the Way, the Truth, and the Life

17 percent of all abortions are from born-again Christians in the United States of America. There, that's the startling statistic for this piece. After that, Christians all across the board have to figure out what to do about this statistic. This was brought up in the sermon today, which dealt specifically with the Spiritual aspect of abortion. My music pastor gave the sermon today, a warm and clumsy man that would be the last of my pastors I would think of presenting such a delicate issue such as this one. On account that this was truly the first direct abortion sermon held at my church to my recollection, it was amazing to hear such a stunning presentation brought forth by him, not to take away from his abilities. The often goofy laughable man had us all thinking deeply about the topic, penetrating to the core of some, as noticed by their constant sniffling and emotional looks they gave. The sermon pleased me ever so. I expected the worst; a bantering of why it is the right thing...

A small larva that crawls along the dirty ground, going from plant to plant living its mundane life is a very unassuming creature. It's business does not seem all that exciting, if even known or appreciated. A lot of them are more than likely eaten by other creatures, stopped before they can even imagine of what is to come in their lives, if they can imagine. But what do they think about when they spin a cocoon and emerge a new creature. Newly clothed, but still the same larva, do they flip out? I know that I would, but then again that is because I have an advanced way of thinking about things, being human and all. The point I'm getting at is that it should be scary. To us as man, it would be an event that once we emerged out of the cocoon, we would fly around screaming at the top of our lungs. What do we do now, how do we go about crawling on the dirt again, how can we be unnoticed like we were before? Now we are beautiful butterflies that attract attention automatically now. ...