Quote of the Day 9-19-09
“I always thought that when my dad died that I wouldn’t have anybody coming to the services because he was hated so much in town. But here I had to deal with a larger crowd than I ever would have expected.“
~ Mary Jo Pouillon, daughter of martyred pro-life activist Jim Pouillon, heartened by over 250 people attending a September 16 memorial service for her father in Owosso, MI, as quoted by Argus-Press.com, September 18. Mary Jo is pictured above singing at the memorial.
[Photo via the New York Times]
Sep.19, 2009 12:32 pm |
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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.
My dad seems to think that the turn-out at your funeral is life’s end goal. Even if Jim Pouillon had left this world in a way that meant just family and close friends would attend, 20 years of pro-life activism means a huge welcoming committee in heaven. No, I do not mean he’s ‘earned’ heaven through the work, only Christ’s atoning blood shed at Calvary can do that, but that many little ones whose lives mattered to Jim, if not to their parents, can greet him.
Amen,klynn73.
“And Samson cried, Let me die with the Philistines!
And he bowed himself mightily, and the house fell upon the princes and upon all the people that were in it.
So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than they whom he slew in his life.”
What an epitaph! This is a picture of the Christ.
He said he came to destroy the works of the devil and in his dying he conquered death and the grave and liberated mankind from the curse.
May it also be with Jim Pouillon. May his death result in great damage to the bent one and may many more be saved as a result of Jim’s dying than those who were saved as a result of his living and may they all receive him as a conquering hero on that great and final day when all stand together with the LORD Jesus Christ and shout the victory! ooooraaah!
LORD, I pray that you redeem the man who killed Jim and that Jim’s family and friends find the grace to forgive him for taking him from them.
yor bro ken
I love this photo!! Mary Jo singing her heart out in honor of her father who is a hero. His death will not be in vain. Others will step up to the plate and be inspired to be the voice for the voiceless.
Again, Thank you Jim!!!!!!! See you in heaven -looking forward to meeting you!