The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. Truly.
Sometimes the earnest prayer of a small child is the perfect model. This is a reminder that prayers don’t have to be elaborate, only heartfelt.
Jesus, we love You, and we love this beautiful world You’ve given us. Help us to steward it better. Thank You for our lives – be they to the ‘ripe old age of 30’, or 80 or 90. Thank You. Teach us to number our days and make the most of our time. Help us to love you as wholly and easily as a child. In Your name, amen.
When I participated in my local Walk for Life, I shared the donation link on my personal Facebook. I was, I’ll admit, a little intimidated to share. Many of my Facebook friends (especially those in the outer circles of my acquaintance) are “pro-choice” and I wasn’t sure how a pro-life link would be received. Why was I ashamed to be proLIFE? That seems like a good thing, right?
It is the rhetoric of division. “Pro” implies an “anti”. Prolifers are anti-abortion because it takes a life, but the other side of the debate likes to claim pro-life equates to anti-choice, anti-woman. By that logic, pro-choice could be categorized as anti-life. Or so the divisionary forces would have us think.
Here is the true tragedy of the pro-choice/pro-life debate: the vast majority of those in the pro-choice camp think they are being kind – compassionate even – to empathize with the would-be mother and her freedom to choose what happens to her body. The “clump of cells” narrative has led the public astray, inducing them into a belief that nothing – or at least no one– is being harmed during an abortion. If only it were so.
So, yes, I am pro-life: pro the baby’s life, pro the mom’s life (and quality of life), and pro the lives of those who think they are fighting for women’s freedoms instead of the slaughter of human babies.
How to be PROLife without being antiperson:
Be Strong: Unwavering in upholding the scientific fact of life at conception
Be Kind: Treat all people (even those aggressively pro-choice) with respect
Be Helpful: look for ways to help women in crisis, through and beyond their pregnancies (https://www.helpherbebrave.com/ is a great resource for how to help)
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”[a] made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ…It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”[a] Since we have that same spirit of[b] faith, we also believe and therefore speak.2 Corinthians 4:6, 13
Exploring Everyday Faithfulness 