heaving with heartwracking tears. The anguish has come full circle. But her daughter’s forgiveness opens up her soul to healing. It is a pure and honest process. There was another dimension that gave this particular scene its gripping depth and authenticity. Actress Shari Rigby, who played Cindy Hastings, was playing herself. In a March 15, 2012 article by Angela Walker for ChristianCinema.com, titled, Art Imitates Shari Rigby’s Life in OCTOBER BABY, Ms. Rigby explains: “For me, I was coming into it [the role] from a place where I needed to be very focused on this character. My screen time was very small, and I had to figure out how to take this woman on this journey in a very few scenes. God opened up this ocean for me.... I went in and sat with the script, thinking, ‘How am I going to do this?’ God started flooding and overwhelming me with this beautiful picture of a healing process that He was starting in that moment. He showed me this little girl I had aborted. It was a beautiful vision I will never forget as long as I live. I was so overwhelmed in this moment of being with Him and this little girl. That was the beginning. Then when I met Rachel [Hendrix] as Hannah, God gave me this beautiful glimpse of what my little girl might have looked like if she had grown up. The next moment was when she [Hannah] leaves the note saying, ‘I forgive you.’ As believers, we see that over and over again in the Bible, but to have it written out by this young woman, was completely different. What everyone sees onscreen at that moment is that God showed up for me. In that moment, it was just Him and me. It was the most amazing transformation ever. It’s been such a healing process. He showed me, ‘You’re forgiven. It’s done....It was my story – a story that I have finally been able to share with other people. I have been ransomed.” Abortion is a vicious culture. It spreads out like a deadly virus, sickening the soul and psyche of everyone it infects. And it can become a progressive evil—first, abortion, and then the deliberate killing of sick and disabled MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 276 babies (already happening in the UK). Next, persons who are perceived by the elites to be a burden to society, such as those suffering with terminal disease or Alzheimers. Or it can morph into killing other “undesirables,” as it did in Nazi Germany. Soon, society becomes entirely insensitive to life, affirming what Albert Schweitzer once said, “If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.” Those who promote abortion are not merely formidable opponents; they are the instruments of evil. The fact that they might believe the lies they propagate is not a mitigating factor. It simply means they have allowed themselves to remain self-deluded, since the lie of abortion has long been refuted by medical fact. There is nothing of God—nothing of intelligence, of beauty, of fineness of spirit, of altruistic love in the killing of the unborn. Why would we want to compromise with or feel sympathy toward such people? In James 3, 11-12, we are told: “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.” No matter how much we want to give abortionists the benefit of the doubt and assign them good intentions, their determination to destroy innocent life is nothing less than evil. They wear masks of benignity, making evil appear good. Their masquerades of caring for women fairly reek with hollowness. And too many Americans, especially our youth, do not see through those masks. For these individuals are often surrounded by authority, power, money, glamor, celebrity and/or a true belief in themselves as superior beings. And that can be intimidating, to say the least. The physicians who physically carry out abortions exercise the most potent influence. If you visit priestsforlife.com, it is shocking to read interviews with these doctors who arrogantly boast of having performed 20,000, 30,000, or even 50,000 abortions. These are they who love what they do. They do it every day. It is a supreme satisfaction: an act of omniscience, whereby they affirm their separate existence from God: “God, I have total power over you. I can kill you.” That’s what they are saying and acting out. And we say the opposite: “God, I can give you life on earth.” 1 Abortionists mock the very essence of purity and the precious element of love which the unborn and newborn represent wholly. Their motives are godless. Their actions are godless. And thus it is our obligation to stand our ground with them, albeit in an harmonious and disciplined way. The sacred law of life is written in the heart of the unborn. That is something the abortionists cannot tolerate, for they have denied that sacred law in themselves, and in so doing have sworn a kind of vengeance against God, which they take out on the most vulnerable of His own. They lie and MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 277 betray even as they fear their own exposure and so act in concerted alliance to protect each other. And yes, Hollywood is on the same page, masking the savagery of killing innocent life in carefully written storylines that paint compassionate hearts and virtuous intentions. But we will continue to tear the masks from them. With its hateful depictions of motherhood, Hollywood has thrown down the gauntlet and raised the ante. Abortion can no longer be for us merely a social issue weighed on the scales of human justice. We are engaged in spiritual warfare—a battle between light and darkness. And God is depending on us to win it. We are, after all, “the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.” [1 Thessalonians 5:5]. When we know who we are and hold on to that integrity, it is easier to acknowledge and face evil. It is easier to set our hearts and prayers unflinchingly and unfailingly to the task of pushing through and reversing the cycle of this evil. Though we cannot all be cinematographers, like the Erwin brothers, we can each search to discover a fresh way to pull others out of the treacherous current of the status quo. Hashem Al-Ghaili, a young Yemeni man who lives in Germany, did exactly that. Describing himself as an independent “influencer,” he produced and uploaded onto YouTube a video of a preborn baby in the womb. He also shared it on Facebook. After the first week, he had nearly 40 million views. The video is magical, showing the entire process of fertilization, implantation, development, and birth. I have attached a screen shot from the video. “Welcome to Life” reads the caption at the end of the film. This is the moment for those of us who are not confused, who are the one- hundred percenters, the unabashed pro-lifers, to contemplate how the single flame of our own heart, filled with the fire of love, can make the difference from death unto life for these precious unborn. Again I say, only love can unwind the hateful coils of abortion. Only love can find a way to reach the many millions and change their hearts forever. And what is the foundation of love? It is the living flame of truth—the very presence of God within us, yearning to set all Life free. MOTHERHOODHOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 278

“I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child— Murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love—that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. “By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So, abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. “If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak—the unborn child—must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for.” 2 Mother Teresa of Calcutta MOTHERHOOD 279

In the long nights of my regret, I see you both! MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 280

I Regret My Abortion…

Stories abound of women who experienced the most heart-searing regret after they had an abortion. For Shari Rigby, the opportunity to play the role of the biological mother in the movie, October Baby, was the divine catharsis to transmute her long-suppressed grief and begin her personal healing. Shari’s situation, however, is singularly rare. When I started delving into the huge volumes of testimonies, I was profoundly moved by the complexity and depth of anguish that post abortive women suffer. I had had no idea. I also learned how nearly all of these women, burdened by their remorse, humbly wished to find spiritual resolution. And so I urge everyone who wants to truly understand the journey of a woman who regrets her abortion to visit any or all of the following websites. There are hundreds of such websites, but the ones I have listed have a high inventory of personal declarations: http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/#.VeOfBLR3bS4 http://www.iregretmyabortion.org.au http://www.focusonthefamily.com http://www.priestsforlife.org http://www.abortionchangesyou.com http://www.gargaro.com/abortion/stories.html http://www.teenbreaks.com http://www.liveactionnews.org The following analysis is based on a sample of 50 testimonies that I read from the silentnomoreawareness.org website. My summary narrative is my own and may not necessarily represent the viewpoint of the website: Even after making the decision to abort her child, a woman may still heed the desperate cry of conscience, or the imploring of her guardian angel. But once she crosses the threshold of an abortion clinic, it is too late. In most cases the final decision to have an abortion is not hers (though she may give her consent) but pressured upon her by medical professionals, mothers, boyfriends or family members. The check-in at the clinic is brisk. She reads a form, hands over the cash payment, and waits until her name is called. There is no discussion about what is going to take place. If she asks questions or expresses her doubt, she MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 281

is coldly informed that it is not a baby, just a lump of tissue being eliminated. In that sterile, authoritarian setting there is only one choice, one expedient course of action available to her—abortion. The young mother is soon directed to another room where other girls, dressed in flimsy hospital gowns, are waiting their turn for the “procedure.” It doesn’t take much to see that they are as scared as she is. Fear, dread, uncertainty, isolation, confusion, bewilderment, panic and depression are just some of the states of mind that begin to overwhelm her. She no longer feels she has any power in these final moments to stop the juggernaut of abortion, even if she were to change her mind... At some point—she is no longer aware of time—a nurse leads her into a room. It is a cold, unwelcoming room with a steel table (like the ones they have in a morgue, one woman wrote). She is told to lie down on it and put her feet in the stirrups. The masked and gloved abortionist and his nurse do not speak to her directly but only to each other. She is either fully awake or in a twilight sleep as a syringe is inserted into her cervix to dilate it. A machine is then turned on. It makes a loud, sucking noise. She is terrified at what is happening to her. The doctor inserts a steel cannula attached to a clear hose into her uterus. It is the sound of a Shop Vac. And that vacuum is tearing into tortured pieces her once beautiful baby. The pain she experiences is excruciating, on every level of her being. After the “procedure” is over she is led to another room where the same girls she saw earlier are now grimacing in pain and crying uncontrollably, as she is. She sits on one of the long chairs--the plastic webbing type that we find at a resort pool--and is given a glass of orange juice and a cracker or two. She is told she can leave once her bleeding is under control. One heartbroken girl wrote that she felt like a number being pushed through—a product on a factory assembly line. Abortion is a business, after all. As you read the descriptions of the most common abortion procedures, keep in mind that the unborn baby is fully conscious when it is being aborted. Moreover, scientific evidence is proving that this tiny creature does feel pain, and more acutely than adults. Doctors agree that pain receptors are fully developed no later than 20 weeks of gestation, although sonograms and ultra sounds are recording that the child can and does feel pain much earlier. See: http://www.mccl.org/unborn-babies-can-feel-pain.html Dilatation and Curettage (D&C) is used any time in the first 14 weeks, as is Suction Curettage (now called Vacuum Aspiration). From 14 to 24 weeks, the surgical method is Dilatation and Evacuation (D&E). In these three procedures, the cervix is dilated (or stretched) by the abortionist, who then MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 282

