Political/World Issue
Yesterday, September 11th, we hopefully took the time to remember the travesty of 14 years ago, when our nation was attacked and almost 3,000 Americans were killed. I was recently informed that today, September 12th, is the national
Remembrance Day of Aborted Children, where every year in the U.S. over 3,000 babies are aborted
every day. This is not only a travesty but a holocaust.
I believe this post from two guest writers, is both timely and appropriate. Both share their thoughts on abortion. I thought it was a blessing, and also a neat contrast to view both a young girl's perspective as well as a woman's.
Do
You Love Me?
8 week Embryo
"I cry
out in pain. How could you do this to me? I am your child, your baby
girl! But yet you decide to kill me? You think I am just a blob of
tissue, really nothing. Something not wanted and easily deposed of. I
came by “‘accident” and I am not wanted so why not just kill
me?
I
am helpless, defenseless. My only hope is that someone will speak for
me, I am voiceless.
But
who will speak for me? Does anyone care?
I
have nothing to hope for but you, a voice for the voiceless. I am
voiceless, but will you speak for me? Will you stand up and do what
is right? Are you willing to be hated by all? Do you love me enough
to care? Will you change my parents mind so that I might live?
Abortion
is a subject that I of course have known about but not until recently
have I really understood what it really and truly was. I didn’t
even know what Abolition meant until this year. I have had the
opportunity to do Abolition work several times this year and it has
been truly amazing and eye opening for me. It was amazing being out
there holding signs and standing up for what is right, while you are hated
by all! They hate you because you are pointing out something the is
caused by their actions in life, their decisions. And you're standing
up and saying it is wrong. You are truly hated for it. People scream
and yell, curse you out and much more. The only reason there is so
much opposition is because it is real, it is happening in our Nation
today. Every day thousands of babies, real babies, not just blobs of
tissue, are being killed. Murdered. But yet no one stands against it?
We are the voice for the voiceless! Do we not care that babies are
being murdered everyday? Will we not stand for what is right?
This
subject has weighed heavy on my mind lately, will you also think
about it and think what we are letting happen in our world today
without blinking an eye lash? Will we continue to let this happen
without saying something?" T.K.
Unwanted
22 week old Embryo
"The
horror of what has been revealed recently concerning Planned
Parenthood and the off-handed way so many people view and accept the
murder of innocent lives has been weighing on my heart. As I was
thinking and praying, I was inspired to write the following words. I
am open to hearing your responses and what you can add to my
thoughts:
All
living things have a beginning. Without that beginning there can be
no further progress, no development, no growth, and the final
manifestation of the living creation will never be. Whether plant,
animal or insect, life has a beginning – a seed, an action, an
outpouring of God’s creative power inherent in every living,
growing, changing, miraculous element of the universe we live in. So
how can anyone say that the creation resulting from the seed of a man
and the egg of a woman is not living from the moment it is begun?
That
creation is living, it is growing, it is developing, it is becoming
something more, it is a creation in God’s image, it will be a
unique creation with infinite possibilities, it will make a
difference in the world in which it lives, it has an impact on all
who come to know and love or not love it. What happens, what
suddenly causes that precious, living being to be brutally cut off
from becoming what it was intended to become? Why is a life suddenly
aborted? Why is this living creation of God murdered and destroyed?
Because
it was not wanted.
When
a woman desires to become pregnant, the news that she is going to be
a mother brings joy, brings people together, causes celebration and
gratitude and excitement. How many women do you know that refer to
their joyously anticipated child as a “fetus” or “embryo” or
“blob of tissue”? That child growing within them is their “baby”,
their “precious cargo”, their “gift from above” among many
other identities! It seems that it is only when the child is not
wanted that it suddenly loses its right to life. So, to me, that is
what abortion is really all about – the decision of the mother (and
in some cases the decision of influential people in the mother’s
life*) that she does not desire to be pregnant, does not desire to be
a mother, does not desire to give the life within her a chance to
grow, to develop into the person God intended. The woman “chooses”
to play God. She “chooses” death over life and becomes the killer
of her own child, her own flesh and blood.
