Truth And Reconciliation Needed, Part 8

God made sex to be pleasurable. Some settle for pain.

A neighbor of Elaine Riddick settled for pain. He raped Elaine Riddick.

Pleasure and friendship are supposed to go together in God's design. A wife/lover says about her husband/lover in Song of Solomon 5:16 Amplified Bible, "His voice and speech are exceedingly sweet; yes, he is altogether lovely [the whole of him delights and is precious]. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!"

A good, loving friend speaks well and seeks to do good deeds. A friend is faithful shutting the door of opportunity to evil. Elaine Riddick's unloving, unfriendly neighbor opened the door to personal and public pain and evil. Racists, sexists, elitists, etc. like Wallace Kuralt (Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/08/4223519/alice-mae-jackson-and-eugenics.html#.UjHJM3_mViM#storylink=cpy,) Clarence Gamble, MD, (Maafa 21 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02t3Wqg-4Iw) and Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood (Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsrOPDdbTzM) are eager to walk through doors opened to evil.

After Elaine Riddick was raped at the age of 13, North Carolina state sterilized her while she was giving birth to her son. Watch this video of a CNN interview in which Elaine Riddick says about her North Carolina state-sponsored forced sterilization "Later on because of my body was traumatized so severely I ended up having to have a total hysterectomy. But prior to that before I had the hysterectomy most of my life was I had to live in a lot of pain, hemorrhaging .... When I got my monthly cycle ... it felt like someone had taken a knife and was gutting me .... My menstrual cycle ... wasn't normal because it lasted ... 12 to 15 days at a time, and this happened from the time ... after I had my son from the time I was 14 until I got into my 40s when I eventually did have to have a total hysterectomy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzYQLHHCxq8.

Some may think, "Well, I'm not a rapist." Are you engaging in partner sex outside of marriage? If yes, you are also opening the door to pain and evil.

Looking for love Hannah Rose landed in uncommitted sexual relationships, abortion at Planned Parenthood and miscarriage. She writes in her September 2, 2013, http://www.roseandherlily.com/ blog post "Sometimes it's so hard to wrap my mind around it all... sometimes I am caught off guard with moments of grief, the grief of my loss of my two babies, as well as the loss of my innocence."

Many marriages are also not celebrating friendship and sex because of infidelity. Read my article "Sex, Lies and Education" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/04/sex-lies-and-education.html.

Infidelity comes in wide varieties. Read my article "Silent Rapes" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/04/silent-rapes.html.

While God does not will for us to have partner sex outside of marriage, He wills for us to enjoy sex inside of marriage. God does not want any of us to be afraid of sexuality and try to stomp it out. God created sexuality. What God creates is good, beautiful and excellent provided we participate in God's creation according to His design. God designed sex to bond marital couples. Sometimes sex leads to reproduction.  Read my article "Fearless Sex" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/01/fearless-sex.html.

God is also the creator of human life no matter how life is conceived, and He wills for us to love people. Elaine Riddick said in a CNN interview about her son, Tony Riddick, "Someone asked me a question the other day. How do we get along? Do I have certain feelings towards him as far as you know reminding me that he was a product of rape. No, that's my son, and I love him very much, and he's a special gift from God. That's how I look at it." 1 John 4:18-20 Amplified Bible says, "There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love’s complete perfection]. We love Him, because He first loved us. If anyone says, I love God, and hates (detests, abominates) his brother [in Christ], he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, Whom he has not seen."

Fear of people causes death by abortion and all kinds of other evil. The spirit of fear is behind China's one-child policy. In 1995, when Guo Yanling was eight months pregnant, she was forced to abort her son. In 1999, she was forcibly sterilized. In 2006, she was imprisoned for not being able to pay a fine for having more than one child. The Chinese government also refused to issue household registrations to her and to her husband, Du Yiliang's, three children without which they are unable to attend school or receive government benefits. Guo Yanling's and Du Yiliang's abortion, sterilization, educational and economic terror experience is typical in China. "Numerous forced-abortion tragedies occur in China every single day," says Pastor Bob Fu, president of ChinaAid Association. What isn't nearly as typical is that with ChinaAid’s help, Guo Yanling and Du Yiliang have been granted refugee status by the UN High Commission on Refugees. Read more about Guo Yanling, Du Yiliang and family at http://www.chinaaid.org/2013/03/with-chinaaid-help-two-victims-of-china.html. They also welcome notes of encouragement to Du Yiliang and Guo Yanling, requests for interviews and financial contributions to ChinaAid's Emergency Relief Fund.

