May 2, 2022: Roe v. Wade Outcome

If Roe v. Wade has been overturned it is a victory for protecting the lives of the unborn and a return to the Constitution for a court that for decades ignored it.

It is almost impossible for us to fully imagine how large a decision this is. Practically speaking, many states will continue to provide abortion including the “tantamount to infanticide” late term abortions. Other states will outlaw abortions, but the vast majority will allow early abortions (like morning after pills).

It is incredibly important as many of us who have prayed and marched and believed for this moment celebrate, to remember the tremendous pain that abortion causes those we love.

In every area, Satan wants us in shame and isolation. Through abortion and the trauma that comes afterward, he succeeds perhaps better than in any area I know except sexual abuse.

God designed us for love and community. There should be no community more loving for women who have had abortions than the church. There should be no place that offers more grace for men who paid for abortions than inside the church.

The shame and grief many feel about their own abortion story will turn to rage and lashing out in this time of national reckoning over the great evil we have tolerated for literally my entire life.

Remember compassion for those who are hurting at this time. I personally will be staying off Twitter because the demoniacs on there will not be good for my soul.

I pray that like the pseudo science that created racism and separated us based on that false construct is fading, that the pseudo science that said a separate human is the same body as the one that gives it life will be repudiated. I pray that my children will see this as a turning point in America where we considered the innate value of every precious human, made in the image of God, and deserving of protection and care and love.

I pray for revival in this country and we will see that we war not against flesh and blood. I pray that those who cry out in outrage in defense of the lie they cling to that abortion is not evil will experience freedom and grace and healing and forgiveness as we speak the truth in love to them.

May this be the start of a turning away from all our idols, and may repentance begin with the church.

As I think of my father, a victim of police brutality with permanent damage from his arrest during peaceful protest, as I think of the fractured relationships as he was banned from pulpits for preaching truth about abortion, I rejoice in this news and I pray that the legacy of so many of my heroes of denying self, taking up the cross for the least of these will be my legacy as well.

Mostly I feel overwhelmed with gratitude.

Thank you Lord!