I was sitting in the mother's room at our church, feeding Ethan and listening to the guest speaker talk about a wicked king in Judah named Manasseh. One of the awful things he did during his reign was make sacrifices to the pagan gods. These sacrifices included burning babies alive. The speaker explained that the elders would stand around the altar and beat their drums loudly to drown out the screams of the babies as they burned.
With tears in my eyes, I gazed down at my sweet 10-week-old son and thought of the agony those babies felt...and the pain their mothers may have endured as well.
When I was relating that to my hubby later on our drive home, he reminded me that we're no better today in aborting babies. It's just that their cries are silent -- but their pain is still just as real.
Something I began to ponder as I gazed at Ethan dozing in my arms: I cannot believe that a person who believes in abortion -- especially late-term -- has ever held a sleeping baby...
If people did that more often, it would completely change their minds...and hearts.
2 comments:
I so agree! I wanted to keep her from the minute that I first heard her heartbeat. I was, of course, laying down, but Dave was standing and as soon as we heard her heartbeat, he had to sit down, too!
Chandler's quad screen first came back "inconslusive" for certain birth defects and her 20-week ultrasound showed some "areas of concern". They referred me to the specialists at Bethesda, who called and were eager to get me in because under Virginia law, the 24th week is the last week you can end a pregnancy. But I told them I was in no hurry, I was keeping my baby no matter what. After that, I feel like God really gave me a peace that no matter what came, His grace would carry me through. Luckily, it was two false alarms and everything turned out A-OK.
I think Mother Teresa's comments are profound: It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Amen my beautiful bff! And kudos to Stuart for the comparison. It is easy to think that those horrible things happened so long ago in our history, when in actuality they are still happening, in just a different form.
Kiss that sweet baby boy for me while you praise the Creator for him!
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