National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children 9.12.2026

National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children 9.12.2026

National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children

By Toni Weisz / Recovery Tools

Scripture: “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.” Psalm 34:18 (KJV)

September 12, 2026 — Remembering the Children

Every September, the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children gives us an opportunity to pause, remember, and honor the lives of children lost through abortion. On September 12, 2026, people across the nation will gather at gravesites, memorials, churches, and places of remembrance to acknowledge these lives and to pray for healing.

For many, this day carries a deep personal meaning. Behind statistics and headlines are real stories—mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, and families who may carry grief that few people ever see.

Remembering the Children

The National Day of Remembrance is not simply about looking backward. It is about recognizing the value and dignity of every human life and refusing to let these children become forgotten.

Each child had a life that was never given the opportunity to unfold. There were birthdays that were never celebrated, milestones that were never witnessed, and futures that will never be known on this earth.

Yet remembrance can be an act of love.

For those who have experienced abortion, this day can also bring complicated emotions. Some may feel grief. Others may feel regret, shame, anger, confusion, or even relief mixed with sorrow. There is no single way to experience loss.

God sees every heart and knows every story.

There Is Hope Beyond Regret

At My Ashes to Beauty, we believe that even the deepest places of brokenness do not have to be the end of the story.

God Meets Us in Our Brokenness

The Bible reminds us that God is close to those who are hurting:

“The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.” Psalm 34:18 (KJV)

That promise matters to anyone carrying the weight of a past abortion.

Remembrance does not have to mean living forever in condemnation. There is a difference between acknowledging what happened and believing that your past has the final word over your life.

God offers forgiveness, mercy, restoration, and a new beginning.

A Day to Remember and Pray

On September 12, consider taking a quiet moment to remember the children who were lost. Pray for their families. Pray for women and men facing difficult pregnancies. Pray for those who are still carrying the pain of past decisions.

You Do Not Have to Hide Your Tears From God

If this day brings personal grief, allow yourself to bring that grief honestly before God.

You do not have to hide your tears from Him.

The ashes of yesterday do not have to define tomorrow. God can take places of profound sorrow and begin creating something beautiful from them.

Remembering With Hope

This National Day of Remembrance, we remember the children. We honor their lives. We pray for their families. And we hold onto the hope that God is still able to bring beauty from ashes

Please reach out if you would like to talk this week to my email: toni@myashestobeauty.com.

Here for you,

Toni

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You Survived What You Thought Would Break You

You Survived What You Thought Would Break You

You Survived What You Thought Would Break You

By Toni Weisz / Recovery Tools

Scripture: “… and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes … ” Isaiah 61:3

Look How Far You’ve Come

There were moments when you wondered if you would make it.

Maybe the pain was deeper than you ever expected. Maybe someone you trusted disappointed you. Perhaps you walked through rejection, loss, betrayal, disappointment, or a season when God seemed strangely quiet.

And yet… you’re still here.

You survived what you thought would break you.

That doesn’t mean it didn’t hurt. It doesn’t mean you weren’t afraid. And it certainly doesn’t mean you walked through it perfectly. It simply means that somewhere in the middle of your ashes, God was sustaining you.

Your Story Didn’t End in the Fire

Sometimes we look at what happened to us and see only the destruction. We see what was lost, what went wrong, and what can never be changed.

But God sees something different.

He sees the person you are becoming.

The fire may have changed you, but it doesn’t have to destroy you. The tears may have marked your journey, but they don’t have to define your future. What you experienced can become part of your testimony rather than the end of your story.

Isaiah 61:3 reminds us that God gives “beauty for ashes.”

That is the heart of redemption. God doesn’t pretend the ashes never existed. He takes what was broken and begins creating something beautiful from it.

Keep Going

As August comes to an end, take a moment to look back—not to live there, but to recognize how far God has brought you.

You may not have everything figured out.

You may still have questions.

You may still be healing.

But you’re here.

And that matters.

Don’t underestimate what it took to get this far. Don’t despise the small victories. Don’t forget the prayers God answered along the way.

You survived what you thought would break you—and God is not finished with you yet.

Your ashes are not the end.

God is still writing beauty into your story.

Please reach out if you would like to talk this week to my email: toni@myashestobeauty.com.

Here for you,

Toni

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National Wellness Month: Walking in Victory Over Past Trauma

National Wellness Month: Walking in Victory Over Past Trauma

National Wellness Month: Walking in Victory Over Past Trauma

By Toni Weisz / Recovery Tools

Scripture: Psalm 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Healing Is a Journey, Not a Destination

August is National Wellness Month, a time to focus on caring for our minds, bodies, and spirits. While wellness often brings to mind exercise, healthy eating, and getting enough rest, true wellness reaches much deeper. It includes emotional healing, spiritual growth, and finding freedom from the pain of yesterday.

