Look Father

Melissa Ann Howell Schier
10 min readOct 7, 2024

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10 7 2024

Filly drove to get McDonald’s biscuit for her mom and she heard this song playing on FM radio about “taking back what the enemy stole”.

She had been wondering about how to protect the innocent and wondering how to define that which was innocent. All of this was on Filly’s mind. Had “innocence” been “stolen”? Was it possible to “steal innocence”? And, if it was possible to steal innocence, was it also possible to regain it, or take it all back? Like the song?

Jesus had said that the kingdom of heaven was like little children, or beings of “innocence”. Adopting an attitude of “innocence” for heaven to be “seen” meant perhaps, to look at the world as inherently good, and let thoughts rest, nestled in that same good.

But for some, not that long after birth, it SEEMED like even the very young and innocent children lost bits of innocence. Some perhaps dis not get fed or nurtured when they were hungry, and that innocent trust of reliable care was tarnished. Is innocence dependent on what others do or do not do?

Filly decided that innocence could not be taken away if the owner of such, did not agree to let it be taken away. Evil could not destroy good. That was what Jesus demonstrated best. His innocence could not even be taken away when he was put to death. He never succumbed to the accusation of guilt. His innocence and purity was what in fact transfigured him when Jesus was assumed into heaven. His innocence was what made him “the lamb” of God.

So, the lamb was slain, but did not ever lose innocence, Filly thought, therefore heaven is a state of being, realized for each individual based on their independent uplifted and innocent thought. Heaven would involve living in purity at every available stage of being, not just promoting it or speaking it.

There were many who claimed to be Christian with their words, but their actions did not support that claim. How many people claimed to believe the words of the bible, when it says to choose life, and when it says that “such as these (little children) is the kingdom of heaven”, but then also thought that it was ok for a woman to use abortion to get rid of a child? This hypocrisy was even more obvious when those who claimed to be obedient to the laws of God, chose abortion when they could instead, abstain, or use alternate non abortion methods to avoid conception.

The bible verse that Filly chose for the day was …
“Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels and living creatures and elders encircling the throne, and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands. In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!” And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”

The bible does not say that the power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory go to the Ram or the Ewe. The bible says that the lamb WHO IS SLAIN, will receive the power and the riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. The lamb is the baby. How do the mothers who have slain their own infants NOT SEE the writing on the wall? Signs and symbols…

Filly saw the evil signs of the times popping up in the neighborhoods, signs that featured politicians who wanted MORE abortion, who wanted to legalize murder of babies, and looked at it as a woman’s right, contradicting what the bible says about the right to life of all children. The signs, Filly knew, had no power to change the words of the Lord she knew.

As she drove her mother to get her oil changed, and then went to Aldi to get supplies to donate to the people in the Carolina’s who were suffering from the hurricane damage, Filly knew that people could not “put baby in the corner, in the trash, in the garbage, in the scientific testing pile”. The sign at the Oil change place agreed.

God was more powerful than the internet, the media, and the pro abortion candidate signs that were in some people’s yards. Filly believed that God was speaking to his people and they were not confused, or swayed by the evil tares being sewn or displayed in signage by the devil, that were encouraging the murder of babies or the flooding of families, cities and states with undocumented illegals in an attempt to overthrow the righteous government of God. The signs coming from God, were more obvious then the yard signs.

Filly looked at the lyrics for the song she had heard at McDonald’s that morning, called “take it all back”. She did not want to re-write this song at all…she loved it just the way it was. The enemy could not steal what was God’s or the lambs.

Fears got me living with the lights out
Chained down like a prisoner in my own house
Shame cycles like a daily medication
I try but I can’t change my situation
’Cause the liar comes to rob my joy
Yeah, I’m bruised but I’m not destroyed
I’m rising like an army
And you’re gonna hear the sound

I’m calling the angels down
I’m storming the gates of Hell
Tell the devil he don’t own my soul
I’m taking back what the enemy stole
I’m raising the battle cry
I’m holding the banner high
With the power of the Holy Ghost
I’m taking back what the enemy stole
Oh-oh-oh
You can’t speak the lies over my family, no
You can’t break the promises that I’m standin’ on
Ain’t gotta flex to put you back in your place now
One name is all I gotta say, Jesus
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Take It All Back

I’m calling the angels down
I’m storming the gates of hell
Tell the devil he don’t own my soul
I’m taking back what the enemy stole
I’m raising the battle cry
I’m holding the banner high
With the power of the Holy Ghost
I’m taking back what the enemy stole (What the enemy stole)

Oh-oh-oh
(Oh-oh-oh) Takin’ my peace back
(Oh-oh-oh) Takin’ my joy back
No, you can have that (Oh-oh-oh)
I’m taking back what the enemy stole

Ah-ah, we’re done with all the mind games you try to play
If ain’t clear yet, I want everything you took from me
In the name of the One who is peace, the One who heals all disease
The only reason that I am free
That name is Jesus, Lord of Lords and King of Kings
Jesus, the name that makes the demons flee
I want it all now, we’re taking it back now
Yeah, you know it’s going down when you hear the sound
I’m calling the angels down…

