Parenting can often feel chaotic and overwhelming, like trying to wrangle squirrels in a storm. There are messes, sleepless nights, and moments that seem trivial or even futile. But God reminds us that children are a heritage from Him (Psalm 127:3), a gift that carries eternal significance. Parenting is not a distraction from God’s work but one of the most important missions we can undertake. Through the struggles, parents rely on God daily, demonstrating to their children how to trust and persevere in faith. Children are not burdens; they are blessings, likened to arrows in a warrior’s hand (Psalm 127:4), prepared to make an impact for eternity.
Though it may feel discouraging at times when a toddler won’t listen or a child can’t sit still it’s important to remember that God uses these very moments to shape parents and their children for His purposes. Raising children builds resilience, patience, and reliance on God’s strength. Furthermore, the investment we make in their lives will outlast any worldly success or recognition we could achieve. Our efforts to guide them in faith prepare them to be impactful agents of God’s love and truth in the world.
Parenting can feel like a thankless task, but the reward is great. Children, in themselves, are the prize. Their eternal souls are entrusted to us to nurture and guide. While the world might prioritize careers, accolades, or material success, raising faithful, joyful, and wise children is an accomplishment that matters forever. Even when the challenges seem insurmountable, we can find joy and fulfillment in knowing that we are partnering with God in shaping lives that will influence eternity.
When the chaos feels overwhelming, remember that God sees the deep value in raising children. Embrace the messiness of parenting as part of His beautiful plan for both your life and your children’s future. Through the ups and downs, God equips you to nurture and release these precious arrows, ready to make a difference in the world.
My two Mothers shared gifts of life and love,
Each in her own way.
One mother shared her life with me,
My other Mother gave me life.
Two unique and beloved women,
Both said, “Yes”,
Though they never met,
Their lives became forever intertwined.
I became the connecting fabric of this Tapestry they began,
Lovingly and intricately continuing to be added to, day by day.
Fashioned to reflect the beauty and generosity My Two Mothers.
Though both have passed,
I thank the Good Lord for the gift of My Mothers,
He must have known that one was not enough,
And so, he gave me two.
During the interview, they asked their father about his tough upbringing, including that his mother, Jackie Stallone, “was nervous” to have him — and this interaction revealed something they didn’t expect.
“You had said that your mom was nervous to have you,” said Sistine. “She didn’t want you, right?”
“Not at all,” replied Stallone. “My mother would say, ‘The only reason you’re here is because the hanger didn’t work’ or ‘bouncing down those steps didn’t cause you to get lost.’” Based on these remarks, it sounds as if Stallone’s mother had tried to kill him in at least one, perhaps multiple, DIY abortion attempts.
At this revelation, his daughters were visibly shocked, with Sistine’s jaw dropping open.
He added, “And she said that, ‘You know, truthfully, Sylvester … you know, if there was really something wrong with your brain, I would have definitely opened up the window and put you on the windowsill and let you freeze because I’d be doing you a favor.’”
Sophia replied, “What type of mother says that to their child?”
Stallone, however, with compassion, went on to offer an explanation for his mother’s abortion attempt as well as the emotional abuse and neglect she inflicted on Stallone during his childhood.
“My mother, she was was a troubled person. She was put into an orphanage, you know, and a very cruel orphanage because her father had remarried and the new stepmother hated her,” he explained. “And I think my mother was also kind of rebellious. So she was put into an orphanage that — it’s unlike the ones they have today. It was, you know, you’re tied to the bed, you’re whipped, and you’re… she was terribly molested. And I think her ability to ever show love was short-circuited. She literally couldn’t stand to be touched or touch at all. I mean, not even a hug.”
He said this affected his own relationships, as he didn’t like to be touched either — because “affection…was so alien” to him that it made him uncomfortable.
Though seemingly unrelated to the abortion attempts, Stallone reportedly had a traumatic birth as well. The doctor used a pair of forceps to deliver him, which severed a nerve on his face and paralyzed the left side of his lip, chin, and part of his tongue, causing his face to droop.
“Even though she was nine months pregnant, she kept riding around on the bus,” he said of his mother and his birth. “And she went into labor. Somebody was smart enough to get her off the bus, they carried her into a charity ward. And that’s where I was brought into the world via this accident, which kind of paralyzed all the nerves on the side of my mouth. So I was born with this snarl.”
Stallone’s story shows that a mother’s opinion on whether or not she ‘wants’ her child has nothing to do with the child’s humanity, right to life, or value. Stallone’s daughters — who would not exist if Stallone’s mother had successfully killed him — clearly want him as their father.
Stallone is not alone. He survived an attempted self-abortion prior to the legalization of abortion in the United States, and babies are still surviving abortions today. Many are left to die, some are killed, and some are saved and adopted, and speak out against abortion.
Only a handful of states require instances of abortion survivors to be documented, but Live Action News found 220 cases of abortion survivors reported from 1999-2023 in just eight states. Because of a failure to require states to report abortion statistics or survivors, and abortionists’ attempts to hide their ‘failed abortions,’ that number is almost certainly substantially higher.
By Nancy Flanders | August 28, 2024 | LIVEACTION NEWS
You see here and the short clips below are taken from The Biology of Prenatal Development (Copyright, Education Resource Fund (www.ERF.science). This is, without question, the most powerful imagery that exists of the unborn child. The Biology of Prenatal Development is a video project we have been involved in for many years along with the Education Resource Fund. The clips below can and should be shared far and wide.
We encourage pro-life groups and individuals to use these images below of the developing child, keeping in mind the words that pollster Harrison Hickman spoke to the 1989 conference of the National Abortion Rights Action League, “Nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing fetus, because people now talk about that fetus in much different terms than they did fifteen years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have an easy answer how to cure.”
See Dr. Thomas Hilgers video of a Picture Dictionary of Life in the Womb. www.KnowReality.us
The Education Resource Fund (ERF) recently announced an extraordinary new series of pregnancy-related science documentaries which illustrate the biology of prenatal development using sophisticated medical imaging technologies and procedures which enable researchers to visualize embryos and fetuses, alive in the uterus, with never-before seen clarity.
