Last Saturday it hit me like a ton of bricks that I am so grateful that I have God in my heart and that God chose to give my precious baby life. A healthy life that is. I have been beyond blessed!
I have a very good friend that announced to me last Saturday that she is choosing to abort her second child today. I have been consumed with anger, love, patience, and frustration. I look at Lyla and my heart breaks that a child today died because this society puts a bunch of CAN'T when the dead on truth is with God, you CAN!
Having two kids out of wedlock at the age of eighteen is unexceptable to society today because it is not "possible". I have realized that with the grace of God it does not matter what is or is not acceptable to the society we live in. No sin is greater than another. I have a God that calls me to love others with open arms, not judge others. Mother Teresa once said "If you always judge people you have no time to love them." So simple but so true.
I have really realized that it doesn't matter what society, or your parents, or your friends accept. It is ALL about what God accepts. God's heart aches no wait, his heart BREAKS every time there is an abortion, a case of abuse, a girl losing her virginity before she is married and so on. Almost every time your heart is aching God's heart is breaking for you! But the truth is once you accept Jesus, God does not give you a sticker that says "Hello my name is... Abuser, Rapist, Murderer, Unloving, Empty, Sinful." ect. When you are covered in the blood of Jesus your name tag says "Hello, my name is FORGIVEN AND LOVED!"
I encourage everyone reading this to let God's love live through you and stop judging. Love the unlovable. Accept the unacceptable. And care for things you don't care about. The Bible says "Come as you are." Not "Come are you are, if you are perfect." Jesus is the perfect one and that is why it should be so easy to put our trust in him and let his love shine through us!
I truly believe that if we loved a little more that people would feel accepted a little more. I'm not saying to accept the sinful things of this world. I'm saying to accept the people of this world that need the love of Jesus Christ.
In the mean time I ask for prayers for my close friend as she deals with giving her child up. That sweet baby is being held in the perfect arms of their creator and being loved with a never ending love!
Now I'm going to go hold my sweet baby Lyla and lift her up to our creator. She is HIS child and she has HIS love!
