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Larry Lilly's Journal       No Fond Farewell In Wyoming   Guest: Mike Pyatt   Vol 19 Issue 7

Wyoming’s sagging economy sent some of the best companies packing. There’re signs of some reversal. Rig counts have risen. Rail traffic out of Bill is still relatively anemic. Fortunately, tourism is the bright spot in our economy. For the first time since 1918, the Total Solar Eclipse will traverse Wyoming from Torrington to Jackson. The Cowboy State is the perfect destination for travelers to congregate from around the globe. Natrona County residents are demanding high dollars to rent homes, driveways and open spaces. Man camps will be in vogue on August 21, 2017. Not everyone leaving our border will be missed.
       Last week the only Planned Parenthood clinic in Wyoming closed their doors. A collective sigh of relief from genuine Pro-life supporters was heard. This closure was one of six across the Rocky Mountain region. Open since 1975, financial reasons forced the decision. Like the “mother ship,” it claimed to advance “women’s health.” That’s code word for abortion. Since its inception, abortions generate the bulk of its income nationwide. Wyoming and North Dakota now wear “the badge of distinction” as the only two states without Planned Parenthood clinics. A former manager said the Casper clinic’s closure was unrelated to politics. We’ve heard reports that very few abortions are performed in Wyoming. There are no reliable statistics to confirm that claim.
       Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood maintains a presence here through Wyoming Abortion Fund, which connects women in the state to abortion providers, and NARAL Pro-Choice Wyoming, operates a website designed to mislead women, using donations to promote distortions about “crisis pregnancy centers.” Like their “Top 5 Lies Told by Crisis Pregnancy Centers,” targeted propaganda to assail the Crisis Pregnancy Center philosophy of defending the unborn, and telling the truth to women about their pregnancy, helping them through that time with support and unconditional love. A vulnerable fifteen-year-old girl, pressured by a family member, or her “sperm donor,” could easily be persuaded to believe those distortions, never considering the “loving choice” of adoption. Crisis Pregnancy Center services are free to all clients. Planned Parenthood and affiliated physicians rake-in a half-billion tax supported dollars annually. In 1970’s and 80’s, women were told pregnancy’ “is only an appendage.” Today, “It’s an informed choice.” Planned Parenthood’s version of “family planning” leaves hundreds of thousands of babies absent from the family photo album forever.
        The U.S. abortion rate has fallen to the lowest level since1973, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research arm of the abortion industry. The rate has declined for decades, in women of child bearing ages,15 to 44. Many who oppose abortion on demand, question Guttmacher’s numbers. Planned Parenthood CEO, Cecile Richards, whose 2014, annual salary, doubled to $957 thousand, said, “Efforts to help women get better access to contraception are paying off.” Paying off indeed. She and her ilk are gearing up for a fight over federal funding for “women’s health dollars.” “We shouldn’t go backwards on access to birth control.” Richards blasted the GOP leadership in Congress, who vowed to work to appeal the ACA, which requires contraceptive coverage for many women.
       Planned Parenthood laments that they, like most addicts, can’t both pay the rent and fund their habit. Perhaps they should sell cigars at their clinics, with wrappers labeled, “It would’ve been a boy,” or “It would’ve been a girl,” to replenish their dwindling coffers. With a warning label “Smoking is hazardous to your “health,” of course.
        Americans United for Life argue that this decline demonstrates new state restrictions on abortion are driving those falling numbers. New regulations on clinics and laws requiring women and girls to get an ultrasound, which according to Kristi Hamrick, a AUFL spokesperson, are “having a real measurable impact on abortion.” The decline is good news, regardless of the reason. As long as one unborn life is snuffed out, we’ve work to do. There’s no surcease to defending the innocent. A 2015, Pew Research poll found the nation deeply divided over abortion.
        Wyoming legislators resisted an ultrasound consent bill for years. Two similar bills failed to pass in 2009 and 2011. There’s a handful of lawmakers who “talk pro-life,” yet vote otherwise. However, this year Governor Mead signed a bill allowing women to see an ultrasound before an abortion. It requires abortion practitioners to inform women that they can see an ultrasound of their unborn child before having an abortion. They must also ask a woman if they want to hear their baby’s heartbeat. A second bill bans the use of aborted babies’ body part for research. Both laws take effect July first. A survey by the National Institute of Family and Life advocates report 78% of abortion vulnerable women chose life after seeing an ultrasound. Planned Parenthood uses ultrasound as a “search and destroy” sortie.
       The mysterious “right to privacy” was a 1965, Supreme Court case, Griswold v. Connecticut, grafting the principle of that “right” onto the Constitution, from the Ninth Amendment, which doesn’t mention a right to privacy. It reached macabre proportions in 1973, Roe v. Wade. Nine Black robes continue foisting an unrelenting “opinion poll” onto our Constitution. The essence of Roe v. Wade pits the supposedly constitutional man-made “rights” of the pregnant woman against the God-given right to the life of the unborn child. Courts v. God.
       Stopping a beating heart is codified in Planned Parenthood’s grisly practices. A recent Oxford University research study announced findings that an unborn baby’s heart beat may begin as early as 16 days after conception. According to Save the Storks, nearly 65% of women choosing abortion say they felt pressured by others to abort. That’s Planned Parenthood’s primary tactics-high pressure and deception. For we who love Jesus, the unborn and born, and misinformed pregnant women, let’s rent Planned Parenthood a U-Haul to ensure they leave. Good riddance. And don’t let the door hit you in the posterior. What do you think?
 Mike Pyatt’s a Natrona County resident. His email: roderickstj@yahoo.com