inserts a sharp instrument called a curette into the womb. It cuts the unborn child into pieces and then scours the lining of the uterus in search of any remaining parts. With the Suction Curettage, a cannula--a hollow plastic tube connected to a vacuum-type pump by a flexible hose--is inserted into the uterus. As priestsforlife.org describe on their web page, the abortionist runs the tip of the cannula along the surface of the uterus causing the baby to be dislodged and sucked into the tube, either whole or in pieces, along with the amniotic fluid and placenta. Any remaining baby parts are scraped out with the curette. Another pass is then made with the suction machine to help insure there is nothing left behind. Because the D&E method is used for second semester pregnancies when the child is much more developed, the abortionist has to crush the child’s head to make it small enough to remove. See: http://www.priestsforlife.org/images/abortion-images-galleries. aspx#procedures According to the Guttmacher Institute, 89-92% of all abortions happen prior to the 13th week of gestation. The tragic reality is that by the fourth week, the heart of the baby is beating. By the sixth week, both heart and brainwaves can be recorded. In her 1996 book Beginning Life, Geraldine Lux Flanagan provides a gorgeous full-color photographic record, with text, of a baby’s day to day developments in its mother’s womb from conception to birth. She describes the little human life in its seventh week as bearing the familiar features and all internal organs of the future adult it will grow to be, even though that baby is less than an inch long and weighs one-thirtieth of an ounce. It has eyes, ears, nose, lips, tongue, and even milk-teeth buds. By the eighth week the baby has five tiny fingers with their own unique fingerprints. By the end of the twelfth week in the womb, the baby has muscles and nerves and virtually every part of his body responds to touch—a strong indicator that he can and does feel pain. He can kick and dance, sing and cry, squint and frown, swallow and digest amniotic fluid. And his facial expressions are already similar to those of his parents. Recall that the D&C and Suction methods are used on babies of 14 weeks or younger. The child is sucked from its mother’s womb by a machine that is, at a minimum, 29 times more powerful than a household vacuum cleaner. And if the baby does not come out through the cannula, the abortionist goes in with forceps. This is happening while the baby is still alive!1 We are not talking about a blotch of tissue here but a little person, whole and complete, despite what those men in black parsed in Roe v. Wade. Side effects of these procedures include cramping, nausea, sweating, possible heavy or prolonged bleeding, blood clots, damage to the cervix and perforation of the uterus. In several of the testimonies, the women MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 283 complained of permanent damage to their cervix, causing premature births (as early as 23 weeks) in later pregnancies or the death of a child altogether. In my own experience (though not post abortive), my third pregnancy ended in a miscarriage at about 13 weeks. Due to excessive hemorrhaging, I was rushed to the hospital and a D&C was performed to remove the remaining parts of my baby that had not already been expelled from my uterus. Thankfully, as in the case of nearly all miscarriages, my baby had already died before the D&C was performed. Even so, I was not able to get pregnant again after that surgery as my cervix was made incompetent. Some women are forced to have hysterectomies following complications from their abortion, and thus ending any possibility of a future pregnancy. Infection due to remaining tissue or infection caused by an STD or bacteria being introduced to the uterus is yet another side effect. After 20 or 21 weeks of gestation, abortion procedures take the form of labor induction, prostaglandin labor induction, saline infusion, hysterotomy, or dilatation and extraction (D&X). In some cases, saline infusion is used on a baby as early as 13 to 16 weeks—an age when the baby can somersault, grasp with his hand and suck his thumb. During the saline procedure, the abortionist injects 100cc of a concentrated saline solution into the amniotic sac. The salt poisons the baby. Real photographs on priestsforlife website show skin burned away, exposing the raw, red subcutaneous layer. In the hour it takes for the baby to die, the little thing may suffer horrifying convulsions. The mother goes into labor and expels her burnt dead child. There have been instances when babies aborted in this way were born alive, and mercifully adopted. The late second trimester dilation and extraction procedure is also known as Partial Birth Abortion. According to priestsforlife, the intact or nearly intact fetus is rotated and forceps are used to grasp and pull the legs, shoulders, and arms through the birth canal. A small incision is made at the base of the skull to allow a suction catheter inside. The catheter removes the cerebral material until the skull collapses. The fetus is then removed. The final method of abortion, performed during the last three months of pregnancy, is the hysterotomy. The womb is surgically penetrated through the wall of the abdomen. Most babies aborted in this way are born alive and are left to die by neglect or killed by a direct act of smothering or strangulation. After any of these “procedures,” the post abortive woman experiences a whole new set of emotions: horror, numbness (both physical and spiritual), shame, guilt, self-loathing, hopelessness, and distrust of those (including a boyfriend or mother) who advised the abortion, which she now knows was wrong, even if she cannot yet verbalize it. Above all, she feels alienated MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 284 from God, whom she believes has abandoned her. Yes, she sees through the lie now: it was not just tissue that was sucked out by that horrifying, pain- inflicting machine, but a little human being. It was a baby—her baby. And with that terrifying awareness comes the lifelong heartache. Time goes by…a week, a month, a year, a decade, thirty years…a lifetime! For some—for those who are willing to search through their pain and discover a higher meaning behind it, there is healing, forgiveness, and a belief that their lives can once again become heart whole. There is, in other words, the honest acknowledgment of the wrong they committed, the softening of the heart in remorse, and the dear hope of transcendence. Many, however, will remain in a kind of tortured denial their whole lives, forever justifying their abortion or multiple abortions as the only choice they had. Or they will seek surcease from aching soul pain in the pursuit of pleasure or career success, but finding that surcease only temporary at best. Ultimately, there is no permanent healing along the human continuum of experience. The soul must climb vertically and embrace the loving presence of God to find peace—and with that peace, the understanding that it is only through the heart of Christ that true healing and true wholeness can come. And that Christ encompasses every saint of east and west whose heart has became one with the sacred heart of Jesus in the process of consecrating his or her life to the love of God. The heart of Christ, then, is the inevitable gift to all who are the pure and grieving in heart. God is no respecter of persons or religions. He attends first and foremost to the heart of man, wherein His divine spirit dwells. There is no human heart so broken that cannot be mended if the soul is willing to just trust God. “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18) And yes, there is a debt to be paid by every mother who aborts her child, for abortion is the act of violating love. But every debt can be paid off in time, in God’s time, and by His hand and heart of grace. To face that debt and its weight of obligation is the highest act of love that a mother can perform in behalf of her lost child and her own soul. When a post abortive woman surrenders the agony of her remorse to God, God fills the void with Love. That was the heartfelt and unified witness of the fifty women whose testimonies I read. It is important to state that just because a woman has an abortion does not make her an abortionist. Yes, she has transgressed the law of God and the law of her own being as a woman. But the sin can be forgiven if her heart will only yield to that spirit of truth within her that is God. And so we must represent and hold that heart tenderly. I owe this reflection to Georgette MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 285

Forney, the director of silentnomoreawareness.org website, who so kindly led me to the understanding that the woman who aborts her child often does so through ignorance, in an hour when she is afraid, distraught, misled, or bullied and has no belief in herself. She is also a victim of society and the hateful lie that once she has an abortion her life will go back to the way it was before she became pregnant. This lie is promoted carelessly and dismissively, but it is a lie for the short term. In the long view, as the testimonies bear witness, her life does not and never can go back to normal. She will suffer for years, often silently and alone. We must never lose sight of the high price that she must pay to right her wrong. She does not need our condemnation. She needs our compassion and helpfulness. If she was led astray, let us lead her back to hope. It is up to us to keep that flame of hope for her until she can once again feel her oneness with heaven and find true healing. Needless to say, our goal should be to provide real support to the pregnant girl before she has an abortion so that she does not kill her child. And that is a challenge in itself because there are many, many women who have been thoroughly brainwashed and who would rather dwell in a state of ignorance or nonawareness than know the truth. For once you know the truth, you are required to act responsibly. Indeed, ignorance can be a form of self insulation from reality and responsibility. But as the essence of our hearts is love, so we must remember that the essence of any young girl who finds herself pregnant is also love. And that is the common bridge where we may meet her and shine a gentle and gradual illumination upon that pocket of fear or anxiety within her that does not want to be found out or confronted. Finding the key to unlock that dark place and bring her to a true and new perception of both herself and her baby is the real work ahead. And what is the truth that she needs to know? We begin: Human life aborning, whatever its age or condition, is worth saving, and must be saved because inherent within it is a divine spark—the very essence of God Himself. I heard a Jewish rabbi once say that the child is a sanctification, a holy spark. And thus when a child is denied life by the hand of the abortionist, all that is holy, all that is of God is denied. When a baby in the womb is murdered, God is murdered, and that spirit of God in the mother as well. There is only one reason for killing an unborn child, and that is to save the mother’s life. Women’s health groups, family planning services, and gender-focused academia habitually dissect the motivation of women who choose to abort. And what they come up with, study after study and thesis after thesis, is a litany of self-centered concerns, most of which are not even based on real situations. Yet these pro-choice ideologues never fail to elevate their MOTHERHOODII REGRETREGRET MYMY ABORTION…ABORTION… 286 findings as sacrosanct, as though the rest of us had never been aware of such burdens upon women until they brought them to light! And what are these arguments for abortion they so extol? Here are the top contenders: the baby is unwanted or unplanned; having a baby would interfere with work, college or professional pursuits; a child would be an inconvenience; it isn’t the right time to have a child; she cannot afford to support a baby; she doesn’t believe she would be a good mother because her own childhood wasn’t great; she would be a single mom; she is having problems with her boyfriend (or husband); she has been taking medication for depression, and the doctor says the baby will probably be born with birth defects... Only 10-12% of women claim a health problem as the reason for having an abortion, though there is no breakdown to reveal if that health problem is physically life threatening and would be aggravated by the pregnancy, or if it is merely mental or psychological in nature. Most doctors agree that the situation where the mother’s life or health is in real jeopardy is an extraordinarily rare one. And if that rarest of situations does occur, destroying her baby is not necessarily the mother’s choice, as the examples in my earlier article, Sacred Motherhood, clearly showed. Only one per cent or less of women conceive by rape or incest. In such situations the baby is considered to be the mother’s enemy, to be gotten rid of as soon as possible—out of sight and out of mind. In truth, a baby conceived so is just as innocent as any other baby. Why, then, should that baby be punished unto death? Stories abound of very wonderful people who were conceived by an act of violence, but who led full and productive lives. An October 4, 1990 New York City Tribune article by Michael Henderson, titled, Message from a Child of Rape: We Don’t Deserve to Die, tells the story of Julie Makimaa, an attractive young professional who had been an adopted child and who later learned from her birth mother that she had been conceived as a result of rape. Upon discovering the truth, she was filled with intense gratitude. “I was very sorry that my mother had to go through that terrible experience,” she said, “but I am so thankful that I am here. For me, I feel that it doesn’t matter how I got here; what’s important is what I do now.” Her husband Bob felt the same way. He told the mother, Lee Ezell: “I want to thank you for not aborting Julie. I don’t know what my life would be without her and my daughter.” As she explained in a later February 5, 2007 article written by Dan Harris, and titled Rape Victim Lobbies Against Abortion With Her Daughter, Lee’s faith was the deciding factor in not having an abortion. “I thought, ‘I can’t do it. If God’s real, he’s gotta help me out with this one. I’m going to give birth to this baby.” In the same interview, Julie added: “I believe that there is a divine purpose and plan for everyone.” MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 287

Julie is the founder of Fortress International, an organization dedicated to defending women who conceive a child through sexual assault. She travels the country with her birth mother speaking out against abortion, especially in cases of rape and incest. It cannot be repeated enough: Every woman has a right to decide not to bring forth children. She has that right. But only before conception. Once a child is physically conceived, the mother does not have the right to take from that aborning soul the breath of life or the opportunity to live and fulfill his or her destiny. In contrast to the pro-choice lie, at the point of physical conception it is the child whose rights take precedence over the mother’s, except in the case of the mother’s endangered health. For where there is conception, there is indeed the divine hand and the divine will at work—yes, in every case, as Julie Makimaa’s story witnessed. And thus every conception must be hallowed even if the tiny new life at its inception was not hallowed by the parents. In His majestic wisdom, it is God who sanctifies life; therefore, it behooves the mother who so conceives to accept that sanctification and not deny it.2 This wondrous truth is all a woman needs to know. It is the key to the mystery of life, and of love. Our youth are given carte blanche to indulge their sexual pleasures without being held accountable when those pleasures result in an unplanned pregnancy. They have been relentlessly programmed to believe the lie that life in the womb doesn’t matter. Indeed, pro-choice organizations and advocacy groups never discuss the unborn child as anything but a “blob of tissue.” Only the mother’s real or imagined fears are important because they comprise the fodder for the profitable and prolific “pulp” abortion market. An unwanted pregnancy is an easy fix. Women’s health groups proclaim it so. The materia medica establishment has made it so. And Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country, is still riding high from eight years of audacious endorsement from the most heartless president America has ever known. The bottom line is this: the true right of woman to be woman must be defended by woman! Every pregnant girl needs to know that the child in her womb, conceived in love or not, is a living person with a living heart; and that this living heart has full conscious awareness of being in life, of being alive from the very first hour of its physical conception. How can any woman exercise her free will if she only knows the lie, which is intended to manipulate and deceive her? Only the truth can educate and unfold the heart so that she does have a real choice and is not left to the butchers who care not a whit for either her physical or spiritual health, but only for the MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 288 money they can make from her “product of conception”—to include the harvesting and selling of its little body parts. Planned Parenthood will not tell her to conserve her sacred fire in abstinence and so strive after that virtue of purity in the image of the wise virgins who kept their lamps trimmed and were ready to greet the bridegroom and go in with him to the wedding banquet. [Matthew 25] Planned Parenthood will not tell her to hold fast to the ideal of sacred motherhood. Planned Parenthood will not remind her that to kill her unborn baby is to break one of the commandments of God. Planned Parenthood will not provide an ultra sound to show her baby’s living, beating heart! Midst the entire world’s population, it is only the unborn who are entirely defenseless. And when in their little souls they pray to God for deliverance from the hand of the abortionist, it is not Planned Parenthood who will deliver them. It is not Planned Parenthood who will defend their right to live, to be carefree, to have parents who will love and nurture them and help them realize their fullest potential. Planned Parenthood has neither the time nor inclination because its very reason for being is to silence the heartbeat and the cry of the child within the womb—this child that is part of the mother, part of the father, part of life: life that is sacred, life that is God. Abortion is the ultimate degradation of woman because it neutralizes her sensitivity to life and to the things of God. When a woman has an abortion she suppresses all that is natural and holy within her, while depriving herself, her family, and an entire civilization of that one unique soul who could have brought the loving presence of his heart and the divine genius of his soul to make a difference in this world! Planned Parenthood denies the mother her right to be a mother, and the father to be a father. And there is no greater fulfillment in the world than the fulfillment of being a co-creator with God—a holy maternity, a holy paternity—giving birth to the holy Christ child. It is the wonder of wonders on this earth to see the newborn and recognize that child as the rebirth of God with us! Verily, the act of abortion is the desecration of the very Spirit of God in the father and mother, who are meant to create as God creates in the image and likeness of Himself! Faith, Hope and Charity comprise the golden trinity of life—a threefold flame of love, wisdom and power that God has placed in each of our hearts, irrespective of what religion we follow, if any. For God responds only to the magnet of Himself in each of His creations. No matter what we are doing or where we find ourselves in life, these three lighthouses of faith, hope and charity act like divine ensigns within, never failing to guide the frail barks of our souls to safe harbor, where God is. Abortion is the complete perversion of this holy trinity. MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 289

