In my hometown here in Missouri the Stained Glass Theater, a local Christian theater group, will be putting on a play from now until January 30 that deals with the subject of post abortion regret and healing. The play is adapted from Christian novelist Frank Peretti‘s novel “Tilly”. In 2oo2 Tilly was actually adapted into a short forty minute film in by a pro-life group, Love Life America and shown on both PAX TV and briefly on the EWTN show Defending Life before being released on DVD.
It is a story about a woman who falls asleep one day and dreams that she is in heaven and meets “Tilly”, the daughter she aborted nine years earlier, who shares with her God’s message of forgiveness, reconciliation and restoration. The theater fully expects the audience to get a bit emotional during the play and plans to offer tissues to theatergoers at the door. According to director Lisa Howard
“There are real tears on the set every night. It has touched the cast and us in a way I don’t think any other play has ever done.”
That’s probably because, directly or indirectly, abortion itself has touched the lives of so many, especially in the last 37 years. Statistically speaking, nearly 40 percent of women who get pregnant have an abortion and, despite it being a legal “procedure” for over three decades and and relatively normalized in our society, many women do, indeed, feel bad about their decision to end their child(ren)’s life, right away or years later. Thankfully, for those who seek it, healing is possible – for men, too!
This production of Tilly is sponsored by First Assembly of God and Life Network of Central Missouri. I’ll definitely have to check it out! Has anyone read this book or seen the movie?
*photo from the Jefferson City News Tribune
Previous posts:
The Legacy of Abortion
The Pressure to Abort
“Fatherhood Begins at Conception”
4 Comments on “Pro-Life Play About Post-Abortion Healing”
I linked this to my Catholic Mom’s Group and I’m trying to get a group to go see it. Thank you for promoting it; I would have never known about it otherwise!
Yes, I have read the book, seriously about 5 times. It only takes a little while as it’s really small. I’ve also recommended it to many women who I know have had to deal with abortion.
Gina, let me know when and if you guys go see it. I was going to email you and my friend Meredith to see if you both would like to go sometime – so now I’ll just give Meredith a holler.
Being one who regrets their abortion (my daughter would have been a few years older than you are today!), I will check out this book (thanks for posting on it) … and *maybe* even read it — the pain never really goes away — however, one *does* receive forgiveness (thank God for the Catholic Church!), and I encourage everyone to read your blog for all the helpful sources you give within its posts regarding same.
Here’s a pro-life video fresh off the press, that Tom, myself, and our daughter put together through a pro-life march we attended on Saturday, 1-16-10, in Aurora, IL (Eric Scheidler, officiating — do you know the Scheidlers?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTms5b87LQ&feature=player_embedded
–mlizzy
(Handle used in memory of my daughter, Mary Elizabeth, 3-16-78)