Bishop Strickland Invites the “Other Victims” of Abortion to Healing Through Project Rachel

“People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

Isaiah 30:19-21

These words are a lifeline to a woman who hears them at a Project Rachel retreat after suffering, sometimes as long as decades, from the grief of abortion. Project Rachel offers an encounter with Christ for women grieving an abortion. 

Look at her smiling face! Few realize the woman who aborted a child or children is hurting inside. So is the father. 

I saw it myself outside an abortion center where I was praying in Denver. A young woman was driving out of the Planned Parenthood parking lot after an abortion. A look of devastating grief crossed her face before she made the turn to go home alone. No boyfriend beside her. No baby inside her. Her expression was haunting and poignant. But even I didn’t realize then her future could be poisoned by grief and shame for decades to come. 

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