In light of the upcoming anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I've been remembering and reflecting on this post by Elizabeth Foss.
Elizabeth writes beautifully about how a baby changes everything. The last paragraph of her blog resonates deeply within me. She talks about how her family paused when her youngest baby was born. The family embraced its newest member, grateful for what she brought and who she will become. They allowed the power of her life, her existence, to impact them. And they changed. They never went back to life exactly as it was before the baby. Rather, they allowed themselves to be changed for the better, because they fully encountered the value of human life.
Sarah Anne (the baby referred to in Elizabeth's blog) has been blessed to be born into a family that knows her value. She has a family that understands that her very existence is something so extraordinary, so sacred, that it cannot be ignored or dismissed. Not only that, but the family also sees that she is a gift meant to change them in such a way that they become holier, more open to God's grace, and more in love with Him.
This is value and power of every single human life.
It is a tragedy that so few children are born into families like Sarah's. It is an even greater tragedy that so few children are ever given the chance to be born. Truly, their lives too have sacredness and purpose.
The beauty of the Pro-Life movement is that, not only are people working tirelessly to fight for all babies that are currently or will one day be in the womb, but also that we are giving those babies who have been lost the chance to have their impact.
Although their parents and those closest to their lives may never know the changes and goodness God meant for them to bring, we who are fighting in their honor do. When we stop for a day to march, or for a minute to pray, we are doing for the unborn children what the Foss family did for Sarah Anne. We are allowing their existence to have an impact on us. Through our actions and prayers, we are begging the world to do the same.
And because of those babies, we are changed.
Their lives are not in vain. The sacredness God has given them is far too powerful.
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