The truth of the Gospel sets me free…free to love. To love others more than myself. And Christ extended love (poured out love) to the defenseless, to those neglected, unloved and despised. I feel called to do the same. This means to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. For the unborn. The womb is supposed to be the safest place in the world…but it’s become the most attacked. At the last pro-life I went to, there was someone pushing an empty stroller..and there was one empty stroller to represent every year since Roe vs. Wade. And it was really eye-opening to reflect on all those who were not given the chance a life. Dr. Seuss is right, “A person’s a person no matter how small.” All of creation is beautiful and should be treated with the dignity God intended. This dignity should be fought after, to the best of one’s ability….as much as I am able. If I care for someone, when I see anything that could hurt him or her…I would do anything in my power to defend and protect that person. I must do the same for my unborn brothers and sisters. Its my duty as a fellow human being, a fellow child of God.
I really admire those who commit themselves to praying in front of abortion center. I believe in the power of prayer…but I’ve never gone. Why not? Lives could be changed if we just opened our heart to love. We give ourselves labels: ”I’m Christian.” “I’m pro-life”…but we must ask ourselves, are we really? Do our lives show it? Or is it something we wish we were but aren’t willing to make the sacrifices necessary to truly be.” Just saying something and wishing it was a reality doesn’t make it so. That’s the sad truth. Why have I never thought about it before enough to do anything? I don’t know the answer to that. But I want things to change. Just as a doctor who sees the tiniest movements of an unborn baby is held to a greater responsibility over upholding the little person’s humanity and dignity…a true believer in the gospel is held responsible for the living out of those beliefs (sharing it with others, having faith that translates into love). I am called to love as Christ did.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
“1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
Father God, give me a renewed love for the unborn and for those who are involved in the destruction of these lives, so that I may commit myself to doing whatever I am called to do to protect and defend them. Heal all mothers that have experienced the loss of a child, whether due to their own “choice”, a miscarriage, or for any other reason. Show them your healing power and welcome them into your arms of love. Amen.
