Monday, January 22, 2024 Two Gatherings, One Heart

My husband and I went to two very different gatherings today, but the heart of both was the same.

The first was up in St. Paul where thousands of us gathered to pray and to grieve the loss of so many innocents.

The death toll is staggering and continues to rise in this unseen war where the bodies don’t sprawl out on battlefields, but in rooms where small lives are easily extinguished. We sang “Amazing Grace,”heard rousing speeches, and were sobered to hear that over 12,000 unborn children were killed in 2022 in Minnesota and the preliminary statistics from 2023 suggest that number reached 17,000.

Arise, O LORD,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
Put them in fear, O LORD,
That the nations may know themselves to be but men.
Psalm 9:19-20

The second gathering was at the pregnancy resource center in our small town where 20-25 of us came together for the same purpose: prayer.

Arise, O LORD.