Abortion undermines Faith by violently silencing the voice of conscience, where God speaks to the young mother, imploring her not to kill the child aborning. Instead, she is told to believe those who have her best interest at heart and who are merely advocating the law of the land. By persuading her that her unborn is neither human nor divine, but merely tissue, and that she has the legal right to eliminate that tissue, the abortionist ultimately destroys her faith in God by coercing her to break her covenant with Him, both the spirit of God in her heart and His holy laws set forth in Scripture. And as no conception is an accident of God’s, the act of abortion is the ultimate betrayal of the inner vow or contract of the mother (and father) with God to bring forth life—yes, even in cases of rape and incest. Abortion perverts Hope because it denies the opportunity of life for the baby. It destroys the hope of father, mother, and child of fulfilling their divine destinies, which are all intertwined and dependent upon each other, just as the destiny of a nation is dependent upon each one of its citizens. For earth and not heaven is the place where destiny must be forged and won. Above all, abortion snuffs out the bright hope of heaven that should fill every young mother’s heart when she learns that she has conceived a child. Abortion violates Charity because it stops the flow of the flame of love descending from God to the mother and from the mother to the child, which begins at the point of physical conception, and which defines the very nature and purpose of motherhood. Abortion desecrates charity because it discards the precious fruit of loving union between the mother and the father. Abortion destroys charity because it terminates the giving and receiving, the outpouring and the inflowing of the sacred fires of that pure mother’s love to the innocent babe, and thus to life itself. As St. Paul tells us, the greatest of these three animating virtues is Charity. God is a mighty power of Love into and unto the earth. A mother should not misuse divine love, for ultimately divine love is the greatest power and empowerment that we can have. Love is how we hold our souls intact. Once the forces of darkness can accomplish that breach of our souls with love, they can remake us into their own image of plastic, predictable humanity— godless, soulless, and without the immortal spirit. So when we fight for a mother to keep and love her child, we are also fighting for her soul, and ours. For those of us who passionately defend the sanctity of life, there is no equality in the rhetoric of pro-life and pro-choice; there is only a clear battle line between truth and the lie. We need to break the curse of that lie in all of its fraudulent and erroneous persuasions. There can be no compromise on our part with such dedicated entities of darkness. If there are people working for Planned Parenthood who are sincere in wanting to help young MOTHERHOODII REGRETREGRET MYMY ABORTION…ABORTION… 290 mothers, then let them hear the truth and separate out. We either stand for or against abortion. We either stand for or against the aborting of a living soul and its unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For every soul has been assigned a special timing when he or she is to come into physical incarnation with the right mother and the right father in order to learn the lessons required of his soul, or to teach them how to love, how to endure, how to give until it hurts. Sacrifice is the nature of motherhood and fatherhood, as Mother Teresa has pointed out again and again. A child is not born to be a mere appendage to the life of his parents. A child--every child-- is an independent and dynamic spiritual being who will play his part on the stage of life and have the opportunity to make good or bad choices and grow from those choices, contributing vitally to other people’s lives in the process. There is no such thing as an unwanted baby. Ask the tens of thousands of married couples who have been on waiting lists for years to adopt a child-- any child, from any country--even a precious infant diagnosed with down- syndrome. Ask former Senator Rick Santorum about the transforming joys of bringing up a special needs child. Bella’s Gift, written by him and his wife, beautifully tells the story of raising their now ten-year-old Bella, who was born with a rare genetic condition called Trisomy 18, which dooms these little hearts to an imminent death. Isabella Maria is the miracle centerpiece of the Santorum family’s life. In the book, he reveals a devastating moment when he was putting together a crib for their new baby with his teenage daughter, Elizabeth. He told her to save the box because “we just don’t know how long Bella is going to be here.” The callousness of his own words struck his heart with a terrible remorse. He wrote: “I wish I could take those words back, because I’ll never forget the way she [Elizabeth] looked at me, as though I had not only hurt her but condemned Bella myself.” Bella’s story affirms that our true value as mothers and fathers lies in our capacity to hope and to love. And to love requires sacrifice. There is no child more able to teach us how to love fully and wholly than a special needs child. Recall the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. It is Christmas Eve and George Bailey is about to commit suicide because his whole life, as he can best understand it, has been a failure. In response to the prayers of George’s children, a quaint angel called Clarence is sent from heaven to help him. Counting on George’s good heart to rescue him, the angel jumps into the frigid river. George, of course, does rescue him. As they are drying off, Clarence explains that he is George’s guardian angel and knows the whole story of his life. We are then treated to a replay of that “wonderful life” where George has stood as the lighthouse of goodness and honesty and helpfulness to all the little people in his town of Bedford Falls, sacrificing his own dreams so others might MOTHERHOODII REGRETREGRET MYMY ABORTION…ABORTION… 291 fulfill theirs. The unhappy George is not to be consoled by Clarence and tells him: “I wish I’d never been born.” Clarence prayerfully communicates with heaven and then tells him, “You’ve got your wish. You’ve never been born.” Clarence now shows George the nightmarish scene of what Bedford Falls would have been like if George had not lived, and how tragically different would have been the lives of his family and friends and all who ever knew him if they had been deprived of his loving and unselfish heart. Every child conceived is a potential George Bailey! Generations of people must be born together, grow up together, play, study and work together and build upon the best of what their parents and grandparents bequeath to them as individuals and as citizens. Since abortion was made legal, 60 million souls are not with us. They are not here, nor their children, nor the promise of their children’s children. And truly, America is not fulfilling her mission because these millions of souls were not taken into the arms of their mothers and fathers. Instead, they are waiting in the wings of life in the heaven world for either their original parents or new parents to welcome them so that even belatedly they might take up their sacred labor and fulfill their divine plan. Yes, abortion is one of the grave realities of our time because it has grievous consequences not only for the individual soul, his or her family and community, but also for an entire nation and a world. The life we are given is a privilege. It is an opportunity. It is a noble obligation to be the best and highest we can be, no matter if we live a day or a century. To be in physical embodiment, to live in a physical body is a high- priced commodity for each and every one of us—and potently so in this age that has lost its way and cannot navigate to the star of the Christ Child. Where is the purity of heart that sustains a people and keeps them faithful to the covenants of God? It is in the little child. For it is the little child who reminds us that we are all endowed with the majesty of the divine image, and that to be God incarnate is the highest glory in which man can share. The newborn is the reminder that God is in the earth and all is right with the world. When we allow the wholesale slaughter of that little child in the womb, we are a nation in the grip of the most vicious and vindictive forces of death and hell, and all is not right with the world. Who are these culpable parties who adamantly promote such cold-blooded murder? Firstly, the original Supreme Court majority who made abortion legal, and every other justice since who has not done his uttermost to overturn that diabolical and unconstitutional decision. Secondly, the feminist organizations that provide the abortions and control the treadmill of discourse on the issue, holding up before them the Holy Script of “precedent”—but only if that “precedent” advances or gives legality to their agenda. 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their pervasive curriculum of humanism and gender studies in our school and college system. Then we have the leftist politicians who will do or say anything to keep the woman’s vote and their donations. The fawning liberal media, who long ago abdicated their obligation to tell the truth, follow close behind, defending and promoting with utmost hauteur the statist progressive agenda, while employing their snipers of calumny to go after anyone in the public eye who dares to disagree with them and speak truth to their lies. Conjoined with the media is Hollywood and its works of black magic that pervade the movie and television screens of the world. Social media sites provide a similar 24/7 excitation. Lastly, I accuse the medical establishment, for they have given physicians a free pass to play God and destroy life in the womb, in violation of their Hippocratic Oath to do no harm or mischief to those entrusted to their healing. The original Greek version of this Oath states explicitly:“Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child. Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner. If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate!” The modern version, albeit watered down and secularized (and now made optional in some of our medical universities) states much the same: “Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humility and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God. Also I will, according to my ability and judgment, prescribe a regimen for the health of the sick; but I will utterly reject harm and mischief.” Roe v. Wade has provided the legal mechanism by which doctors can safely overstep or entirely dismiss the sacred bounds of medical ethics the Hippocratic Oath enshrines. And yet, the argument the justices used that the fetus is not “viable” until somewhere between 24 and 28 weeks and therefore cannot be considered a person and thus given constitutional protection, is rooted in a lie! The fact that babies born as early as 21 weeks can survive and grow to be perfect little human beings, as in the cases of Amillia Taylor (born 10 oz) in Florida, Frieda Mangold (born 12 oz) in Germany, and James Gill (born 12 oz) in Canada, clearly exposes that lie. Moreover, the survival rate of premature babies has increased dramatically according to preemies. about.com website. Fox News Health reported in a January 31, 2015 article by Colleen Cappon that every year, one out of every nine babies in America MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 293

is born premature and they do survive outside the womb with neonatal care. New technology is helping preemies grow faster, and sending them home sooner. See: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/01/31/new-technology- cutting-hospital-time-for-premature-babies/ Despite this indisputable evidence, Roe v. Wade has not been challenged. It is still upheld as the law of the land, though that law was nothing more than specious reasoning at best and personal policy preference at worst of seven Supreme Court justices who, sure in their own arrogant persuasion, basely violated our Constitution and the rights of 60 million babies who have since been aborted. And because this law is still on the books, and given the imprimatur of immortality by successive “princes” and “scribes” of the Law, abortion goes on. Doctors at many hospitals in Europe still leave babies born at 21, 22 and 23 weeks to die. To play God and choose whether or not to fight to save a newborn preemie is even more despicable, if that is possible, than first semester abortions. It is very frustrating to observe the ease with which abortionists use their medical credentials to persuade a woman to kill her baby. Doctors in general carry a charismatic power: we look to them to heal us. And indeed many who use their skills to do God’s will in all humility can and do perform seeming miracles of healing, of both body and mind. A young pregnant girl is particularly vulnerable to that charisma of authority, for it inspires, invites trust and demands obedience. It is interesting that in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s masterful poem, The Golden Legend, Lucifer masquerades himself as a traveling physician in order to beguile Prince Henry into accepting his “cure” for the prince’s desperate malady. The elixer is the “quintessence of all the knowledge man can ask,” he tells Henry. Henry is in awe of such erudite knowledge and takes the proferred flask. Lucifer promises that its contents will restore the prince to his youthful health and rapturous delights. But before Henry can bring it to his lips, an angel appears, hovering close above him, crying out in warning:

ANGEL: Woe! woe! eternal woe! Not only the whispered prayer Of love, But the imprecations of hate Reverberate For ever and ever through the air Above! This fearful curse Shakes the great universe! MOTHERHOODII REGRETREGRET MYMY ABORTION…ABORTION… 294

Lucifer, in response, urges Henry to drink and then quietly incants a curse upon him that “thy soul shall sink down into the dark abyss...from which no plummet nor rope ever drew up the silver sand of hope!” Henry quaffs the liquid and feels at once a fire though his veins that momentarily removes his pain and takes him into a trancelike, almost hallucinatory state. The Angel again tries to reach his soul to forbid any further obedience to the physician.

ANGEL: Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore To its very core! Its perfume is the breath Of the Angel of Death, And the light that within it lies Is the flash of his evil eyes. Beware! O, beware! For sickness, sorrow, and care All are there!

PRINCE HENRY: O thou voice within my breast! Why entreat me, why upbraid me, When the steadfast tongues of truth And the flattering hopes of youth Have all deceived me and betrayed me? Give me, give me rest, O rest! Golden visions wave and hover, Golden vapours, waters streaming, Landscapes moving, changing, gleaming! I am like a happy lover Who illumines life with dreaming!