At My Ashes to Beauty, we believe God never intended for trauma to define your future. Whether your wounds came from childhood, abuse, loss, addiction, betrayal, or life-changing disappointments, healing is possible. The scars may remain, but they no longer have to control your life.

Walking in victory doesn’t mean pretending the pain never existed. It means allowing God to transform your ashes into something beautiful and discovering that your story is still being written.

Choosing Wellness Every Day

Healing from trauma is rarely a single moment. More often, it is a series of small choices made one day at a time.

Choosing wellness may look like:

  • Spending quiet time with God each morning.
  • Reading Scripture that reminds you of His promises.
  • Talking with a trusted friend, pastor, or Christian counselor.
  • Taking a walk while thanking God for His faithfulness.
  • Practicing forgiveness—not because what happened was acceptable, but because you refuse to let bitterness keep you captive.
  • Giving yourself grace on difficult days.

Some days you may feel like you’ve taken two steps forward and one step back. That’s okay. Progress is still progress.

God is patient with us, and we can learn to be patient with ourselves as we heal.

Psalm 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds.

God sees our pain, and His desire is to bring healing and restoration to every broken area of our lives.

Walking in the Victory Christ Provides

The enemy often wants us to believe that our past determines our future. God’s Word tells a different story.

Through Christ, we are not victims—we are overcomers.

Victory isn’t found in our own strength but in trusting the One who restores broken hearts and gives hope where there once seemed to be none. As we surrender our hurts to Him, He replaces fear with peace, shame with purpose, and despair with hope.

That doesn’t mean life suddenly becomes easy. Challenges still come, and memories may still surface. But they no longer have the final word. God’s love is greater than every painful chapter you’ve lived through.

As healing takes place, many discover that the very experiences they once wished they could erase become opportunities to encourage someone else. God often uses healed hearts to help heal other hearts.

This National Wellness Month, take one intentional step toward your own healing. You don’t have to have every answer today. Simply begin where you are and trust God with the next step.

He specializes in restoration. He redeems what seems lost. He brings beauty from ashes.

Your past may explain part of your story, but it does not determine your destiny. In Christ, you can walk forward with renewed strength, restored hope, and the confidence that your best chapters are still ahead.

 

Please reach out if you would like to talk this week to my email: toni@myashestobeauty.com.

Here for you,

Toni

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The Way of Cain

The Way of Cain

The Way of Cain

By Toni Weisz/Spiritual Warfare

Scriptures: Jude 8-11, 1 John 3:10-12, and Genesis 4:3-8

Jude 8-11
Likewise these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

1 John 3:10-12
In this the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not from God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

Genesis 4:3-8
And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. Abel also brought of the first born of his flock and their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry and his countenance fell.

So, the Lord said, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.”

Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

 

I was watching the news the other day and they were interviewing this man from Great Britain, Winston Aubrey Aladar Marshall, a former band member of Mumford and Sons, but because he spoke up about things like Antifa and BLM, he had to leave the band. He was being persecuted for speaking the truth. In the interview, he was speaking about Ann Widdecombe, who was a former governor in parliament who was murdered for her stance on protecting life in the womb and biblical marriage. He then mentioned something I never heard before, “The spirit of Cain,” or also known as “the way of Cain.”

When I thought about Cain in the past, I felt sad for Him that God did not receive his offering because he was a tiller of the ground. I came to find out after reading some commentaries that God did not accept his offering because Cain was coming to God on his own terms; he rejected God’s way. Cain’s heart was not right before God. The way of Cain is a rebellious and prideful religious system; they are consumed with jealousy, hatred, envy, and they will even murder others who disagree with them. They have sexually perverted God’s design for marriage and sexual intimacy.

Does this sound familiar? This is what people today on the extreme left are doing. If they don’t like what you are saying, they will silence you by killing you. It’s been almost a year since Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight with thousands of people present. What a tragic and very sad thing.

How did we find ourselves under the spell of this insidious spirit? For those of us who had abortions, we terminated our child’s life because they stood in our way. They did not fit into our plans at the time. We were our own little “g” god. We wanted to control our own destiny. They were an inconvenience, a problem to be taken care of. How heartless of us. We were blinded and deceived by the evil one instead of recognizing the beautiful gift from God that they were.

For those of you dear ones who have been abused, that same spirit of Cain caused the perpetrator to be taken over by this prideful evil spirit, doing things that were ungodly and an abomination in the sight of God.

This same spirit seems to be in those who are running for political offices here in the U.S. as DSA Democratic Socialist of America, aka communism. Many of them have won in cities such as New York City, Portland, Washington DC, and it’s definitely concerning.

