Happy Mothers Day

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake

not your mother’s teaching, (9) for they are a graceful garland

for your head and pendants for your neck.

This is Mothers Day month and Lois’ Lodge is all about moms and babies. Mothers Day is primarily a time of celebration. But it can also be a time of challenge for women who have had abortions in their past. It is important that we also remember to keep those moms in our thoughts and prayers.

Planned Parenthood, America’s biggest abortion provider ran a special promotion for Mothers Day this year. If you didn't know what to get your mom on May 9, they had an idea. Planned Parenthood President Cecile wrote, "It's almost Mother's Day ... and if you have a mother in your life who's anything like me or my mom (the late Texas Governor Ann Richards), then you know nothing would make her happier than a gift that represents bold and compassionate values. Like a gift in her honor to Planned Parenthood Federation of America," she writes. The contradiction in this appeal is that Richards is asking people to celebrate motherhood by giving to a business that destroys that opportunity.

At Lois’ Lodge we believe that a much better way to celebrate mothers and Mothers Day is through a gift to an organization that helps women to cherish their motherhood. Lois’ Lodge provides an opportunity for women to choose life for their children through caring for these moms, teaching them life skills and sharing the love of Christ with them. Thank you for your ongoing prayers and donations. Your giving helps to make all of this happen. You are helping to make Mothers Day a special day for these moms and babies through your generous support.

Heat Outside = Deadly Heat Inside a Car

A reminder from the Charlotte-Meck. PD that:

HEAT OUTSIDE
=
DEADLY HEAT INSIDE A CAR

Never leave any child alone in a vehicle
Not even for a minute!

*If you do see a child in a car and cannot
locate the caregiver call 911immediately.

Already in 2008 there have been at least nine deaths of infants and children after being left inside a hot vehicle. Last year there were a total of at least thirty-five such fatalities in the United States due to hyperthermia after children were left in hot cars, trucks, vans and SUV's. This sadly followed 42 and 30 child deaths in 2006 and 2005 respectively. Since 1998 there have been at least a total of 364 of these needless tragedies. Stay alert, children in hot cars can be a deadly combination.

Dogs More Important Than Moms, Babies

LifeNews.com 7/6/07

North Carolina Residents Upset Dogs More Important Than Moms, Babies

Raleigh, NC (Lifenews.com) -- Residents of North Carolina join pro-life groups in being upset about how a bill to protect police dogs has sailed through the legislature while another to give protection and justice for pregnant women and their unborn children has stalled. The father of a young, pregnant mom found stabbed to death says he does not understand. The law enforcement animal has new protection with a new law. In a nutshell, the law says kill a police dog, and go to jail. But that's hard to swallow for the father of a pregnant woman who was stabbed to death in Raleigh last month. Jenna Nielson was eight months pregnant with a boy she planned to name Ethen. "I just don't understand why you would pass a law for a dog, but not a child," said Kevin Blaine, Jenna Nielson's father. North Carolina law does not allow two murder charges for the death of a pregnant mother. Some lawmakers have introduced a bill to change that, but it's bottled up in a committees as abortion advocates have opposed it. "This was a murder," Blaine told ABC News. "This had nothing to do with abortion or any of the other things that may be clouding this issue up."