Our whole nation went into shock over the senseless killing of innocent students at Columbine High School, Virginia Tech University and now the massacre of soldiers at Fort Hood.
Society condemns such violence, while overlooking solitary acts of bloodshed that ends more human lives than war. The legal destruction of more than 4,000 unborn babies a day in the U.S. hardly gets mentioned! This is an many human lives ended every day as the attack on the world Trade Center or the total number of soldiers killed in Iraq since the war began! Are the lives of these "little ones" any less valuable or less sacred than the lives of teenagers or soldiers?
"Father forgive them for they know not what they do." There is forgiveness, thank God for that. For stories of those who have repented, see article number 21 at www.healpain.net
The answer is not to judge or condemn. We should love women faced with unwanted pregnancies, those who have had abortions and the unborn, those who commit violence and even our enemies. We can change our dislike and hate to love for all people. If we bless them, do good to them, pray for them, we recognize that every human being so conceived is a child of God, created in his image and likeness.
We are a children of God. He is our father. he loves us and knows us even by name. Every person, born and unborn, is more precious to him than all the suns, planets and stars of space. For us, the worlds were created. We lived with him befor birth and shouted for joy when the foundation of Earth was laid. I solemnly declare that this is true. If you sincerely ask God, you can also know.
Darrell Stoddard
Provo
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