Henry drinks again. The evil is done. And the Angel recedes from him but not before speaking the prophecy of what will befall the prince, now that he has dismissed heaven’s warning.

ANGEL: Alas! Alas! Like a vapour the golden vision Shall fade and pass, And thou wilt find in thy heart again Only the blight of pain, And bitter, bitter, bitter contrition! MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 295

Separated from God, Henry does indeed experience all that the Angel prophecied, and is soon made an outcast. Whenever he tries to reach out for divine redress, Lucifer is there to thwart the process. But the guardian angel is also there, ever by his side, urging that he affirm his true identity:

ANGEL: Noble art thou in thy birth, By the good and the great of earth Hast thou been taught! Be noble in every thought And in every deed! Let not the illusion of thy senses Betray thee to deadly offences. Be strong! be good! be pure! The right only shall endure, All things else are but false pretences. I entreat thee, I implore, Listen no more To the suggestions of an evil spirit, That even now is there, Making the foul seem fair, And selfishness itself a virtue and a merit!

Ultimately, Henry does find healing and resolution through the unselfish sacrifice of the woman he loves, and whose beauty of holiness redeems him from the evil of Lucifer once and for all. The full poem is a wonderful read, and we can certainly draw analogies between the journey of Henry and that of the post abortive woman. Though the villains have been named in this evil sphere of abortion, we are each culpable for not effectively countering the lie put upon our young girls that they have the right to privacy of their own bodies, superseding any obligation to the baby or to God. That lie has lived as the law of the land since 1973, and it is nothing less than satanic. The stories in my sample were from women who had abortions and who no longer wished to remain silent about their excruciating experience. Surely none can speak more honestly or eloquently of the true evil of abortion than the one who commits the act herself. When you speak with the conviction of experience gained from a path of sorrow and pain, you can speak to the heart of the issue truthfully, while pouring forth compassion as none other can. Such testimonies must be included as part of our children’s education, from high school through college. Why? Because every testimony is a window into MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 296

the truth of what abortion is and what it has wrought of evil—first hand. The grim consequences of having an abortion must be made known to every teenage girl and young adult. How else can she make the enlightened choice for life in the event of her own or a friend’s unplanned pregnancy if she doesn’t know the truth—all the truth? There is no other choice but life. The argument for abortion is rooted in deceit, subterfuge and unfathomable callousness. It is a dark persuasion and coercion unto the death of the unborn child and the pillage of the mother’s soul. Is there really a choice? When a post abortive woman shares her experience publicly, she opens up her heart and soul to scrutiny and condemnation. To tell her story requires great courage. A story that is lived—that is woven of one’s innermost pain and heartbreaking regret—is authentic, and to be trusted. What is currently being taught in schools and colleges as reproductive health and reproductive rights is pure rhetoric. It is not to be trusted because it is not rooted in concern for the unborn child or the mother; it is driven solely by motives of profit and power, and the advancing of radical feminist agendas. The parties invested in promoting the status quo are fierce and unified in their purposes and in their rhetoric, and their influence across our society is entrenched. After all, abortion is big business and they are determined to keep it legal. Stopping abortion is a daunting challenge. It means we have to call out abortion for the death culture it is, and call out the abortionists (both those who practice abortion and those who actively promote it) for the murderers they are. For these are the unmerciful ones who cunningly pose as the saviours of young mothers but who assert the self-will of the anti-Christ, gladly receiving their payment in full for destroying the unspeakable love and beauty of God in the unborn. The hard-core abortionists will not be converted, no matter how hard or long we try to convert them to the living spirit of Truth. They represent the person and principle, creator and creation of embodied evil. And because they do not repent their deeds, because they desire not to be in God, they are self-convicted by their own words and deeds, by their mockery of truth and of God, whom they themselves have willingly forsaken. They must be exposed and judged for the evil they are and the evil they do. For when we stand as the embodiment of truth against the lie, and do so fearlessly, God can work his mercy on the few who will listen and quit their trade of death. I recommend that you read the stories of such abortion doctors on teenbreaks.com. I will quote the first who is listed on the site: Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who practised in New York: “I am personally responsible for 75,000 abortions. This legitimizes my credentials to speak to you with some authority on the issue. “I am often asked what made me change my mind. How did I change from MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 297

prominent abortionist to pro-life advocate? I became director of obstetrics of a large hospital in New York City and had to set up a prenatal research unit, just at the start of a great new technology which we now use every day to study the fetus in the womb. A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. “Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy. Why...do some American doctors who are privy to the findings of fetology, discredit themselves by carrying out abortions? Simple arithmetic at $500 a time, 1.2 million abortions means an industry generating $600 million annually, of which most goes into the pocket of the physician doing the abortion. “It is clear that permissive abortion is purposeful destruction of what is undeniably human life. It is an impermissible act of deadly violence. One must concede that unplanned pregnancy is a wrenchingly difficult dilemma, but to look for its solution in a deliberate act of destruction is to trash the vast resourcefulness of human ingenuity and to surrender the public weal to the classic utilitarian answer to social problems. “As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception. “Although I am not a formal religionist, I believe with all my heart that there is a divinity of existence which commands us to declare a final and irreversible halt to this infinitely sad and shameful crime against humanity.” If you would save the unborn, do not embrace any part of the abortion rhetoric because then you are crediting it with some level of good. Condemn and denounce Planned Parenthood. Do not sympathize, do not co-opt any of their activities. Just tell the truth. Do not join them or think you can build on their foundations, or build together. Just tell the truth. No one who performs or enables abortion is performing or enabling any good whatsoever, so we must not give that one a lifeline of our light and sympathy. We owe him only truth. The heart of the abortionist who refuses to accept the truth has turned to stone; it has no mercy for life; it simply is not alive in God nor sensitive to any part of suffering life. And yes, pray that God may yet melt that heart so it can yield to the truth. But to give any worker in an abortion clinic our good will is to co-sign their every damnable word and action. It is ultimately a choice of character: the character of the Christ or the character of the anti-Christ. Faith, hope and charity are the pillars of the Christ character and the very foundation of a civil society. The anti-Christ nullifies all virtue because it has declared its enmity against the Christ, wherever that Christ might appear, but supremely in the unborn. MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 298

We have to uproot every tentacle of the lie of abortion and plant new seeds of truth in the hearts and minds of our youth. When the roots of truth are secure, it is unfailing that the heart will grow and the flowers of joy and understanding will blossom. These are the truths: Abortion is not just another means of birth control. An unwanted pregnancy does not require a medical fix. A mother does not have the right to kill her child. Not one of our cherished unborn is expendable; all must have their place in the sun. Every unborn child, no matter its age, is a spiritual being. Its little body temple is the miracle chalice being formed in the mother’s womb to house its unique divine spirit that it may grow to fulfill its fiery destiny. Affirm these truths unapologetically and so restore to the young mother genuine ownership of her body and stewardship of that precious life within her womb. Only then can true education of the heart follow. Only then is the mother truly free to make a sovereign and informed choice for herself and for her child. The woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy is assailed by giant specters of self-doubt—robbers of her hope and faith. Providing food and clothing for her, a place to stay, a job, and medical facilities to see her through the pregnancy can effectively ensure the safe birth of her child. But she must also understand that these specters of self-concern are not real. Only love for her unborn child is real, for such love is the living flame that descends from God’s heart and cannot be quenched by any force of doubt or fear. If she can but be reminded how much she is loved by that little person, and that angels rock her sweet baby to sleep with their lullabies of love, she could never choose to kill that one. The highest good we can do for the post abortive woman is to not shield her from the truth of what she has done, but to help her through the difficult journey of pain and remorse. If we just commiserate with her, or tell her that she is forgiven even before she herself confesses her sin, then we risk reinforcing the very process of excuse making that caused her to choose abortion in the first place.3 We want to appeal to the highest and best in her. We need to defend God’s law and not her rationalization for breaking that law. God’s commandments and the Word of Christ are the bastions of identity. Only truth can guide her to God’s heart. There isn’t anything greater than loving God. And when you love God, you love all good. Above all, you love the good in yourself and yearn to do better by loving more. Those of us who want to be there for a post abortive woman need to have that same profound sense that Mother Teresa conveyed, and which her Missionaries of Charity continue to impart: “I must be the fount of the living Christ, dispensing true holy water to those who come. I must know the Source if I would spend and be spent.” 4 MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 299

Once a post abortive woman seeks God, it is as if she were emerging from a darkened cave, a labyrinth of struggle and despair. The pain of aching hopelessness turns into tears of blessed hopefulness. As soon as the mouth of the cave is behind her, the light and beauty of God completely severs her ties to the darkness of her former state--its terror and fear and records of death conjured by memories of the abortion clinic. Now she is free to enter into that eternal sense of wanting to serve Life. It is the burning light of God’s love in her, and it breaks the spell of death. Her heart can breathe again, and she is reconciled emotionally and psychologically with the baby she once gave her consent to destroy. Between them is a profound bond of love and caring; it is her dearest hope that the child is with God. The spider webs of shadow and shame that had ensnared her are dissolved. And the immaculate image of that perfect baby, seen in the glimmer of her bright hope, now flows freely within that sorrowful heart. Thus does God console the burdened heart and draws it ever nearer to His. Abortion is one of the commonest medical procedures in the United States with approximately 1.3 million abortions performed each year. Based on an October 2017 Guttmacher Institute report, one in four women will have an abortion in their lifetime. Such a tragic and alarming statistic! Such mindless and godless murder of innocent life by our own American women! Abortion is “the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place [the sacred womb of the mother] where it ought not.” And yet the abortions continue. And they do so because the magnitude of abortions has become an overriding curse on this nation and on the whole planet. It is the curse of death. Jesus incarnated to break that curse and to prove the victory over death—a victory in which all of us can share when we become one with his heart. Each time a new baby is born there is the breaking of that curse of death. It is why God sends angels unlimited to earth so that Christ can be born again and again, and thus is death conquered again and again. Conversely, every time a child is aborted, there is a strengthening of that curse of death. In her July 4th, 1981 address, titled, Jeremiah: The Heartbeat of Freedom, Elizabeth Clare Prophet spoke about this curse of death on this planet: “We look at the whole manipulation of society, the manipulation of the media, we look at violence, we look at drugs...all of these are the curses of death. And of course they come sugar-coated because who is going to swallow a curse whole when he sees it for what it is. So he has to think the curse is something else, that it benefits him. He has to think that the one who pronounces the curse is really his friend. So he accepts the curse and the one who pronounces it as though he were the savior and avatar. MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 300

“There are always implied benefits to all these things that lead to death... In subliminal advertising we have implants of sex or death. So everything is sold by the misuse of the base chakra and all curses are performed by the misuse of the base chakra [which is] the misuse of the base of the ascension spiral. Cut off that stalk of the white lily at the base and invert it and they have you unwittingly tied to the planetary curse of death.” Now let us translate that thought pattern to abortion: We look at the whole manipulation of our young women, the lies put upon them, the relentless indoctrination by the pro-choice groups, Hollywood and the media—all of these comprise the curses of death. And of course they come sugar-coated because what young woman in her right mind is going to swallow a curse whole when she sees it for what it is. So she has to think the curse is something else, that it will be benefit her, and that the one who tells her to abort or executes the abortion is her savior. Tragically, once the mother kills her unborn, she unwittingly ties herself to that curse of death, and is only released from it when she turns sorrowfully in regret to God. A newborn babe represents God in manifestation in the purest and holiest form. So the fallen angels use the act of abortion to manifest that curse of death by cutting off the stalk of the white lily of the holy innocent at the very base, wherein is the budding life of God. And they are anti-God. If we could only part the veil so that all mankind might hear the cries of the unborn, feel the terror of their souls—aye, and the agony of their hearts at being denied the promise of life. For only then might we fall upon our knees and implore the grace of Almighty God’s intercession that this evil, this curse of death upon us all, might be broken once and forevermore...

