To give us a break from the daily grind…
In 2007 award-winning Christian singer/songwriter Mark Schultz wrote a powerful, life-affirming song entitled, “Everything to me“…
… and the song has an incredible story behind it – Mark’s own story. He wrote “Everything to me” as a thank you to his own birth mother….
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
One of the current popular video trends on YouTube consists of men going through simulated labor. It’s an interesting concept and the men have some funny reactions. But when you read the comments underneath the videos you start to wonder if women get a little more pleasure out of them than simply for curiosity or humor’s sake. It seems as if the videos are being used to back up an accusation, a popular accusation—the accusation that goes like this:
Women are stronger than men. Women suffer more. And men will never, ever, EVER understand.
Women say this kind of stuff all the time. About how men “don’t understand.” We complain about the stretch marks that babies give us but don’t give them. We insist that the father cannot ever know best for the child simply because he didn’t birth the child….
And why do we say all this? Because it builds us up. It makes us feel stronger. And a lot of this is a reaction to the many ways in which the strength of womanhood has been overlooked or taken for granted throughout history and today. We want to be appreciated, and rightfully so. But… [w]e aren’t content knowing we are strong, and so women fall into the trend of delighting in a man’s weakness – delighting when he doesn’t fully understand, or better yet, can’t fully understand….
There was a time when it was standard to consider women not worth understanding — to consider the woman’s task and life frivolous and easy. We’ve seen the damage this outlook has inflicted, not only on women, but on the whole world. So how dare we test our luck by turning the vice around?
How bold we are to assume that devaluing men won’t have a negative effect on the world at large. How bold we are to assume that it won’t hurt all of us, not just men.
~ Elizabeth Hanna Pham, “In Defense of Men,” New Feminism, June 15
Comments (16)
Just Beautiful. To the anti-life people out there…what’s wrong with this “choice”?
That’s awesome. Beautiful song – beautiful story.
See, this is what gets to me… the people who say, “Oh, I’d have an abortion because I could NEVER bring myself to give my child away!”
I’ve known people who actually look down on birth mothers and claim they must be hard-hearted to be able to part with their own children… but see no problem in denying that child its very life!
Elisabeth, I’ve seen pro-aborts complain about women who have 4 or 5 kids. My girlfriend was in a grocery store one day with her 5 kids. She was telling me that a lot of people were staring at her. An elderly woman actually approached and said, “I hope you’ve gotten your tubes tied.” Another woman I know has 8, and she goes through the same stuff. I believe that a lot of people ASSUME that these women are on welfare. I’ve also heard people say things like “breeders, hillbillies, and welfare suckers.”….What ignorance! Now that my tax dollars will begin funding abortions, I will in fact begin to call those women “welfare suckers.” What’s good for the goose is always good for the gander!!!
Sorry about the triple post. Plese delete. And let me remind the PC side that a woman can have as many kids as she likes. It’s called our Choice!!!
Mark Schultz always knows how to make me cry. Letters from War, Walking Her Home and now this!
Okay, I’m a puddle of tears after those videos. What an amazing song, and what a testimony for life. Birth mothers are unsung heroes in our society.
Women and girls need to be encouraged to believe that they can give life and then give that new little life into a waiting family.
God bless Mark and God bless this song. May it reach the ears and hearts of expecting mothers all over this country and move them towards LIFE!
Mark Schultz always knows how to make me cry. Letters from War, Walking Her Home and now this!
Posted by: Jacqueline at March 31, 2010 8:59 PM
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Me too, Jacqueline..I’m BAWLING right now..LOL!
Ditto, Jennifer.
Just Beautiful. To the anti-life people out there…what’s wrong with this “choice”?
Posted by: Rebecca M. Brooks at March 31, 2010 12:45 PM
Has anyone criticized this choice? It’s not for everyone, but it’s nice when it works out.
There are forces which want to discredit the Catholic Church because She alone stands in the way o a New World Order where abortion is enshrined as a “fundamental right.”
http://lasalettejourney.blogspot.com/2010/04/good-morning-america-dredges-up-father.html