Precious Life
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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On Feb. 10, our youngest grandson turned 1 year old. Naturally, that milestone brought with it feelings of a love beyond understanding, great joy and disbelief at how quickly a year can pass by when you're having fun. Every time I look at him, I am in awe. His happy personality is growing about as quickly as his body and his mind. Not only does he crawl faster than any baby I can remember, he's starting to take steps on his own.
I met him in a hospital room on an early Sunday afternoon in 2008, and only one year later it's hard to remember life without him. So whenever I hear about new legislation concerning the painful and divisive subject of abortion, I can't think of it without considering the countless lives that are forever altered by it. I could list a few facts about it, but a quick Internet search lends that information easily enough. Its politics, legal history, and its staggering numbers are there. And so are the arguments - pro and con.
What is harder to find, and harder to face are the individuals who are left behind. Like girls and women who are scared, abandoned, and pressured into the hardest decision of their lives; and the people who are directly involved in causing them to make that decision. There are those whose hearts long for children they can't conceive. And the most helpless of the innocent, the ones who are forced to pay the highest price. Take a moment and just think with me, when it comes to abortion, honestly, who wins?
Last Saturday our families gathered together to celebrate the life of a most precious child. When I held him in my arms and breathed in his sweetness, I again thanked God for him. I smiled at his parents and prayed a special blessing upon them them for choosing to grace all of our lives by sharing him with us. And in those moments, like so many of the milestones that mark our lives, this year my joy was bitter sweet as I paused to think of all of those who are left behind.
Sue Bendorf
Warsaw, via e-mai[[In-content Ad]]
On Feb. 10, our youngest grandson turned 1 year old. Naturally, that milestone brought with it feelings of a love beyond understanding, great joy and disbelief at how quickly a year can pass by when you're having fun. Every time I look at him, I am in awe. His happy personality is growing about as quickly as his body and his mind. Not only does he crawl faster than any baby I can remember, he's starting to take steps on his own.
I met him in a hospital room on an early Sunday afternoon in 2008, and only one year later it's hard to remember life without him. So whenever I hear about new legislation concerning the painful and divisive subject of abortion, I can't think of it without considering the countless lives that are forever altered by it. I could list a few facts about it, but a quick Internet search lends that information easily enough. Its politics, legal history, and its staggering numbers are there. And so are the arguments - pro and con.
What is harder to find, and harder to face are the individuals who are left behind. Like girls and women who are scared, abandoned, and pressured into the hardest decision of their lives; and the people who are directly involved in causing them to make that decision. There are those whose hearts long for children they can't conceive. And the most helpless of the innocent, the ones who are forced to pay the highest price. Take a moment and just think with me, when it comes to abortion, honestly, who wins?
Last Saturday our families gathered together to celebrate the life of a most precious child. When I held him in my arms and breathed in his sweetness, I again thanked God for him. I smiled at his parents and prayed a special blessing upon them them for choosing to grace all of our lives by sharing him with us. And in those moments, like so many of the milestones that mark our lives, this year my joy was bitter sweet as I paused to think of all of those who are left behind.
Sue Bendorf
Warsaw, via e-mai[[In-content Ad]]
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