My Prayer:

Almighty God, in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, we call to you and your heavenly hosts, even the cherubim and seraphim, to intercede on behalf of every mother who is inclined to abort her child. Exorcise from her mind and heart and soul all tentacles of the lie that she has the right to kill the child in her womb. Purify her thoughts and feelings until she recognizes the truth that the fullness of your love and your life eternal lives within her precious unborn. We ask that your angels stand guard at the portal of birth for each and every soul that is aborning in the womb. May they fulfill their fiery destiny to be, to live, to learn, to love, and to enjoy the blessings and the bounty of that life that is yours to give. For judgment I AM come, saith the Lord. O Lord, break the curse of death that is abortion! MOTHERHOODI REGRET MY ABORTION… 301

In the name of Jesus Christ, we do affirm that judgment upon the seed of the wicked who are the abortionists in the earth. They shall not pass! They shall not pass! They shall not pass! Let their form and ferocity be bound by the mighty archangels and their evil brought to naught. Let Love conquer and consume the entire death cult that is abortion on this earth. Let Love be the victory and hope for each and all. According to Thy holy will, it is done. Amen. MOTHERHOOD 302

Prayer: The Invincible Weapon MOTHERHOOD 303

The Power of Prayer

PRAY ALWAYS!

“Thou shalt decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee!” (Job 22:28) “Thus saith the Lord…Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.” (Isaiah 45:11) “And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.” (Matthew 21:22) “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” [Romans 8:31]

There is nothing more powerful than prayer. As invocation, as fiat, as decree, as chant, as joyous song, prayer commands heaven’s response. 1 Our Founders were enlightened men. Religion powerfully shaped their actions and philosophy. And this explains why our modern-day progressives are so hostile to them and to the history of what they accomplished. A living faith in God’s presence with them was integral to the victory of the American Cause. They understood the power of prayer. They understood its invincible power, and prayed with deep humility. At the hour of our country’s maximum peril, Washington knelt upon the icy ground of Valley Forge and beseeched God’s aid. God responded. Against impossible odds, an independent nation, undivided, under God, was birthed. We have a divided America today. Patriots and citizen statesmen, true to their God, their history, and the land they love, are pitted against a proud and angry elite who resent this country and her founding principles and are doing everything they can to dismiss and ultimately dismantle our founding institutions. These ideologues believe in statism—that is, the power of the state (meaning a powerful federal government) over the people. And they will employ any means to achieve that end of personal and collective power. The Democrat Party is the spearhead of this ruling cabal. Unfortunately, the Republican Party has capitulated on every crucial issue and has thus abdicated its effectiveness as an opposition party. Ultimately, we cannot rely on any one Party to deliver us from tyranny or any one President. Each one of us has to play his part. And that’s what the Founders intended. MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 304

American Presidents, like all elected officials, take an oath to uphold the Constitution and govern according to its constraints. The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and our Constitution constitute the only authority by which to govern, legislate, or interpret the law. We are obligated, as citizens, to help safeguard the rule of law by holding the President and the Congress to their oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.” And when they do not, it is incumbent upon us to seek their impeachment or to recall them from office. During his tenure as president, Barack Obama abused and misused the Constitution; he simply translated his radical progressive political values into claims of constitutional law, as demonstrated in the case of same-sex marriage that his Justice Department brought to the Supreme Court. Justice Kennedy agreed with their argument to use the 14th amendment—equal protection under the law—to justify a majority ruling to make gay marriage legal. Or as Kennedy expressed it, “equal dignity in the eyes of the law.” The same distortion of the law is being applied to religious liberty, gun control, property rights, and abortion. Without adherence to the Founding principles as they were written, without eternal verities, without conscience that comes from the contact with God, words are given whatever meaning suits the agenda being pushed. Those who dislike the Constitution are masters at this. Abraham Lincoln observed : “We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name – liberty….The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.…Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty.” [Address at Sanitary Fair, April 18,1864] So what we hold in reverence is the rule of law implemented by right use of the law, coming out of righteousness or “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS,” as the prophet Jeremiah called the Christ. [Jeremiah 23:6] Those who cherish the rule of law cannot and must not compromise with those who defy or subvert that same rule of law. Our Founders crafted the law of the land in eternal principles so that it might resonate unfailingly within our hearts as a moral and righteous people, and thereby have permanence. Ann Coulter makes this point in her book, Demonic: MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 305

“Our revolutionary document, the Declaration of Independence, is a religious document through and through, with the colonies demanding rights entitled to them by ‘the Law of Nature and of Nature’s God.’ As founding father James Wilson put it, the ‘will of God’ was the supreme law of nations. “Signer John Adams (later second president of the United States) thought that God inspired the Declaration. In a June 28, 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson, he wrote, ‘The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.’” 2 Respecters of the Constitution do not try to downplay God’s role. The Democrat Party and its allies despise such reference and deference, so much so that during their 2012 Convention the delegates removed God from their platform language. When Obama’s campaign operatives realized that such a step might be too radical just before the election, God was put back into the platform the next day, though to much jeering and booing by the crowd. In our post-constitutional America, we can count on Democrats and the progressive justices they appoint to pervert the authority of the Constitution, though Republican George W. Bush, a decent and honest man, was guilty of the same thing, as is our present Establishment Republican leadership. His platform of overreaching stimulus spending and his unwillingness to stand resolutely against illegal immigration became the next President’s launching platform. And indeed, from the moment he took office in 2008, Barack Obama plunged America into massive debt. He increased taxes, regulations, entitlement programs, opened our borders to unknown numbers of unvetted illegals and so-called refugees, while refusing to implement the existing laws on the books. He seized unprecedented control over the economy, our health institutions, the private sector, state police forces, and our own private lives and liberties. His foreign policy, particularly his treaty with Iran, invited the greatest peril to our nation and her citizens. Like so many other stricken Americans, I had a big hole in my heart on that dark election night of November 3, 2012, when Obama was re-elected. But I listened to Mark Levin the next evening. And this is what he said: “We conservatives, we do not accept bipartisanship in the pursuit of tyranny. Period. We will not negotiate the terms of our economic and political servitude. Period. We will not abandon our child to a dark and bleak future. We will not accept a fate that is alien to the legacy we inherited from every single future generation in this country. We will not accept social engineering by politicians and bureaucrats who treat us like lab rats, rather than self-sufficient human beings. MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 306

There are those in this country who choose tyranny over liberty. They do not speak for us, 57 million of us who voted against this yesterday, and they do not get to dictate to us under our Constitution. We are the alternative. We will resist. We’re not going to surrender to this. We will not be passive, we will not be compliant in our demise. We’re not good losers, you better believe we’re sore losers! A good loser is a loser forever.” His entire opening monologue was a call to arms, and I haven’t looked back since. I started a blog so I could be another voice for truth among a cacophony of liars. Obama employed countless irrational and revengeful ideologues to advance his agenda. The Occupy crowd, Antifa, union activists, communists, social issue demagogues, Black Lives Matter racists, climate control and environmental advocates were his virulent supporters, ready and willing to commit any uncivil (and sometimes criminal) act to avenge their perceived wrongs or provide a subterfuge of cover for Obama. In Demonic, Coulter aptly defines such thugs and their ilk as a “mob.” Obama endorsed these and every other anarchic group because he needed his “mob” to fundamentally transform America—as strategized in the 1966 article by Columbia University professors Richard Cloward and Frances Piven. The authors outlined how to bring about the downfall of capitalism: destroy the engine of wealth (the private sector), overload the government with impossible debt, create division, chaos and racial divide, justifying such violence with empathetic appeals to “fairness” “equality” and “justice”—and thus catapult society into crisis and economic collapse. The goal was to replace our Republic with an authoritarian state. The French tried it in 1789, and Lenin a century plus later, says Coulter. Both are remembered in history as reigns of terror. Cloward and Pivan’s inspiration was Saul Alinsky, whose Rules for Radicals is the bible for leftist activists. In the opening paragraph of Chapter one, Alinsky writes, “What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.” 3 This described Obama’s policy ends, and those ends are still being pursued by an increasingly progressive government umoored from the people and from what the Founders intended for us. As Newt Gingrich summed up during an interview on January 22, 2012 on Meet the Press with host David Gregory, “The Founding Fathers of America are the source from which we [conservatives] draw our understanding of America. He [Obama] draws his from Saul Alinsky, radical left-wingers and people who don’t like the classical America. It [his agenda and policy goal] fits the model of Alinsky radicalism.” MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 307

If the Left in this country can show absolutely no compassion for the murder of the unborn and the harvesting of their little body parts; if Obama was able to stand before that shameful coven of Planned Parenthood abortionists and “bless” their efforts like a High Priest on the altar, why wouldn’t he and his axis of ideologues show the same heartless attitude toward all Americans who disagree with them, and not only on abortion? After all, thuggery is the modus operandi of Alinskyites, who just happened to overpopulate the Obama administration, and who are still hanging around in the shadows, albeit in designer suits, to destroy what they can of our Republic. In consistently rejecting the God of our Fathers, whether in the rights enshrined in our Constitution or in the precious lives of the unborn, Obama certainly acted like an archetype of evil—deified evil, that is. Recall that he trained as a Saul Alinsky community organizer, and that Alinsky dedicated his book, Rules for Radicals, to Lucifer! Having watched David Daleiden’s recordings, I have no qualms calling Planned Parenthood, their biotech clients, and those politicians and special interest groups who enable and fund them, Luciferians. There is evil in America and on this earth. We saw it close up, with hearts broken, via these undercover videos, and viewed it in action in the radicalism of Barack Obama and his machine of Alinsky ideologues during his eight years as President. And though we now have a President who is not a radical progressive, neither is he a constitutionalist. And so we come back to our original question: ‘What can I do?’ The thought process goes something like this: My congressman won’t listen to me. There is massive fraud at the voting booths. There is nothing that I can do to stop the infiltration of this government, the judicial system, the economy, our schools and universities. Hollywood and the media are decidedly anti-American. Our Republican leadership is as traitorous as the Democrat Party. What can I do? I am only one person and alone. Well, the first thing to realize is that we are not alone. Not only are there hundreds of thousands—even millions—of citizen patriots who share our passion and heartache; there is also our biggest ally—God. The scriptural verse in Matthew, ‘With God all things are possible,’ is not a myth. Even if it were, this myth has not been busted. It has been confirmed over and over again. And the reason we can accomplish even the impossible with God is that enlightened prayer—that is, prayer that is in accord with His will, automatically calls into spiritual force the Law of the One. 4 What this means is that when I pray, I am no longer a numerical one. God with me elevates me from the lonely, lower cased “one” to the victorious, upper cased “One.” I am no longer one and alone. I AM the One. 5 MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 308

We are talking about an exponential factor. When we pray to God and beseech Him to save America, to save the unborn, our heart becomes one with His heart and His love for America and the holy light of freedom that His love embodies. We also become one with the hearts of all who are praying and laboring for that same principle of freedom because their hearts have become one with God’s heart, too. And this encompasses not only those patriots here on earth, but also the warriors and freedom fighters who have gone before us, and whose love and sacrifice is a sanctified presence with us. Their spirit, being one with God’s spirit, is our spirit—multiplied and perfected exponentially through the heart of our blessed Jesus, Archangel Michael, Buddha, Krishna, Mother Mary, our father Abraham, or any number of the brotherhood of saints and angelic hosts who are ever our heart-friends divine. For Elohim, Archangels, Masters and saints—all, take the offering of the faithful on earth to the blessed heart of Christ, who is the mediator before God our Father. For who among the lovers of freedom does not believe that the angels take up every prayer as holy incense to the very heights of heaven? The caveat of course is that what we are asking for matches what God also wants. For God only grants that which is in His own Self-enlightened interest. And thus when our purpose is one with God’s purpose, when our will is aligned to His greater will, it doesn’t matter how impossible the odds are against us because One and God make a majority! Black social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass lived to prove this truth. He wrote: “You have seen how a man was made a slave, you shall see how a slave was made a man....One and God make a majority.” There is yet another meaning to this Law of the One. If we knew that God was relying on one person on this earth to end abortion, and that person was you, would you say no? Doubtless, you would move into action right away. The very instant you take personal responsibility to do God’s will, you become the law of the One. And by your faith and courage, God delivers to you everything you need to fulfill that sacred calling. It is as though a coil of joy is released from His heart into your heart, and you realize that you were not really alive until you took accountability for life. 6 Taking accountability stretches us; it stretches us to the limits. We feel a new integrity, a sense of ultimate self-worth, knowing that God needs us. And our thoughts become prayers: “I can do this. I don’t have to accept what is happening to my nation. I will take accountability for abortion in this land. And I am determined, by the flame of love burning within my heart, to roll it back because I know that God is depending upon me to be the guardian of every unborn child aborning in the womb. I take accountability for God’s will and His kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven. And I accept my burden MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 309

