STANDING IN THE LIGHT

Greetings all of you LIVING PEOPLE. If you are reading this...then you are ALIVE. If you are ALIVE...then you were not ABORTED. To some...that is a good thing...to others...they may at times... or at this very moment be wishing THAT THEY NEVER WERE BORN.

Thursday night...Brenda and I were table hosts at the PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER FALL FUNDRAISING BANQUET.

The PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER was started in Murfreesboro...as a vision of some close friends by the names of Trent and Laura Messick. Laura is currently the Executive Director of the Center while Trent is the Chairman of the Board. Many moons ago...I'm not exactly sure how many...but many moons ago...in the early 80's...Laura was watching the 700 Club and saw a story about how thousands of fetus' and body parts were found in the dumpster of an abortion clinic. The seed of compassion was planted. Actually...the compassion was already in her...it was watered and the seed was opened of a desire to be involved.

At that time...the abortion debate was heated...with even the Christian's getting so impassioned that they would BLOW UP THE ABORTION CLINICS or cause violence against those who were
PRO-ABORTION. Trent and Laura...wanted to do something POSITIVE...in a NEGATIVE situation.
The end results of this vision was...an organization that was started to...express THE LOVE OF GOD towards people who were in a CRISIS PREGNANCY. This included counseling...giving other options instead of abortion...helping with the physical, financial, emotional needs. Instead of BLOWING UP THINGS...they were BUILDING LIVES. As a result...hundreds upon hundreds of babies were born... and lives were changed for the better.

The abortion debate rages on...but in Murfreesboro Tennessee...the is LIGHT.

Two foundational verses were part of the beginning back i n the 80's...and they are still the guiding LIGHT.

"Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the DAY OF EVIL comes...you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything...to stand." (Ephesians 6:13)

"...now you are LIGHT IN THE LORD...Live as children of the LIGHT...everything exposed by the LIGHT...becomes VISIBLE...for it is the LIGHT that makes everything VISIBLE." (Ephesians 5:8, 13-14)


On June 10th 1989...the LIGHT was made visible to us...Rodney Lewis Boyd and Brenda Sue Boyd. On June 10th, 1989...a little baby was BORN.
On June 13th...3 days later...this little baby boy...became a member of the Boyd Household as Stephen Phillip Boyd was adopted.

His birth mother had the options to GIVE BIRTH...or ABORT him....but she CHOOSE LIFE. Now that is PRO-CHOICE. Oh by the way...Trent and Laura were there with us...to celebrate the joy of the moment.

ABORT

1. To bring forth a fetus from the uterus before the fetus is viable; miscarry
2. To develop incompletely; remain in a rudimentary or underdeveloped state
3. To fail, cease, or stop at an early or premature stage
4. Rocketry: to stop before the scheduled flight is completed.

Thank God...Phillip was not aborted...but his SCHEDULED FLIGHT was completed....and he was launched into this world with plan, purpose and destiny.

"For Thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame/bones were not hidden from Thee...when I was made in secret...and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth...Thine eyes have seen my UNFORMED SUBSTANCE; And in Thy book they were all written...the days that were ORDAINED FOR ME...when as yet there was NOT ONE OF THEM." (Psalm 139: 13-16)

"For I know the PLANS that I have for you declares the Lord...PLANS for welfare...and NOT for CALAMITY...to give you a FUTURE and a HOPE." (Jeremiah 29:11)


At the fundraiser...there a special testimony of a lady named Megan Johnson...who as a teen became pregnant...and was considering abortion...came to the center...and then made a PRO-CHOICE...not to ABORT. Three years later...she is the mother of the joy of her life. There was also special music by Jaime Theitten who sang and also had her latest video of her song...My Chance...about going through with an abortion...and now she is "missing her Chance."

The guest speaker was DR. WILLIAM LILE. In the revamped words of Butterfly McQueen who was in the movie Gone With The Wind...he KNOWS "something about BIRTHING BABIES." He gave an inspiring and informative talk about the birth process from CONCEPTION to birth....with video via the WOMB CAM...where you could see the viability of the PERSON IN THE WOMB. He kicked off his talk with a reading from the 1954 book by Dr. Suess...called HORTON HEARS A WHO.

Horton the elephant was walking along in the Jungle of Nool on the 15th of May...when he hears a SMALL speck of dust talking to him. The speak of dust turns out to be a planet that was home to a city called WHOVILLE..inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants know as WHOS. They were crying out to PROTECT US FROM HARM.

The phrase that was used over and over again in the book...was..."A PERSON'S A PERSON, NO MATTER HOW SMALL." This is what Dr. Lille was emphasizing with scientific data... and actual video from the womb as we saw cells divide and the spark of life at these levels.
"A PERSON'S A PERSON...NO MATTER HOW SMALL."

There are all kinds of reasons...why it's O.K. to abort a baby. The arguments range from a woman has a right to do whatever she wants to do to her body.... TO...it's only a lump of unformed flesh. It's O.K. to be PRO-CHOICE...as long as the CHOICE is abortion.

NOTE: Usually the male species is castigated as the ones who are trying to make the CHOICE for WOMEN on whether or not they should give birth or abort...BUT...at the meeting...I looked around...and I saw a lot of WOMEN who were there...whose views were that ABORTION IS NOT RIGHT.

Phillip Stephen Boyd was born and not aborted...and he has touched and changed lives from Tennessee (Wherry Housing)...to Mexico (orphanage)...to Peru (Iquitos)...to Biloxi (rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina). And most of all... Phillip has changed OUR LIVES.



FINAL THOUGHTS...FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In this crazy...mixed up...topsy-turvy world that we live in...there is a reversal of morality. Isaiah speaks of this...

"Woe to those who call EVIL GOOD...and GOOD EVIL; Who substitute DARKNESS...for LIGHT...and LIGHT FOR DARKNESS...who substitute BITTER for SWEET and SWEET for BITTER! Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine, and valiant me in mixing strong drink; Who justify the wicked for a bribe...and TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS OF THE ONES WHO ARE IN RIGHT." (Isaiah 5:20-23)

Thank God...that Laura and Trent...heard from God...and did not just DO NOTHING...but STOOD UP as LIGHT in a DARKENED WORLD...and expressed LOVE instead of HATE.

NOTE: If you have committed abortion...or whatever crisis you are in...there is HOPE. God can REDEEM your PAST...to give you a hope in the NOW...so you can have a FUTURE.

If you would like to DO SOMETHING POSITIVE in a NEGATIVE WORLD...you can contact Laura at:

P.O. Box 2305
Murfreesboro, TN 37133
Phone: (615) 893-0228

If you are not in the Murfreesboro area...I bet they can help you with how you can be a LIGHT in your community.

Love and PRO-LIFE KISSES
Rodney "Let Your Light Shine" Boyd