Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Life Thoughts

I've been having some prolife thoughts today.
First, let me say my long-awaited letter has come! It reads as this: "This is to certify that (I have) completed all of the degree requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree with an area of study in Communications. That's it: I'm a graduate! Whoo-hoo!!! Official graduation is March 2nd and the commencement is in April. Big things are coming...
Now for the quotes: "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion is already born." Ronald Reagan
"I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is Abortion, because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, Murder by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts... - Mother Teresa (one of my favorites. I try to govern by love, not hatred.)
And some quotes that are not too directly prolife but which I use:
"Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again" - John Wesley. In this area, I strive to do the best I can for those who find themselves in unwanted pregnancies.
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker" Helen Keller. Amen! This is the cry of my heart at this point in my life.
"Whenever I hear people arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." Abraham Lincoln. Haha! Or abortion. We who ignore it are just the same as those arguing FOR it. What if we were the ones aborted? Our arguments would be a lot different!
I recognize many are apathetic to abortion and this is a great  grievance to me. We either are FOR it or AGAINST it. And no matter who the baby belongs to, we must treat as a life of utmost importance, a life that needs saved even if it means the baby will live in poverty. That child will at least get the chance to breath the spring air, see the sunshine, laugh, cry, dream, and play. The living child has multitudes more than the aborted child does. The born child has life. The aborted baby has death. Can we not lay aside our differences and unite on this battle ground to save the lives of the innocent?