Where are the doctors to treat the ill,
Researchers to find the cures,
Scientists, inventors to solve problems galore,
Creative entrepreneurs?
So many questions unanswered,
And the minds which might have found
The answers to many a thorny problem
Lie forgotten in the ground.
A generation gone,
Sacrificed to selfishness and fear,
But in the holocaust of unborn children,
Have we made a sacrifice too dear?
Did we abort one who might have found,
The cure to many a disease?
Or maybe another Einstein, Madam Curie,
A Plato or Socrates?
In destroying a whole generation
Have we not lost humanity as well?
And, in choosing death brought closer still,
On earth a living hell?
As we choose active euthanasia,
Tomorrow who shall decide your fate,
When no longer can you speak for your life?
Your mother? The doctor? The state?
Today as we play executioner,
(Though given many a fancy name,)
By whatever term we take human life,
We diminish the compassion
of all who remain.
Let us halt this senseless destruction
Of a race bent on killing its weak,
Remember the love of He who died,
The helpless lost to seek.
Replace hate with compassion,
With love like He offers you and me,
To value life as did our Creator,
A love which sets us wholly free.
Thank you, Lord, for making each of us unique.
Help me, help others recognize the value of each
individual human life. Amen.
But Jesus called them unto Him, and said,
Suffer little children to come unto me,
and forbid them not:
for of such is the kingdom of God.
Luke 18:16
(C) 2016 Carolyn R Scheidies
From Journey of Faith
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