For anyone who knows me, you know that before I was a believer in Jesus I was a lot of other things...my mindset was strongly liberal, pro abortion and I was pro gay marriage before Hillary Rodham Clinton was finally on record for supporting "gay marriage". I became a believer in the real Jesus, accepting his sacrifice for my sin in the fall of 2007. Many things changed overnight, notably being healed from unforgiveness that I harbored for 20 years...that was the first thing. I still held on to my political stances and began the debate process defending why God would choose to be "prochoice" and pro gay marriage. An election cycle was just beginning, Gods perfect timing, to elect the 44th president of the United states. I was a democrat and an Obama supporter. It was easy, and made easier when Sarah Palin joined the republican ticket as a running mate to John McCain...she was an easier target than McCain who was the most liberal of Republicans.
A friend invited me to join a Facebook group called "Intelligent women against Palin", I eagerly joined. It was during that period of my wrestling with God and His working to imprint upon my heart and mind the sanctity of life and the value of human life made in His image. Sarah Palin had a young son with downs syndrome. Even though I thought she wasn't very intelligent and disagreed with her politics I started to garner respect that she chose to not abort her child with downs syndrome, she actually followed through with her faith. I still led the charge in mocking her along with my fellow ideological liberal gangs for the embarrassing comments she made during that election season.
During that season of life I'd gone to a wedding, during the reception I was speaking with a couple who also had a young child with Down Syndrome, they were believers as well. They told me about the high percentage of woman who chose to abort their children after learning the likelihood of their child having down syndrome in the womb. They volunteered for an organization that sought adoptive homes for children with down syndrome. They valued life. I had tremendous respect for that.
At some point I found myself on the Facebook group page reading comments mocking her as we often did...then there was mocking her son, that he should have been aborted...many agreed. I wonder if I would have agreed as well had not God started His work in me? I started to defend and honor her on this group page for keeping him...then the attacks came. I was for the first time in my liberal minded life...accused of being a troll. It was incredible...for over a decade I had mocked and laughed and made fun of conservative Christians with the rest of them. I became one of those people you would want on your side if you'd been arguing with a "crazy conservative" because I could easily shame the other side with my knowledge of politics and policies. I'm a naturally curious person so I'm relentless when I get behind something and I like to have all the details before I present an argument. I do my homework. But then God started to teach me, and I started to listen...That's what really began my change of heart and mind from liberalism into what our nation refers to as "conservatism" or "crazy conservative Christianity". God shook me to my core, he humbled me and he changed my heart and mind to conform to His own. I've been called and accused of many things since that day...and I count it all as joy only because Jesus proclaims that He chose me out of this world......
John 15:18-19
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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