Dream Bigger!

What an interesting convergence of events; President Trump's Inauguration on Martin Luther King holiday, followed by the anniversary of Roe that has been miraculously overturned and replaced by the celebration of Sanctity of Human Life, the March For Life, political prisoners set free, followed by the 80th Anniversary of the freeing of Auschwitz on Monday. Do we not see the Hand of God moving in our times and calling us to greater things?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, in his speech "I Have a Dream" set a vision for equality when the Constitution would apply to everyone. In His letter from the Burmingham Jail, Dr. King responded to fellow pastors who said they wanted equality, but it wasn't the right time or the right place or the right method or the right person, that his greatest obstacle was not those directly opposing him but those who should stand with him.

It takes faith to dream bigger. When we don't limit God, when we don't underestimate the power of God to act on behalf of the good seeds we have planted - for God is not mocked, we will reap what we sow - when our faith instructs our feet, our convictions our voice, we see the progression we have always seen when God blesses a cause worthy of His blessing - the impossible becomes possible, and the possible becomes reality.

So, to my fellow leaders across the state of Colorado, we all know much work needs to be done in our state, so can we begin today? We all know minds need to be changed, and hearts softened, so can we start appealing to the mind and heart today?

Can we air advertisements on the humanity of preborn children and non-violent resources available to their pregnant mothers? Can we write editorials? Letters to US Congress demanding equal protections under the law for all, regardless of age, developmental ability or disability, or birth status?

Can we blanket newspapers, social media, and the desks of our legislators and fellow citizens with the importance of protecting preborn children and their pregnant mothers from untimely death and trauma? Can we inform the American public that abortion is not healthcare, the child is not a blob of tissue, and allowing pregnant mothers to take dangerous pills that force preterm labor or dismembering children by abortionists is medically unnecessary.

Could we raise the standard on the prolife stance and dream bigger? By applying the US Constitution to all living children and expecting parents to protect their children prior to birth as we expect of parents following birth, there is a very straightforward path to end the holocaust of abortion in this nation.

This is a pivotal time in our nation, and the concern is according to Jeremiah 22:3-5 and other Scriptures that if we want to keep our nation we need to do the following:

"This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

... But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”

If God judged His own people then, there's no reason to think we would not also be judged. We have tried to run a nation without God and begun to see where that has taken us. For love of country, obedience to God, and compassion for fellow members of the human race, can we raise the standard and expectations from accepting whatever crumbs the other side may someday give us (never) to standing firm on the truth in grace that all are created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life .... ?

For too long, we've forgotten how to win, particularly in the prolife arena where we have surrendered our greatest arguments to the arguments of the abortionist. These preborn children are as fully human and alive as we are, recognizably human, and will move away from touch to their faces by seven weeks, detectable brain waves by six weeks, and heartbeat that will last a lifetime by 21 days. They cannot speak for themselves, and we have a strong enough prolife President who could be an Abraham Lincoln or Roosevelt (elected to a fourth term) who could free these children from this current holocaust we call abortion. We just need leaders brave enough to end it.

We must stand as strongly for life as the other side is for death. We need bravery and faith that with God all things are possible. We must abandon the abortionist's slogan of fifty years ago of "rare, safe, and legal" to replace it with treating all innocent human beings equal under the law. God demands justice. We can't take an evolutionary approach that somehow magically over time things will get better, but rather a Biblical approach where we call each other to repentance, turn around and go in the other direction. Once we expect parents to protect their children, and killing children becomes illegal, we can then move on to other worthy causes like pregnancy care centers, adoption and foster care reform, and childcare and schools.

What are you willing to sacrifice to help these children live? What are you willing to do today to stand in the gap for the least of these? What will you do to call our state to repentance?

Colorado has a long way to go only if we keep going in the direction we're going. It's not that far if we just turn around.

Will you pray and work with us - shoulder to shoulder and arm in arm - to protect these children from the abortionist, from ignorance, from the desperation of their mothers? No one wins when hungry death devours. But everyone wins when we choose life for these children, these little hidden surprises that we have to stop throwing away, like throwing away stars from a universe of possibilities, gifts from a loving Creator who knows we need them, like little flowers that would blossom in the love of sunlight, little boys and girls who would dance in the sunrise of springtime and sing to us when we are old and fading.

Faye Barnhart is a Life Affirming Specialist, Co-Founder of Pastors For Life, and Co-Proponent of the Colorado Life Initiative. She was a women’s advocate for 19 years, served four pregnancy care centers in two states, including CEO of the largest pregnancy care center in the United States geographically. A prelaw student who interned at the state Capitol and in media, she graduated with honors and pursued master's work in Organizational Leadership and a career in Communications for international ministries. She began in the prolife cause in the 1980’s, raised her children as a single parent, and is now married with an adopted special needs son and enjoys each of her grandchildren, including a grandbaby who needed life-saving surgery at birth. She accepted Christ as her personal Savior and Lord as a small child.