A Baby Must Do a Lot of Trusting
Have you ever held a newborn in your arms and felt it snuggle into your warmth as if seeking refuge? What a wonderful feeling! A precious, innocent little life depending entirely on your strength to protect it from the real world!
Can you imagine the shock a little one must feel when it leaves the ultimate protection of its mother’s womb and emerges into the cold, blindingly bright world for the first time? All of a sudden the baby is cold, feels hunger, and must fend for itself in the oxygen department. The warm, loving, and nourishing darkness that the baby has instinctively trusted without question, and has come to take for granted for the past nine months is gone! It is replaced by what you see around you.
Is life viable for him or her without the commitment of a loving parent or parents? Of course not! The little one must continue in a state of complete dependence for its basic NEEDS for several years. Warmth, nourishment, shelter, love, touch and knowledge will all come from someone who is totally committed to caring for the child if they are to come at all.
Watch closely, as the baby begins do develop judgment over time. It learns that it cannot blindly trust everyone to cherish it like Mom or Dad does. Some people are too rough or too negligent or too ignorant to be completely trusted. This developing discernment is essential to the child’s ultimate survival and transition to adulthood.
Thank God for the wise plan that makes it possible for us to take our needs for granted for the first nine months of our existence, as we are surrounded by the protecting warmth of our mother’s love. This applies to you, me and everyone else who has lived on the earth.
From the time when we first existed as a few newly conceived cells (each cell carrying the complete DNA blueprint for our future development and growth) through the first 21 days till our tiny hearts started beating, we were hardly recognizable as a baby. Then, things started happening quickly. Two more weeks and our brains start to generate brainwaves indicating our first cognitive activity. Four to five weeks more, we are sucking our thumbs (getting a head start on our suckling skills!), moving around (sometimes vigorously!), adjusting position to get more comfortable, squinting to close out light, frowning (perhaps a smile or two also?), moving our tiny tongues and swallowing.
Ahhh, life is good! We are in a good place! We take all this for granted, for we are not intended to worry at this tender point in our development. There is simply nothing to worry about here! Of course, with hindsight, we know this is about to change! But, for now, we have big job to do. We have to be and learn. That’s it! Nature and mommy will do the rest! I feel certain we would be surprised at all the things we learned while we were in the womb.
Most of all we learned to trust. It was as if we knew there was someone doing all the work. From inside, we could actually feel the love of our mother as she provided for all our needs. Thank heavens, that didn’t change much for most of us after we emerged into the real world.
Some babies were a bit premature on the trust, however. For over FORTY MILLION! (40,000,000), babies since 1973, their tiny lives ended in a flood of betrayal, bewilderment, shock and pain. Horrible unbearable pain.
I was looking at Abortion Statistics the other day. So cold and clinical they chilled me to the bone. Each baby had become a number and was classified by the method used to end its life. There were three classifications of methods. Curettage was by far the most common according to the Center for Disease Control accounting for over 99%. Abortion Statistics – United States. There were two general classifications of curettage used:
Today, we look back on our ancestors and wonder how could they have been so arrogant, cruel and ignorant to think that they could actually own another human being? For most of us slavery is an incomprehensible, shameful blot on the otherwise glorious history of the land of the free…
We recall more recently the stark, incomprehensible horror of “The Holocaust” and can’t help but wonder how the German Nation could have allowed such an abomination to exist within its expanded borders. Generations of good German people have had to live with similar thoughts when the lights go out before they sleep.
What will our descendants feel towards us, their ancestors, when they look back on the period where we as a people have tolerated what has to be the most horrible abomination ever committed by an “enlightened” nation in the history of planet earth?
Our President seeks “dialogue” on this matter. He takes the horror a huge step forward in supporting “partial birth abortions”. How can we have a dialogue on this? This is simply infanticide disguised as the divine principle of human free agency, the right to choose. I pray for the millions of young men and women who have been duped into this crime against humanity. I pray they can forgive themselves when the light finally comes on, and it will… If only they had realized that when you choose an act, you also choose the consequences!
Please understand, I dont condemn the prospective mothers who must ultimately face this terrible decision alone. Nor is this aimed at irresponsible men who have their fun then leave a young woman alone to face the consequences. This is an indictment of our society for tolerating the carnage.
When our nation finally removes the blinders and sees this for the horrible abomination it is, there will be change. There will be shame enough for all of us to go around. And, don’t expect our descendants to understand and forgive. They never will.
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I feel as passionately about the abortion issue as anyone I know. But, it is a bit too ironic for me that someone who claims to be pro-life would resort to murder of another human being under the guise of fighting for right.
Abortion is a societal problem and will not be solved by attacking the symptoms. Most Doctors who perform abortions are law abiding citizens performing a “service” that our society has deemed to be righteous and essential. Put the blame on the doctors who perform abortions? What about the insurance companies that pay for them? The hospitals that provision them? The judges that order them? The clerks that bill for them? The nurses that assist with them?
These participants are symptoms, not the root of the problem. If our society condemned the practice of abortion, these symptoms would cease to exist. So long as society permits and promotes this evil practice, the participants or their replacements will always be with us.
When you have a poisonous plant that is taking over, you can approach it one of two ways. You can hack at the leaves, or you can hack at the roots. We need to start hacking at the roots!
The root of this problem is the apathy of our citizenry. As a people, we have abandoned our thinking to the media. We allow politicians to hold high office who have no regard or understanding of our constitution. We allow judges to make policy, as Judge Sotomayor so aptly has stated.
We have set the foxes to guard the henhouse and now we wonder where all our chickens have gone.
We the people, still own this country and when we decide we have had enough and are committed to get off our spreading rear ends and legally and lawfully, using the means provided by our founding fathers in our inspired constitution, TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK, things will change. And not until then.
I share the guilt of this nation because I have not been effective in stopping the carnage, I have not done enough. No one has done enough. And whoever murdered Dr. Tiller did far more harm to our cause than a thousand abortion doctors.
This is a smart and touching piece. I am reminded of Congressman Henry Hyde’s quote that has been an inspiration to many of us in the pro-life movement. “When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God — and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there’ll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world — and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, ‘Spare him, because he loved us!’”
May God continue to enliven & embolden the efforts of those who see things like you do, my friend. And in (some of) the words of the most beautiful Pentecost Sequence: “Bend the stubborn heart and will, melt the frozen, warm the chill, guide the steps that go astray.”
pax, Karen