.. Pro Life...

last night 18 of us... (14 active Hope for Life people, one of us not there, away on vacation, and 4 friends and future volunteers ) went to the Halton Pro Life Annual Banquet...

our display table ... beautifully showing what we are all about... our babies, books, DVDs, one pink and one yellow layette... brochures and posters... pregnancy test etc...

great food and fun, silent auction bidding.... graciously promoted by the great people of Halton Pro Life... this night brought tears to my eyes not just once...

 a young girl singing,  a beautiful voice and an even more beautiful heart never fails to resonate with my inner most being..

the speaker, a man after God's own heart...  always impressed by someone who has the ability to state facts and argue truth in simple words, that's the black and white person in me..

this man, Scott Klusendorf, is the founder and president of Life Training Institute (LTI).  he travels throughout the United States and Canada training pro-life advocates to defend their views in the public square and to make their case persuasively in the marketplace of ideas.

a humble man of God, he gave us all a great tool to counter the arguments of people that have totally bought into the culture of relativism, a theory holding that truth or moral or aesthetic value, etc., is not universal or absolute but may differ between individuals or cultures ... a culture in which it is okay to do and believe whatever you like, as long as you do not claim that your theory or belief is truth, is the right way of looking at an issue.... there is tolerance for everything and everyone under the sun, but not for the one that, like we as Christians say that there indeed is Truth... and the opposite of it.. lies..

it is okay to believe that killing the unborn is wrong, and to never do it yourself, but you cannot "push" this on anyone else...  this has been the couple reactions we got from people that were offended by us saying there was an absolute truth here...
the truth that it is wrong to kill, and just because an embryo is very small (Size) it's  level of development is in it's beginning (Level of development) it's environment is inside the womb (Environment) and it fully depends on the mother for everything it needs (Dependency) is still the truth...the embryo still is a human being... it will grow, it's development will go on, it will change it's "address" after 9 months of growing from inside to outside of the womb, and it will slowly continue to be less dependent on the mother after those 9 months of total dependency...

Scott stated that if those categories 4 categories (SLED) should determine someone's right to life.. what about a newborn, still pretty small and very dependent.. or a toddler, a little bigger but not very independent yet..

he went on to speak about our duty... to love the unborn and it's mother as our neighbours... deep and profound, this is what Hope for Life and any other Pregnancy Center is all about...  loving the unborn and to love the mother with truth that can transform her... only the Exchange, Christ's Righteousness for our Sinfulness is going to help any of us, no matter what we are facing...

a blessing to be at the Halton Pro Life Banquet last night... a blessing to be called to extend this love and wisdom from God to those that He is bringing to us....
tears welling up from my soul once again... feeling at home and in the right place last night.. God is so very good.... He blessed us once again!