April 22, 2009
Posted by Claire
How do I celebrate Earth Day, you ask?
Well maybe you didn’t ask, but I am sure you are just dying to know.
I am celebrating this Earth Day on my knees. I am not on my knees planting little baby saplings. I am on my knees praying. I am praying that our world will come to value the sanctity of human life, and worship the One who created all things. I am praying that He will have mercy on us, because when I think about the bloodshed that has gone on in this Nation for nearly 3 decades now it scares me. The bloodshed went on before, but it was not sanctioned and paid for by the Government — the Government that we say is “by the people.” What part do we all share in this slaughter? Scary.
I am personally declaring Earth Day a new Day of Mourning. A Day of Repentance and Prayer. Now, that’s something I can put my whole heart into.
I had posted this once before a little while back, but it’s on my mind again today:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_2LwHW91I
“LIVING LIFE UPSIDE DOWN”
By Truth
John has a new way of looking at life
He’s tired of his job, his kids and his wife
He says the secret to his success
Was in leaving and finding himself
Now he’s someone to somebody else.
And you say we’ve risen to a new age of truth
You’re calling it a spiritual Godly pursuit
But I say, I say,
(chorus)
What if we’ve fallen to the bottom of a well
Thinking we’ve risen to the top of a mountain
What if we’re knocking at the gates of hell
Thinking we’re heaven bound
What if we spend our lives thinking of ourselves
When we should have been thinking of each other
What if we reach up and touch the ground
To find we’re living life upside down.
We’ve got a program for saving the earth
While unborn children are denied their right to birth
One baby’s blessed, another cursed
Have we made this world better or worse
Now that the life of a tree comes first
And you say we’ve risen to a new age of light
You’re telling me what used to be wrong is now right
But I say, I say,
(repeat chorus)
What if we’re living, what if we’re living,
What if we’re living life upside down.
10 Comments
April 22, 2009
Very poignant and saddening…. we have the capacity to mourn the loss of a pet or feel empathy for the killing of baby seals…
Protesters petition to spare convicted murderers on death row yet…
We’ve got a program for saving the earth
While unborn children are denied their right to birth
“Ponder this question: If we were able to watch babies grow through windows on mothers’ stomachs, would people still abort their babies? ” from AbortionTv.com – Heart wrenching data and pictures.
The Center for Disease Control estimates that 4,000 abortions are performed daily ~ 1,460,000 yearly in the United States (that’s 40 million plus since 1973). 95% of all abortion are done as a means of birth control. Only 1% are performed because of rape or incest; 1% because of fetal abnormalities; 3% due to the mother’s health problems.
April 22, 2009
Have you adopted any unwanted children yourself?
April 23, 2009
Beautiful post Claire. May God grant you (and us) this request.
The words that stuck out to me on the song is the chorus, especially the first 4 lines. This is truly where we are now–the world has indeed become a place where sin is now considered moral and the morality we grew up with is considered wrong, immoral, judgemental, etc
God have mercy on us.
April 23, 2009
Hank, It’s very sad when convenience overrides compassion.
Aimee, this post is probably spurred by the fear (reverent fear) that is placed in your heart when you study Deuteronomy in depth. The God the old testament is the same God of today. We have a new covenant with Him, yes, but his righteousness and holiness are uncompromising. Scary prospect.
April 23, 2009
Tanusri
And exactly what in the world does that statement have to do with the topic, exactly? To satisfy your curiosity, no I have not adopted. I am open to adoption, but see I have been busy raising my own children. My oldest, by the way, I happened to have had at the age of 16. I have been busy for the last 24-years living and practicing what I preach. I am not saying it’s easy to have a baby you have not planned for. I am not saying that every young woman who finds herself in that situation should raise the child. But, don’t ask me some sanctimonious question like I haven’t a clue what I am talking about. When I look at my son, who is now a soldier who defends this Country, how could I even doubt for a nano-second that his life is valuable and that he is worth anything I may have had to give up when I was younger? It wasn’t his decision to be concieved while his mother was so young… it was a decision I made.
So, please give me a break. The majority of adopted families I know are pro-life because they are now parenting children that could have just as easily been aborted. Being wanted does not equate inherent worth. Human beings have inherent worth and value because of Who created them, and for what they are… not because someone else decides they have worth.
April 23, 2009
Tanusri,
Have you saved anyone’s life yourself?
April 23, 2009
Tanusri,
Unwanted by whom? Unwanted by God? Unwanted by society? Unwanted by you? Unwanted by the mother? Unwanted by the father? Unwanted by self?
I am the product of a failed abortion.
Who was my protagonist? Who was my voice? Claire, that’s who. She and like minded individuals.
I was adopted on 30 April 1976 at the age of 10.
I was wanted.
As an adopted child I feel compelled to weigh in a bit more and would like to give you an opportunity to give more context to your question. Are you just curious? Why do you ask? What is your opinion?
When I was 17 I was informed by my biological father that my mother had overdosed on Valium in an attempt to self abort, and that only by his intervention and having her stomach pumped at the emergency room was I spared. What I do know is that my biological mother suffered from manic depression and when I was four she committed suicide. I have always been glad I was born and I have always felt blessed I was adopted. I am blessed to have the genetic material from a beautiful but very troubled woman, but I am even more blessed to have an adoptive Mother, my Mom, who loves me with all her heart and soul.
I am thankful for Claire, she is my hero and in a sense my defender. She is defending the future me’s of the world and I welcome her passion, support, and love because it was a struggle to get here. I am one of the survivors, I was born, I was spared, and adopted.
Claire is also the defender of my third child, who was diagnosed with Down’s syndrome while still in the womb. At the time we were an active duty military family, far away from our relatives, and here this doctor looks at my wife and asks her if she wants an abortion. From the doctor’s perspective I’m not sure if I was even supposed to be part of the equation. My wife and I had never discussed this as a possibility. We were being asked by a doctor if we wanted an abortion as if it was the only logical option, the only choice. We weren’t being asked to abort a fetus. We were being asked to kill our baby that we loved, that we had read to, that we had named. How many times had I kissed her belly? How many times had we looked at the ultrasound of our little boy? My two older sons had already taken ownership of their new sibling who would soon be entering into the world. Children sometimes reveal wonderful and obvious truths. It’s their baby brother in mommy’s tummy.
No long discussion. No second guessing. Since we have been aware of his conception we have loved our third child. Our son was born. He does not have Down’s, but there’s more.
That adoptive Mother of mine, my Mom, she has Multiple Sclerosis. She can’t do everything by herself, specifically lifting, bending, and putting things on the shelf at our family business. My Mom might have been depressed by her daily struggle but for her helper who never complains, is always reliable, and gives her a big hug each day. Her helper is a paid employee that started working for her when my third son was born ten years ago. And she happens to have Down’s Syndrome.
With Utmost Respect ~ Semper Fi, Hank
April 23, 2009
Hank! Wow. That’s incredible — all of it. I don’t even know how to respond other than saying, I am very grateful that God had plans for you here on earth and that you are here to fulfill them. I do believe that every aborted baby has fulfilled a plan… even if that is to have lived as a martyr in the bloodiest holocaust — and it’s not new. We see it in ancient writings. King Solomon said there is nothing new under the sun.
Thank you again, my friend, for sharing more of yourself here. Also, thank you for standing there with me and with Damon. You are a very faithful friend — I am not sure if that comes from being a Marine, or if you became a Marine because you were already a faithful man. Hmm… there’s a good blog entry one day!
May 6, 2009
Claire, the video is not working!
May 6, 2009
Thank you Varinka. I will have to take it out when I get a chance.
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