Roe Says No to Roe v. Wade
Not just life, but Eternal Life wins!
"I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand" (John 10:28).
Life Is Valuable
Like many parents, Sharon and I would read books to our daughters when they were little. Amanda had her favorite series, though they changed from season to season. Among those series were books by Theodore Geisel. Theodore started with a dream – a dream of writing children’s books. Unfortunately, no fewer than 21 publishers rejected his work. No one wanted to take a chance on the unique, almost wacky stories and illustrations of an unknown author.
Finally, a friend conceded and gave Geisel a try, publishing his work under the assumed name of Dr. Seuss. Today, his classic books have sold in the millions. Dr. Seuss has an uncanny way of making you smile. His stories encourage you and cause you to realize your unique value. Consider the following from one of my favorite Dr. Seuss creations, Happy Birthday to You!
If you’d never been born, well then what would you be?
You might be a fish! Or a toad in a tree!
Or worse than all that….Why, you might be a WASN’T!
A WASN’T has no fun at all. No, he doesn’t.
A WASN’T just isn’t. He just isn’t present.
But you…You ARE YOU! And, now isn’t that pleasant!
Today, you are you! That is truer than true!
There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Shout loud, “I am lucky to be what I am!
Thank goodness. I’m not just a clam or a ham
Or, a dusty old jar of sour gooseberry jam!
I am what I am! That’s a great thing to be!
If I say so myself, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!”
You were made with a purpose. You are valuable to the one who created you, for you were made in His image. Value life, for it is God’s gift to you.
"Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed" (Psalm 139:14-16).
Not in the Grave
Inside Edition reports:
In 2000, Fatima and Kamaron Hickman welcomed the birth of their first and only child together on Aug. 21 in Landstuhl, Germany, where the young Army couple was stationed.
Jada Hickman died of SIDS when she was only 6 months old. Her parents grieved her death, burying her at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Over 20 years later, her parents decided to exume her body and have it cremated so that a part of her could be with each of them no matter where they were.
But when the cemetary attempted to exume her body, they could not find it. According to Inside Edition:
The anguished parents of Jada Hickman say there is nothing left of their baby's remains after 22 years at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Augusta, Georgia. Not her casket, not her white dress, not her shoes, not her tiny body or skeleton. "As we discussed with you, we apologize that due to the passage of time, we were unable to recover the remains of your daughter," wrote a cemetery official in an email to the mother.
Jada's body couldn't be found, whether because (as the cemetary claims) she had already rapidly decomposed, or because (as her father claims) she was buried in the wrong place, or because she was never actually buried at all.
But the story for Jesus is different. Jesus' body couldn't be found because He rose from the grave! And this wasn't 20 years later, but on the third day, when there was no confusion about where or how He was buried.
The plain truth is that Jesus rose. No sorrow. No confusion. Just incomparable joy!
Our risen Savior, with us always ... everywhere we go.
He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. ...
Then Jesus came to them and said, "...surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” - Matthew 28:6, 20, NIV