Blog Posts
What If Healing Is the Front Door
“Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains, that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.” Colossians 4:2-4 This blog was […]
Bound and Gagged, Now Unchained
“Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.” Acts 16:26 After having an abortion, life can feel like a prison, locked in a cell of secrecy. This is a dark and lonely place–a place of confinement. Confined, […]
To Have and to Hold
The outside of the building seeped with corrosion. Around the windows, doors, the roof lines, the foundation…all rusting, decaying, seemingly from the inside out. It was an accurate reflection. For what was happening inside this building for decades was now spreading, like a virus, to the outside…reflecting death, rotting with decay. This building was the […]
From Scorched to Watered…Finding Strength after Placing My Child {Guest Post}
Guest post by Eren Moore “And the LORD will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in the scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.” Isaiah 58:11 The scorched places. We all have them. Those traumas—hurts induced on us by […]
“Roe” Triggers
All around us are people with abortion wounded hearts. We don’t know who they are, but they are there…sitting in the same pew as us, in the grocery story, in our small groups. Everywhere. As 2022 unfolds and Roe V Wade is being overturned and the abortion battle pivots to the States, please be aware […]
Keeping Secrets Keeps Us Sick {Guest Post}
Today’s post is a guest post written by Mara Petro. Mara is on staff with Life International and serves on the Deeper Still team in West Michigan. She wrote this post to explain what it is like for someone who has had an abortion attending a Deeper Still retreat. This post has more information about […]
No Matter What has Happened, I’ll Always be Your Mother
In a moment, I put a price tag on my freedom to choose and your life was the cost. I was supposed to be your mother. Nearly a decade would pass before I would give you a name and honor your life. Recognition that didn’t come with your birth, stolen by my choice. I was […]
Abortion Recovery Awareness- Let’s Talk about This
Ouch. This is hard to talk about. Abortion is hard to talk about and uncomfortable for those outside the pro-life movement, and even some inside. Do we really need to talk about this? Is it ok to talk about this? Yes, please please please talk about this. We sat in a foreign land where family […]
Joy Comes After the Mourning…
We are going to touch on a hard subject this time around. Death and mourning. Now don’t stop reading, because Joy is coming… Mourning: the act of feeling or expressing sorrow. What are the stages of mourning a loss? We all know the process of mourning a death. But, with abortion, it is a different […]
Searching for a Savior
For years I was lost, broken, trying to fill a hole. I found myself pregnant at the age of 19, in college, without hope. Those closest to me brought condemnation, shame, and guilt at the news. Out of desperation, I chose abortion with a false hope that my world would once again be “normal” and […]