Her mother chose life. Maybe you saw her outside the abortion clinic the morning she almost didn't. Maybe you were the one who convinced her that she wasn't alone. That the baby she was carrying was a life. Had a heartbeat. Had a purpose. Was loved. Maybe you promised to always be available if she needed support. Maybe you even meant it.
She had her baby, but her life was hard and she was trapped. Her boyfriend was abusive. Into drugs. And she found herself addicted, as well....
At first, she was still able to care for her child, but over time, she sunk further and further into darkness. The child's teachers suspected something was wrong and finally, one of them filed a report. The state showed up and took the child. Put her in a foster home. Over the next several years, she lived in many different foster homes, never really knowing what she had done wrong and why she couldn't live with the only mother she had ever known. The mother who had chosen to give her life, but had somehow given up on her own.
When her mother died from a drug overdose, she realized she would never go back home. She felt as though she would never have a family. And with 20,000 children aging out of the foster system every year, chances are, she may not.
Where are you now? The one who promised to always be there. The one who advocated for her life. Are you coming to her rescue? Because she needs you. She needs you. She needs a family. She needs to know she is loved. You promised to be there..... Are you holding true to that promise?
To be pro-life is more than just holding signs and asking broken women to give birth. To be pro-life should mean that you advocate not just for birth, but that you support life. And that you are willing to provide a child with a life when others cannot.
God didn't say pure religion was holding signs and picketing abortion clinics. He said that "pure religion is this: caring after widows and orphans in their distress....." (James 1:27)
She chose life when it was easier not to. Are you willing now to provide a life when it's easier not to? To choose to hold true to your promise and act on what God accepts as pure religion? Half a million children in the foster care system right now are counting on you.
She had her baby, but her life was hard and she was trapped. Her boyfriend was abusive. Into drugs. And she found herself addicted, as well....
At first, she was still able to care for her child, but over time, she sunk further and further into darkness. The child's teachers suspected something was wrong and finally, one of them filed a report. The state showed up and took the child. Put her in a foster home. Over the next several years, she lived in many different foster homes, never really knowing what she had done wrong and why she couldn't live with the only mother she had ever known. The mother who had chosen to give her life, but had somehow given up on her own.
When her mother died from a drug overdose, she realized she would never go back home. She felt as though she would never have a family. And with 20,000 children aging out of the foster system every year, chances are, she may not.
Where are you now? The one who promised to always be there. The one who advocated for her life. Are you coming to her rescue? Because she needs you. She needs you. She needs a family. She needs to know she is loved. You promised to be there..... Are you holding true to that promise?
To be pro-life is more than just holding signs and asking broken women to give birth. To be pro-life should mean that you advocate not just for birth, but that you support life. And that you are willing to provide a child with a life when others cannot.
God didn't say pure religion was holding signs and picketing abortion clinics. He said that "pure religion is this: caring after widows and orphans in their distress....." (James 1:27)
She chose life when it was easier not to. Are you willing now to provide a life when it's easier not to? To choose to hold true to your promise and act on what God accepts as pure religion? Half a million children in the foster care system right now are counting on you.