 Editor's Note: 
Mike’s article is appropriate when the crimes against humanity committed by ISIS etc. are front page news. The last few weeks the horrible fact that ISIS is beheading babies has really hit hard and many are losing sleep fretting. I am one who is doing some of the fretting.
         Yet, little or nothing is said of the brutal dismembering of babies inside the womb. Over 60 million have been killed in our moral and “Political Correct Society of the Enlightened.
  It is July and we Americans who will fight for Liberty need to join in the raised chorus led by people like Mike and stand up for the “Right of Conceived Children to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” These rights should be protected regardless of any inconvenience caused to the parents.
     If White Lives, Black Lives, Mixed Lives matter, then it should follow that Tiny, Defenseless Lives matter too. LML
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Mike Mentioned the great work of Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Wyoming. I must brag a little on the Crisis Pregnancy Center here in Terre Haute, a small Mid-West city. Under the leadership of Sharon Carey, our center has become the largest one in the world!
You can read a long article published by the Celebrate Life Magazine in the May 2017 issue here:
http://www.clmagazine.org/article/crisis-pregnancy-center-defeats-planned-parenthood/
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"Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want."
Mother Teresa

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​Pastor Lilly,
I preach a message I call “Eight Pages” based on Psalm 90:10, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away.”

Imagine I have handed you eight blank pages of paper. Now set aside one page for every decade you have lived. What you have left is the most you should plan to have to write out the rest of your life. Set aside one more for the eighth decade, this is the extra credit if you get to it! Today is my sixty first birthday, and with that date I finish writing the details of my first year on the seventh page I didn’t get here without some regrets! There are things I wish I could go back and erase, but I never can.

Thankfully, I know what it is to be forgiven. Like the timed tests I used to take, I don’t when the Master of this test is going to say, put your pencil down and hand in your work. I have a feeling that as hard as I’ve traveled the years to this point that I won’t see the page for extra credit, but only God knows. I’ll just try to stay busy writing as much good on my page as I can with the time I have left. Of all the regrets, I’ve heard over many years, I’ve never heard anyone regret that they knew the Lord of that they did too much for Him. Thank you for all that you do.
Alan Farmer, Pastor Cuba Baptist Church.

Editor’s Note: Pastor Farmer pastors a church in totally Rural Indiana. Most of his parishioners have running water plumbed to the house, the rest must run to the spring and fetch a bucket. Alan pours out his heart in praise for what the Lord has done and is doing in the ministry there. I had the privilege of performing the wedding ceremony for he and his wife many years ago. As I am past the threescore and ten, by 6/10ths, I want to use this page wisely. Tell me what you think. LML.

Bob Jones President Steve Pettit has this interesting piece based on the inscriptions on a European Cathedral.
The Cathedral is known for its three arched doorways that lead from the vestibule into the sanctuary. Over the right entrance, these words are carved into a marbled archway: “All that pleases is but for a moment” Over the left entrance, leading worshipers into the sanctuary are chiseled these words: “All that troubles is but for a moment.” Visibly etched over the main archway, leading down the center aisle, is this inscription: “All that is important is eternal.”

