Posted by crunchymountainmomma on June 10, 2009
Our church supports many missionaries. We often have the chance to meet them, see photos of the ministry that they have been called to. It’s an amzign thing to hear them speak. Just this last week, a family came back to the States from Chihuahua, Mexico. They’ve got an amazing little church. On May 3, the Mexican government shut down everything in light of the swine flu scare. Well, I should say that they intended to shut down everything. Wait, let me say that again. All the churches were told to shut down. And threatened with permanent closure, and huge fines if they didn’t do it. Our missionary friend said that May 3, 2009 would be the day the churches closed in Mexico. Meanwhile, because his church had been registered as a private residence, they continued to have services. And after they met to share the word of God, he went for a walk. And was saddened to see that the grocery stores were open. The restaurants were open. The bars were open. The public continued to meet and laugh in the streets, yet the churches were silent. Score one for the government.
Then, as this family came to visit back in the States, their oldest son was told that he couldn’t come in. Um, but he’s an American citizen, born in the United States of America. The border officials insisted that he coldn’t come home without a work visa, issued by Mexico, to enter the US, and he HAS to return in 6 months to renew his visa to be in the United States.
When his father asked why, he was told………………….
“Ask Washington D.C. Everything we do here is linked to Washington.”
The father pointed out that they were still IN Mexico, that his son was a US citizen, and that they people doing the paperwork were in mexico, on Mixican soil, doing Mexican governmental work.
“Yes, I know. But everything we do here on the mexican side of the border is linked to Washington.”
Kind of telling, in and of itself, is it not?
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Posted by crunchymountainmomma on June 2, 2009
We’ve heard you were expecting! How wonderful that is! What’s that? You found out it was a agirl? Oh that’s wonderful! Pink everyhwere! Lace, and curls and ribbons and ballet lessons-what’s that you say? You wanted a boy? Oh, well maybe next time. You know, you could get to it earlier if you really wanted. Just go get an abortion. It’s legal in Sweden you know.
Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped, according to a report by Sveriges Television.
Here’s the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/12/sweden-rules-genderbased-_n_202430.html
So now, the way science has advanced us out of the stone age, you can get pregnant, find out if your baby has an incurable disease or disability and kill it-never mind that’s the way that baby was created. And, now, you can discriminate based on sex preference too. Not only that, you can have that ultrasound, find out it’s a gender you ujst don’t want to deal with(thank you so much ultrasound technology!), abort it, heal up a bit and go and order yourself a fabulous little designer baby.
So much for the fun of good old fashioned sex, the surprise of not knowing and the joy of the blessing of a baby.
I think I’ll go hug my naturally conceived, surprise me with pink or blue, love you in each and every flaw quiver of bent arrows.
I originally posted this elsewhere a few weeks ago. Today, as I learn that yet another one of my children might have a problem, it strikes me as even more relevant. At what point do we draw the line in teh sand over a human life? I thought we had reached the end of the rope with aborting babies because they MIGHT have something challenging like Down’s Syndrome. But now to read again that they now are allowing abortions because its a boy or a girl, it breaks my heart.
When will human life no longer be discardable?
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