It
deeply troubles me when pro-choice individuals say that pro-lifers
are “religious zealots” that want to take away a woman’s
rights. They are blinded, they are confused, they are misled. How can
they not see the glaring hypocrisy of only valuing the unborn life
and protecting it when it is wanted, but choosing to kill that life
and even saying it is not of value when it is unplanned or unwanted?
The child becomes the innocent victim of a parent’s “freedom to
choose”.
What
is even more devastating is what the woman must do to be able to live
with herself and justify her decision. I don’t believe that any
woman ever forgets or dismisses the loss of a child – even if that
woman has chosen to decide it was not “human” but just a “mass
of cells”. Because we are all created by the same God, we all were
made in His image, we all inherently know what is right from what is
wrong. Our consciences remind us. We can make excuses, we can listen
to lies, we can do whatever it takes to silence that voice within
that pleads with us to ask forgiveness, to be at peace with our
Heavenly Father.
I
might be wrong, but I believe that underneath all the attempts to
justify the prevention of life through the act of abortion (whether
it be the mother, the doctor, or anyone condoning or aiding) there is
the awareness that something serious, something life-changing has
occurred. I believe too that at some point, the reality of what
happened will take its toll on those who made those choices. Only
asking for and receiving God’s forgiveness will pay for however
that toll is collected. If only there were more people, more
Christians willing to stand up for life, willing to talk to the women
who are afraid or feel trapped by an unwanted pregnancy. They need
help understanding the horrors of abortion and that there are other
options available to them!*
*Note:
during my volunteer time at a Christian crisis pregnancy center, I
encountered young women who were considering abortion because of the
pressure of a parent or boyfriend, even husband. But ultimately, the
decision is the mother’s. She may have to sacrifice a relationship
or seek help, but that is what the crisis pregnancy centers are there
to do – support and assist and even, through resources, protect the
woman who wants her child despite opposition around her. Adoption,
often an overlooked choice, has been the answer for many women who
were not able to raise a child. And it is amazing how God will
intervene when life is chosen!" D.M.
Toni's Note:
This morning while reading James 1 I was struck with a few thoughts.
Being a hearer of the word is not bad, but, it is only part of our duty. We hear the word (like when we are in Church for example), but we also are to
do His word. God makes it very clear why. If we only hear His word we will forget what it is that He wants us to do. (v.25). Also, hearers only temporarily look at themselves, are convicted, but then go on their way, "straightway forgetting", and doing nothing. A hearer can seem religious but they deceive themselves -- and his religion is vain. If we are hearers only, that means
our religion is vain. But "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this -- to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted by the world." (v.27). A lot of us seem to focus on being unspotted from the world, but so easily we forget about those in affliction. It really convicted me. What am I doing to visit these people in their affliction? Very little. I pray the Lord shows me how I can reach them, because it's obvious this isn't a matter of "if" but "how". I don't only want to remember, I hope to "do".
"...We need to let this spiritual work be done in us quietly and peacefully, not as though it could all be accomplished in a single day. Furthermore, we need to maintain a balance between learning and doing. We ought to spend much more time in doing. If we are not careful, we will spend such a large segment of our lives in gaining knowledge that we shall need another lifetime to put out knowledge into practice. We are in danger of evaluating our spiritual maturity on the basis of the amount of knowledge we have acquired. ...This seems to be one of the most common as well as the most serious mistakes which Christian people are liable to make. God is the giver of knowledge and he desires to have us put it into practice. But the moment we get knowledge, we get so carried away with the delight of having it that we forget there is anything else to be done. But the fact is we have very little reason to rejoice until we put our knowledge into operation in life.
...Food, lying undigested in the stomach, is not only of no service to the body, but, if not removed, will become harmful. It is only when it is assimilated and mingled with the blood and works itself out into our hands, feet and head that it can be said to have done us any good. So to have an understand of Biblical truth in intellect is a matter of Thanksgiving. But it will only result in our condemnation if it is not cherished in the heart and acted out in life. ...Not light, but love. (1 Cor. 13:2)." ~ Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon
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