I Just Don't Get It

So anyway, I'm sitting in Cracker Barrel, head bowed, wondering if; hoping that; my Heavenly Father is catching a whiff of this wonderful meal I'm about to eat. My goodness! The smell of the chicken-fried steak giving way to the fresh green beans then the odor of the mashed potatoes makes an appearance in my nostrils. It was after 10 pm so I was pretty hungry too. I'm amazed at this world God has made. We invent something and then embark on an endless path of revisions and modifications to try to get it right. God made something and pronounced that it was good. Man oh man am I in agreement with Him on that.

Today there was a story in the news here in Wichita about a newborn's body that was found in a dumpster. These stories just tear at our hearts as we consider the poor baby left there to die in a dumpster. Heartbreaking. As I have continued considering this event a bizarre thought wandered into my head. If the teenager who left the baby there had walked into an abortion clinic and had a late term abortion of this same child there would have been millions rushing to her side to defend her "right" to a safe and sterile abortion. A legal procedure that would have gone virtually unnoticed. It would have been another act that everyone says they want to be rare and safe and yet it is neither. Are there no tears for a life that is only devalued by our legal system, not by any moral or ethical measure? Is this any different than the law Barack Obama voted for in Illinois to allow doctors to simply abandon a newborn if the mothers intent was to abort the child? If that child were to be deposited in the dumpster by a doctor does that make it OK? You begin to see why our nation is coming apart at the seams. The thread that holds our nation together is weak and breaking in places and there is no government that can rule a nation of amoral people and continue to offer the freedoms that were intended by our founders. May we all consider our own lives and consider turning back to Jesus. His forgiveness can bring our country back to a place of freedom and hope. But that will only happen as a by-product of a spiritual awakening of those who make up the country.
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