Raising the Standard: What Does Your Flag Mean?

 

At my "little Christian high school", Vancouver Christian Secondary School (which I have made famous from all the stories I've told about it through the years), the Canadian flag had to be raised on the flag pole every morning then taken down at the end of every school day.

In my final year at VCSS there were no guys who volunteered to do this so my friend Kim and I glanced at each other, exchanged knowing looks, and raised up our hands. There was nobody else so we did it EVERY DAY through the entire school year!

It was quite a commitment. It required we got there early every morning, get out a ladder, hook up the flag, hoist it up the pole, hook up the rope, then bring the ladder back.

THEN we had to do the reverse at the end of the day. Of course, Kim and I always sang "O, Canada" while standing at attention each time. Twice a day. Even on those many cold, rainy, Vancouver winter days. (BTW it rains 400 days out of every year in Vancouver.)

For me personally, because I had to take two buses to school and back, it meant getting up 30 minutes earlier and getting home from school 30 minutes later. But the good thing is that I spent a great deal thinking about Canada, our flag and what my country meant to me.

And on the days when I was wet and cold and in the rain, hauling a ladder around and felt like complaining because of the "massive sacrifice" I was making, the Lord RE-focused me on the men who actually went to war and DIED for the things I was enjoying. Oh, like say, FREEDOM!

Now you understand a bit better why I do NOT wish to merely surrender CANADA into the hands of a few, uber-rich, global elites none of whom were voted into power.

Have you ever taken a moment to literally raise and display YOUR country's flag? 

Have you even taken a few moments to look at it recently and think about what your country means to you? 

Will you just allow it to be handed over and out of existence for the sake of "getting a normal life back"? (Which, BTW, is never going to happen. Our lives are forever altered and those in charge have either no ability or intention of helping you.)

Think about it.

Truth, with Love,

Always, Laura-Lee 

"So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him." (Isaiah 59:19)

  

Flag at Vancouver Christian School these days.

It looks VERY different to the one-story, previously uninhabited, former elementary school that we had. 

Ah. The good ol' days. 😊

My Grad class of 1985 meeting for a reunion 35 YEARS later!

That's "Kimmie".

Y'all look pretty good for your age, I must say. 😲

Kickin' it "old school". 😎

https://vcssalumni.blogspot.com

WWMD? What Would Mom Do?

 

I attended a small, Christian High School from grade 8 to grade 12 and it was governed by a Board of Directors. Through the years this board was predominantly made up of the Baptist and Christian Reformed Ministers who were the parents of the kids I went to school with. 

I was on Student Council for two years, both in grade 10 and again in grade 12 and I remember The Board was the bane of my existence. We were forever trying to get simple things like a Square Dance or a trip to the Roller Skating rink the thumbs up, but The Board was like a massive wall of resistance because they considered these activities "too worldly" for their children to take part in.

I often think of The Board these days and of all the parents of my friends and classmates that I came to know throughout my five years at Vancouver Christian Secondary School.  I also remember the teachers I had who influenced me and made an impact on my growing up years, which I still feel even to this day. Almost all of them are dead now and we, their children and grandchildren, have taken the "top rung" in our world and society.

What would they say if they if they knew children were being given puberty blockers at the age of 10 which would forever change their bodies and render them sterile?

 Or if they knew teenagers were allowed to have their genitals cut off by a surgeon without their parents knowledge? 

Or if the school curriculum taught that there was no such thing as boys and girls and that gender was fluid and "assigned at birth"? 

Or if drag queens were telling stories to preschoolers or entertaining their aged parents in nursing homes?

Or if marxists agendas were being pushed on society non-stop?

Or the government had illegal access to all our medical files?

Or if JUST ONE Minister was sitting in jail because he had the audacity to keep the doors of his church open and keep preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to whomever wished to hear it?

Or if there was a satanist temple operating unhindered in every major city and large town? 

Or if abortions were free to women of any age right up until birth?

Would they be fearful of cancel culture or that some people would stop "Liking" them?

I grew up without a father present and my mother was in a wheelchair before she was even fifty years old however,

 if Mom had access to the internet and a WORLD wide audience through social media and could make her opinions known at the simple touch of a screen, she would NOT be posting about the weather or sharing photos of her latest meal.

I don't know what your parents would be doing, but I know my own sweet, compassionate, big-hearted, meek, little, Christian mother would be ...

PROTESTING ... THE ... SH*T  OUT THESE THINGS!!!

Have a pleasant Sabbath Day rest everybody.

Truth, with Love,

Always, Laura-Lee

Who is ROE in Roe v. Wade?

 Supreme Court of the United States

Once again we are on the cusp of another "landmark" decision in the Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life battle as the Supreme Court of the United States seems ready to overturn the decision of "Roe v. Wade". The media, the Internet and everyone on Social Media have their thumbs itching and ready to weigh in and are already in a frenzy over it. But I thought I would take a different path.

