Change....it is a comin

It's 2:30 am on the eve of Election Day and I've been awake for two hours now. I simply cannot sleep. Never before have I had so much on my mind. My heart is in constant prayer for the choices that will be made tomorrow (today).
I have not slept well since last Thursday. If you read this, you've seen my posts on 40 Days for Life, the pro-life campaign that's taking hold across our nation. I have prayed outside an abortion clinic before, but never when it was open. Last Thursday was my first time, and my life has been forever changed.
I witnessed countless numbers of cars drive by the clinic multiple times before they got up enough nerve to enter the driveway. Once in the driveway, you could hear the conflict going on in the cars, and it took one mom 20 minutes to get out. As cars pulled in the driveway, and as people opened their doors and got out, we began to lovingly say to them, "Please don't kill your baby.....come talk to us......your baby's heart is beating, please let it live." And, while I was there, everyone kept on going into the abortion clinic.
On Sunday, our group was so extremely fortunate to meet Kim, a mom whose third child, sweet little Emily, has Down Syndrome. She told us about being counseled that it was okay to abort her baby because of the diagnosis, but praise God Emily was there with us on Sunday, just as beautiful as could be! She had become particularly active in the pro-life movement after having Emily. At the closing vigil, another prayer volunteer who worked near the clinic told a story about Kim. Because of her work's proximity, she was able to walk to the abortion clinic to pray during her lunch every day. She said she would never forget the day she walked around the corner and saw Kim's hands raised in the air, and she was saying "Praise the Lord!!!" She had just counseled a mom who had decided to keep her baby. That was the first of two saves that day. Kim said her pastor asked her, "How did it feel to be a part of saving two babies lives?" Her answer was, "it made me sick to my stomach, because I saw how many babies weren't saved that day." And I've pretty much felt the same way since last Thursday.
And if this election goes as the media predicts that it will, many more lives will be lost. Senator Ob@ma has said that one of the first things he will do as President will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, preventing governmental interference in a woman's right to choose to terminate at any point in her pregnancy. This means a woman can legally have an abortion up until the moment that baby is born. And Obama isn't for the Born Alive Protection Act either, which would require the baby to be kept alive if something goes wrong and the baby doesn't die as a result of the abortion. Basically, it would just be left to die.
Oh, friends, what is wrong with our nation when we are more concerned with the economy than we are with human life? When we worry more about our retirement portfolios than we do about a baby in the womb? I believe the economic downturn in our country is directly related to our moral downturn. People want to live their own way without consequence. And so, come tomorrow, the election will go one of two ways......one way will promote a more liberal way of life, one in which we're able to live our lives just the way we want without repercussion and the other way will be that which hopefully will return our nation to the ideals it was founded on by its Creator. No candidate and no party is perfect and neither am I, but I believe we should vote for the candidate whose stances most closely line up with standards outlined in Scripture.
I am thankful that God's hand is on this election and that He is in control and whichever candidate is elected, it will be no surprise to Him. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands!