John Piper speaks to Obama while preaching this past Sunday

I must admit, I'm trying to figure out what to do about abortion. I don't know what to do. I have been compelled recently, more than I ever had, at the complacency of protecting the life of the unborn. I think we will all look back, from eternity, and be in awe of lack of doing. 1,000,000 will boys and girls will be killed this year in the US. I have avoided the issue mainly because I don't want to be clumped into the "Christian pro-life" bubble. However, I am feeling like in some ways it's a cop out.

I am disappointed in Obama's first week as president, out of everything which needs be done, enabling international aid for abortions (under the guise of young woman's health), was outrageous. I think Piper explains it right by stating that nothing good has been done for the women, either the one pregnant or the one in the womb.

Watch it and comment.

Roe vs Wade - Roe (Norma McCorvey) speaks about what really happen

Admittedly I knew Roe vs. Wade only as the decision legalizing abortion. I have never known anything about "Roe" or "Wade." The following are statements from Norma McCorvey, She was a poor, young mother in 1969, pregnant and looking for a way out. Two young lawyers used her for their benefit. Ultimately, leading her on a road of aweful discovery of the realities, lies and girls inside the abortion industry.

In 2000, she made an official statement regarding the truth behind Roe vs. Wade. Below are some excerpts. See the whole affidavit here.

My name is Norma McCorvey, and I reside in Dallas, Texas. I was the woman designated as "Jane Roe" as plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that it was unconstitutional for my state to prohibit doctors from performing abortions.

Weddington and Coffee presented the affidavit for my signature at Coffee's office. I told them that I trusted them and that I did not need to read the affidavit before I signed it. I never read the affidavit before signing it and do not, to this very day, know what is written in the affidavit.

I only met with the attorneys twice. Once over pizza and beer. I had never read the affidavit and I did not know what an abortion was. I found out about the decision from the newspaper just like the rest of the country.

In retrospect, I was exploited by two self-interested attorneys. Worse, the courts, without looking into my true circumstances and taking the time to decide the real impact abortion would have upon women, I feel they used me to justify legalization of terminating the lives over thirty-five million babies.

At that time, I didn't know their full intent. Only that they wanted to make abortion legal and they thought I'd be a good plaintiff. I came for the food, and they led me to believe that they could help me get an abortion.

I obviously advocated legalized abortion for many years following Roe v. Wade. But working in the abortion clinics forced me to accept what abortion is. It is a violent act which kills human beings and destroys the peace and the real interests of the mothers involved.

It seems appropriate to bring this up considering how much ink has and will be spilt on Obama's abortion policies. Life and humanity are never above our pay grade. Let us not be librial in our definition of life. No one can claim certianity of when life begins. So let us error on the side of life.

Dad, are you freaking out?

My family and I were flying home after two weeks in Southern California. It was the first time flying with the twins...wow, security is not prepared for twins and all the junk that comes with them, that is for sure. Traveling with twins is whole other blog. This is about my boy, Landon, who has flown a couple of times but it is still new to him. He is old enough now to comprehend what flying really is. A small metal tube, rocketing through the air, a couple of miles off the ground. The last couple times he has flown he paid no attention to the "dangers". This time, he felt the take off. The "tickling" in his tummy, the loud engines and of course the bumps. He felt the bumps.

When we flew to So Cal the flight was uninventful. Coming home this past weekend it was a bit shaky. Shaky enough for me to look up from my book and look for the masks to fall from the ceiling. We were dropping and then going back up again. Swinging from side to side. My oldest thought is was a roller coaster ride so she loved it. Others on the plane seemed a bit uncomfortable.

This most amazing moment happen between my son, who was sitting next to me, and me. During the roughest part of the turbulance, he knew it wasn't really suppose to feel like this. He felt the fragility of the whole situation for the first time. He held his armrest tightly and with wide eyes turned to look at me. I know what he was looking for. He was testing the situation. If dad is freaked out then he knew something was wrong. If I was clinching my arm rest and searching the faces of the flight attendants, he would know the turbulance is very, very bad.

He looked at me. I was fine. I smiled and held his hand and told him, "Sometimes, airplanes are bumpy. It's cool". In an instant he stoped knuckling the arm rests. He picked up his crayons and went back to playing and enjoying the ride, inspite of the dipping and shaking.

A leasson was birthed for me right then. In his world, I am his security. How I respond and react to what is happening around me, teaches him what is true or not true about what is happening. He has not idea I am just out of control as he is. Yet we do what Landon did when we face turbulance. Look to someone or something to tell us truth. Unlike me, God is actually in control. Unlike me God is actually knowing of every possible circumstance. So when life gets/is bumpy, we look to God and see he isn't freaking out. We can stop knuckling the arm rests of our life, and feel rest.

The bumps didn't go away. The danger didn't end. We were still miles away from the ground and in a tube speeding through the air. What changed is how Landon experienced that moment. How we experience life changes as we look to a God who doesn't freak out. He is at rest in the turbulance. We can also be.