I struggled, and struggled to write something about the first mothers of the Bible. Eve is the first mother of God’s people. Created from the rib of Adam, and seduced by the serpent. Contrasting Eve with Mary, a young woman faithful to the Lord, chosen to atone for Eve’s error by giving birth to Jesus and watching him give His life for us all.
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The controversy regarding the Supreme Court just stays in the forefront of my mind. This might be the Holy Spirit putting this on me. I cannot not write about this topic.
Abortion is NOT the unforgivable sin.
The Lord will forgive you.
My belief has always been that life begins at conception. The premature birth of my first child in 1982, Victoria, was evidence to me that at 24 weeks this wasn’t a clump of cells. Science and technology have advanced so much since then. We have a much better understanding of the process of fetal development.
I have given birth to three premature babies. My troubles always started at the 20–24-week gestation period. I had an incompetent cervix. As my baby got bigger my cervix began to fail. Each child lived a period of time after being born. Only one of the premature children, my last child Bryan, lived more than 16 hours.
I never advise abortion. “But what if …. “ No. I never advise it. I have personally offered to adopt the children of three different women when they mentioned having abortions. In the end each woman decided to keep their child.
Undergoing an abortion, whether by choice or medical necessity, is devastating to the parents. It is physically traumatizing for the woman. That is a fact. No amount of anesthesia or pain killers will change it. A medical abortion is an artificial interruption of the pregnancy, forced dialation of the cervix, and violent extrusion of the placenta and child. A miscarriage isn’t much easier on the woman.
Every traditional emotion related to death are felt, and often not expressed. Many times, guilt buries itself within the uncharted depths of the soul. On celebratory, or remembrance days, the guilt bubbles up breaking through the surface, only to be covered over, hidden from the world, never processed.
If this is you, if you find yourself separated from the Lord because you chose abortion, you can come home. You do not need to suffer emotionally any longer. You don’t need to shout about it. He will hear your whispers. You don’t need to tell anyone else. He is the only one.
In case you did not hear me earlier, my child, abortion is not the unforgivable sin. Ask His forgiveness. He will give it. With His forgiveness at the ready you can finally move on, serve Him, and find peace.