Another milestone. Writing would not have become my niche without this one unique experience. Becoming an Aunt. There is nothing more precious than seeing the family resemblance in a child. There is nothing like the enormous learning curve first-timers have either.
The emotional arc of becoming an Aunt has been incredible. Loving another person who is dependent on you especially in those early years is a wonderful life-altering occurrence. The depth of an Aunt’s emotions and abilities increases dramatically in ways we can’t imagine until we see them in little ways.
God gives us a family to learn from, protect, encourage and enjoy each other. When I think of how my niece came into this world 11 years ago, this Saturday, tears of joy wet my eyes. It’s the beautiful miracle of life. I still pray God will allow me to experience this miracle that still only God controls of giving life.
How could my life have been different if my family had been pro-abortion? If my family on either side had felt any different about children would I have even been thought of or could I have been killed? It’s a scary and rather disgusting idea, but I heard a comment this week that made my spine tingle.
Two people were being interviewed on a news clip about California’s policies. The man was all for Trump, because his policies worked. The lady hated Trump and it didn’t matter that her state suffered from homelessness and crime. The only thing that mattered was that Trump doesn’t get elected again, because Roe v Wade shouldn’t have been reversed. He installed the Supreme Court Justices so their decision is his fault. So of course his policy doesn’t matter only that he took away women’s rights.
She lives in a state that went full scale on selling Abortion to citizens living in red states. Yet she will never have to deal with not being able to abort in her own state. How disheartening is this that still many women do not understand what the reversal actually does? The putrid hatred for a President who kept a campaign promise, when she had to know full well her State Government where she lives, would do everything possible to allow abortion to continue.
Why do women feel it is a right to kill an unborn baby? I do not understand the hate in a person to feel such contempt for an action she could fully abstain from. Yet that is the point… sinning and being able to hide it physically… like it never happened.
God created life to be precious… yet each state according to the citizens of each state and their appointed representative will make the decisions within each of our 50 state governments. It really seems that these women want to make the decision for all women, again this narrow mindedness of the wants of other women besides them simply doesn’t matter.
The motherly instinct in my niece is very strong. She will be taught different views along the way. I pray she learns from us, her family, how life is precious! I do see that though, very evident in her thoughts of her younger cousins. Even as an almost 11 year old girl; she is extremely nurturing. This bundle of blessing was so perfectly precious to us that day… she was born on a Sunday Evening.
Jewells of Thought 
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