A Christmas letter to post-abortive mothers
Dear Moms,
If you have had an abortion you regret and are in need of help, I am thinking of you this Christmas season. You are always on my mind but this season as family gets together I think of you and wonder if you are remembering a child that might be alive today that might have joined you and held that special spot in your family had they lived.
I think of you and wonder if you have reached out for help yet. If you regret your abortion there is help and hope and healing for you. There are women that have been where you are and are waiting to help you. I am waiting to help you.
I am a woman that has been through an abortion experience that I deeply regret and grieve the baby that died that day. I understand what you may be thinking or feeling. I have been there. I know too well the realization of what I paid for in my fear and desperation. I found my way out of the darkness and so can you. You are not alone.
I am imploring you right now to reach out. You need only Google abortion recovery, call your nearest PRC or email me. God has placed it on my heart to be here for you. To hold out my hand to you and walk with you on the journey of abortion recovery. I can hardly bear the thought that you are suffering in silence like I did.
My prayer for you is that God gives you the strength to find Him – that He would help you realize how precious you are to Him. You are His daughter. Nothing you have done is beyond His forgiveness, beyond His grace. He is waiting for you to draw near to Him.
If you find yourself struggling after your abortion, please reach out. God bless you and yours this Christmas season.
I love you,
Carla
P.S. – The stockings pictured above are hung with care every year. Aubrey died in my abortion. Jamie and Lee were miscarried. They have their own special place in our family.
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.
Very nice, Carla… I wish you and yours a Blessed Christmas.
We lost a little one thru a natural miscarriage at about 6 weeks three years ago…and I still find myself wondering the “what if”…
Ergh. This needed a tissue alert!
(*hug!*) to Carla!
No doubt Paladin.
Double (*hugs!*) for Carla.
That picture of Jesus embracing the child is awesome/precious.
Carla,
Beautiful letter. God bless you!
God bless you, Carla. You’re a special kind of warrior. :)
Carla,
You are the one of the most radiant of the Pro-life movement’s angelic faces. God Bless You and your family this Christmas Day!!
Gerry
Carla,
That was beautiful! I regret letting my Elizabeth go. I didn’t name her until I attended an abortion healing program offered through Care Net. I didn’t think it was possible to begin the process towards healing. It’s beautiful that you have their Christmas stockings hung.
Dr. Nadal, thank you for fighting for PRCs. If it wasn’t for the abortion healing program offered by Care Net, I might have continued with a third suicide attempt that would have been successful. Abortion clinic staff are great on talking a woman into abortion through their “counseling” sessions and do not offer help when the woman feels regret.
@Carla, wow. How moving. Thinking of you and all post-abortive women this season. Much love to you, my friend. Until the day when the Lord returns and you can wrap your arms around your little ones, I pray the peace of Christ falls on your heart every moment of your life. God bless.
Dear sweet friends,
Thank you!!
My deepest pain has become my greatest passion.
Merry Christmas and much love to you all!
carla@jillstanek.com
RCH,
Very thankful that you found your way as well. God is good!
RSD,
I am very sorry to read of your little one. What an amazing reunion we shall have!!
In memory of my children Joseph, Isaiah, Elisha, Simon Hosea, Ruby, Michael, Joy, Maranatha, and Ebenezer–who might or might not have existed–may God use you to bring comfort to many, Carla.