Whether we live in China, North Carolina, other parts of America and other parts of the globe God loves us and desires for us to live well with great joy. God does not want us to be passive and refuse to participate in good deeds. Are you a victim of American state-sponsored sterilization? Don't let threats or pressure stop you from standing up for what's right. You are lovable to God, and God wants you to love yourself and other people. A Persian proverb says, "Opportunity should be grabbed." In North Carolina $10 million is to be split equally among those sterilized through the North Carolina Eugenics Board. Compensation claims must be filed by June 30, 2014, for victims to receive a one-time payment to be distributed June 30, 2015. North Carolina had a eugenics board from the 1930s through the 1970s through which social workers, family and others arranged for people to be sterilized. If you think you are one of the victims, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/FirstPartyVerificationform.pdf. Sometimes people are not able to speak up for themselves and need advocates. If you are not a victim, but are an advocate for a victim, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form with required attachments: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/ThirdPartyVerificationform.pdf. These forms are verification and not a guarantee of compensation. In South Africa Desmond Tutu retired as archbishop to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that exposed many of the evils done under apartheid, so that evil may be stopped and good promoted. North Carolina is not the only American state that did state-sponsored sterilizations. Other states need to apologize to, financially compensate victims and erase all forms of "family planning" evil. If you have filed a verification form, please share your experience and inspire others. Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195

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Sex and the Disabled

God created love and sex not only to praise and worship Him, but also for the enjoyment and empowerment of the entire human race. Some try to stop it, but the bold and the disabled are not stopped from the joy of love, sex and children.

Disability rights activist Ed Roberts is paralyzed from the neck down. When he was a young person beginning to express interest in sex, some told him to give up on his dreams. But Ed turned his dreams into reality and now has a son conceived through sexual intercourse.

David Ring also did not listen to those who told him he wouldn't get married, have kids or preach because he has cerebral palsy. Ring got married, has four children and has preached to more than 6,000 churches internationally.

Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey found people enjoy expanded physical prowess under the influence of sexual arousal. Kinsey discovered that a stutterer loses his stutter. A person with cerebral palsy gains greater control of their muscles.

Some do not have God-sized thinking when it comes to empowering the disabled and others to live their dreams. Margaret Sanger was the founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). As an activist in the birth control and population control movements she advocated for the reduction of births among blacks, other people of color, the disabled and those of limited financial means. Planned Parenthood today is the largest provider of abortions to blacks, other people of color, the disabled and those of limited financial means. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a July 2009 New York Times interview says, "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then setup for Medicaid funding for abortion."

Snuffing out blacks, other people of color, the disabled or people from families of limited financial means is not the solution to challenges; the solution is to find ways to have all of the human race participating in society at each individual's highest capacity. If we care about people, then we will help them to live the best possible life. Abortion is the antithesis of compassion.
 
1) Love overcomes obstacles. Abortion is marketed as a cheap and easy solution to eliminate people who pose challenges to the quality of life whereas love is costly. Love is expensive, but it is also valuable and helpful for living the best possible life. 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 Amplified Bible says, "Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end] . . . . "

Anupa Iyer kept hope alive in spite of being placed in various voluntary and involuntary psychiatric institutions where anti-depressant medications left her unable to read, write or engage in conversations. Iyer finished law school and is currently working for the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C.
 
2) Disability is an opportunity to open up abilities. Miracles often start with people asking, seeking and insisting on help. Never, never give up on finding a way out of the barriers disability encounters. 

Our thinking can be the biggest barrier. Ask God to totally take over our thought process. Small-mindedness is a slippery slope to the status quo and to stagnancy. Cry out to God for the disabled like the father did in response to Jesus recorded in Mark 9:23-24 New Living Translation Bible, and expect to receive miracles: "What do you mean, 'If I can'?" Jesus asked. "Anything is possible if a person believes." The father instantly cried out, "I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!"" 

Christian, Former U.S. four-term President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was disabled, and he fought to have the technology necessary to live the best possible life. Since he could not use his legs due to paralysis from polio, Roosevelt used hand controls to drive.



3) An abundant, enjoyable, full, overflowing life is for whosoever is willing to live in the ways of God. Disability does not have to stop someone from living a delightful, dynamic life. God welcomes all people to delightful, dynamic life. We can too. Christian, African American Marian Wright Edelman says, "When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, "Let all children come unto me.""

If we are disabled or in a group some don't want too many if any of, God wants us all and gave us sexuality, sex and the right to life and reproduction for our joy and good. 

Talk With God Throughout Today: God, open opportunities for me and others to fully live the life You called us to live. Cause me to see the opportunities you have provided and to use them for your glory and the good of people.

Please leave a comment about the ways you or someone you know overcame disabilities.