A quick quote that I
thought was cute: “When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a
dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
~ Nora Ephron,
journalist, playwright & screen writer.
There are a lot of things in life that I consider very precious
(golden rings included, my wedding ring). Pizza for example is one that is hard
for me to live without. Indoor plumbing is another example of preciousness,
especially while camping. Both my dogs, Hannah and Ginger are precious part of
my life – I love these little rascals dearly. On a spiritual level, I would say
my family, faith and religion are the most precious of all. Family and faith
makes up a lot of who I am.
As I sit here contemplating how precious my children and
family are to me, I find myself thinking about the sanctity of human life. I
cannot imagine EVER where my life would be today if either one of my children were
to die. I would be devastated. Life is so fragile; it can be gone in an
instant.
Why is life so important to many of us, and first and
foremost, why is it so important to our Heavenly Father? Life is important to many of us because life is where we find out who we are. Its where we learn, grow and love. I also believe with all my
heart that we are all Gods children. “Each human being, no matter how young or
how small, is a ‘beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and as
such, each has a divine nature and destiny’” (Defending the Sanctity of Life, p.
291). When we welcome children into our lives, we are demonstrating to Jesus Christ
that we are ready to become more like him. Every child has a right to life and
to receive his or her body, grow and learn, and one day, return back to the presence
of God.
I am a “follower” on the Facebook page called, “On Line for
Life”. It is a page that is solely dedicated to raise awareness about the evils
of abortion. It is a page to advocate the sanctity of life and to plead for the
rights of the unborn child. The messages we hear today out in the “world” tell
us that a woman has a right to do what she pleases with her body. However, do
we ever hear about the right to save the baby’s body? What about the father of
the baby, what about his choice. Abortion is a tragedy for everyone involved.
More action needs to be made to save these precious-innocent
lives. There are appropriate ways to defend life and to stand up and fight against
these laws that permit it. Fighting violence with violence is never the answer.
I have barely scraped the surface about my feelings against abortion, but let
me leave you with some wise words from Mother Teresa (Catholic Humanitarian
and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient):
Many
people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where
quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the
violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very
good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being
killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the
greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such
blindness.
By abortion the
Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems.
And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility
at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put
other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion. Any
country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence
to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion" ."
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