Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Abundant New Life

It was a beautiful day Monday, warm with trees all bursting in green, everything flowering, and wisteria scenting the entire area. If we weren't standing in front of the busy abortion mill begging women to choose life instead of death, it might have been perfect.

It was a disheartening day for those babies in the womb. One mother went on the mobile ultrasound unit parked nearby and chose life. Praise God for that rescued child and repentant soul! Another saw her baby, and still entered the mill. But for me and fellow counselor, Chrissy, one of the most heart breaking moments was when we spoke with a college student. She stopped her car to take our literature, and told Chrissy she was in her final trimester at college. She could not have a baby now. She seemed perky, intelligent, with a conscience, and a pricked heart.
"If my mother knew I was here, she would kill me,"she told us, hanging her head.
"But your mother didn't kill you," I said, "She gave birth to you."
I let that message sink in to no avail. She went in the mill to abort her baby.

Later, walking around my neighborhood, the faint scent of wisteria still filled the air. It seemed so incongruous, that sweet scent of flowering life mingled with those sad scenes of death. I felt a strange urge to stop all the cars passing me on my neighborhood street, to hand them literature, and beg them not to kill their babies. The barbaric and inhumane killing of the unborn should not be legal, but it is somehow doubly an outrage in this season of abundant new life.
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John 10:10 

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

1 comment:

  1. Sunday, my niece shared she is returning to school to finish earning her college degree. Her son is 9 years old now. Handsome young man...the young college woman has no clue how this decision will change her life FOREVER...knowing it's wrong, that her Mom would kill her...she is already well on the road to regret.

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