January 28, 2009 4:15 PM
Here's hope! How we will win the culture wars
This was a sign I spotted at the March for Life (and in case you're wondering what pro-lifers look like, you will find 476 other pictures I took here). These were brothers, but only part of a large family. I wish I'd gotten their names and I hope someone will recognize them and ask them to contact me.
Anyway, they are my poster boys for winning the culture wars.
Remember how after the election I said we have to turn our attention back to home? I also think we live in perilous times and must be wise as serpents, meek as doves. So do stay informed about what's going on, but never get depressed or hopeless.
Our hope is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth - and who has given us the greatest treasure we could ever want - our homes and families. This is how we'll win the culture wars:
- By becoming the best parents we can be - always learning, always open.
- By challenging ourselves to become more self-disciplined (getting rid of unecessary weight and unnecessary spending)
- By having more children - through birth and/or adoption.
- By increasing our sphere of influence.
- By speaking up for the truth even when it costs more than we used to feel like we could give.
- By waking up each morning and asking God what he would have us do that day - then doing it.
Let's face it, the Left - with their love affair with abortion and their selfish desires - are not reproducing. Pushing the "right" of a woman to kill her baby is a very old, very tired, and very sick idea - one the younger generation is not embracing with enthusiasm. In fact, they are becoming increasingly resentful as they realize there are only 2/3 of them here to support the aging Baby Boomers who killed the other third while "doing their own thing" and now expect the ones they spared to carry the increasing burden of everything on their wish list - including Viagra.
Anyway, this is just a heads-up. Over the next week I will be rerunning lots of material on the spiritual importance of big families, adoption and the rewards of sacrificial parenthood. All predicated on the smiling poster boys and the sign they made for the March for Life.
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Comments
Love this Barbara:
By becoming the best parents we can be - always learning, always open.
By challenging ourselves to become more self-disciplined (getting rid of unecessary weight and unnecessary spending)
By having more children - through birth and/or adoption.
By increasing our sphere of influence.
By speaking up for the truth even when it costs more than we used to feel like we could give.
By waking up each morning and asking God what he would have us do that day - then doing it.
I would only add one thing:
-By recognizing the devil's sneaky attacks on our lives, and taking every thought captive so that we may be the witness that Christ has called us to be. :)
Posted by: Lisa | January 28, 2009 9:56 PM
That poster made my day! I love, love, love it! I am so on the same page with this family (except we are a household of mostly girls!) and am constantly "doing the math" for people who are in despair about our future. We WILL prevail.
I look forward to reading the upcoming posts.
Posted by: Beth Lambdin | January 29, 2009 1:44 AM
