By Dan Miller, State Director, Pro-Life Wisconsin
Something happened this year at our annual Christmas Caroling to an Empty Manger Day event that has never happened before. One of the abortion escorts (the workers who walk women into the abortion center) asked if she could have a copy of our songbook, so I gave her one. Since many of the escorts seemed like they were enjoying our Christmas caroling, I decided to offer a songbook to all of them. Some took them, some didn’t. You could see that some really wanted to sing along with us, but it looked like they were waiting for “permission” from their eldest leader, *Suzie. Sadly, Suzie was not in a singing mood that day and did not give “the nod” for the rest to join in. Some sang anyway!
As we were all singing away, our sidewalk counselors were busy talking to the moms and dads who were coming in or going out of the abortion center. It wasn’t too long after we started singing that a mom told one sidewalk counselor that she “decided against the abortion.” Praise the Lord! It was really surreal to witness all of this, as you might imagine.
This experience was like that one story from the front lines on Christmas Eve in World War I, when the soldiers stopped shooting at each other for a time as they joined together to sing Christmas carols! I thought of what it must have been like to be on the front lines of a world war, singing with my enemies for a time, coming together as Christians to sing about the birth of our Savior. Our war in defense of human life is a spiritual war, yet both sides on Saturday had a heart for Christ and the season of Christmas.
Are we really that close to “the end of the war?” Let us pray for peace in our world and PEACE IN THE WOMB!
*Name changed for privacy reasons
Photos: PLW’s CAroling to an empty manger day
