Issue 35, Winter 2006-07

through education and mutual support
to peacefully proclaim the pro-life message

        So as we go from this place Lord...bless us all!

I love you and I thank you.
from one of our 2006 Project Rachel women

at the close of our final group session, Nov. 23/06.

Four women journeyed 11 weeks through the 2006 Project Rachel

post-abortion support group.  Their Christmas wish for you is that you too will be as richly blessed by God as they have been.

During each Project Rachel Session, we invited the women to share their Ultimate Goal as well as their Small Step Goal for that particular session.

Jessie's Mom wrote

My ultimate goal was to be free from my guilt and anger.  My goal has been reached. Thank you.  It is because of you, God.  The biggest thing that has happened to me through this experience is being forgiven and forgiving others.  The freedom I feel is awesome!  I am a different person.  The anger I had towards myself and others is gone.

Here are some of my small step goals for each session:

1) feeling comfortable with others in the group (wow, we are like sisters!)

2) being 'real.'  I have felt more real with these ladies than ever in my life!  They have been so understanding and compassionate.

3) freedom to live my life forgiven and forgiving.

4) understanding my decision to abort my child.

5) recognizing buried hurts.

6) loving my baby, and acknowledging Jessie's life.

7) learning more about Post-Abortion Syndrome - wow, that was such an eye-opening night for me.

8) healing and uncovering who I am.

9) learning about anger and how to get rid of it.

The Project Rachel women are encouraged to write a letter to God for Session 10.

Anthony Francis Mom wrote

There aren't enough words to say how much I love you, God.  Without you in my life I was dead inside, nothing but a shell.

I found you again in January of 2006, and my life since then has been so different.  It has changed so much I hardly recognize myself.  With you in my life I am alive again and so full of peace and joy.  God you have forgiven me and you showed me how to forgive.  How can I ever thank you enough for giving me back my life?  I am truly sorry for everything I have ever done to hurt you.

I know I will meet my baby in heaven and I will hold him in my arms and tell him how much mommy loves him.  God I am so grateful to have your love and forgiveness.  I feel like I have been blessed.  My broken heart that I have had for all these years has finally mended.

For Session 8 the  women are invited to write a letter to their dear baby.

Tilly's Mom wrote:

I want to open my heart completely up to you in this letter so that you will understand the story between you and me.

First of all, I want you to know that I love you so deeply Tilly.  As I imagine and dream of you, I think you may have blonde, curly hair like your daddy.  Won't I be surprised when I get to heaven and see you for the first time -- if you look like me instead?

I must go back to the time honey almost 35 years ago, when you were denied life, the life God gave you, and I took away.  I am so sorry, so deeply sorry for making that choice.  I often wonder about the gifts and talents you might have been given by God.

I know that you have listened in with our dear Jesus as we have met on these many Thursday nights at Project Rachel. I know that you watched me as I poured out all the details of those days so long ago and of the consequences of my abortion.  I know that you have completely forgiven me, Tilly, and I thank you and dear Jesus for such unfathomable forgiveness. One of the hardest struggles in this has been to forgive myself.  Fortunately, I have discovered the following truth:

'For me not to forgive myself says that what Jesus did on the Cross for me was not enough.'

Now at last, I am out of that horrible prison.  I anticipate our blessed meeting in heaven one day!  I await that reunion with a renewed commitment in this life to celebrate you in my heart and to try to help other women heal from abortion, or just to be a source of comfort and hope to others .

I am so grateful and happy to finally know the peace that surpasses all understanding regarding the past.  and now with a heart filled with joy and love for you, Tilly, I am .... your mom.

Each woman has named her baby either beforehand or at some point during the Project Rachel group.

Mackenzie Alaura's Mom wrote:

Naming my child was a special event.  Not just because she is an angel, but because I did not have to share it with anyone.  My other children were all named in consultation with my husband and other family members. Her name was between me and her and it was special.

I did fight against it at first -- was it a boy or a girl?  How would I know?  But once I listened to my heart I knew my baby was a girl.  Then I struggled with her name. I loved some names and not others.  In the end, I believe she whispered her name in my ear.  She had probably been called by this name in heaven for a number of years.  It was just my time to make it official. 

Take a moment and listen to your heart and your angel will give you the answer.

A New Years resolution that gives life:

1) please consider joining the Board of Directors of Nova Scotians United for Life

in Loving memory of:

-- Stanley Jones Harrison, father of LifeNovaScotia board member, Peter, from Nova Scotians United for Life.

-- Goldie Surette from Paul and Jan Clark.

-- Margot Clark from Corinne and Reg Ware.

SOBEYS TAPES TALLY for 2006

Thank you so much for continuing to buy groceries and send your Sobey's tapes to Nova Scotians United for Life.  Each tape counts!  Here is the tally for 2006.  For every $1000.00 in sobeys tapes, we receive $2.00.

St.Paul's Church     total cash = $478.87

Individuals          total cash = $351.32

total:                                                              =  $ 829.59

thank you is never enough!

Thank you is never enough

The Board of Nova Scotians United for Life want to thank all of you for supporting our pro-life efforts with your prayers and financial assistance.

It is so true that we couldn't do it without your steadfast encouragement.

We thank God for leading us to initiate the post-abortion healing ministry, Project Rachel ( Jer. 31: 15-17).

Although this seems to be a single focus, it is not.  the facts that have come from this ministry affirm our educational outreach on other topics such as chastity, adoption, pre-natal assistance, postpartum help, etc.

This ministry has not only allowed women to heal from an abortion choice but it has empowered NSUL to continue to proclaim that the child in the womb from the moment of conception is a person, a human being!  The mothers' grief and healing have proven it.

Who you gonna call.....??

If your group is looking for an inspirational speaker, please consider calling us!

(902) 423-3114

(902) 423-9955

We just heard of a young woman who is pregnant and one of our PR women wrote this prayer which you may wish to pray also.

Dear Heavenly Father,  thank you Lord that you do not make any mistakes.  Father I praise your Name for loving this girl and her family.  Thank you that you will see them through this difficult time.

I pray that you will give a PR woman the wisdom, knowledge and understanding she seeks from you for this family.  As I pray, I see her just coming beside this dear girl and her parents, holding them in her arms.

Lord sometimes I think you desire us to love with our arms of love and not with words.  I pray that your love will bathe this family in Peace that surpasses all understanding.

I come against abortion in this situation by the Name of Jesus, and I pray that this baby will be used mightily for your kingdom in this world.  Place your amazing gifts in this child to be used for the furtherance of your kingdom. 

I plead the Blood of Jesus over every part of this situation, and may they know excitement and hope for the future. 

Hold them in your hands, Lord, and sing over them so they will hear your voice comforting them and guiding them.  I thank you Lord in the name of Jesus.  Amen.

Smile it's good for life:

A new employee asked our daughter about the Christmas office party.  She replied:  "The party will be great, there will be a 'story', and you better hope to heaven your are not the 'story'!