Like the song, Filly believed that Christians could take back what the enemy THOUGHT they could steal. Innocence and truth could not be stolen. But even the apostles had questioned this, because they wondered how to become innocent again when they could not technically be “born again”. Those who had made mistakes… were they no longer innocent? Filly answered this herself with her own history lesson…

Filly thought about the house where she grew up. Her dad had written about that growing up house as though it was a grand lady. But Filly thought about how the house she grew up in was a symbol of “the father’s house”. It matched another song she heard on FM radio right after the first song about “taking it all back”. That was how she knew that so many people like herself, were sorry for their sins, recognizing how they were tricked by the tares of the devil…and had asked and received forgiveness. The “Father” defines who his children are, and he does not see mistakes, and if there are any weaknesses, he forgives when the children are repentant. The second song Filly had heard, highlighted this.

Sometimes on this journey, I get lost in my mistakes
What looks to me like weakness is a canvas for Your strength
And my story isn’t over, my story’s just begun
And failure won’t define me ’cause that’s what my Father does
Yeah, failure won’t define me ’cause that’s what my Father does

Ooh, lay your burdens down
Ooh, here in the Father’s house
Check your shame at the door (ooh)
’Cause it ain’t welcome anymore (ooh)
Ooh, you’re in the Father’s house

Arrival’s not the end game, the journey’s where You are
You never wanted perfect, You just wanted my heart
And the story isn’t over, if the story isn’t good
A failure’s never final when the Father is in the room
And failure’s never final when the Father is in the room

Prodigals come home
The helpless find hope
Love is on the move
When the Father’s in the room
Prison doors fling wide
The dead come to life
Love is on the move
When the Father’s in the room

Miracles take place
The cynical find faith
And love is breaking through
When the Father’s in the room
The Jericho walls are quakin’

Strongholds now are shakin’
Love is breaking through
When the Father’s in the room
I said love is breaking through
When the Father’s in the room

Ooh, lay your burdens down
Ooh, here in the Father’s house
Check your shame at the door
’Cause it ain’t welcome anymore
Ooh, you’re in the Father’s house
Yeah, lay your burdens down
Ooh, here in the Father’s house
Ooh, you’re in the Father’s house

These two songs were such a contrast to the audio books and the media Filly was sometimes listening to about hit men and murder and deceit and betrayal. Good still existed and the music was food for good thoughts. Music like these songs, was how those adults who once chose evil, could now recapture their innocence and experience Heaven on earth, something Jesus said was possible.

Choosing to be humble and ask forgiveness for their perpetrator, was how the victims of acts of violence could also experience innocence as well. It would seem impossible for such to happen, with the physical events that were described in the news, in books and on the radio and TV. But forgiveness was actually freedom.

Filly did not hate the people who were trying to encourage woman to treat abortion like a right. She understood that evil lurks in every place where good exists, trying to subvert the will of God. But smart people know that good deeds bear good fruit. And bearing a baby is indeed good fruit, and death is the opposite of good fruit. IT was that obvious.

So the baby who was slain, the slain lamb, would be blessed, and would not wreak vengeance on the mother, even though the mother wreaks vengeance on the child. Those things that women want to be rid of, in order to be treated more “equally” were the very things that made them blessed.

The irony was so obvious. Babies were not a curse, they were a blessing. To be able to bring a new child into a family was a blessing. To raise a child in the way of the Lord, was also a blessing.

To love children and wish to care for them was a Christian mindset. Filly had experienced this many times over with her own five children. She literally could not comprehend anyone bragging about the intentional destruction of a baby by the mother. It was dark times when this murder, was compared, by the pope as being the same as trying to prevent undocumented criminals from entering the United States.

The pope did not live in the United states and bringing in undocumented workers Filly knew, ensured child slavery and sex trafficking and violence. Neither she nor anyone she knew, was against migrants, as long as they were screened and documented. Filly was grateful that the Catholic church where Filly’s mother and sister attended, had a huge “Right to life” table on its premises, restating the long held position of the church to protect the unborn, and the importance of that had not changed, no matter what the pope said.

Filly thought about how people were horrified to hear of the murder of a litter of puppies, but did not bat an eye at the ongoing murder of infant babies. The government had legally trivialized life and had made human beings like sheep being led to the slaughter. But Jesus said that the slain lamb, was blessed.

The bible verse also said that this land was hers. Filly was a Christian. She believed in the bible. She was watching the election as if it were a game that had been prerecorded, one where she already knew that it had a good ending, and saw the triumph of good over evil. Those who promoted abortion, would lose, and no matter how many seeming touch downs or home runs by the opposite team were scored, in the election, none of these would prove sufficient to steal the election away from God and his people. The promise was made. In God’s promise Filly trusted.

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Melissa Ann Howell Schier

HoustonWorkout on YouTube, mom of five, journalist and artist and conservative who values life.