To say we are a unique family would be a gross understatement. We are a
blended family not only physically, but spiritually too. Some of us are
Baptist and some of us are Catholic. It was never a big deal to us. We love
and serve the same Jesus and that has always been our common bond. 

Bill and I have known each other since childhood. In the spring of 1989, we met
(again), dated for awhile and married in December of that same year. Bill
had three children from his first marriage, and I had four children from
mine. We never then or now think of these wonderful kids as our “step”
children. In fact, I think what has made this work so well is that we love
them all equally. We were a large family. All of the kids live with us. It took
some getting use to, but it has always been a labor of love. In May of 1993
Bill had the opportunity to legally adopted my four kids. He had been their
father for four years so to them it was just a technicality, but to Bill and I it
was a major milestone. After seeing how easy it was to adopt, Bill and I
decided to adopt yet another child. We went to an attorney and we were put
on a waiting list. We had already decided to only adopt “handicapped or
hard to place” infants. On July 16, 1993 our lives changed for ever. We
received a phone call that a baby girl had been born. She had many
handicaps, she had no one to love her. Would we be interested in seeing
her. I can’t even describe to you what happened when we saw her for the
first time. She looked bad, real bad, but to Bill and I she was the most
beautiful baby we had ever seen. Through a nurse, we learned what had
happened to her. She had been aborted at 36 weeks gestation and had
survived. We took her home, and asked God to help us do the very best we
could with what time we had with her. You see, she was only suppose to
live 8 weeks. She had been injected in the front and back of her head with a
toxin. It had left her blind, and very brain damaged. We named her Sarah
Elizabeth and legally adopted her in August. The story doesn’t end there.
She will be three years old July 15th. OUR GOD IS A MIGHTY GOD. During
those three years we have had many struggles. Sarah is very handicapped.
The abortion damaged 75% of her brain. Bill and I decided that in the
summer of 1995 it was time to take her story public. We have always been
very pro-life, but now more than ever. We were introduced to a small grass
roots pro-life group called “Spiritual Resistance”. We instantly felt drawn to
the coordinator of this blessed group and he became a much loved
member of our family. Not everyone appreciated our going public with
Sarah’s story. One week after we went public, a man came to our home on
Sunday morning while Bill was at Church and beat me severely. He broke
my nose, cracked two ribs, broke part of my right cheek, and bruised my
spleen. He told me that if we didn’t stop talking about her in public that
next time he would kill Sarah and myself. We knew the risk involved, but we
also knew we couldn’t serve two masters and our Master was Jesus Christ
and at all cost we had to tell people the holocaust that was occurring in
our city. In August, after extensive surgery to repair my face, I was
attacked again. Different men, but the same message. This time I fought
back!! I threw a few punches myself. Now you have to understand, I am 5’3
and weigh about 125 pounds, but this time they were trying to kidnap
Sarah. Something snapped inside of me and I know I would have stopped
at nothing to save my child. Since then, I have healed physically and
emotionally. I have leaned on my Catholic Faith. One thing I have learned in
this journey, there are good Christians (of all faiths) out there that want to
see and end to abortion. It brings tears to my eyes when I think of men
standing in my front yard around the clock to protect us. You see God
never promised that our walk with him would be easy. Sometimes the
Cross gets heavy, real heavy, but Bill and I love the Lord and want to serve
him. We thank Him daily for sparing Sarah’s life from the beginning and
again this past summer. We thank Him for all the wonderful Christians we
have met along the way. We thank Him for Spiritual Resistance and what
they have meant to us, but mostly we thank Him for His son Jesus.
Without Him , we all would surely be lost. This is an ongoing story. We will
keep you informed. God Bless all of you!

- MaryKay Brown

Angels are a separate order of being from humankind .
They are energy beings who live in the non physical realms
    that surround us.
They are messengers of Source and Spirit.
They are real, and they are universal.
 They appear to work with, and love, all beings and extend
    their energy, information, and assistance to all.
 They are not exclusively affilliated with or to any
  single religion, life form, planet, Solar System, or Reality .
 The angels are messengers, guides, they are another order of being
       altogether just as people, dogs, fish, plants ,birds rocks ,
  are all physical beings so the angels, deva, fairie, elementals
    etc. are all beings of non physical realms that exist in the same space.
All beings have angels who are partners in our spiritual
   evolutions.

Humans do have spiritual bodies and may become guides
 out of body but contrary to legend, humans do not become angels after death though as the appearance of a human spirit or an angel is taken from the thoughts of people
 a human spirit may appear to be an angel and an angel may appear to be a human.
   It is of great importance to know
that angels must be asked or invited to help and to work with us in order for them to do so.