I write these notes a week in advance, and last week I had another post prepared. As I was driving to work, God laid another matter on my heart, which is more relevant for today.

I was praying for the new babies our church family have been or would soon be blessed with. I prayed for the continued growth and development of the little ones waiting to be released from their mothers’ wombs. I prayed for safe and healthy delivery for these mamas soon giving birth. I prayed for strength and growth to families just starting out with their newborn.

This always leads me to praying for other mamas, those who have struggled with infertility or have had the beautiful gift of life in their wombs, only to lose their babies to miscarriage. I have been one of those mamas.

I remember knowing this was the next step for our family. The moment I knew I was pregnant, I felt instant love for the life that was growing within me. The life of my baby, because yes this was a little life, had already captured the complete love of my heart. Around seven weeks during my first appointment, my ultrasound showed weakness in the baby. I remember the doctor saying my baby was viable – capable of life, of living. My baby was a life. Soon after, this little one lost her life and went to see Jesus. It was not a choice I had made. I wanted her, but Jesus wanted her more. The loss of this life devastated me, and I know it does for so many other mamas who have endured this same loss.

Experiencing this, it is very difficult for me to understand the whole abortion issue and how a baby is not considered life from the moment of conception. While I will not get into all of the issues surrounding abortion and my hatred of it, I do want to plead with you to please vote No on Issue 1. Please look into what the passing of this issue would allow. The issue has been cleverly worded and would allow babies to be aborted for up to nine months and there will no longer be the need for parental consent. The rights of parents to guide their children as well as the rights of unborn babies are taken away. It leaves the decision of life in the hands of the abortionist. So many babies lose their lives to abortion already, but the increase this would allow is astounding.

These babies do not have a voice. Please be their voice and take time to vote No on Issue 1. Pray for God to grant a sound defeat of this issue. Many have said “It goes to far.” Yes, it does.

Please remember the words of Psalm 139:13-16.

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

In His Love,

Susan