Lately I have been overwhelmed by the huge whole left in the heart of Americans by years of desensitization through thousands of murders of the unborn everyday. We look at the child welfare system and say what else is there to do. We look at people like the Republican Vice President nominee and think "Wow she could do so much if she didn't have a down syndrome child, or wow she is going to "punish" her 17 yr. old daughter with a child out of wed lock. What the heck. Why do people assume that the best answer is murder and they will never stand before God and give account. That is just it, we don't see this as murder because Americans have been brainwashed with ideology that this is not a baby in the womb. If we think it is not life then we are not held accountable. Or what about the people that know for a fact that this is a baby? What are they thinking? I am truly baffled! I think that as they see themselves as riding society of the "unwanted" that they are a better person. That after so long and so many abortions and playing God with life, they move into the danger category of thinking that they are gods themselves and they answer to no one. I fear in my soul for America. We will not stand fully accountable for the world at large on the issue of innocent blood, but we have spilt more blood since 1973, legally then all the blood that was spilt in WWII. That is frightening. We will stand accountable. Even the fact that "Roe" in Roe vs. Wade, their key witness supporting abortion, had never had an abortion herself. WHAT? Yeah, did you read that? Norma McCorvey the Roe of Roe v. Wade never had an abortion. How did that happen then? That is our judicial system.

In our own adoption story we are constantly reminded of this horrific misguided sense of liberal thought. I know woman personally who think on having an abortion as much as they think on if they are going to have coffee in the morning. To some it is their birth control pill. To others it is the only thing that they know. They are trapped and feel that there is no way out. Who wants to have another mouth to feed when they cannot feed themselves? Our own precious baby was plucked from the jaws of death when Danny's mom talked her out of an abortion and into adoption. She isn't ignorant to what that process would have entailed. She knew full well what was going to happen, yet she felt she had no other option. She didn't want another child and frankly didn't want to go through another pregnancy. None of the players in this story are believers but as Danny's mother told me when I sat down to talk to her..."just because it is legal, it doesn't make it right." This from a non-believer and yet many in the church struggle in the grey area with the issue of abortion. Where is the decision? Where is there room for grey?

God is driving abortion and the issue of adoption like a wedge in the political arena, through the media in movies like Juno and Bella, because I believe He is drawing a line in the sand. "Choose this day whom you will serve.." America will have to determine where she stands. It frightens me to think that a man may be elected to the presidential office that feels this issue is above his "pay scale". Then who will be appoint to deal with it? Liberal scientist? The same man that thinks the majority of women having abortions in America "prayerfully consider" before going through with it. That he would not "burden" his own daughter with a child should she have a teen pregnancy. Why can he not say ...hey I don't think babies are babies till they get their finger prints made and have a national I.D. card. (Don't get me started on the national I.D cards.) Yet I am not sure that McCain would do anything at all for unborn human rights. The only think that he has going for him at this point is an Esther in the closet. Could Sarah Palin be the Esther to reverse the Hammon decree in America?

So what is to be done? How can we overturn a supreme court ruling, end abortion, and turn God's wrath? Well God delights in mercy and mercy will always triumph over judgement. Not that judgement is not coming, but if we turn from our wicked ways, humble ourselves and pray, then mercy will cover a multitude of sins and judgement may be overshadowed by mercy. What does that look like? I am not totally sure,but God is righteous because He cannot dwell with sin and there is no shadow of turning in Him. We cannot talk Him out of judging to purify. We know that He must judge or He is a liar. Mercy is not getting what we deserve, not ever getting any judgement. We deserve to be like Sodom and Gomorrah. With our homosexual tolerance, murderous abortion laws, and defiling pornography industry let the Angel of Death just sit on America till we are suffocated in our own filth. However because of The Sacrifice we can call upon The Blood that speaks a better word.

"Jesus, I plead your blood over my sins & the sins of my nation..."

Through Jesus we have mercy. "He can save to the uttermost...He ever lives to make intercession". By joining with Jesus we can plead the blood, the perfect and precious blood of Jesus over our nation and turn wrath. O God, give us mercy!!! Have mercy on California. As California goes, so goes the nation... O God turn California's heart, awaken intercessors to cry out for mercy and a turning!"

My heart is stirred to the fact that as Christians we fall short in the most fundamental aspects of Christianity. (James 1:27) How many of us have taken in an unwed pregnant mother who has no one and thinks there is no other option? Why can't we take her in...share our food, clothing, home, and the love of Jesus? (Is. 58) Maybe she would accept Jesus and keep her baby. Maybe she would meet a nice man from our local church, fall in love, and live what she thought could only happen in a dream. Or maybe she would rob you blind and leave the baby on your door step as she disappeared into the night. What then? Nothing but love. Didn't Jesus say something about the fact that "they will hate you because they hate Me" No one said that life was always like a box of chocolates. Sometimes it is like a big plate of boiled liver with three day old spinach. Yukie!! My family took in two such young ladies. We took in one girl who was a foster child gone wild and kicked out of her foster home. She stayed with our family and we loved her and wanted to adopt her. She ended up stealing our car, our jewelry, and a little piece of our hearts. She hit my mother and spit in my face as she assalted me. We had to call the police and then cried for days because of what happened. The second girl had her child and is parenting him. My mother still witness to her daily but has not see salvation. However Hunter my nephew has heard about Jesus from birth and we are contending for his soul. He knows right and wrong and next summer I am determined to have him come and stay with me for IHOP's teen camp. I know that God will use the seeds sown to bring a change in his heart.You never know how it will end. However, what if we had not taken them in? What if we had done the Charismatic look away trick and went on our way? The church is going to have to start living on the edge of "personal risk" for the lost and dying. We must no matter how messy our lives become. Trust me it is messy sometimes.

We have a couple of friends that are now preparing to adopt Down Syndrome children. Why you say? Why not? Give me any reason that I wouldn't want to hit you for that justifies that these children don't deserve love, a family, & siblings. They live in poor European countries with little to no health care and without the presence of God. Why not bring them into a loving, godly family and teach them to sing their little hearts out to Jesus? They are not "unwanted" anymore. They are singers, dancers, musicians in the waiting to bring God glory in the house of prayer. So they may not be mathematicians, or rocket scientist. Who cares! What are most of those people doing that will stand through eternity? What is eternal and what is not? Praise is eternal. ".. store for yourselves treasures in heaven". Pray for our friends and give to their adoptions at http://thelouxfamilyadoption.blogspot.com/ I am not saying that everyone has to adopt or take in the homeless and get abused. Not everyone is to adopt a special needs child. But everyone has a part to play and everyone is called to pray. We all must search our souls and see where God is leading us to love. Then we must go there whole heartly knowing that is Jesus say to go, then everything will be provided no matter what personal cost it may imply.

I hope that you are not offended, but yet I hope that you are a little. I am offended at this and I am in the middle of it. Jesus' life is offensive if you are really honest. He came and did some of the most extrodinary things when you really look and He totally messed up humanity forever.(from our perspective) He came and not only showed us who God was and what He is like, but He showed us how we were made to be. He came to reveal...not to judge. How could He judge when we lived in ignorance? Now though we do not live in darkness because the Light of the world has come. Everything within revolts at godliness because we are fallen and live in a world ruled by the powers of darkness. "The Light came, but the darkness did not comprehend it." Yet eveything with in us cries out for God because we are made in His image and have His spirit in us. "but to those who believed He gave eternal life".

I could type forever but I think that you see where I have been the last few days.

Blessings