What an abortion takes from you.

Children. The hardest job you could have. You can't take a vacation or even a day off from them in your thoughts. Once they are born, they are forever with you. Distance or imprisonment doesn't matter. So many for that reason can't even comprehend it. The statistics say that there are 50 million abortions around the world every year. That's some numbers for you!

But what are we exactly missing when we say 'no' to God's gift'? This was the best & recent illustration I can think of.

My two-year old boy, Sam for short, Samuel on the birth certificate, and I, are sitting on the sofa one afternoon. He is my number four.

  'Can you read a book to me?' 'Yes, I can.'

'This one, please.'

'Guess how much I love you,' I start in a different tone. We read this book about a hundred times already.

His small body leans on me, connecting us somehow beyond the physical touch; melting anything that can ever separate us. This little boy is the most delightful being in this Universe to me. This moment is captured forever. Samuel is so enchanted with the story, his tongue almost sticking out, as the dog does  in a wild excitement and his eyes are growing big!  It gives me an enormous  pleasure to read the story to him again and again. I have no fear or worries. I know God gave this treasure to me. Even if he dies physically, we are so connected now, this bond isn't broken by death. I know he is an eternal being. Aborting never has been an option for me. I can't put such responsibility  on my soul. I pray passionately to the true and living God of the Bible that this little boy grows up loving His Maker. I will teach him and look after him in exchange of the pleasure sitting like this, connected from the very top and all the way to his toes. The rest is hard work, but every bit of it worth it when LOVE  itself drives you. His well-being  education, health, talent development will never end. Perhaps his disobedience and lies that he 'innocently' tells will never permanently stop. He will need correction & a lot of  nurture. The more you have them, the SWEETER they are somehow, not EASIER.  But such labor carries the message of God's love to the human race. Just as an Olympic torch. For the greater cause; for a celebration where time ends, enjoyment and pleasure in heaven with God who made us in His image. Think again. Don't abort.