Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Healing from abortion comes with many trials and suffering. It is not easy to look at our sin, the truth of what has happened, and work through it all. It is so important to remember we are all sinners in need of His mercy, and to trust in His love and forgiveness for us.

Often when we are moving forward, we in fact, think we are stepping back. In our humaness it is hard to recognize Gods working in our life when we are in pain, and we naturally want to flee.

A few weeks ago I was blessed to be able to travel to Rhode Island to hear and meet Mark Mallet who writes one of the few blogs that I read on a regular basis.

This prayer comes from his blog and serves to remind us of the merit of what our suffering brings, and challenges us to grow and trust in this often crazy world. It was written by MArk Mallett.

O LORD, I want to sail in your presence… but when the seas become rough, when the Wind of the Holy Spirit begins to blow me into the tempest of a trial, I quickly lower the Sails of my faith, and protest! But when the waters are calm, I gladly hoist them. Now I see the problem more clearly—why I am not growing in holiness. Whether the sea is rough or whether it is calm, I am not moving forward in my spiritual life toward the Harbor of Holiness because I refuse to sail into trials; or when it is calm, I merely stand still. I see now that to become a Master Sailer (a saint), I must learn to sail the high seas of suffering, to navigate the storms, and patiently let your Spirit direct my life in all matters and circumstances, whether they are pleasant to me or not, because they are ordered toward my sanctification.

 remember He is always with you!

"Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge HIm and He shall direct your path" (Proverbs 3:5)