gladly, willingly, because I know that the all-power of God is able to manifest through me because God is where I AM. And I AM the One.” 7 When St. Paul told the Corinthians, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” he revealed the marvellous mystery that God’s essence is part of us. And when we act upon that essence, we are the manifestation—the very mark of God in action. There is a teamwork involved here. As long as we invoke his intercession, God can make changes in this earth by applying a lever of His light and power. By prayer, we become the fulcrum for that lever—the indispensable fulcrum. That is a very substantial reality to get our heads around, and one that can only fill us with a wondrous inner joy and a road map of good works to perform all the rest of our lives. God revealed his name to Moses as the I AM THAT I AM. So when we say, I AM the One, we are really affirming that God in me (the I AM) is the One. And because I AM the One, because my temple is the temple of the living God and of all who are one with the Spirit of God in their yearning for freedom, I am not alone. I can embody the Spirit of Freedom that will turn America around in the face of all tyranny and infamy. 8 If we are to be victorious we must believe that God, through each of us, can change the world. By the action of prayer, we can be the invincible guard of our nation, wearing the Colors in our hearts and on our sleeves for and on behalf of our blessed unborn and every light bearer of liberty’s flame. That is the divine and sacred trust that will restore America to what God intended. And we will fight to win because God does not have it in his DNA to lose! Could there be any more honorable calling? God’s dreams for this nation will come true, as long as we make His dreams our dreams! Prayer is our personal and holy communion with God that cannot be breached, no matter how relentless the enemy is. Frederick Douglass prophesied a truth when he said: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.” This quote captures something of the vision that the prophet Daniel had of the Ancient of Days and the power of judgment he gave unto the saints to bring to naught the four beasts that had arisen in the earth, doing great evil. “The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they [the saints]shall be given into his MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 310 hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. But the judgment shall sit [the judgment that was given unto the saints of the most High]and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.” One cannot help but apply this to the abortionists and the evil they have wrought in their unmerciful persecution of the unborn and base dishonor of God. And we are wearied and worn out by their presence with us, for they are like a contagion of death. St. Paul tells us: “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?...Know ye not that we shall judge angels?” [1 Corinthians, 6: 2-3] The good news is that the saints—those of us who will never give up and never submit—are proclaiming God’s judgment upon these fallen angels and their ilk every time we take a stand for the holy innocents, for the rule of law, and for sacred conscience. And what shall be the harvest of this judgment? Daniel tells us: “And the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.” [Daniel Chapter 7: 22, 24-25] In other words, God’s reward awaits the faithful and true. We need to be faithful to our God and true to what our Founders bequeathed to us. As Douglass admonished, we must endure until the victory is won—until we get America turned around and her spiritual compass pointed again to the north star of her destiny. And praying is the surest means of endurance, for it keeps our spirits one with God’s Spirit. And remember, it is the sacred fire of God’s heart that gives us the desire and will to endure and to win. Prayer provides a direct transfusion of that fire, giving us hearts afire! Prayer is unquestionably the weapon of choice. And so, PRAY ALWAYS! Douglass also had this to say, and it is sound advice coming from a statesman of such stature and life experience: “There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” The gospel gives us the same advice that faith must be justified by good works. In James 2:24, we read: “Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.” And again, “But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?” [James 2:20-24] There are many ways to take action. We can donate money, volunteer to go door-to-door, send out mailings, answer telephone inquiries at local chapters, or pray at abortion clinics in our state. We can offer our time and loving service at crisis pregnancy centers, like The Miracle House in Palm Beach County, Florida, where real choices and alternative solutions to abortion are provided. We can host continuous rosaries at our homes. We can become a part of the very successful 40 Days for Life campaign. MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 311

We can keep up with pro-life bills going through state legislatures or up for judicial review and set up rallies, email or prayer chains. We can start our own blog or website, or write a book, or simply learn the facts and know how to be effective conversationalists and debaters on the issue. Knowing the truth and being able to explain it simply and clearly is the first and most important step in being a foot soldier in this battle. If you are not physically able to get out and do something, then set aside a block of time every day to pray, and know that your prayers will be the expression of both your faith as well as the “work” of your heart, head and hand--or legs, as the case may be. We have to keep saying to ourselves: My prayer and my work will make the difference because I AM the One. The Catholic Church incorporates in its devotional practices the offering of a novena. A novena is a prayer (or song or chant) that is said for nine straight days (novena comes from the Latin novem, meaning nine.) It can also be extended for a longer period, often 33 days (Christ’s age at the time of his crucifixion) or even 40 days (in imitation of his 40 days of fasting in the wilderness). The purpose of a novena is to obtain special intercessory graces. Repeating a prayer nine times or thirty three times at a single session is also another form of a novena. The novena prayer can be taken from the Bible, from religious litany, prayers of the saints, or consist of a privately composed plea or invocation. During the major wars of the twentieth century, novenas were often held on behalf of suffering nations and their peoples. In an article written by John Willans, dated the 8th of June, 2015 on the anglican.ink website, we read: “When Britain was close to defeat during the 2nd World War, and the entire British Army was trapped at Dunkirk, in desperation [King] George 6th called for a National Day of Prayer to be held on 26th May 1940. In a national broadcast he instructed the people of the UK to turn back to God in a spirit of repentance and plead for Divine help. Millions of people across the British Isles flocked into churches praying for deliverance and this photograph shows the extraordinary scene outside Westminster Abbey as people queued for prayer. Two events immediately followed. Firstly, a violent storm arose over the Dunkirk region grounding the Luftwaffe which had been killing thousands on the beaches. And then secondly, a great calm descended on the Channel, the like of which hadn’t MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 312 been seen for a generation, which allowed hundreds of tiny boats to sail across and rescue 335,000 soldiers, rather than the estimated 20-30,000. From then on people referred to what happened as “the miracle of Dunkirk”. Sunday June 9th was officially appointed as a Day of National Thanksgiving. “National Days of Prayer were held at critical times throughout the War. After each one, God responded with His Blessing and protection. Looking back, the Bishop of Chelmsford Dr H.A. Wilson wrote, “If ever a great nation was on the point of supreme and final disaster, and yet was saved and reinstated it was ourselves…it does not require an exceptionally religious mind to detect in all this the Hand of God.” People of all religions can adopt this devotional strategy. Many devotees in the East pray or sing to Krishna (the son of Brahma in Hinduism, who parallels the Christ figure in Christianity) or to Kuan Yin (the counterpart in Buddhism to Mother Mary). SummitLighthouse.org sells a beautiful rosary to Kuan Yin, consisting of timeless mantras to her many manifestations. If you are someone who doesn’t pray much or doesn’t know any prayers, you can start with the Our Father, the prayer Jesus taught to his disciples. Say it out loud every day for nine days. It is a powerful affirmation that God’s will be made manifest on earth as it is in heaven. Before saying it, offer a personal imploring for the victory of God-government in America, the reversing of Roe v Wade, or whatever your heart inspires.

“Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.” [Matthew 6: 9-13]

Whether you are Jewish, Christian, Hindu or Buddhist, you can take your favorite prayer and offer it as a powerful fiat to God that His will be done. I personally like to recite the rosary to the Blessed Mother every day, as I have done most of my life. I also pray a daily novena to Archangel Michael. As the leader of heaven’s armies who sent Lucifer packing by the might of his sword of righteousness, Saint Michael is a powerful intercessor. I recite the same prayer that was first introduced by Pope Leo XIII in 1884. As the story goes, shortly after celebrating Mass, the holy father had a vision of evil spirits engaged in fierce warfare against the Church. He then beheld Archangel MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 313

Michael casting Satan and his demons back into Hell. The words of a prayer came to him, and he was directed to recite them at the end of each Mass. On April 24, 1994, Pope John Paul II made the following comments about this particular prayer: “May prayer strengthen us for the spiritual battle we are told about in the Letter to the Ephesians: ‘Draw strength from the Lord and from His mighty power.’ The Book of Revelation refers to this same battle, recalling before our eyes the image of St. Michael the Archangel. Pope Leo XIII certainly had a very vivid recollection of this scene when, at the end of the last century, he introduced a special prayer to Saint Michael throughout the Church. Although this prayer is no longer recited at the end of Mass, I ask everyone not to forget it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world.” It is a prayer fit for any warrior of the spirit. I say it daily nine times:

“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, By the Divine Power of God, Cast into hell, Satan and all the evil spirits, Who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.”

One of my favorite saints is the fourth century St. Patrick of Ireland, whose symbol of the green shamrock represents the power of Truth as he chased away the snakes of Ireland. These serpents were not only the slithering kind, but two-legged ones as well. St. Patrick boldly challenged the pagan chiefs and decadent druids who were enslaving and murdering his people. As Bishop of Ireland he wrote a letter pronouncing judgment upon Prince Corotick and his accomplices. In the letter, Patrick called them “fellow citizens of the devils.” He wielded such power and wrought such miracles that this “serpent and his seed” were subdued and cast out of the isles of Britain. Following after his example, we can use St. Patrick’s own prayer, called the Lorica, to take up the “walking” serpents in our midst. Lorica is a Latin word that means breastplate. As legend has it, Patrick and his band of twenty missionaries were processioning one Easter morn toward the king’s court, chanting the sacred words of his Lorica for their protection against the druid minions who often lay in ambush to kill them. On this day the assassins were indeed hiding in the bushes, waiting to waylay the holy band. But when Patrick and his companions passed by them, the ruffians saw not Patrick and his men, but a gentle doe followed by twenty fawns. MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 314

The Lorica is also known as the Deer’s Cry or St. Patrick’s Breastplate. You can recite it daily for the protection of every unborn and newborn babe.

I bind me today, God’s might to direct me, God’s power to protect me, God’s wisdom for learning, God’s eye for discerning, God’s ear for my hearing, God’s word for my clearing. God’s hand for my cover, God’s path to pass over, God’s buckler to guard me, God’s army to ward me, Against snares of the devil, Against vice’s temptation, Against wrong inclination, Against men who plot evil, Anear or afar, with many or few.

Christ near, Christ here, Christ be with me, Christ beneath me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ be o’er me, Christ before me. Christ in the left and the right, Christ hither and thither, Christ in the sight, Of each eye that shall seek me, In each ear that shall hear, In each mouth that shall speak me— Christ not the less In each heart I address.

I bind me today on the Triune—I call, With faith in the Trinity—Unity—God over all.

There is another form of prayer that has become very popular, though it has been used by some of the Catholic saints for centuries. It is the violet flame. Violet and purple are used in the healing arts because they have the highest MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 315

frequency of all colors of the spectrum. Many of the renowned pioneers in iridology and color healing, such as Dr. Bernard Jensen, have employed it for years. The violet flame is a spiritual fire that restores the flow of light and energy in the body, mind and soul. It is invoked to transmute physical symptoms of disease or ill health as well as negative thoughts and feeling. Ultraviolet light rays have even been used to kill the Ebola virus with successful results. The best books that can tell you more about this miracle prayer are those authored by Mark and Elizabeth Prophet, including the recently published color illustrated tome titled, Violet Flame: Alchemy for Personal Change. You can also visit the website from which the sample mantras below are taken: http://www.spiritual-encyclopedia.com/violet- flame-meditation.html

I AM a being of violet fire I am the purity God desires.

You can change the words to pray for the unborn:

The unborn are beings of violet fire The unborn are the purity God desires.

Say this little mantra thirty three times and you will feel as though a wonderful rain shower passed through you. Many people who have spiritual sight have seen the violet flame around people who faithfully do violet flame decrees. On page 46 in The Masters and Their Retreats, a book based on the teachings of Mark and Elizabeth Prophet and compiled and edited by Annice Booth, we read that Cardinal Bonzano, who lived and served in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century, spoke of seeing the violet flame while performing his Catholic devotions, or while in meditation. After a time, the violet flame became a living part of him throughout the day and night. The violet flame is also known as the flame of forgiveness. Here is a lovely forgiveness prayer perfectly suited for post abortive mothers:

I AM Forgiveness acting here Casting out all doubt and fear Setting men forever free With wings of cosmic Victory I AM calling in full power For Forgiveness every hour To all life in every place I flood forth forgiving Grace. (3x or more) MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 316

One of my favorite forms of prayer is singing. And my favorite song to sing is God Bless America. Indeed, Irving Berlin wrote it as a prayer. I downloaded Kate Smith’s 1943 rendition of this song from the film,This is the Army. It is available on YouTube. I love to sing along with it. Here are the words:

While the storm clouds gather far across the sea Let us swear allegiance to a land that’s free Let us all be grateful for a land so fair As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. Chorus: God bless America Land that I love Stand beside her and guide her Through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies To the oceans white with foam— God bless America! My home sweet home. God bless America! My home sweet home.