What are we supposed to do about this? I would say, first if you are an American citizen and are not a registered voter, you need to be. Second, you need to vote in every election. Get involved at serving at the polls or distributing voter guides to inform people of the issues and the candidates. Luci and I met back in 2010 when we were distributing voter guides to our churches. There are still organizations you can get that information from.

How do we combat this evil spirit? The answer can be found in the verse above in Jude , “The Lord rebuke you!” Also pray that God will remove the blindness so these people can see clearly the error of their ways and receive the beautiful and life-transforming power of the Gospel and be saved. We need to build and continue to have relationships with family members and friends who have become disillusioned and bitter about God and our country. We need to speak the truth when we can, if we can, and never stop praying for them.

Articles of interest:

You can research this topic on www.GotQuestions.Com search the Way of Cain.
https://www.gotquestions.org/way-of-Cain.html
Six Characteristics of the Way of Cain, Pathway to Victory, August 7, 202, ptv.org.
https://ptv.org/devotional/six-characteristics-of-the-way-of-cain/

Questions:

  1. What are your thoughts about, “The way of Cain?” Have you heard about this before?
  2. Have you personally experienced this spirit through another person’s words or actions?
  3. Please pray for our nation to come back to God.
  4. How can we pray for you?

Please do not allow the evil one to gain even more ground. Stand on the truth, defend the faith, and vote your conscience. Please reach out if you need to talk, toni@myashestobeauty.com.

You are loved,
Toni

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Freedom That Lasts: Celebrating Independence Day Through the Freedom Found in Christ

Freedom That Lasts: Celebrating Independence Day Through the Freedom Found in Christ

Freedom That Lasts: Celebrating Independence Day Through the Freedom Found in Christ

By Toni Weisz/Spiritual Disciplines

Scriptures:

“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36 (NIV)

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” — Galatians 5:1 (NIV)

Freedom That Reaches Deeper

As Americans gather to celebrate Independence Day, we remember the courage, sacrifice, and determination of those who fought for our nation’s freedom. Fireworks light the sky, flags wave proudly, and families come together to celebrate the blessings of liberty.

But while political freedom is a wonderful gift, there is another kind of freedom that reaches much deeper—the freedom found in Jesus Christ. No matter what our past holds, Christ offers healing, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

Freedom From the Weight of the Past

Many women carry burdens that no one else can see. Past mistakes, broken relationships, abortion, abuse, shame, guilt, fear, or regret can become invisible chains that keep us from experiencing joy and peace.

Jesus came to break those chains.

Scripture reminds us:

“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” — John 8:36 (NIV)

The freedom Christ offers isn’t based on our performance or our past. It is rooted in His grace, mercy, and unconditional love. Through His sacrifice on the cross, we are invited to leave behind condemnation and embrace forgiveness.

Healing Begins With Surrender

Freedom doesn’t mean pretending the pain never happened. It means allowing God to enter our broken places and transform them into something beautiful.

God Turns Ashes Into Beauty

Isaiah 61:3 tells us that God gives us “a crown of beauty instead of ashes.”

That promise is at the heart of every healing journey.

At My Ashes to Beauty, we believe no story is beyond God’s redemption. Whether your wounds come from abortion, loss, addiction, abuse, or other painful experiences, the Lord specializes in restoring what feels impossible to repair.

Healing often begins with one simple step: surrendering your pain to the One who already carried it on the cross.

Walking in Your New Freedom

Just as our nation celebrates freedom every July, believers can celebrate spiritual freedom every day.

That freedom allows us to:

  • Let go of shame.
  • Receive God’s forgiveness.
  • Experience His peace.
  • Walk confidently in His purpose.
  • Share His hope with others who are hurting.

Your past does not define your future. God’s grace has the final word.

Celebrate the Greatest Freedom

This Independence Day, enjoy the celebrations with grateful hearts—but don’t forget the greatest freedom ever offered.

Jesus invites every weary heart to exchange guilt for grace, fear for peace, and ashes for beauty.

If you’ve been carrying hidden burdens, know that you don’t have to carry them alone. Christ’s love is greater than every mistake, every regret, and every painful memory.

Today can be the beginning of a new chapter—a life marked not by your past, but by God’s redeeming love.

As we celebrate our nation’s freedom, may we also rejoice in the everlasting freedom that can only be found in Jesus Christ.

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” — Galatians 5:1 (NIV)

 

My prayer for you is that you will experience all of the deep and lasting freedom the Lord has provided for your spirit, soul, and body.

Please reach out if you would like to talk this week: toni@myashestobeauty.com.

Here for you,

Toni

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