Letter: Presidential Debate Should Include Talk of Pakistani Girl's Plight

As the nation gears up to the historical debate tonight, the women of the church ought to put the presidential candidates on notice, that women are gifts to the church, to our/their families, and to our nation. Somehow, more reading, reflection, and active/prayer reaction to the life of women and young girls must be debated. Perhaps we need another wake up call and smell the coffee. 

Foreign policy is supposed to be the subject for tonight's debate, but will that crucified young Pakistani girl's wounding be part of the debate? Millions of young girls and women are denied a wholeness of life due to a distorted religious philosophy. Esther, would have something to say about that since she was considered a rescuer of her own Jewish people. 

Go back and read about Hannah, and read of her desperate desire to have a child. There was a profound — deeply profound — longing for a child, a hunger, that men cannot really gauge, for as she looked down the road, she knew that life was not complete without the gift of a child. God, has his own ways in answering prayer, and He blessed her with a prophetic son, Samuel, and she dedicated him to the Lord. In the Baptism of our children, my wife and I did that too. And why not? Children, are gifts from the Lord, so as Uwe Netto Simons said it:  "We have trivialized the sin of abortion and same-gender marriage."  Women and young woman have suffered in this area too long. This is tough love Christian talk, but take a look at the darkness of our culture for a moment in your busy llfe. I have been blessed with a doctorate dealing with counseling and considerable experience teaching women and men inmates in prison — including death row — and Jesus, compels us to heal, hope, and help addictive life styles. 

Esther, saved her people, and I am sure our mothers prayed for each of us so that even when we got off the track, the Angels brought us back.  Who do you think brought the great servant of the Lord, Augustine, back on the track to serve the Lord from a lascivious life style. Think of Constantine, a Roman Emperor, whose mother, prayed for his turn over to the Lord, and in his dictum of about 3l3 changed the course of human history. 

Keep on going, think of Mary, who in her magnificent, Magnificat, prays for the liberation of all women caught in global trafficking, abuse, or horribly, why my friend Werner, wrote in his life's story, of how he fought with his own fists, as a young fourtee- year-old German boy, the Soviet conquers, who with multiple rapes caused the death of his own sister and at her grave site swore with vengeance that her forced death will not go unpunished.  Now, multiply this single situation to the millions that suffered similar fates in the "Expulsion" of our Lutheran relatives in 1945.  Esther, according to our friend Linda, did save her Jewish people, and now it is time for Lutherans to reveal the abuses to their Lutheran cousins in 1945, or other women, at any time for that matter. 

Mary Magdalene, was the first person to see the Risen Christ, and she was a follower of Jesus Christ who healed her seven demons, maybe fears, doubts, accusations, shame, guilt, regrets, apathy, and what a follower she became. 

Dorcas, is another beautiful, intelligent women, made whole by Jesus Christ.They have been gifted to serve the Lord and have overcome. 

These are the real models — not perfect; they have flaws like the rest of us, but they are women turned on to serve Jesus Christ, and young women should be given these models to inspire. They are real people, and their tremendous faith stories can inspire us all.

Dr. Albert Jabs

Lexington