A Letter from a Grateful Mother

A Letter from a Grateful Mother

"All mankind will fear; they will proclaim the works of God and ponder what He has done. Let the righteous rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in Him; let all the upright in heart praise him." Psalm 64: 9-10

Marilyn, Tasha, Carmen (L to R)

I just received this letter from one of our prolife moms that we met on the streets of Bridgeport a few months back. Tasha needed a place to stay after she changed her mind about aborting her baby. Tasha prayed and asked Jesus to come into her life. We had promised we would help her and The Cooleys opened their home and their hearts to Tasha. Tasha has been with them now for about two months. She came to our youth rally when Charlie Wysong was here.

This is the letter she wrote me, plus the letter she wrote to moms contemplating abortion. This is why we are out on the streets in sub-zero weather pleading with these moms to save their babies. Please join us so we can save more Tashas and more Najais. The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are FEW. I will say no more, these letters say it all:

Dear Mrs. Marilyn,

Hello. How are you? As for me I'm doing fine. I'm starting to feel Najai's kicks a lot stronger especially when I'm at work. I work probably 25 to 30 hours a week, but I enjoy it.

So far with my pay checks I've been able to buy her a couple more outfits, bottles, shoes, receiving blankets, regular blankets, I got her this really cute fleece blanket, socks, and two hats. Now I'm working on getting her a stroller with the connected car-seat, and a crib. I should be able to get that within the next two weeks.

As far as school there's this program that will allow me to learn at my own pace at home but I have to pay for it. Which means my school process has been slowed down once again but I think I'm gonna be able to do that program.

My baby's father calls me almost every night to check on me and to see how I'm feeling. He told me that he would like to work on our relationship and also that he would help me pay my rent every month. His words really say a lot, but his actions are throwing me off a little. So I told him for now we need to think of the baby and after she's here maybe we could work on our relationship with each other. He said that he thinks that's a good ideal also.

Since the last time that I have seen you, I talked to my dad twice and to my mother once. My grandmother down south told me recently that my great grandmother is not doing so well right now, so can you please pray for her? I talked to my brother and my sister once and they told me that they were doing fine, and so I left it at that.

Oh yeah, I know that I wrote on that paper at the youth rally, that I would write a letter, and I'm gonna. It will be at the end of this letter.

Tasha

Dear Expecting Mothers,

Hi, I am a sixteen year old expecting mother who almost got an abortion until I got a wake up call.

I know most of you are probably thinking "yeah? And what do you have to do with me?" Me? I have nothing to do with you, but your baby does. Your baby is probably the most precious part of you, but you won't ever find that out because your about to murder him/her - or should I say in that clinics way - "abort your child."

I know they tell you that you won't feel a thing but that is an honest lie. Don't believe me? Think about this, sit down and look in the mirror, stare at yourself. And while you're doing that, vision a little part of you being cut away, then vision it being the most important part of what you look like now . While your looking at yourself, vision yourself not ever having any innocence or think of yourself not ever having a chance. That's what your about to take away from your baby and you want to know what that's not fair.

It's not fair to you, it's not fair to your child, and it's not fair to me. Your baby could be meant to save someone in this lifetime, or to maybe even love someone. You want to know what with abortion, your taking away a lot of things from your child.

Here are a few examples of your child's rights: Your child, #1, has the right to live, to experience the feeling of pain and the joy of happiness; your child has the right to look you in the eyes and to see that you love him/her; your child has the right to hear your voice whether your yelling or talking calmly; your child has the right to feel your touch.

As for me, I haven't been on good terms with my mother in two, almost three years. But you want to know that every day at least twice a day, I can vision the day that she would let me lay my head on her lap as I cried and she softly rubbed my head and her touch made me forget all about my fears and my pains - all I could feel was her protection and most of all her love. Now as for you I'm sure that there has been a time when your mother held you when you cried and made you feel better, so why would you take that feeling away from your child?

Vision a little you walking around. Can you imagine watching a special part of you and teaching that part of you all the things that you never learned? Can you imagine the feeling that you'll get when you see your child take his/her first breath and then a couple of months later his/her first steps? Or what about hearing the first word? Can you imagine that feeling? Because as for me, I'm due in April and it's February and I still can't imagine it.

I know your friends and even some of your family may say that it's best for an abortion, but that is completely their opinion. What about your's? how do you feel about your child? Do you want your child? Because if you do, there's a lot of places to help you keep your child.

Even if you don't want your child there are a lot of good people who do; there are lots of women who want a child - a lot of them have female problems that prevent them from having one of their own. But I'm sure that if you don't want your child, they would be forever thankful for your child. Some people think that giving your child up for adoption is bad, but isn't that better then killing him/her? Look, I can't tell you what to do or even how to live, but I can pray that you think further into your situation and come up with a better way.

Because I'm sixteen, I don't live with my mother or my father. Right now I live with a nice Christian family that was willing to help me in my time of need. Since I've been here I've gotten my first job it pays $8.00 an hour. I've been able to get a court date set up for me to have an emancipation case which will allow me to sign my lease for any apartment with my name. I've done research and found out about a school that will allow me to stay at home and get my 4 year high school diploma - I'm not talking about a GED I'm talking about a genuine 4-years-of-hard- work-high-school diploma.

I started out with nothing and now I have everything! First, I have faith that God will never leave me; second, I now have faith in myself and I know and believe that my child deserves more; third, I know that I deserved more and I started to truly believe that. And do you want to know something? God gave me more he gave me so much now that I don't know if I have the space to receive it!

What I'm trying to say is your child did not ask you to lay down. You did that on your own, you thought that you were grown enough to lay down, so why can't you think that your grown enough to take responsibility for your child? Your child hasn't asked for anything from anybody ever, your child can't speak yet. But I can and I'm asking you please give your baby a chance.

God gave you a blessing and he's also giving you a choice. He gave His only begotten son for our sins! And you want to know something? He never said that we had to give up our children! He actually asks mothers to teach their children right from wrong and to teach them of His words and to show them of His ways. But in order to do that, you have to choose. While your deciding I'm gonna state an old saying to you "choose and as you do, choose wisely for this choice may be the last one you ever make." As for this situation, this choice could be the last one you make because abortion is a life or death situation for your child and for you as well.

Like I said at the beginning, I know your probably wondering what I have to do with you. Earlier I said nothing, but I thought about it while I was writing this letter and I was wrong. It's my choice to say everything because whether you know it or not, I may be someone you know or I could just very well be the person speaking for another innocent child who didn't get his/her chance back in 1973. Please consider my words as I am considering your well being, I don't want you to make a choice that you'll regret. You know how sometimes you do things and then you find out more information about it and you say "I wish I knew that before?" Well, God held my hand while I was typing and he told me to tell you there is another way, He also told me to tell you that the other way is him. Now I'm telling you there is a way to ask for help: "PRAY". Pray for help, pray for understanding, and most of all pray that you make the right choice.

Sincerely yours,

Tasha Monique Wormley

P.S If at any point you would like to speak to me, whether it be by writing or by some other way, you can always ask Mrs. Marilyn how you can reach me.