Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey Across the Life Line by Abby Johnson & Cindy Lambert

Author:Abby Johnson & Cindy Lambert [Johnson, Abby & Lambert, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Autobiography.Politics & Religon
ISBN: 9781414339399
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2011-01-31T10:00:00+00:00

Well, the secrets have never been hidden from You, God, and now they aren’t hidden from me anymore either. I’ve seen them. I repent. I turn away. Never again, never again, Lord.

The words of the liturgy were leaping from the page with power.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.12

Never in my life had words of confession spilled out of me with such fervor. And as they spilled out, I sensed God’s love and forgiveness pouring in. Yet my hand kept hurting.

As the pastor began reading the Gospel lesson for the day, I couldn’t believe my ears. He read from Mark 9:43: “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.”

A holy hush fell over my soul. If your hand causes you to sin . . . God was speaking directly to me this morning. My hand hurt even as I heard those words!

None of this was coincidence. None of it was chance. It was confirmed to me in that moment that God had been working a long time to break through to me. He’d spoken through my husband, but I’d argued his voice away. He’d spoken through the peaceful and gentle ways of those who prayed at the fence, through flowers and a card from Elizabeth two years before (she had since moved to Austin), through Mr. Orozco’s warmth and joy and steadfast presence every Wednesday and Saturday morning of the year, through Bobby’s befriending every new Planned Parenthood volunteer, through a weeping nun. But I’d brushed off the whole Coalition for Life crowd as naive zealots with their heads buried in the sand.

God had spoken through my mother’s honest, firm, yet loving words, but I’d avoided and discounted them as old-fashioned and out of touch. He’d spoken through the agonized, pleading cries of the client’s mother I remembered, pleading for the life of her grandchild through the fence as her daughter entered our clinic to abort that child, but I had missed the message.

He’d even exposed Planned Parenthood’s motives and intentions to me as plain as day through their own words and mandates, and though I’d fumed and protested and complained and fought against them, I’d still not seen the truth. Maybe my coworkers and I were there to help women in crisis, but I no longer saw Planned Parenthood as a benevolent charitable organization with the goal of decreasing unwanted pregnancies. I was now convinced that it was an abortion machine in the business of killing unborn babies and meeting revenue goals. And my hands, my words, my energy, and my passion—all had been tools of this machine.

My eyes landed on Megan, directly in front of me. I hoped she was listening to that verse the same way that I was, but somehow I knew she wasn’t. I began praying for her, that God would speak to her in the same way.

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