PROJECT RACHEL
PO Box 8333, STN. A
Halifax, NS
CANADA B3K 5M1
tel.: 1.902.423.9955
fax: 1.902.492.0562
Grief ~ Post Abortion Healing
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 1 902 423-9955
projectrachel_halifax@yahoo.ca
"You know how troubled I am;
You have kept a record of my tears." (Psalm 56:8)
Grief is a natural emotion that surfaces when we have lost something near and dear to us. We feel a deep pain. And this pain leads us to the mourning process.
Some quotes from our Project Rachel women:
"I experienced grief, something I never expected since this was my choice."
“I grieved but did not know what was wrong.”
“Grief is normal. It may feel like you are going crazy, but you’re not. You are facing the truth, feeling the truth.”
To feel grief over the death of our aborted baby
may confuse, upset, and bewilder us.
How can I grieve a child that I felt, due to circumstances,
I had to abort?
What right do I have to mourn the loss of my unborn child?
We are set free to fully grieve and mourn the loss of our aborted child when we come to understand and accept the emotional and spiritual damage that abortion causes.
-- Abortion destroys love. "I felt I wasn't able to love anymore."
-- Abortion destroys our relationship with ourselves. "I realized I couldn't be true to the girl I knew I was or could be."
-- Abortion destroys our relationship with our God. (but not His relationship with us!) "God never entered into the picture."
-- Abortion destroys the natural mother-child bond. "Every year I missed my child more."
But God does not want us to stay damaged, hurting, grieving. He, along with our dear baby, constantly, gently, lovingly calls us to be whole again, to be at peace, to renew our relationship with Him, ourselves and our dear baby.
A Project Rachel woman wrote to her baby: "Thank you for bringing me to Project Rachel, and closer to you and to God again."
"Happy are those who mourn;
God will comfort them!"
(Matt. 5: 4)
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