Some of the following is taken from an article written by a woman named Sherry, for a Catholic circular.
"Those who promote a woman’s right to choose complain that we in pro-life are trying to impose our morality on others. "And they're not?" They impose their morality on another human being; that person ends up dead. We impose our morality on another and that person might end up inconvenienced for as long as it takes to make an adoption plan."
Whose morality is more imposing? Our views aren't deadly. Perhaps the pro-choice argument has gotten so far because no one sees the loss. 44,000,000 million Americans gone since 1973, but they're invisible to us. If they died in car accidents or of leukemia, there would have been funerals, sympathy cards, etc. There is none of that for the victims of abortion.
I see it before me every day. I see the laughing, the crying, the growing, the learning to ride a bike, the joy of the first word, learning how to share, how to forgive, how to dance and sing, to pray. I look into the pure trusting eyes of my children, and I think, "this is what the world is missing - 44,000,000 times over." My children could have been among the 1.2 million a year, 3,600 a day. Somehow they weren't...maybe because of your prayers (and mine).
One of the ugliest things about abortion is what it says about us as a human race - our absolute and utter lack of trust in God. What a faithless generation that would accept - even promote - the killing of its own young! God created each of us with meticulous attention to detail - down to each unique fingerprint, each unrepeatable strand of DNA.
Could anyone doubt that He can find a place in this world for a child so precious to Him? I promise you, there is such a place!"
Just about all of us today are sick of the war in Iraq. Just about all of us wish it would end tomorrow, and not another life is lost. But how do we make this fact known? By millions of people marching and chanting in various cities - will this make it stop? Did it stop Vietnam?
No, there is only one thing and one Being that will make it stop on a dime. The thing is prayer and the Being is God. If the millions that march and protest would just stop and think - we tried this stuff before - but the war goes on. Instead, let’s all try something else, let’s all bow our heads in prayer, and in one mighty voice, ask God to put an end to it.
I saw what the power of prayer of a few people can do in curing several diseases. I saw how prayer brought back people who went "code blue" in hospitals several years back, and those people are still with us today. Just think what millions in prayer could do, in ending a war.
But remember one thing if you decide to pray daily, or in a large protest group, for anything, it’s important that your prayer be earnest. If you believe it is your right to kill your own baby, or vote for people who are pro-abortion - then your prayers are a joke. And whatever you do to stop the war, is a joke.
How can you ask God to stop the killing in a war, when you support the killing of 44,000,000 innocent lives since the Roe vs. Wade verdict, 32 years ago?
Would you like to see this war come to an end? Would you like to see abortion come to an end? To see poverty come to an end? To see the sick healed? Then try something different, turn your life over to Christ and pray to Him. He is the only One who has the power to fix up what we humans mess up.
We wrote a comment on 04/18/04 "Abondoment of Your Will to God". Read it, and say that prayer.
By George Konig
January 30, 2005
www.georgekonig.org
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