Today’s blog entry is indeed unplanned. I had “planned” a tremendously timely and vital Gospel message—which I hope and plan to post soon. (Before Resurrection Day!)
But this morning I opened my I-pad, and it greeted me with the site I’d last accessed yesterday: FOX NEWS—with a headline concerning the amazing immediate success of the film UNPLANNED. In its few days of exposure, this film has already made $6.1 million in only 1,059 theatres.
As you readers undoubtedly know, UNPLANNED is the true account of Abby Johnson, a woman who worked at PLANNED PARENTHOOD for 8 years until she was asked to assist with an ultra-sound guided abortion of a 13 week old unborn child.
Abby’s life was totally changed when she witnessed the grisly reality of murdering an unborn baby. Abby saw the baby struggle to get away from the suction, and then get vacuumed into the machine.
“The life that was there just a couple of minutes ago was gone. In that moment I saw for myself what I was, and it broke me.” Abby Johnson—former PLANNED PARENTHOOD employee.
I am overcome with PRAISE, for Abby’s bold witness, for the film and its immediate success (bigger than DUMBO!), for the fact that there is salt and light in one of the seemingly darkest places in our nation: the motion picture industry!
Overcome with praise, yet overcome with fervent prayer for our sick, sick nation where the self-centered desire of a woman gives her the legal right to murder her unborn child. We older Americans rightfully remember and abhor the atrocities of mass murderers Hitler and Stalin! Yet here is our once-safe United States of America—also guilty of the mass murder of innocents.
Online sources differ in exactly how many babies have been killed in our country since the 1973 legalization of abortion, but over 60 million appears to be a frequent agreement. Certainly this atrocity adds to America’s already tarnished past of the enslavement of Afro Americans and the ill treatment of our Native Americans!
I can only (and do constantly!) pray for God’s Holy Spirit to move in our sinful nation, for the wind of true revival to sweep through our land, revitalizing God’s people to return to God’s Word. For our nation to return to its Judeo-Christian worldview foundation: to righteous living, to God’s standard of morality and a respect for human life—including the life of unborn children.
To wind up this discourse, I must add that I have spent considerable time weeping this morning, as I have frequently in the past, over those 60 million (or however many) murdered children. Any mother who loves her child or children should weep! Any person who values LIFE should weep!
I am a mother of 6. My husband and I have 14 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren, the youngest of which is due to make her appearance on planet earth next October. How infinitely precious! Each life is God’s incredibly wonderful gift!
Great-grandma Margaret Been with Leonardo Aguilar II—son of Leonardo Aguilar and our granddaughter, Jamie Been Aguilar. This family lives 6 minutes from our home.
“Little Leo” will be 5 years old in two weeks. He is excited (and we are all excited!) about Leo’s baby sister who is due in October.
Margaret L. Been — April 1st, 2019