Dr. Pettit summed up with this: “The message is clear for all who enter the sanctuary. All that is temporal is ultimately trivial. What is truly important in the present is that which will be important ten thousand years from today. What truly matters in life is having an eternal purpose.” May 2017 Message from the President.
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Concerning Thomas Jefferson, Carl Becker wrote: “I picked a flower from his life and pinned it to my soul.”
“In life you don’t get summers off, and few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.” Bill Gates.
“To those who wait with baited breath for that favorite media to catch the phrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want to. The Lady’s not for turning.” Margaret Thatcher.

The Book Worm's Corner. Comments From Helpful Books. Joyce Lilly TgB

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​Why Life Hurts Understanding Why God Allows Pain, Suffering and Evil. Jim Scudder, Victory in Grace. 8 Chap, 44 pages. $6.00 order here:
https://www.victoryingrace.org/product/why-life-hurts
   In this book, Pastor Jim Scudder, Jr. offers help for those of us who are perplexed by the frequent and systematic occurrence of pain, suffering, and evil. He answers the oft-repeated question, “Why does God allow bad things?”
    There are two types of people: those who are currently suffering a tragedy and those who will soon be suffering a tragedy. Is that fatalism? No, it’s reality.
In this book, Pastor Jim Scudder, Jr. offers help for those of us who are perplexed by the frequent and systematic occurrence of pain, suffering, and evil.
The above promotion piece is not exaggeration! It is understatement about this fabulous book. Don’t let the size fool you. Every page is loaded with truth that is designed to comfort when life hurts really bad.
      Chapter One, brought the tears in my heart to the surface as Pastor Scudder reminded me of our loss of material things and along the way 3 children. Jim’s one phrase “until one awful day” sums up how terribly painful life can be. Why Life Hurts page after page brings reality to the fore, but immediately brings the Grace of Jesus Christ to the situation in each of the 8 Chapters in varied ways that Christ empowers us to keep on going.
      Chapter 4 deals with 10 Reasons Why God Allows Suffering. WOW. I can’t decide which chapter is my favorite! Larry ordered several copies for counseling. Joyce TgB


Page 4 for the Fourth! Colson, Larry, Milton and Mrs. Maloney!

LLLV17 7-3-2017 Similarity of Power and Saltwater.
In his book, Kingdoms in Conflict, Charles Colson states on page 272, “Power is like saltwater; the more you drink the thirstier you get.

The lure of power can separate the most resolute of Christians from the nature of Christian leadership, which is service to others. It’s difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below.
It was the very temptation of power that led to the first sin. Eve was tempted to eat from the tree of the knowledge to be like God and acquire power reserved for Him. “The sin of the garden was the sin of power,” says Quaker writer, Richard Foster.”

Colson nailed it with the above lines. Yet, God used this insatiable thirst for power to cause the American Patriots to risk everything and say to the bestial King George 111, “Enough! We won’t take it anymore! Thus, was born the United States of America. The birth was long and painful, but here we are, long past the predicted time of our duration as a nation. In theory, the rule is given to a few via the shared power of the whole.

I was shocked as I briefly watched a TV Program when the roaming interviewer asked men and woman of different ages, “Who was the enemy in the revolution?” Most were stunned and most did not know the truth. I can mildly understand not knowing King George, but to think the War for Independence was fought against Mexico, France, or Spain says worlds as to the why of our current situation.

I recall as a Fifth-Grade student being strongly encouraged to remember and recite The Declaration of Independence verbatim in its entirety. Mrs. Maloney loved America fervently and we were expected to follow her lead!

For most of our history, we have been less than thrilled when any phase of our governing mechanism gets a “little too big for its britches.” Lately we have been dangerously close to the pinnacle of toleration.
Too much centralized and unchecked power is dangerous. While thinking on this, keep close the words of Milton in Paradise Lost, where Lucifer proclaims, “To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.

A motto from Revolutionary times is a good one for God’s people today:
We have no king but Jesus Christ.  Larry’s Internet Letter 7/3/2017
 Copyright © 2017 Larry Lilly
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