It's that time of year again Christmas is almost here and many are busy with last minute shopping, getting ready for the big Christmas get together with family and friends, and other Christmas traditions. But it's not a Merry Christmas for all this year. There are over a million new empty places that will be at the Christmas tables this year across America, those of the over 1.21 million children who were aborted this year.
Those children will never enjoy their first Christmas or any others. I saw the graphic to the right on Facebook today from Students for Life of America and it really touched me and got me to thinking about just how many children will never get to enjoy even one Christmas that so many of us so often take for granted now as just another holiday.
It is a sobering and tragic reality that should sadden everyone in the U.S. many don't want to talk about abortion. You even mention the word and you can see many people shut down immediately before your eyes. Some don't want to hear or think about such an awful thing. Some think that it's just a political or moral choice that is private and that only brings about trouble if mentioned like religion or politics to someone who doesn't believe the same way you do. Then there are those that sadly seem totally desensitized about the whole thing, it doesn't affect them so why should they think about it or care one way or the other. But abortion is a problem that we can't afford to stay silent about any longer 1.21 million is an enormous number but that isn't looking at even half of the real picture of what abortion has truly done to our country. What everyone needs to realize and think about is that there are really over 55 million people who are missing from countless Christmas get together's this year. Because there have been an estimated 55 million children who have been killed by abortion in the U.S. since the legalization of abortion in 1973 by Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (and there are undoubtedly even more than this because it's well known that all abortions have not been reported or took place in abortion clinics or hospitals). However 55 million is a staggering number but sadly even that's not even the tip of the iceberg when you stop and consider all of the lives that have also been lost in that those 55 million people never were allowed to live and have children of their own. So what is the real number of people who have been taken from this world and our lives through abortion? The enormity of just how many of our fellow brothers and sisters are not alive today that should be, should both sadden and humble every single American.
So while you are gathered together with your family and friends at your Christmas celebration this year. Please take the time and just stop and think of the countless children and people who are missing from yours and other celebrations and homes all across our country. Take a moment to observe a moment of silence and pray for all those precious lives that are lost to us forever, and for all of the women who have been hurt (many of them scarred for life) by those same abortions. But above all please take the time and pray for an end to abortion soon so that over 3,500 more children every single day in America won't suffer the same fate as those millions before them.
My friends Christmas was started in observance of another child who was born in Bethlehem in a manger over 2000 years ago. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was once an embryo, a fetus, and an unborn child in his mother's womb as well. He was born into this world so that we all might have hope, and he suffered and died so that all of us might LIVE. Jesus loves every single human being on this earth and he was born and died for all of us including every single child in their mother's womb. Every single life is important and sacred to him just as it should be to all of us.
So starting this year this Christmas it's a perfect time that we all start looking at life and treating life the way that Jesus does and has commanded us all too. It's time to stop being silent, apathetic, and politically correct and start talking about the very real horror that is going on all around us every day in the U.S. that is abortion. Things will not change with silence and if we continue to turn our heads and ignore the killing of our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. We ARE our brother's keeper just like it says in the Bible. God and Jesus are watching us every second and there will come a day when we must give an account to them for what we have done and have not done in this life. We need to all ask ourselves how will we be able to answer when they ask us what did we do about abortion?
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