Posted on 04/25/2012 9:37:08 PM PDT by grundle
Once, at a smart wedding in Northamptonshire when I was about 30, someone handed me a newborn baby and my skin broke out in hot hives.
In Brazil, I met a ten-year-old street kid. I fed him, let him sleep and shower in my hotel room, bought him clothes, and felt an overwhelming desire to protect and nurture him.
I had never before felt such a forceful maternal instinct. These events were profoundly physical reactions, both shocking to me.
Just around the time of my trip to Brazil, the ghost of my never-born came back to haunt me. I began imagining what he might have been like — a tall and sandy-haired boy, who would have been 17 at the time. I was 35, the age when the experts say your eggs and fertility start declining.
It’s embarrassing to reveal these visions of my never-born son, and important to understand their significance. This imagined son was not some moral spectre come to punish me; it was my subconscious reminding me to wake up and face reality.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A lot of denial here, in all the euphemistic speech so typical of the convinced Feminist who is confronted by reality.God has given her a “dose”of grace. Can she return his gift of love?
I guess a life without a baby would serve as the just punishment for this baby-murdering slut. She isn’t sorry about murdering at all... just worried about her own feelings.
That is not entirely her fault. But if she doesn’t “get it,” but hardens her heart, then in the end she must suffers consequences of her sin.
That is not entirely her fault. But if she doesn’t “get it,” but hardens her heart, then in the end she must suffer consequences of her sin.
Wow... In the Daily Mail, no less.
No, it is certainly not her fault that her parents and society have cut her slack but she will still face the consequences of her actions even if she was encouraged to make bad decisions. As will we all.
This is what happens when a person does not recognize a force that is bigger and more important than themselves.
That force is God. When we put God first, everything else to include parenting, makes logical sense. Without God, there is nothing more important than self. This is why we have so many sociopathic personalities in America today. This is why we have a society focused on what government can do for them with no thought of future generations or the ethics/morals of taking from others to provide for them. This is why feminist achieved their goals. This is why we have so many dysfunctional families. This is why so many husbands and fathers fail.
My world makes sense when I follow God. When I fail to follow God (place myself above him) it does not work and it’s reflected in every aspect of my life.
I am certain that it is healthy for a human being to believe in something that is bigger than all of us. It provides the perspective that is necessary for a meaningful and fulfilling life. Our Creator designed us that way.
I work with the elderly and one doesn’t have to be childless to be unvisited.
I work with the elderly and one doesn’t have to be childless to be unvisited.
Wow, there is a lot of hate on this thread.
“This is why so many husbands and fathers fail.”
Excuse me... Since when have husbands and fathers been demanding abortions???
Maybe you're looking in the wrong places for help with that nagging guilt.
Indeed, this is true.
It is to my shame that I am struggling, in fits and starts, and fairly discouraged in my walk with God... and in a macabre/catch-22 way it feeds on itself: wanting to do better, I try [and fail], I beat myself up for thinking I can do it (i.e. not relying on God), then I find myself wanting to do better...
I am certain that it is healthy for a human being to believe in something that is bigger than all of us. It provides the perspective that is necessary for a meaningful and fulfilling life. Our Creator designed us that way.
And it is sad that there is so much noise* drowning out our Creator's call, but then simply because it is effective is why the Enemy would employ the tactic.
* Note: just see what happens when one tries to move something 'broken' back into its proper place; all sorts of "screaming" and crying, sometimes emotional/hysterical & sometimes logical/cold, but 'screaming' nonetheless. You can see this in society WRT firearms; the reason they are all barred in so many places is not because of safety but control, and this control stems from the underlying assumption that "rights" stem from government/society/anything-but-God. It repeats itself in abortion; the unborn cannot be a 'person' (because abortion would then neoclassical be murder) because: "it's a woman's right," "it's part of my body," "it's got abnormalities," "it's settled law," "it can't survive on its own"... again, anything but "a baby is human, made in God's image."
>>“This is why so many husbands and fathers fail.”
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>Excuse me... Since when have husbands and fathers been demanding abortions???
Is it enough to not demand abortions?
Does not evil flourish when good men do nothing?
And how could a good man conscience this infanticide?
And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our [educational*] situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that our civilization needs more ‘drive’, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity’. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests [hearts] and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
— C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
* Educational because we are TAUGHT by society that these things are of little/negligible/no value.
It would be interesting to know this ratio with the ratio.
What part of “family” didn't they value when they were young?
I came from a very spiritually (christian?) socialist family, but it was still a good family....discipline, nurturing..etc.................you know, wood shed.
Now, I belong to the family of the Lord Jesus Christ....a family.
Feminism is an evil force with the rhetoric of the serpents tongue.
That depends on what you call hate. I hate to see people delude themselves about their actions. As long as she can’t clearly see that she took a human life she won’t be able to see reality and will have no hope of happiness. I can’t simultaneously hope for her well being and hope she never sees the truth. That is hoping for nothing.
“This is real pain she is suffering. Cut her some slack. Without knowing it, she is worried about her soul.”
Like or not, this is the same come-to-Jesus moment many people have had about abortion. Been there myself, unfortunately.
You have one opinion about it when you are 22 and scared.
You have another when you are 45, and wondering what kind of an adult that child would have grown in to.
In the end, this is what the liberal doctrine brings you. Misery and regret. But when you are young, you are only thinking about the NOW, not the future.
“This is what happens when a person does not recognize a force that is bigger and more important than themselves.”
She DID recognize forces bigger and more important than herself.
Secular Humanism and materialism, fueled by selfishness.
Life is not confined to the four corners of an article, essay, or editorial. Don’t you think men impact the decisions of women for the same selfish reasons this lady chose to abort her baby?
Abortion is the result of placing yourself above an innocent life. They value themselves more than the child they conceived. They engaged in behavior that they knew could result in a pregnancy and she, he, or they choose to destroy the consequence out of convenience.
If you don’t think men have a responsibility in the number of abortions you did not understand what I wrote. There are two people responsible for a pregnancy (outside of a lab) and the danger of feminism and “pro-choice” is that men abdicate their responsibility to the woman and the child they fathered for a temporary high.
I know a man who demanded his young girlfriend get an abortion many years ago. It is his biggest regret. I have another friend who found out after the fact and struggles with the result of a decision he was not even aware of. However, he would be the first to tell you that he created the situation.
Examining the root cause of this woman’s decision goes far beyond the “sacred right” foisted on us by the left that makes it a choice based on their foundation that “nothing is bigger than me”. That foundation is found throughout the agenda of the left.
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