Elizabeth's Pen

Written in response to a fellow homeschooling mother who was being criticized by her family for teaching her children at home:

I am so sorry you have to deal with this irrational criticism of your homeschooling. Try to resist the urge to lash out in frustration – I know how tempting it must be. With calmly presented facts and Scripture, perhaps your family will be persuaded.

First of all, the letter your family member sent you is full of bad arguments for public schooling. Your response should be designed to put her on the defensive. You shouldn't have to explain why you are homeschooling (the perfectly natural thing to do for a child whom you love). She should have to explain why she is public schooling and especially why she is discouraging loving parents from leaving the failed public school experiment which has been a dismal failure!

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I want to personally thank all those who came to Zanesville on Aug. 7 to show the painful but powerful pictures of what abortion does to innocent American children. I am sympathetic with the concern of the two mothers who wrote letters of outrage at the Maple Ave. display, but I couldn't help but wonder if they thought about the suffering of those helpless babies in the womb. My young children saw the pictures as well and were not traumatized in the least. To them it is simple - "Mommy, why would people do that to their own baby?"

I heard another local mother who saw the display while riding in the car with her children say that it gave her a wonderful opportunity to speak to her children about the horror of abortion and the importance of abstinence.

Do I like those bloody pictures being shown? Of course not. Oh, for the day when it will no longer be necessary! But people had to come from around the nation to remind us what "choice" looks like, because the media has censored the preborn child from the abortion debate. Notice that the Times Recorder did not even utter a word of the group's display, except letters in opposition to it! You can't argue with the pictures can you? The lies about the baby just being a "blob of tissue" crumble upon sight of those pictures.

Do you remember seeing the pictures of the corpses of Nazi Holocaust victims and how outraged you were...not at the one showing you the picture...but at the ones who slaughtered those innocent Jews? Where are our tears on behalf of these modern holocaust victims?

I am sorry Zanesville had to see those pictures, but not for the same reason as the outraged mothers who wrote letters to the editor last week. I am sorry because my heart breaks for the 50 million innocent Americans who have died a cruel death because of our apathy and silence. When something is so gruesome that we can't stand to look at it, perhaps we shouldn't be tolerating it.

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Here is a talk I gave to a young woman in our church who is pregnant with her first child:

Dear young mother,

Your heart has been full of dreams and hopes for your little child for many months now. I know what it’s like for I’ve had six in nine years. I want to offer some encouragement and godly counsel to you as you begin to serve the Lord in a new capacity as a mother, with greater responsibility than ever before and graver consequences for error.

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Letter to the editor, Times Recorder newspaper, Zanesville, Ohio

Having read so many positive letters to the editor concerning The Foxhole - Zanesville's local smut-bar where one owner tried to murder another owner recently - one would think it is a charitable club that bakes cookies for the elderly, crochetes booties for newborns, and gives free marital counseling for ailing marriages. After all, one citizen told us that it is a “clean club” that is helping single mothers and college students “better themselves,” and that its owner, Mr. George, is a “great man”. And another citizen referred to The Foxhole as merely a place of entertainment. When can I get an appointment to take my husband and five children to visit this clean club for some entertainment and meet this great man, Mr. George? I am always looking for more positive role models for my children!

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When Homeschooling Parents Get Criticism From Family Members

Elizabeth's Letter to the Editor About Missionaries to the Preborn Abortion Protest in Zanesville, Ohio

Counsel to a new mother at her baby shower

The "Foxhole Bar" Kills Families