For those of you who prayed, and hoped, and generously offered to adopt, the young girl who was seeking an abortion is now going forward with an adoption plan.
Life is glorious. Do something beautiful with yours. Not everyone gets that gift.
(For those of you who are interested in adoption, she is still deciding which law firm she wants to handle it. Please DM me and I can put you in touch with that firm when things are set.)
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Fall in Florida is either a hurricane or a rare day of no humidity so when a friend was going to North Carolina I asked for a pretty leaf 🍁 to capture the spirit of the season.
Opening the small cardboard box and seeing the transformation of color was like embracing a pallet of God. Such fiery beauty - an alchemy of conversion reminding us that our falls in life can be as much an awakening as a withering. With God, the dull color of despair can be made brilliant despite whether you live in the mountains or the shore. #mercymatters #flipflopsinfall #happyfallyall #iloveleaves ... See MoreSee Less
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"Virginia Slims cigarettes used to have an empowering ad campaign directed at women, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” If we ladies had come a little farther they would have left off “baby,” but it was the seventies and that’s as far as we had come: an anorexic cigarette, marketed specifically to our gender, empowering us to “bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan.” (That was another ad campaign for Enjoli perfume).
Personally, my idea of “coming a long way” has nothing to do with being someone’s baby or frying bacon. Our world perpetually bombards us with messages meant to define the standards by which we measure our worth, success, value, and attractiveness. These cultural norms permeate everything from what we put in our coffee to what we ink on our bodies. A renaissance woman’s body would be considered chubby by today’s trends, just as the waifs of the eighties are considered a wisp of the athletically acceptable body type of today’s ideal woman.
And where is the God in any of it?
Would he measure how far we have come by what we smoke? Or how we smell? By how we look in a pair of lululemon leggings? Or how capable we are of having a successful career while we fry bacon for our families?"
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You guys are so amazing. So many of you praying, encouraging, and hoping. I am so grateful for all of it. I've had several of you reach out privately and in comments with offers to adopt and as profoundly wonderful as it is - I am not surprised because I know this is a community of some of the biggest hearts around.
I will be speaking to her about adoption options and will keep you posted. But if anyone else is out there and feels alone and like they have no other choice but abortion -- please know that there are so many women who would consider the adoption of your child one of their life's greatest gifts. There are so many good people. You just have to reach out.
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I’m not good at social media. It’s not organic for me to just pop in and share what’s going on. I worry about what words I will use and the right picture to go with those just-right words and I end up petting the cat and keeping it all inside because it feels easier. Yet, I always feel like there’s so much that feels important and worth communicating.
Today was a big day and I am going to do what feels harder and share.
I knew that a young person was going to have an abortion. I wasn’t able to stop that from happening and I felt sad this morning knowing that today was the day. Because it weighed on my heart, I wrote a post about it this morning. It was my closure for a situation I couldn’t fix. Within minutes of finishing that post, closing that door, and mourning that life, I got a text that the young woman was not able to have the procedure because she was too far along. And I thought of the miracles that come from our God. The way he pries open closed doors and turns mourning into rejoicing.
There’s still a chance this woman will have an abortion and there are other providers who are willing to complete the procedure at this stage. But today was a miracle. Tomorrow I will be speaking to her and hoping for another miracle which would make me feel a little bit greedy about miracle mongering-- except that our God is so good and so big and so generous that nothing feels impossible. I hope nothing feels impossible for you right now either, and that if it does that this gives you a little bit of hope as it has for me.
Please be a part of this miracle and pray for her. ... See MoreSee Less
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