If you really don’t like to hear yourself sing, then speak the words with all the love in your heart. And do the same for old favorites like Liberty Tree, My Country ’Tis of Thee, America the Beautiful, I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag, The Battle Cry of Freedom, This Is My Country, Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean, Give Me Your Tired Your Poor, Battle Hymn of the Republic, and the joyous George Cohan songs, Yankee Doodle Dandy and You’re A Grand Old Flag. Click on this link to hear fabulous recordings of the last two songs, courtesy of The Summit Lighthouse from their album, Hail Freedom Flame. Because both my husband and I served in the military, we also love to play or sing the hymns to the four armed forces. It is a way we can express our pride in those who are presently serving, as well as those who gave their lives throughout the wars to secure our freedoms. Not least of all in my iTunes playlist is our anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. Many Americans are not even familiar with the lyrics of the third stanza, printed below. Only the first stanza is sung (dare I use that word) at sports games. Too often it is belted out with such syncopated rhythm that its original gorgeous strains are entirely corrupted, let alone the beauty of the words. So if you download a version, search for an older and truer rendition, such as the beautiful recording produced by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 317

O thus be it ever When free men shall stand Between their loved homes And the war’s desolation. Blest with vict’ry and peace May the heav’n-rescued land Praise the pow’r that hath made And preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must For our cause it is just And this is our motto: “In God we do trust!” And the star-spangled banner, in triumph does wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

If you are familiar with the motto or watchword of the National Guard, I Am the Guard: Soldier in War, Civilian in Peace..., you will love this 1982 musical salute by high school students of Montessori International and provided courtesy of The Summit Lighthouse. The poetic recitation is set to the stirring music of Victory at Sea by Richard Rodgers. Click here to enjoy a live performance recording. Three songs that inspired this book are also provided for your enjoyment. Their beautiful orchestral arrangements were composed for the pro-life video film, A Soul That’s Free, performed in the early 1980s by the same Montessori students who performed it live throughout schools in California. The music prepares the heart of the reader for the final section of this book. Clickhere. If you are not comfortable reciting prayers or singing songs, you can read aloud your favorite scripture passage. The Psalms of David comprise the most wondrous meditations upon the deep issues of the human heart and the deep things of God. They never fail to uplift and inspire the most downcast soul. If you prefer prose, you will like the following excerpt from Romans 8. This selection declares our identity as sons and daughters of God. That same identity is also revealed by St. Paul in his Letter to the Corinthians: “And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.” [1 Corinthians 3:23] The words attest the power of God with us and in us to save our beloved America, or any nation for that matter, from the power of tyrants and despots. When you use your voice to bring these sacred affirmations alive, and do so for nine days, you can expect a miracle! I am including the entire glorious reading. But even if you read only a small portion, you will feel the authority that God transfers to each of us as His very Christs in the earth to fight the good fight, and towin! MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 318

It is in our power to win because it is in God’s power to win. And there is no power greater than God that can act! And He is confident in the God in us to make our statement in this age—else, we would not be here! Remember: you, one with God, can make the difference!

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 319

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Not long ago I read Aimee: The Life Story of Aimee Semple McPherson, published in 1979 by Foursquare Publications, an adjunct of the Foursquare Gospel Church that this greatest of all evangelists founded in the early twentieth century. She was known worldwide for her extraordinary sermons and miraculous faith healings of thousands of suffering people. In the opening paragraph of Chapter 19, titled, America, Awake!, Aimee sums up her “whirlwind evangelistic tour in the last half of 1933”: “More than fifteen thousand miles! Forty-six cities in twenty-one states! Broadcasts on forty-five radio stations! Three hundred and thirty- six sermons...Aggregate audiences in auditoriums, arenas, churches, and theaters of almost one million people! “For one hundred and fifty days I looked into the heart of America. From ocean to ocean and from border to the gulf, from the largest metropolitan city to some of the oldest little villages, I journeyed and preached and studied. I planned and pondered the heart hunger and longings....I came to the firm conclusion that America was starving for the Word of God. MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 320

“In late 1933 America was looking to the ‘Blue Eagle’ of national recovery to dispel the clouds and mists of the Great Depression. I reminded the multitudes who came to our meetings that in order to fly, an eagle must have two wings: One wing is material recovery. The other is spiritual recovery. The first wing is not enough. We will just flop about helplessly. Let us get back to God! Let us turn our eyes from self and mankind and behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. “The specter of communism and other totalitarian evils haunted the nation; indeed, they thrived on the desperate conditions which saw so many millions unemployed and in dire need. But the severest threat was in the realm of the spiritual. Atheism and modernism were rife.” Aimee had already tackled the villains of Prohibition days: the bootleggers, the drug dealers, the gambling cabals, the ‘white slavers’ and the ‘higher-ups’ of the underworld. Now the enemy was atheistic communism. But her great passion to preach blessed salvation in Jesus would not allow her to back off, “for my heart was so full of the message the Lord poured within.” She entered into a nationwide tour, debating leading atheist Charles Lee Smith and giving lectures “to alert the nation to the perils which threatened and to awaken America to its need of God." Right up to her death in 1944, Aimee fought fearlessly and tirelessly. And though abortion was not one of the evils she had to challenge, we can learn a great deal from her. She had a winning strategy: it was the power of her love for and faith in the inspired Word of the Living God. She believed in the miracle of prayer to deliver the American people back to God, in whose hands and by whose grace they could be healed in body, mind, soul and spirit. We have to do the same if we are to break the curse of abortion that has enamored so many of our young people, and our nation as a whole. Spiritual leader, author, lecturer and writer Elizabeth Clare Prophet followed in Aimee’s footsteps. From the 1970s through her retirement in 2000, she stumped America and the world with her own fiery message of love and faith in the power of Christ and the saints in heaven to provide divine solutions to every problem besetting America. For this book I borrowed many of the themes she developed in her fabulous 7-part series on the subject of abortion (now on YouTube), titled Life Begets Life. It is a must-see video for those who are searching for more than just the linear vision and secular arguments of why we must preserve life in the womb. Like Aimee, Mrs. Prophet urged people of all faiths and denominations to come together in a powerful unity of prayer and command heaven’s intercession. It is the ultimate solution to overturn Roe v. Wade and similar laws that have been passed in communities, cities and nations across the MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 321

world. We need an army of passionate hearts who are dedicated to this purpose, beginning with our own local communities. Catholic and Protestant churches, Hindu temples, mosques and synagogues—all, can and must come together as one voice—a voice of triumphant love for the unborn. If there is an underlying ultimatum for this nation, it is that we must not forget God. Jerry Newcombe, a writer for Renew America, made this eloquently clear in his August 8, 2018 article titled, As a nation, we have forgotten God. He wrote: “[Nineteenth century statesman and orator Daniel] Webster once declared, ‘Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary....We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by... deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in 6,000 years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.’ “Revolution, tumult, and riot are becoming almost commonplace in America. We have a U.S. Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, declaring people should publically hound out and shame members of the Trump team. The minority leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, is wondering why there are not more ‘riots in the streets’ against this administration. “During the days of the Civil War, our nation faced worse challenges. But Abraham Lincoln called for a national day of repentance and prayer in 1863, in which he warned us to stop forgetting God as a nation and to remember this truth: ‘those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.’” Full article: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/newcombe/180808 We are all called to be keepers of the flame of life for these angels unlimited waiting to be born. At the same time, we must also pray for the souls who have been aborted. We must pray every day for them because thousands are being aborted every day. The greatest suffering in the earth is the life that is brutally murdered in the womb—helpless life, life that knows and is aware, life that is in torment from the impact of the abortion procedure, life that therefore needs profound healing before it can enter the womb again wholly renewed and purified and ready to pursue its mission on earth in the joy of the infant child Jesus. I believe that when you pray, you are drinking in the nectar of love that is God. And only love can and will save the unborn. And so I offer this prayer on their behalf: MOTHERHOODTHE POWER OF PRAYER 322

In the name of Jesus Christ, let the piercing eyes of the Infant of Prague—the little one of God—roll back the enemies of the Christ child as that Christ is present in each unborn and newborn babe. Let the Infant of Prague consume by the power of Divine Love the hordes of fallen angels in the earth, even the seed of the wicked, who do slaughter the holy innocents. O mighty light of God that never fails, we come together before your altar in a celebration of the infinite majesty of the Divine Manchild. We call upon the mercy of God’s heart and we expect the miracle of light in the Christ Child to overturn Roe v. Wade. We invoke it and accept it and live it as Thy Faith, Thy Hope, Thy Charity on earth, as it is in heaven.

During the course of writing Angels Unlimited, I suffered a health crisis. Not knowing if I would live to finish the book, I greeted each new sunrise with a very grateful heart. One morning, just as the sun was about to make its glory seen and felt, I looked out of my bedroom window and saw the palm trees swaying in the breeze. The fronds, to their very tips, seemed alive with a purpose almost human as they reached out to drink in the first rays of the dawn. It was a dazzling light that annointed each one—the light of a new day. And I thought of all the precious unborn also yearning for that first radiance of new life to burst upon them as they emerged from the womb. Surely there is something each of us can offer to God to save these, our most treasured little citizens. For they are, as Mother Teresa reminded us, the fairest of all flowers upon this earth, and they desperately need our help. If we cannot physically stand between the abortionist and the unborn, then God and his angels can and will, if we only make the call to Him with hearts determined! Frederick Douglass spoke at Market Hall, New York on October 22, 1847. I believe his words were prophetic of what is required of us today in order to stop abortion, just as he gave his all to stop slavery.

“For it is not [only] light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.”

This battle is all about the heart that is infused with the fire of love—your heart, my heart, our heart—One heart with God’s. 9 I WANT TO LIVE! 323 Part Three

I WANT TO LIVE!

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” [Matthew 18:1-6] I WANT TO LIVE! 324 I WANT TO LIVE! 325

You’ve no right To stop the beating of this heart. No right To stop this life just when it starts.

I want to live! For I have the right to be. I want to do All that God has planned for me.

And then I’ll be— A soul that’s free! 1 I WANT TO LIVE! 326

Our Saviour will dry thy falling tears— Thy anguished heart he knows and hears. I WANT TO LIVE! 327

O mother, thou hast severed me far from thee With all of my hopes and joys and dreams. It was God’s holy plan for you and me. My soul in anguish, my soul set adrift– O why did you discard His most precious gift? I WANT TO LIVE! 328

Mothers, dear mothers Keep faith with God! Do not listen to the murderous throng Whose souls know not the love that abides In each little innocent unborn child.

For a child is the tenderest flame, and true From angelic arms she leaps to you. Let not cold hate pierce her through But keep her close and dear to you. For His divine Spirit lives in you, too! I WANT TO LIVE! 329

Kill not this heart afire with love And eyes that see only God above. Rend not this body so small and tender Nor cast this gentle soul asunder. Deliver me from the murderous knife From its pain and horror, give me respite. O mother, it’s my life! I WANT TO LIVE! 330

Our Father hath made thee what thou art— And what He most loves is a pure mother’s heart. Then why did you despise with such discontent The loving gift of the child He sent? O mother, You betrayed His most sacred intent! I WANT TO LIVE! 331 I WANT TO LIVE! 332

My heavenly Father,

Mine is a little heart that sorrows. I have grieved for my mother and father on earth, for their great sin against you and me, who only wished to bring them love. I have cried the deepest, most painful tears that any angel could ever cry, so that the whole of Heaven must have wept. Do you think my mother heard me, too? The one who should have loved me well. And now my broken heart must dwell in thoughts sad and forlorn. O what will this green earth be without its lovely flowers? How shall you keep your frail blossoms from the cruel spirits that stalk every new mother’s heart, as they did mine? They were invisible to her but they made her heart their home, so that all her thoughts grew cold and dark, even as I grew in her womb and sent the soft light of my unwearied love around her.2 For I trusted, as you have taught us, that a mother’s love lies hidden even in the coldest heart and can be kindled with patient tenderness. But the dark spirits did blight in her mind every gentle thought I breathed upon her, so that when she spoke, her words were shards of cruelest hate that did pierce my tiny form and make my soul shiver with fear. I WANT TO LIVE! 333

And that was just the beginning of my torment... O cruel hands that have doomed me­— O bitter fate! They have done their work and made my mother their accomplice. O hateful curse upon my soul...and hers! In your great love you have sent me here to this bright home in heaven with other aborted souls. It is a child’s perfect home, having the radiance of the pink rose. I have my very own godmother and godfather who continue my preparation for what I must do on earth. The Archangel Gabriel told me that I must never stop dreaming of the day when my mother will hear his voice again, announcing my coming birth. Oh, may it be so, for I love her truly, and long to rest my head on her heart, as I always do on yours. Sweet heavenly father, O let me hope again! I WANT TO LIVE! 334 I WANT TO LIVE! 335

Wrenched from her womb I am heaven’s new orphan. I pray with dear Jesus To stop all abortion— Tis God’s Word of caution:

Forbid that her soul grow callous and hollow, Reveal to her heart the weight of my sorrow— The anguish and pain of each lonely tomorrow, Cast off and despised, no divine plan to follow.

