"...Today I am 'spiritually adopting.' There are so many little ones in imminent danger, ones so tiny that some dismiss them as not human. There are newborns lying on cold metal tables, their skin burned with saline, ignored because their mothers, after all, did not want to carry them to term. Leave it alone, a nurse is told if she hears a tiny whimper. Forget it. It's not a baby. Not-A-Baby utters a pitiful cry, flails its little arms, reaches out with tiny fingers to grasp its gift of life. It IS a baby - a tiny, helpless, wounded baby who needs someone to care, to love, to hold. I reach out my 'arms.' I swaddle in prayer. I cuddle with intercession. I hold a tiny one in my heart, and I say yes. I will work for you, O tiny one, I'll be your advocate however I can. And when they come for you to take your life, I will be at your side in prayer..." (an edited re-post from The Cloistered Heart, November 2012)
"What is taking place in America," said Mother Teresa of Calcutta, "is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another." (spoken at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, 1997)
Bernardo Strozzi painting in US public domain
This is a litte hard to write, but I'm pretty sure I would have been a victim of abortion if my mother had the legal option of it over 50 years ago. I think she might tried to get an illegal one but that was a problem and anyway, here I am. I am a happy person that loves God and I have children who are doing really marvelous things in the world. I don't tell my story because I want to honor my mother. Thank you to everybody who are praying for people like I might have been.
ReplyDeleteThank you for so generously sharing, my friend. Thank God you are here! I admire your choice to honor your mother, while bravely sharing this in a way that would not reveal her identity. May God bless you and your children. Thank you again, so VERY much.
DeleteNancy, what you wrote is so touching. I've been totally focused on this dreadful "anniversary" too. After all this time, I still can't quite comprehend that this really happens...babies killed in this country every single day, in the most horrific ways..mostly for convenience. It's insane...and so intensely evil. May God have Mercy on us all. xo
ReplyDeleteThank you, Patricia. The words "for forty years I endured that generation" keep rolling through my mind this week... they hum in my mind like a song I'm hearing. And just today I opened the Bible to Hebrews 3:17. "And with whom was He provoked for forty years?" Yes, may God have mercy on us all.
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