LIFE

Somewhere right now a birth Mom is giving birth to a baby she will not be bringing home.  For whatever reason, the hopes and dreams she may have one day had of being a Mom and raising a child didn't come true.  Not this time anyway, but she values life and is making a birth plan for this precious baby.

Somewhere right now a couple is in a labor and delivery room giving birth to a baby, a baby that may only live a few days or a few hours.  They have known that since the beginning of the second trimester but chose life because they know how precious life is.   They know that God has a plan for this little life no matter how short it is.  They know this baby of theirs will impact others and has a purpose.

Somewhere right now a couple is getting ready to go in the morning for IVF.  They have been trying and waiting for years for God to bless them with a child.  They chose IVF because they value life and are willing to go through shots and hormones, and financial debt just to be parents because they value life.

Somewhere right now a couple is preparing for a C-section in the morning.  They have been very quiet and somber about this birth.  This baby is a rainbow baby.  A child born after a miscarriage or loss of an infant.  They spent this pregnancy afraid to get excited, afraid of what might go wrong, afraid the joy of this baby might overshadow the precious child they didn't get to bring home.  But they tried again because they value life.

Somewhere right now parents are meeting their child for the first time.  This child may be in it's teens, it may be days old, or it may only be hours old.  They have been waiting years to meet him or her.  They have saved, and sacrificed, and raised money to bring this child home.  They have gone through the ups and downs of hope shattered, and faith tested.  They have waited and then waited some more to be able to bring this child home to their forever family.  They know the value of life.

Somewhere right now there is a woman thinking back on a decision that was made 30 years ago. Her family doesn't know, her friends don't know.  It was a time when she was young, scared, and alone. She felt like she had no one to go to, and no where to turn.  But a day doesn't go by that she doesn't wonder, what color eyes would she have had.  What would she have grown up to be. A day doesn't go by that she doesn't regret the decision that she made.  If she could go back she would do it different because she values life.      

Sometimes in the mundane of the every day we take the value of life for granted.  We forget the high price God paid for life.  When we do we devalue the cross.  God values each and every life enough, that he send His son to die on the cross, so that we could have life and have it abundantly.   We need to live each day in the abundance.

John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.  I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."