Oh mother, my mother, there’s a debt to be paid For the sin of violating Love’s holy flame. For believing the lie of abortion’s charade. Kneel now before Him, thy soul unafraid—

Be bold to acknowledge pain’s own sweet remorse, The path of repentance is the only recourse In which all of heaven does gladly rejoice As angel tears wash out the stain of ‘pro-choice.’

Redeem her, dear Father, from this terrible harm, Give her your peace, sweet forgiveness’ balm. And so let me dream, let me hope not in vain That one day I’ll return to her heart, there to reign. I WANT TO LIVE! 336

An aborted child’s prayer for her mother Before it could begin, she has taken my life. But forgiveness burns with anguish alike. And so… God’s balm of peace now heal her His merciful heart now seal her. I WANT TO LIVE! 337

O let me live through this perilous night Of hateful thoughts that cloud your dear sight. All will come clear, if sweet faith be your light. O labor and wait till love’s victory is won And your heart opens wide to greet your new son! I WANT TO LIVE! 338

I am no vapory product of mistaken love But a living flame from God’s own great heart. His way is wisdom, though all be not plain To the puny confines of the human brain. Keep faith, precious mother For you are that to me— And God will reveal all that’s meant to be. I WANT TO LIVE! 339

I am a little Rose. I am the full beauty of the Rose. It is God’s holy calling for you to bring me forth in all of my perfection. If you abort me, you will bring forth not the pattern of my beauty and fragrance but the pattern of a roseless thorn. For abortion does make of each unborn child a thorn. 1 My life is in your keeping… I WANT TO LIVE! 340

This is the holy Truth I speak: I am of God and God is of me. To abort me is to kill us in twain. Would you murder God? I WANT TO LIVE! 341

You cannot kill my life in the womb and not bring anguish to God. Oh mother, abortion is the murder of God! I WANT TO LIVE! 342

I am a little Christ Born of my Saviour’s likeness. Would you crown again his head with thorns Or torture his anguished body more? O crown him instead with welcoming smiles That greet the birth of your newborn child— The one who brings you His love divine.

He died to give you eternal life And lived that death might forever die. And yet, like Herod, you would kill him again In the body and soul of your own kindred– Though yet unborn, I am God’s delight His Holy Infant—Love’s pure Light! I WANT TO LIVE! 343

O mother— Do not sever this cord of life And thus part us forever.

We are one flesh– To kill me is to kill thyself And all love… I WANT TO LIVE! 344

My gentle Jesus, do not let them kill me. O, save me from their hate! I WANT TO LIVE! 345

We bring thee flowers of Purity’s tears. O mankind, know that new life is God’s and not thine own. Fear Him and His holy laws. I WANT TO LIVE! 346

O foolish mother, you have killed His holy love in this, your precious unborn! I WANT TO LIVE! 347

We are aborted souls. In our homes in heaven, we adorn each new cross with the flowers of hope and eternal promise. I WANT TO LIVE! 348

I was aborted August 28, 1999. This is what I would have looked like on my 16th birthday. I WANT TO LIVE! 349

Forget-Me-Not! I WANT TO LIVE! 350

Epilogue

I forgive you I WANT TO LIVE! 351

Flowers of the Unborn

Credit: Sr. Mary Nealis I am the unborn. I am a little flower blossoming along the pathway of life... I am in the heart of the forget-me-not, that lives in the garden of forever. I come from a land where every man is a king and every woman a queen, and all walk and talk with God. In that land there are no demons of the dark, but only Light. The birds do sing in sweet melodies, and the music of the spheres is heard across the heavens with great organs and choruses of celestial voices. And the air is laden with the perfume of divine love as narcissus and lily of the valley pour forth their perfumes of hope upon the air. O mother, I think of you always in my prayers, in my joy, in my heart’s yearning to live, to learn, to be free. I speak of you always with tender fondness to my Lord and his saints and angels fair. 2 I come as your very own angel, the angel of your heart. And I have a little golden sack. Give me your sorrows and fears of the day and I shall fill up my sack with them. And then I shall send you streamers of light of rainbow rays. Catch them and follow them to a heart that loves you. I caress your heart. I extend my hand. I squeeze your own to let you know I am here, I am real. There is no distance between us... There is only the divine light of Love.3 Angels Unlimited

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Introductory Pages

1. Inside Cover Image Text: The Summit Lighthouse, Book of Hymns and Songs, (Gardiner, MT: The Summit Lighthouse, 1982), p. 311. 2. To the Reader: Benjamin Franklin, “Letter to Messrs, the Abbes Chalut, and Arnaud,” (April 1787), accessed on August 28, 2015, http://ponderingprinciples. com/quotes/franklin/ 3. To the Reader: The Summit Lighthouse, Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 37 No. 31

Part One: The Holy Child

1. The Summit Lighthouse, Book of Hymns and Songs, p. 314. 2. Ibid, p. 497. 3. Bayard Taylor, “Bedouin Song,” in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor, Household Edition with Illustrations, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1907). 4. The Summit Lighthouse, Book of Hymns and Songs, 1982 p. 619. 5. Luke 1:46 (KJV) 6. “The Rose of No Man’s Land,” song lyrics by Jack Caddigan, (New York: Leo Feist, Inc., 1918). 7. From a French Holy Card 1894. Depose 8. William Shakespeare, Sonnet I, The Henry Irving Shakespeare, Vol XIII-XIV, London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1922), p.61. 9. The Summit Lighthouse, Book of Hymns and Songs, p. 440. 10. George Frideric Handel, 1746, Judas Maccabaeus: A Sacred Drama. Libretto by Thomas Morell. Accessed August 28, 2015, http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/ judas.htm 11. The Summit Lighthouse, Book of Hymns and Songs, p. 225. 12. Ibid, p. 619. 13. Mark Prophet/Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Prayers, Meditations and Dynamic Decrees (Gardiner, MT: The Summit Lighthouse, 1983), p. 292. NOTES ______

14. “Let Truth be your companion, be attached to integrity.” The concepts come from the Book of Enoch Chapter 90:4 “….My beloved, be attached to integrity and walk in it.” 90:5 “….and be truth your companion.” Exact quote from The Summit Lighthouse, Book of Hymns and Songs, p. 455. 15. The Summit Lighthouse, Book of Hymns and Songs, p. 490. 16. Ibid, p. 501. Note: The illustration on page 162 was accessed online from: http://www. redditpics.com/psbattle-little-monk-has-reached-serenity-,69224 The image on page 176 was accessed from http://shivmahima.in/about-lord-shiva/ . Images on pages 174 and 175 were accessed from the internet. No copyright source was noted and none provided despite requests.

Part Two: Motherhood

SACRED MOTHERHOOD 1. “For the kingdom of God is not childlike...” The Summit Lighthouse, Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 11 No. 45

NO GREATER EVIL 1. “Likewise, the inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem and Judah...” The Summit Lighthouse, Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 40 No. 26 2. “For society is held together by the faithfulness of the people...” The Summit Lighthouse, POW, Vol. 22 No. 7 3. “For society is held together by the faithfulness...” The Summit Lighthouse, POW, Vol. 37 No. 39

THE KILLING OF WONDER 1. “The sense of holiness, the practice of holiness is absent...” The Summit Lighthouse, Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 26 No. 10 2. “Whenever a child is born...” The Summit Lighthouse, POW, Vol. 18 No. 43

CREATURES OF HATE 1. “...the backdrop of eternity.” The Summit Lighthouse, Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 34 No. 18. NOTES ______

HOLLYWOOD AND ABORTION 1. “The darkness of their determination to destroy...” The Summit Lighthouse, Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 44 No. 44

2. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, “I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace…” speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington D.C., February 3, 1994, accessed August 28, 2015, http://www.priestsforlife.org/brochures/mtspeech.html.

I REGRET MY ABORTION 1. “And if the baby...” The Summit Lighthouse, Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 41 No. 54 2. Ibid 3. “Before she herself confesses...” The Summit Lighthouse, POW, Vol. 35 No. 162 4. “I must be the fount...” The Summit Lighthouse, POW, Vol 34 No. 21

THE POWER OF PRAYER 1. “Prayer...” The Summit Lighthouse, Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 32 No. 16 2. Ann Coulter, Demonic (New York: Crown Publishing, 2011), p. 140. 3. Saul D. Alinsky, Rules For Radicals (1971; repr., New York and Toronto: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1989), p. 3. 4. Prophet and Prophet, Prayers, Meditations and Dynamic Decrees, p. 450. 5. Ibid 6. “... until you took accountability” The Summit Lighthouse, POW, Vol. 28 No. 26 7. Ibid 8. Ibid 9. “... all about the heart...” The Summit Lighthouse, POW, Vol. 43 No. 22

Part Three: I Want to Live!

1. The Summit Lighthouse, Book of Hymns and Songs, p. 496. 2. Louisa M. Alcott, Flower Fables, (Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, 1898), p.12. 3. “Roseless thorn.” The Summit Lighthouse, Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 11 No. 45 4. “In my prayers...” The Summit Lighthouse, POW, Vol. 28 No. 26 5. “There is no distance...” The Summit Lighthouse, POW, Vol. 44 No. 44 About the Author

Deslie McClellan was born in Sydney, Australia. She completed a teaching degree in speech and drama from the Trinity College of Music, London. While attending the University of Sydney, she pursued a career as a stage actress and professional nightclub singer with appearances on popular television variety shows. With the dream of all young artists, she moved to Las Vegas in the mid-1970s, where she started the entertainment capital’s first repertory acting school. The theater became a hub for professionals working on the Las Vegas Strip and soon evolved into a leading agency for photographic, film and convention jobs in the city. Her theater was chosen in 1977 to headline the Nevada State Park Shakespeare Festival. She also worked as a freelance journalist for Chet Kranz (International Photo Institute), writing articles on celebrity entertainers for national magazines. Feeling the need to explore theater outside the commercial glamour track, she left the school in the hands of the repertory ensemble and moved to California, where she taught high school drama and English for the next four years, while furthering her studies in Montessori education. She worked closely with the radiant Madame Caspari, a colleague of Maria Montessori, who inspired her with the belief that theater can be used as a magical tool to help children develop a genuine love of what is noble and good. Tending the garden of childhood through drama has remained her life’s goal. She strongly promotes live theater as the best training ground for the young actor. Angels Unlimited Waiting To Be Born is Deslie’s third book. Her first title, Acting Magic: The Complete Guide to the Art of Acting is a 540-page comprehensive guide for directors and actors. Her second book, an historical novel set in Elizabethan England, and titled Prince of Our Dreams, tells the startling truth and tragedy of the real William Shakespeare. Based on historical facts and drawing from ciphered codes hidden in the Plays and Sonnets, it uncovers the secret life of Francis Bacon, first-born son of Queen Elizabeth I, lover of the princess Marguerite de Valois, father of a future English explorer, and enemy of those in church and state who feared his mystic spirit. Before embarking on her writing career, Deslie staged highly successful plays from the classics and Shakespeare with her theater, Family Playhouse Academy of Drama. She has been teaching drama to children and adults for 33 years. Her website is: http://www.familyplayhouse.com Deslie and her husband divide their time between Australia and America. They have two adult children.

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