lots of heavy stuff on my mind lately - don't let that studious, Dickens-loving girl with the nerf ball fool you.
I went to youth group tonight, as I said earlier, for about the first time in a month or so. and before that I went once, and then hadn't been for a month because of golf. so really, I just haven't been recently.
our youth group is dying. some might call it a lost cause. I think, like in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for, and really fighting - like those small animals, where the mother fights something like ten times her size to protect her babies, when she knows she's gonna die.
the rest of the country may not have noticed, but we're the mother and about 3500-4000 of our babies are dying every day....and we are legislating to kill more of them.
yeah. the abortion thing.
we talked about it briefly tonight; there's this Sanctity of Human Life service going on in the area in January, and the person in charge is trying to get youth involved pretty heavily. I feel such a burning passion for this - I'm not sure yet what I can do about it, but I know there must be something. a lost cause? maybe. but I know I can make a difference, and if I'm wrong, I'll go down fighting.
why?
because it's right.
because it's something I believe in.
because the majority doesn't decide what is right and wrong - God decides that.
so I'm quite open for ideas, or help, or anything you have to offer. can you think of something that can be done to save the lives of people who are going to be us in fifteen years? or do you want to band together and do something?
oh yeah the other thing I wanted to write about...I could use some prayer, please, because I'm trying to make this decision. it's about this summer, and if I'm going on a mission trip, and if so, where I'm going. right now, I'm actually considering a Thailand trip in July. but...of course...I really want to go back to India to. God isn't manifesting Himself in visible form yet, shouting the answer at me, so I'm just praying and trying to swallow the patience pill He's given me. I'm a stubborn personality with a really thick exterior. I think, if I were a fruit, I would be a pomegranite.
anyway, the basic idea of this post is that I'm extremely tired of spinning my wheels, I've realized I'm not getting anywhere by myself, I'm back on the road and starting out in first gear, and I don't know yet how to shift into second, so I'm waiting on God. but I'm going somewhere, and I'm sick of doing nothing and acting like a 'normal teenager,' so I want desperately to do something.
I know how you feel. I want to do something also.
ReplyDeleteI too know exactly how you feel. Unfortunately it doesn't get any easier as you get older. . .
ReplyDeletehey, I'll be praying for any missions field thing you do, 'slong as it doesn't cover over camp hope. *winks*
ReplyDeleteand frankly, there really isn't much we can do that's not already being done but the extremests. abortion is just something people have to live with 'till they wisen up or something. idek.
I'm with you, Kacy. I'm pretty passionate about abortion too.
ReplyDeleteand I'm not writing anymore than that cause I don't want to get started on it.
:-)
ha-ha well I don't know about camp hope, or about south dakota. it really totally depends on if I go to India or Thailand. because India, I can pick my own dates, and I'd probably do it in late August-early September, right before school starts. but if I go to Thailand, the trip dates are I think pretty much all of July.
ReplyDeletewhich could interfere with a lot of things. but I'm trying not to think about that right now.
have you heard of Not for Sale? it's an organization devoted to stopping modern-day slavery of all kinds. website is www.notforsalecampaign.org
I figure, some people are tackling absolutely huge things like slavery, because it's wrong. we shouldn't be content just to live with abortion....because I believe it's only going to get worse if all the Christians just sit on their duffs and say nothing, "hoping" it away. I don't know...I need to do more research, but there has to be something we can do. something small, something big.
anything at all.
I really wish I could help. I just don't know how
ReplyDeletethere's always something needing to be done, i think. if you want suggestions, i would start small; volunteer at pregnancy crisis centers. although i'm very much against abortion, i don't think it's my personal passion. i really want to intern with Invisible Children and GO!. i want to do something about another method of child murder.
ReplyDeletehmmm, here's an interesting question. do you believe life begins at conception? i should dig out my (christian) friend john's thoughts on this subject, it's highly enlightening.
hmmmm. new controversial blog post. mwhahaha.
conception . . . hmm interesting thought.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely I do. ;) very much so. if not at conception, then when does it begin? it's not some strange 9-month thing and the child's not alive until then. some babies are born at five months and they survive.
ReplyDeleteand if it has been growing from the moment it was conceived, how could it not be alive?
just one more thing the Supreme Court and I can disagree on.
that's a really good idea though Anna, about volunteering. thank you for *cough* reading the post lol and commenting. :)
i DID read the post silly.
ReplyDeleteso, do you believe miscarriage is murder?
there's a verse in the bible that talks about if someone punches a pregnant woman and causes her to miscarry, he must pay for all the pain he caused. (can't remember the correct language, but it's right before "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth etc." in the old testament"). it does not say the person who hurt the woman causing her to miscarry committs murder.
I think that the baby is a live at all stages of life.
ReplyDeleteso...I couldn't remember exactly what it said either, so I looked it up. it's from Exodus 21:22-25
ReplyDelete"If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hnd, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for striipe."
So it seems to me like there's a punishment for hurting the woman even if the baby isn't hurt. And if the baby is hurt, then the punishment goes according to that (life for life, eye for eye, etc.). So to me it looks like the infant is considered a person before they're born.
does that seem like a correct interpretation? would you all agree?
yes
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I definitely thing a person is person before they are born. After all, the baby has a soul too, from day 1.
ReplyDeleteSo I guess if someone causes a miscarriage, than it is essentially murder? I never saw that verse in the Bible before, but it is very interesting.