{"id":8729,"date":"2017-12-11T23:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2017-12-11T23:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:32:21","slug":"conversations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8729","title":{"rendered":"Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the gentleman standing outside the post office with the &#8220;Abortion Is Satanic&#8221; sign:<\/p>\n<p>You claim that God told you to stand outside a busy post office with that sign and I tend to doubt this. Why do I doubt this? Because the post office is not an abortion clinic and when I suggested to you nicely that you tone down your rhetoric, you attempted rudely to mansplain the issue to me.<\/p>\n<p>Nope&#8230; I don&#8217;t have a pro-life story at all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/DSC_0028.JPG\" alt=\"Me post-partum.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>None at all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/DSC_0005.JPG\" alt=\"Me with my squirt on Day 2 of his life.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dude, I live the pro-life story on a daily basis with a kid who has been described by an ex-family member as &#8220;the Planned Parenthood poster child&#8221; (this person will be out of my life soon) and who was the deciding factor in me becoming pro-life. Yes, abortion is horrible and I pray for an end to it&#8230; but it isn&#8217;t as black and white as people on both sides make it out to be. I know people who have had them because it was their only option at the time, who were raped and become pregnant as a result, and have had conversations with them where they have shown me their very raw sadness because they know I will listen. When these women see signs like yours, their shame surfaces again and much of their healing is undone. Don&#8217;t do that to them.<\/p>\n<p>Telling me that I am of Satan and that I need to read my Bible more does not indicate that you are right. It indicates that you are behaving like a rear sphincter opening and wouldn&#8217;t know the voice of God even if God was standing next to you screaming at you with a megaphone. God hates abortion, but God loves the woman who has one and yearns for their return to Him and to wholeness. Your actions undo all of that. <\/p>\n<p>Hugs and kisses,<\/p>\n<p>The pro-life &#8220;Satanist&#8221; who <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1859\">refused to abort her baby<\/a> and who <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6303\">almost died carrying him<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the gentleman standing outside the post office with the &#8220;Abortion Is Satanic&#8221; sign: You claim that God told you to stand outside a busy post office with that sign and I tend to doubt this. Why do I doubt &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-personal-issues","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-2gN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8734,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}