When we arrived at the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil in Little Rock for our 1 to 2 p.m. timeslot, we didn’t know exactly what to expect. At that time, one other person was there praying—we were his replacement. We signed our names in a book signifying that we showed up, and began to find our places.
Sarah took to standing almost directly in front of the abortion facility, while Josh and I paced the sidewalk—Josh on one end and me on the other. And we began to pray.
It was a quiet hour at 4 Office Park Drive. Not many cars drove by, and not a single vehicle pulled into the abortion facility. This means there’s a very good chance that no abortions took place during our time there.
But our time of prayer was about much more than that one hour—it was about abortion ending in Arkansas and across the United States. It was about the hearts and minds of abortion workers changing. It was about facilities closing down. It was about women (and men) being saved from the pain abortion causes. It was about saving innocent babies from death.
Such an immense goal cannot be completed by us alone, and I think we were reminded about this truth yesterday. God must move. That’s why prayer is so important, because it can, and does, change things. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
We need our land to be healed, and so we prayed. While I don’t have a grand story to tell you about our time at 4 Office Park Drive, the story isn’t about us—it’s about what God is going to do. We are just called to take part in what God is writing. We might not know when abortion is going to end, but we do know that with Him, all things are possible. There will come a day when abortion is no more. Until then, we pray.