I wanted to bring this into a more personal and relatable realm and share with you some of the details I have learned about Norma McCorvey (the "Roe" in Roe v. Wade) and her daughter, Shelley (also known as "The Roe Baby"). I have consciously and actively watched these events transpire over the past forty-five years and have attempted to get to the ultimate truth of these things. But I have also seen many times people think something political will change things that actually have much deeper roots; a person's heart and beliefs. 

As always with me, I hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

WHO IS ROE in "ROE v. WADE"?

IMAGE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Norma McCorvey, née Norma Lea Nelson, also known as Jane Roe, (born September 22, 1947, Simmesport, Louisiana, U.S.—died February 18, 2017, Katy, Texas).

 American activist who was the original plaintiff (anonymized as Jane Roe) in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade (1973), which made abortion legal throughout the United States.

Born: September 22, 1947 Louisiana

Died: February 18, 2017 (aged 69) Texas

"McCorvey grew up in Texas, the daughter of a single alcoholic mother. She got into trouble frequently and at one point was sent to a reform school. She married and became pregnant at 16 but divorced before the child was born; she subsequently relinquished custody of the child to her mother. 

In 1967 she gave up a second child for adoption immediately after giving birth. 

When she became pregnant again in 1969, she wanted to have an abortion. In Texas at the time, such a procedure was legal only if the mother’s life would be endangered by carrying the pregnancy to term. McCorvey was referred to feminist lawyers Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington, who had been seeking just such a client to challenge the laws restricting access to abortion.

McCorvey was hoping that she would quickly gain permission to receive an abortion, but she was unsuccessful. Coffee and Weddington changed the case to a class-action suit, and, by the time a ruling was made by a federal three-judge panel in June that the Texas law against abortion was unconstitutional, McCorvey had given birth and again given up the infant for adoption.

 The state of Texas appealed, and in 1973 the Supreme Court ruled that during the first trimester of pregnancy a pregnant woman did have the right to have an abortion “free of interference by the State.”

In the early 1980s she began volunteering at an abortion clinic and also began speaking out in favour of the right to choose, becoming increasingly well known. 

Norma - the Pro-Life years.

However, in 1995 McCorvey befriended Philip Benham, head of the aggressive pro-life organization  Operation Rescue  and she soon began campaigning AGAINST the right to abortion. In 1998 she converted to Roman Catholicism after coming under the influence of Frank Pavone, who led the pro-life Priests for Life. 

But in the documentary "AKA Jane Roe" (2020), a dying McCorvey claimed that she had been paid by anti-abortion groups to support their cause."

(For the full article click the Link below)

SOURCE: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norma-McCorvey

MY COMMENTS:

McCorvey was all over the place! Getting pregnant, handing her kids over to others, wanting a quick abortion to rid herself of another baby, later openly living as a lesbian with as many women as she had previously had men, yielding to whatever ideology would get her acceptance or just plain cold, hard cash.

Yet her self-serving actions had consequences causing turmoil, chaos and massive amounts of DEATH.

Let that be a lesson to all of us when we think what we do and how we behave won't affect anyone but ourselves. For GOOD or BAD, actions have consequences.

And if you think all that is a messed up life of "gooble-dee-goop", read how it affected her daughter, Shelley (aka. "The Roe Baby"), as she discovers who her real mother is, lives in the middle of a tug-of-war between Pro-Choice and Pro-Life movements and their PR machines, and becomes a target and fodder for yellow journalism.

Image of  daughter, SHELLEY, (aka. "The Roe Baby")

After being married and a mother herself and faced with the imminent death of her birth mother, the article in The Atlantic ends this way.

"Shelley had long held a private hope, she said, that Norma would one day “feel something for another human being, especially for one she brought into this world.” Now that Norma was dying, Shelley felt that desire acutely. “I want her to experience this joy—the good that it brings,” she told me. “I have wished that for her forever and have never told anyone.”

But Shelley let the hours pass on that winter’s day. And then it was too late.

From Shelley’s perspective, it was clear that if she, the Roe baby, could be said to represent anything, it was not the sanctity of life but the difficulty of being born unwanted."

Read The WHOLE ARTICLE FOR YOURSELVES .

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/jane-roe-v-wade-baby-norma-mccorvey/620009/

For those of you who believe you are still capable of sitting on the fence about this issue I must inform you that you are not. Now that science has caught up and the question of  "Is it life or potential life?" is moot, because we can now see into the womb and know it's a baby, the decision has become only one of two options.

Which right is the greater one? The baby's right to live or the mother's right to kill it.

IMAGE FROM "SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN".

Truth, with Love,

Always, Laura-Lee