Chapter 3

Sanctity of Human Life

This was the sermon topic for today. There was going to be an abortion clinic opening across the street from the church, the practice is already there they just wanted to start aborting babies as well. They have since decided to search for a different location. Brent said that a lot of the congregation would heave a sigh of releif, I'm not one of those people. My perspective on the matter was as follows. There will be a new abortion clinic openning in Wichita, location is really the only variable at this point. I thought that if it were going to open across the street from our church that we could facilitated some sort of counselling in our building. Maybe we could have let the Pregnancy Crisis Center, or something similar, use our empty-during-the-week building to do a little bit of good for a couple of ladies. It was just a thought, though. Still things were discussed, minds were changed, and the clinic will go somewhere else.

Brent's big point was the protesting that was spilling over into our parking lot. This I understand. Sometimes using signs, images, yelling at people, only shows how unchristian we can be. The love that the Father has shown to us, sometimes, never gets shown THROUGH us. There are a lot of hurting people out there and they view christians as people that are going to judge and look down on them. Brent said that the media was partcially to blame, and it is, but the media is only bringing to light what we have already done.

In the way of showning love, I looked up information on adoptions (this will be a topic I talk about a lot in the future). It seems that it's going to be hard to get the ball started on something like this. I know that we have several things standing in our way before we really get started, but I was just looking for information. It's been several years since Keith and I decided that we were going to adopt, but it has started to come closer to the time to really look into it. If the Lord's hand is in the plan that I have in my mind then we would begin the adoption process in about a year and a half. I'd like two things to happen first: our second biological child and a larger house.

I have thought about helping out at a pregnancy counseling center several times. I would love to be there for hurting women. With Carter, at the moment, I can't see me fitting it in, but I think I could do well. There are too many families in this world that can't have children on their own, for anyone to be just throwing children away. Why we don't value life like we should is beyond me. Life, something can we as humans have the power to take, makes us feel in control. I'll end with one thought that occured to me during the church service. When does life really develope for us to claim it's murder? I say it is whenever a woman get's that panicky or excited feeling that something is growing inside them. That is when in her mind it's living. That's when it starts being called a baby.