Why Do We Have to Talk About the Ugly Stuff?
Sanctity of Life: Secrets, Grief and Healing
Why do we have to talk about this again?
Why can't we just let people do what they want with their own bodies?
Why do we have to talk about child development and abortion facts?
They might be done having kids so they don’t ‘need it’.
Their kids aren’t old enough to know about how they came to be and how marvelous God's design is.
I've been told these things and more but we need the information to have the conversations.
We need to be having the conversations because the church has been silent.
The church being silent has brought us to debating:
when does life begin, if the preborn child has any value, is
life really sacred (sacred is a lost concept), millions of women (and men) are
haunted by a decision made from the deceptions that have grown in the void and now suffer in silence.
Why can't we just leave it alone?
Because our youth, our loved ones, need to know how a child develops, that sex brings a chance of pregnancy EVERY TIME, and that if they become pregnant they are ALREADY a parent.
Because our youth, our loved ones, need to know we will stand by them if they find themselves pregnant unintentionally.
Because they need to know that they do not go it alone. They are loved by you, the church, and Christ Himself.
Because we have loved ones who are trying to make sense of life in the wake of an abortion.
Because those in that wake don't know how that one moment affected every decision thereafter; such as, increased suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, and abusive relationships, because they are told they can 'just get over it' and 'act as if nothing happened'. That it's 'like going to the dentist'.
Because they don't believe they are worthy of God's love and can be forgiven.
Read that again.
Isn't that reason enough?
Our friend, sibling, child, parent, loved one needs to know how much they are loved by the One True God.
That their worth is in the fact that they are made in the image of God with all the characteristics and possibilities, with a purpose that He has created them for. That they have worth because they are His.
This is what makes them sacred.
And so is their child.
That God continues to call them. Desires to walk with them. To have a loving relationship with them.
We need to be sharing.
We need to be sharing the scientific facts of child development, of God's Word about life and our part in it, about protecting and helping others be reconciled back to God.
That is the key to our life here: to help Jesus reconcile all back to the Father. That's why Jesus came and made a way for that to happen.
Care-Net has a healing class called "Forgiven and Set Free" that my team hosts locally. They also have others throughout the nation and globe. (If you know someone walking through the aftermath of abortion, please have them contact me.)
There are many organizations that help the post abortive parent. I will post them below.
If you have had an abortion, know that you are LOVED, VALUED, SEEN and HEARD, by our Almighty Creator God.
Seek His Face. Pray. Repent. Believe in the Healer. Be forgiven.
You are the woman with the alabaster jar. You are the woman in need of healing.
Come.
YOU are the one that Jesus may look upon and say,
“Daughter, because you dared to believe, your faith has healed you. Go with peace in your heart, and be free from your suffering!” Mark 5:34
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